Macro Mania Water Quality Game (Discontinued)

Macro Mania is a Classroom Adventure that Introduces the Use of Stream Macroinvertebrates to Determine Water Quality. Lecture Material Sets the Scene for the Activity.Students Will Learn About the Influence of Land Use on Water Quality and the Practice of Macroinvertebrate Sampling to Measure Water Quality. Six Teams will be Given a Deck of Macroinvertebrate Cards Representing a Sample of Macroinvertebrates from One of Three Sites, a Poster-Sized Sorting Sheet and a Map. By Sorting the Deck of Cards onto the Sorting Sheets, Students will Determine the Water Quality at Their Site From the Distribution of Macroinvertebrates in their Sample