Description

Students work individually or as a team (e.g. in pairs) to use a Survey123 App adapted from the National Rivers and Stream Assessment (NRSA) protocol for assessing the habitat and physical characteristics – particularly those that have been influenced by human activity – of the riparian area of a stream or river.  The Survey123 App associated with the lesson is built to allow students to enter information ‘on the fly’ – on the water, while paddling, floating, or hiking, as they encounter instances of human influence on the physical habitat of the stream  – OR in the context of a more formal lesson in which students are assigned (either individually or as teams) an approximately 0.5km sampling reach within which they use Survey123 to gather information about physical habitat at several transect locations.  Depending on the context of the lesson (e.g. whether the lesson is part of a course/ or field experience in which students will have access to the ArcGIS online (AGOL) and time post-lesson to use AGOL [or desktop GIS software] to analyze the observations collected by the group during the lesson) instructors can choose assess student understanding using a facilitated discussion, short answer responses to questions, or even student development of a more formal GIS-based poster or presentation. 

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