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Provided by: Sustainability Ambassadors |Published on: December 18, 2023
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Synopsis
In this document, students will read general information about the hydrologist career path and a personal account of an individual in that role.
Students will learn about the average salary of the role, college and work experience required, and other details about the role from the overview and personal narrative.
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.
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