Monday, January 12, 2009

Slide Shows!

The kids are psyched! A local environmental organization has invited the students to present their project. The students are completing powerpoint slide shows to present in class this week. Then, each group will be prepared to go out and speak. A team of volunteers and teacher's aides are coming in Thursday to critique the presentations. My hope is for the kids to get a little practive and feed-back before taking their show on the road.

Student comments

The Conceptual Chemistry class is directing the watershed study. Their assigment is to comment about the experience. Here are some of their remarks.
Sam-The students believe that Apples Get Wet sounds a little seamy there is a contest to make up another name.

Samantha- A “hotspot” where there is pollution.

Stephen- Our class looks for places where they have water collected so we can see its depth.

Presley- A watershed is where water collects and includes lakes and streams.

Kirsten- Apples Get Wet is a group of Musselman students who have taken interest in the land around the school. They are studying the watershed and “hot spots” on our campus. They are taking pictures and recording information of what we discover along with collecting the data. They are also testing the water and finding areas where they could clean up for cleaner water run off to the Chesapeake Bay.

Amanda- The students GPS unit where “hot spots” are they did this to make sure that they tested the same area so that the data did change. Also they have done this to show the areas on Google Earth.

Emily- The clean-up is a part of this watershed study. It will help clean our environment, and make it much better for our world. By planting trees, picking trash up, and putting down new mulch, soil, the students can take part in this clean-up by helping with the watershed project.

Dustin- The purpose of these tests is to help clean up the water and the run off also to help clean all the water around the school. We are trying to help people to clean up all water sheds.

Alonzo- One source of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is non point source pollution types of non point source pollutants include weed killers, fertilization, and sediment. These run into any watershed causing pollution.

William- To help prevent “hot spots.”