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Sections below are the following:
Transcript of Audio
Audio Notes and Acknowledgments
Images
Related Water Radio Episodes
For Virginia Teachers (Relevant SOLs, etc.).
All Web addresses mentioned were functional as of 11-9-22.
TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the weeks of November 21 and November 28, 2022. This is a revised version of an episode from November 2013.
MUSIC – ~ 11 sec – instrumental.
That’s part of “Rainy Night,” by the group Wake Up Robin,
with musicians from North Carolina, New York, California, and Washington
State. It opens an episode where we drop
in on a lively Thanksgiving gathering to hear several people name something about water for which they’re
thankful. Have a listen for about 50 seconds to some of water’s variety
and value.
VOICES - ~50 sec
Water for my mom’s garden.
Thunderstorms.
For the snow.
Glaciers.
Waterfalls.
Oceans.
I am thankful for the Pacific Ocean.
I’m thankful for the Atlantic Ocean.
Evaporation—it’s sustains life, and keeps us cool.
Without water, we would not be alive.
For life.
You drink it.
It keeps me hydrated.
It makes up at least 75 percent of my being.
Cleanliness.
I love to exercise in the water—it keeps me going.
Tears.
What’s not to like about water? It’s all good as long as it’s clean.
Virginia Water Radio
thanks the Virginians you just heard for reminding us of the diversity,
utility, necessity, and vitality of our common wealth of water.
Thanks also to Andrew VanNorstrand for permission to use
this week’s music; and in honor of hydrologic events that provide our water, we
close with about 35 more seconds of “Rainy Night.”
MUSIC - ~37 sec – instrumental.
SHIP’S BELL
Virginia Water Radio is produced by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, part of Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. For more Virginia water sounds, music, or information, visit us online at virginiawaterradio.org, or call the Water Center at (540) 231-5624. Thanks to Stewart Scales for his banjo version of “Cripple Creek” to open and close this episode. In Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo, thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.
AUDIO NOTES AND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This Virginia Water Radio episode revises and replaces Episode 189, 11-25-13.
“Rainy Night,” from
the 2018 album “Wake Up Robin,” on Great Bear Records, by the group of the same
name, is used with permission of Andrew VanNorstrand. More information about the album and band is
available online at https://wakeuprobin.bandcamp.com.
Guest voices heard in this episode were recorded by Virginia
Water Radio on November 22 and November 24, 2013, in Blacksburg; used with
permission. Virginia Water Radio thanks Blacksburg friends and Virginia
Tech co-workers for their participation.
Click here if you’d like to hear the full version (1 min./11 sec.) of the “Cripple Creek” arrangement/performance by Stewart Scales that opens and closes this episode. More information about Mr. Scales and the group New Standard, with which Mr. Scales plays, is available online at http://newstandardbluegrass.com.
IMAGES
(Photographs are by Virginia Water Radio.)
Here’s a photographic sampler of some of the water resources for which Virginians can be thankful.
Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, September 2010.
Cascades Falls in Giles County, July 2014.
Woodland stream in Montgomery County, December 2015.
Rainbow over Montgomery County, March 2017
Wetlands at Frog Level in Tazewell County, June 2018.
RELATED VIRGINIA WATER RADIO EPISODES
All Water Radio episodes are listed by category at the Index link above (http://www.virginiawaterradio.org/p/index.html). See particularly the “Overall Importance of Water” subject category.
Following are links to other
episodes related to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Episode 291, 11-23-15 – Thanks for
Musical Measures of Water.
Episode 343, 11-21-16 – Wild
Turkey and Water.
Episode 395, 11-20-17 – Thanks for
the Water—Thanksgiving 2017 Edition.
Episode 500, 11-25-19 – The
Variety of Virginia’s Water Story.
FOR VIRGINIA TEACHERS – RELATED STANDARDS OF LEARNING (SOLs) AND OTHER INFORMATION
Following are some Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) that may be supported by this episode’s audio/transcript.
2020 Music SOLs
SOLs at various grade levels that call for “examining the relationship of music to the other fine arts and other fields of knowledge.”
2018 Science SOLs
Grades K-3 plus 5: Matter
K.4 – Water is important in our daily lives and has
properties.
Grades K-4: Living
Systems and Processes
K.7 – Plants and animals have basic needs and life processes.
1.5 – Animals, including humans, have basic life needs that
allow them to survive.
Grades K-5: Earth and
Space Systems
3.7 – There is a water cycle and water is important to life
on Earth.
Grades K-5: Earth Resources
K.11 – Humans use resources.
4.8 – Virginia has important natural resources.
Grade 6
6.6 – Water has unique physical properties and has a role in
the natural and human-made environment.
Earth Science
ES.6 – Resource use is complex.
Biology
BIO.2 – Chemical and biochemical processes are essential for
life.
2015 Social Studies SOLs
Grades K-3 Economics
Theme
2.8 – Natural, human, and capital resources.
3.8 – Understanding of cultures and of how natural, human,
and capital resources are used for goods and services.
Virginia’s SOLs are available from the Virginia Department of Education, online at http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/.
Following are links to Water Radio episodes (various topics) designed especially for certain K-12 grade levels.Episode 250, 1-26-15 – on boiling, for kindergarten through 3rd grade.
Episode 255, 3-2-15 – on density, for 5th and 6th grade.
Episode 282, 9-21-15 – on living vs. non-living, for kindergarten.
Episode 309, 3-28-16 – on temperature regulation in animals, for kindergarten through 12th grade.
Episode 333, 9-12-16 – on dissolved gases, especially dissolved oxygen in aquatic habitats, for 5th grade.
Episode 404, 1-22-18 – on ice on ponds and lakes, for 4th through 8th grade.
Episode 407, 2-12-18 – on snow chemistry and physics, for high school.
Episode 483, 7-29-19 – on buoyancy and drag, for middle school and high school.
Episode 524, 5-11-20 – on sounds by water-related animals, for elementary school through high school.
Episode 531, 6-29-20 – on various ways that animals get water, for 3rd and 4th grade.
Episode 539, 8-24-20 – on basic numbers and facts about Virginia’s water resources, for 4th and 6th grade.
Episode 606, 12-6-21 – on freezing and ice, for kindergarten through 3rd grade.
