The unhike and WW

Well, my shrub carr hike at Nature Fest was a bust. No one want to go mucking around, they all wanted to canoe. Who can blame them?

Wonderful wetlands today went over pretty good. The homeschool groups always go over well. We stayed to teach at one station, while the different age groups traveled among us. 4 of us and 4 groups, all of decent size. I am glad we got to work with all of the groups. The time length was about perfect. I did the watershed activity from Project Wet and then sorting at my station.
The watershed activity is super. I had it rain, then talk about what we saw. Add topography, rain again then discuss new observations. Then, students added the human features cards. Next, I handed out the pollutants. We went around the circle and added the pollutants (you know chocolate sprinkles for animal poo) to our map one at a time. A final rain storm preceded a discussion of the pollutants. After discussing our observations, I asked how could we improve our human features and pollutants on our map. Many students toyed with the idea of the waste water treatment plant near where the most pollution ended up.
Sorting was fun and exciting for the groups. Although, there were a few screams from a few girls. I am glad that each time we arrived the dipping group had some specimens for is to identify. The younger two groups kept asking, "What's this?" I had to keep handing out the laminated ID sheets. They wanted to be told the creatures name and move on. The older students did great with the ID sheets. They mainly wanted to know where to put them. Swamp gas worked! Yea! Good job collecting Laurina.