Kit Showcase: Satellite Image Watershed Exploration

A new kit for this week -- Exploration of our watershed using satellite images from Google Earth. Students discover what is to be found in our watershed by assembling a giant map of the watershed from 8 1/2" X 11" laminated Google Earth images of the south bay.

Some sample puzzle pieces include:
bottom of the watershed
 
middle of the watershed
 
near the top of the watershed
 

Kids can find the bay, local creeks, roads, schools, their neighborhood, parks, airports, mountains, gravel pits, and much more, and then see how the local water drains through it all.

ACE teachers will know this activity as their Day 1 activity in the classroom; our spare copy is now available as a kit for everyone else to check out for use with their classes. Please give it a try!

View the kit activity card and kit materials card. You can also get the .kml file for download to look at in Google Earth on your computer here.