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Stream Ecosystems, from Aquatic Science STEM curriculum Lesson 8 (Streams and Rivers) that includes topics: What are the parts of a stream? How do they function together? What is the riparian zone? Why is it important to have plenty of plants growing alongside a stream? What is the floodplain? Are floods natural disasters? What is stream order? How can it help us understand the aquatic community living in a particular place? What can the presence or absence of aquatic invertebrates tell us about the health of a stream? How are plants and animals adapted to living in flowing water?. How can rivers and streams be kept healthy? How are healthy streams valuable to people? What is the significance of the phrase, "everyone lives downstream from someone else?" .

Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Rosen is a professor in the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. His bio is here: http://texasaquaticscience.org/rudolp...

Aquatic Science Lessons with Dr. Rudy Rosen is an on-line video curriculum arranged into 13 lessons in YouTube Playlists. Each lesson covers a major subject area and is broken down into short sub-topic video presentations. These short videos covering important aquatic science topics can be used in teaching instruction or for self-education. A comprehensive teaching guide and enhancements can be downloaded FREE here: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publicati...

The teaching textbook is published by the Texas A&M University Press and can be obtained here: http://www.tamupress.com/product/Texa... or at Amazon here http://www.amazon.com/Aquatic-Science...

The instructional website is here: http://texasaquaticscience.org/

Aquatic Science is a cooperative education project sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the National Science Foundation sponsored Research Coordination Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (RCN-CE3SAR). Some materials were adapted from or provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation.