Monday, June 4, 2018

Hello, everyone.

Mrs. Vickers was our special guest for the day, working with the kids for session two of Wildsight: Getting to Know our Wetlands.  Today's focus was "water".   We worked in the classroom and went outside.  Below are some pictures of our day.

Please check out the "Notices" on the Agenda - they are very important.  Paper reminders went home for the variety show, specific district track and field events for your child, subway lunch order form, and the class photo.

Considering natural vs human impacts in our environment

checking out the picture for clues

 

 

 

These are some of the 'journeys'  the water molecules took while playing this game.  As you can see, the water cycle is more complex than most cycles portray.

The second card above is the same game but introduces human impacts into the water cycle.


Mrs. Vickers also did a demonstration about how much clean fresh water is available to us.  She starts with 1 L of water and we end up with just 1 drop.  The relative amounts are shown on the picture below.

We went outside for a water conservation exercise.  Teams represented three types of communities with either an abundant water supply, scarce water supply, or lots of water but it was dirty and not close to the town so required a long trek to get it. 

 

In the afternoon, we went outside again, this time to look at a model of our local watershed.  Students had to identify the different rivers and mountains on the model - not a simple thing for many of them.