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| Slide from Junior Hydrologist presentation |
Recently, we requested a series of hydrology workshops under NOAA's Junior Hydrologist Program - the topics we selected were Water Cycle, River Transportation, Flooding and Hydro Hot Seat.
Each session was an hour, and a professional hydrologist from NOAA did each presentation. The best part (in our view) of these presentations was the ability to ask a professional our questions - they did a great job pulling out key ideas in their presentation, and adding on examples from their work. Our students were also exposed to geography concepts across the US - we had hydrologists from the Midwest and Southeast, and the challenges in each area are different.
Our final workshop was the Hydro Hot Seat presentation - where we would learn about the science of river forecasting, and predict if/when there would be a flood. During this presentation, we were given data (e.g. from radar readings), and students volunteered to explain their reasoning as to which model would best fit the scenario. Our presenter was impressed by the stream of students eager to explain their work, and chuckled that we have a batch of hydrologists ready to go!
We are thankful to NOAA and NWS for making this opportunity freely available, and recommend it to other homeschooling groups. It was easy to schedule the workshops (request online via the link above), and this is a great supplement for earth and general science
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