Educational Programming for Constructed Wetland

Educational Programming for Constructed Wetland

Adkinson, Angela; Burtenshaw, Lindsay; Matheson, Derek; Romaniuk, Matthew; Yuke, David; Zavitz, Andrea

Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association

Haliburton Highlands Stewardship Council
Host contact: Wooton, Brent

Whillans, Tom
Department: Environmental and Resource Science/Studies

TP-487

2005

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Haliburton County

Educational benefits of constructed wetland wastewater treatment system

Purpose of paper is to assist the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association identify educational benefits of the constructed wetland wastewater treatment system at Haliburton Hatchery.

The Stewardship Council would like to identify ways to link constructed wetland wastewater treatment technology with educational opportunities in local elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education. This report researches ways to assist the Haliburton Highlands Outdoors Association in identifying educational benefits of the constructed wetland wastewater treatment system at the Haliburton Hatchery. Curriculum linkages to this theme are assessed and identified to suggest ways to maximize the educational benefits available from the hatchery wastewater project. The goal is to develop a lesson plan for 6 levels of learning at the secondary level: grade 9 science, grade 10 applied and academic science, grade 11 college and university preparation biology, and grade 12 university preparation biology. Each lesson plan/teaching package is consistent with the current Trillium Lakelands District School Board curriculum, Ontario education standards, and relevant to the locality of Haliburton Highlands with reference to the proposed treatment wetland project for the Haliburton Fish Hatchery.

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