Systems Presentations and Bio-Indicators

We started our day with some awesome Systems Project Presentations!  I am really proud of the products that were shared!  It has been great for the presenters as well as the audience to practice systems thinking and see the examples that are being shown.

Tooth Fairy Headquarters

We didn't neglect our Gray Area investigation.  Students reflected on our last time together and compared a river to the report card of it's watershed. They role-played a reenactment of a meeting of the Gray Area Board of Supervisors where our suspect, the owner of the water slide, was consulted and shared results from chlorine tests conducted down the river from his business.  Students took a closer look at the results, performed a bio-assessment of their own on a macro-invertebrate called daphnia to check the more long term effects of chlorine on the area, and examined some secret documents that provided further clues.

Meeting of the Gray Area Board of Supervisors

Observing daphnia

Scouring the secret documents

Water samples

We also read the second chapter of Listening to Crickets, our novel study about environmentalist Rachel Carson.  We are learning from her example and identifying Habits of Mind that Rachel used to find success in her field.