Materials:  Cartoon, materials for Darby Duck activity, Story on water pollution.

Objectives:
1.  Students will demonstrate their understanding of water pollution by   performing the Darby Duck activity.
2.  Students will write their results of the Darby Duck activity.
3.  Students will determine the effects of water pollution from their activity   results.

Procedures: 1. Students will be shown a cartoon on water pollution and a class discussion   will be held on what the cartoon means.  Students will offer their thoughts and   ideas in a class discussion. (2 minutes)
2.  The class will listen to a story about water pollution called Oil Spill by   Melvin Berger. (5 minutes)
3.  Show a transparency of oil spills to show the frequency of the occurrence   and the amount of oil spilled into the water.  This is just to get the students to   think about how much oil is released into the water at the time of a spill.
(3min)
4. Students will break up into groups of four or five.  Each group will get the   materials for the Darby Duck activity after the procedures are discussed.   Procedures: 1. Carefully follow the directions to do the activity. 2. Have a   recorder, shaker, measurer, cleaner and time keeper if five members. 3.   Answer questions when finished as a group and turn them in. (20 minutes)
5.  As a class we will discuss what happened and talk about other examples.   Tell students about the major oil spills and statistics. (5 minutes)

Assessment: 1.  Kid watching- is the group on task, is everyone performing their position?
A participation check.
2.  Group questions will be assessed  by the understanding of the activity and   the results that the group comes up with.

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