We had a fantastic day for our river study. Classes 8A and 8D did their study in the morning and collected a TON of BMI's - thank you for all of your hard work. Classes 8B and 8C were there in the afternoon, and helped sort the BMI's and began to classify them into their separate species. Before we left the site, we took a rough tally of the BMI's found and entered the numbers into the "Water Quality Calculator". We came up with a 2! I wasn't sure we were right with our numbers and waited for Holly, our amazing Ecosparks Partner, to get back to me with the real BMI numbers. She did and I imputed those numbers in the Water Quality Calculator. LOOK HERE TO SEE HOW WE DID!!!!
http://www.ecospark.ca/changingcurrents/calculator
I'm thrilled for a few reasons:
1. Our river is CLEAN. This is great news. No, there wasn't a stonefly, but still, a 2 rocks.
2. Our rough numbers that we collected resulted in the same number as Holly's number.
3. The group that thought they had a Melaloptera DID! Well done.
We will follow up this river study by displaying our results, learning about the Scientific Poster.
I'm thrilled for a few reasons:
1. Our river is CLEAN. This is great news. No, there wasn't a stonefly, but still, a 2 rocks.
2. Our rough numbers that we collected resulted in the same number as Holly's number.
3. The group that thought they had a Melaloptera DID! Well done.
We will follow up this river study by displaying our results, learning about the Scientific Poster.
