Hydrologist

Positives

• The interviewee highlights the importance of math and language arts in their job.
• Students will get to see how a broad experience can help them decide what their preferences are.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students may need the terms watershed, ecology, soft skills, riparian, and others defined before reading.
• Students should understand climate change and its impact on water supply and extreme weather events.

Differentiation

• Geography students can map out watersheds in their area that a hydrologist might study and think about how climate change might affect that watershed and the people who rely on that water or infrastructure.
• This career profile may pair well with a lesson about the water cycle, watersheds, or climate zones.
• Science students can conduct a local water investigation or read about those done in their area.
• Students can create a timeline or flowchart to illustrate the interviewee's career path and then make one for their own potential career interests.
• Students can research how snowpack is measured to determine the meltwater that areas will receive in the spring and can analyze data to look for recent trends in snowpack.