During the morning we talked and discussed and went through our groups for our interpretation with the kids at our wetland. He gave everyone advice and suggestions on how to make there paper better. Some stuff he suggested for our group is to add more examples for the answers to the questions we ask, he suggests some changes to out script like the first thing we say should be a question for the kids that relate to the theme of out script.
Some overall things he told to our whole class was to not worry about the behaviour of the kids, talk loudly to the kids, talk simple like general so they will understand easily. He suggested changing some of the games and adding some games into different stations for a better understanding of the station. He told us that writing stuff out on a wipe bored is a great idea for showing the kids what you are talking about. He also had ideas for us to face the kids away from the wind and sun.
After we were done in the class room we walked down to the wetlands for a interpretion tour. He took us around the wetlands talking about the best place for each station to be placed. He made suggestions for each group, for adapt or die he made the suggested to get rid of the game and just take them on a mini tour to let them touch each of the things for example a tree eated my a beaver, or a bats nest. He talked to us about the cattails that we have in our wetlands. He showed us that the bottom of the cattails are eatable and he broke some off and let us try.
As we walked around our wetlands he taught us a new game he wanted to incorporate into our script. He told us how to explain it and how to run it smoothly. He used a sound device to get our attention, he told us that it would be a good idea for us to have one during our interpretation. He said that the game was only to last about 5-6 minutes. After we were all done we thanked him for coming and for his help.
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Thursday 17 May 2018
Interpretation with Mr.Miller
On Friday Barret Miller will be coming to you school to talk to us about interpretion, we will be going down to the wetlands so he can show us different skills we will need to interpret for the young kids.
Some of the questions I will be asking are:
1. How do I connect my game to the main point which is wetland stress?
2. How do explain clearly, how farmers use chemicals to harm wetlands so kids will understand?
3. How do I make explaining wetland stress fun without having the kids get bored?
4. Is it a good idea to repeat the information of the kids show that they don’t understand?
Some of the questions I will be asking are:
1. How do I connect my game to the main point which is wetland stress?
2. How do explain clearly, how farmers use chemicals to harm wetlands so kids will understand?
3. How do I make explaining wetland stress fun without having the kids get bored?
4. Is it a good idea to repeat the information of the kids show that they don’t understand?
Wednesday 16 May 2018
River paddle
At the start of our day we drove down to the damn where me and Hashim were partnered up to go canoeing on the river. We unloaded our canoe and carried it down to the river. To get in the canoe on moving water we had to place the canoe sideways so it was going with the flow of the water. As we paddled down the river Mr.Coulson taught us many things like how to ferry across the river, we spent about 5 minutes watching and learning. After we go to our first rapids there we learned about how to scope out a rapid and how to find a fun and safe route through. As we kept going through we saw our first strainer, we got taught how to find a strainer and go around it, for some unlucky strainer they got caught in one😂. We leanered how to properly get out of the canoe and raft up to go around a rapid that is unable to go through. We leanered how to pull so own out of a sltrainer and sweeper, since we watched two canoes get rescued. We also learned how to see where the big rocks are in the water, it makes a V going down stream. At the end we leanered how to save a paddled that was flowing down the river, Coleman leaped into th water and rescued the long lost paddle. Through the trip we only had one canoe tip, some of us jumped in to pull the canoe out.
Thursday 10 May 2018
Quick Tour of wetlands
what I remember
1. I found out that we actually have tiny turtles in our wetlands.
2. I leanered that we have bat boxes, the bats actually are dieing because they have a fungus around their mouth which is killing them.
3. Our wetlands have a huge bird nest in our outdoor classroom. Ravens bird nest.
4. Found out that we had a doe living around our wetlands, we saw her footprints in the sand.
5. He got us to read a sign about why wetlands are important p, and we previously made a presentation about why wetlands are inprotant.
1. I found out that we actually have tiny turtles in our wetlands.
2. I leanered that we have bat boxes, the bats actually are dieing because they have a fungus around their mouth which is killing them.
3. Our wetlands have a huge bird nest in our outdoor classroom. Ravens bird nest.
4. Found out that we had a doe living around our wetlands, we saw her footprints in the sand.
5. He got us to read a sign about why wetlands are important p, and we previously made a presentation about why wetlands are inprotant.
Canoeing
On our first canoe training canoe day we learned a lot. We learned how to unload canoe off a trailer, how to properly j-stroke and many more. When I was carrying a canoe I found it lighter then I expected, which made it easier to move around. While we got into the water I tryout all the ways to padded. I found out that doing the j-stoke was more difficult then I intended it would be, but after a couple trys I figured it out. When me and my partner went around the island we found out that not going straight made it tiering, so we found a nice steady paced and sticked to it. Through the trip we had a lot of fun travelling around our lake. When we were finished on the lake we had to carry out canoes to the trailer and tie it down. The things we need to have for our next canoe trip is extra pair of clothe, garbage bag to put clothe in, rope to tie it in the canoe, string for glasses, windbreaker, and a bailer.
1 10 1
1 minute of hyperventilating
10 minutes to move around in the water
1 hour of staying conscious
Strainer is a broken tree that has fallen into the water, the problem with a strainer is that water goes under and above the strainer, so it can trap you under a strainer. If you get stuck under a strainer you have to climb up on top.
Sweeper is are trees that hang out over and above a river that can flip canoes.
1 10 1
1 minute of hyperventilating
10 minutes to move around in the water
1 hour of staying conscious
Strainer is a broken tree that has fallen into the water, the problem with a strainer is that water goes under and above the strainer, so it can trap you under a strainer. If you get stuck under a strainer you have to climb up on top.
Sweeper is are trees that hang out over and above a river that can flip canoes.
Monday 7 May 2018
Water testing
On Friday May 4th we testing our rivers wetlands water. What we tested, we tested the transperancy of the water, water temperature, sonde: calibration, sonde: pressure, and sonde: pH. Other things we tested were the oxygen in the water, turbidity, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, LaMotte: ammonia, LaMotte: Phosphate, LaMotte: pH, and Condutivity. What we learned, we learned about titration, which is a common lab method of quantitative chemical analysis that is used to determine the unknown concentration of an identified analyte. Sonde is a special machine that gave us the results. LaMotte is us actually doing the work to get the results.
Wednesday 2 May 2018
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