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Adventures on the Wilde River!

Reading Your MapReading Your MapBefore we can start our adventures, let’s learn a little bit about the Wilde

River.

Pull out your maps and take a look…

Reading Your MapReading Your Map

Where does the Wilde River begin? Moor

e Lake

Reading Your MapReading Your MapHow many countries does the Wilde flow

through??

3

Reading Your MapReading Your MapWhat body of water

does the Wilde empty into??

Blue

Ocean

Reading Your MapReading Your MapPeople in Northland get

food from fishing. Where is their fishing site?Wilde

’s Mout

h

Reading Your MapReading Your MapPeople in Eastend also get

food from fishing. What body of water do their fish come

from?Blue Ocea

n

Reading Your MapReading Your MapWhich country has only the Wilde River as a source of

water?

Southlan

d

It looks like you’re ready to face the rapids ahead of you…

Good Job!! Good Job!!

Next stop: Multinational Detective!

Catastrophe on the Wilde!

A week ago, people in Southland found dead fish in the Wilde

River. For the next two days, so many fish died that the people

could not fish for food…

STOP!!STOP!!Draw an X through

Southland’s fishing

industry.

A day later, people in northern

Eastend started having terrible

stomach cramps…

STOP!!STOP!!Draw an X

through the northern two

water collection

sites in Eastend.

The next day, people in Northland found some

dead fish near the mouth of the Wilde River. They

could have kept fishing, but they stopped just to be

safe.

STOP!!STOP!!Draw an X

through the fishing site in

Northland.

That night, the news reported that two days before the

trouble in Southland, Eastend had so many dead fish that it had to stop fishing and such

bad drinking water that it had to stop collecting out of the

river.

STOP!!STOP!!Draw an X

through all of Eastend’s

fishing and water

collection sites.

Not only that, but the E3 factory had shut down

after a visit from the Safety Department!!

STOP!!STOP!!Circle the E3

factory site in Eastend.

Detective ReportDetective ReportYour job now is to write your Detective Report. Using all the information you’ve gathered on your map, make a statement about what probably caused problems in all three countries…

• Northland wants to generate electricity. • It decides to build a dam across the river

next to Springfield. • Fish that live in the ocean need to get

back up the river to Moore Lake in order to reproduce.

Changes on the Wilde:Changes on the Wilde:An Electric SituationAn Electric Situation

• There is no way for the fish to get upstream past the dam. • Once the dam is built, the area behind it

will be flooded for miles and will become a lake half the size of Moore Lake.

Changes on the Wilde:Changes on the Wilde:An Electric SituationAn Electric Situation

1. Draw in the dam next to Springfield

2. Circle the fishing site closest to Moore Lake 3. Draw and shade in where the new lake would be

Now, fill in the “Country Affected”

chart for this scenario…

• Southland and Northland decide they want to use more water from the Wilde River. • They sign a treaty agreeing to cooperate

in building a new canal.

Changes on the Wilde:Changes on the Wilde:We Want WaterWe Want Water

• The canal will bring water from the Wilde River to Greenville and then to Northland’s industry center. • From there, the canal will empty into the

ocean. • This canal will take about half of the water

out of the Wilde River.

Changes on the Wilde:Changes on the Wilde:We Want WaterWe Want Water

1. Draw a canal from the Wilde River to Greenville. 2. Draw the canal from Greenville to the N1 factory.

3. Draw the canal from N1 to the Blue Ocean.

Now, fill in the “Country Affected”

chart for this scenario…

• People of Fairview love to go boating on the Wilde River on the weekends.

• However, the people don’t like it when seaweed growing in the river gets wrapped around their propellers.

Changes on the Wilde:Changes on the Wilde:No More MinnowsNo More Minnows

• Eastend decides to put herbicide in the river to kill the seaweed.

• This same seaweed is home to the tiny Wilde Minnow, that provides food for the larger fish in the river.

• Without the seaweed, the minnows will die.

Changes on the Wilde:Changes on the Wilde:No More MinnowsNo More Minnows

1. Circle a long section of the river near Fairview.

2. Draw a rectangle around all the fishing sites on the Wilde River.

Now, fill in the “Country Affected”

chart for this scenario…

GREAT JOB!! GREAT JOB!! You navigated the waters of

the Wilde River successfully!

Keep up the good work and keep thinking about how an

event at one place may affect people far away…