By looking at the bottom dwelling macroinvertebrates, students will investigate water quality and habitat quality in this field lab. Students will record the number of creatures found at the bottom of a pond, lake, ditch, stream or river to be able to assign a relative pollution value and figure out the biodiversity index for that habitat.

Concepts

biodiversity, bioindicators

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Additional Tags

lab experiment, serc: investigating water quality through quantative and qualitative analysis of benthic macroinvertebrate sampling, freshwater ecosystem

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)