Project Wetlands

It was a beautiful Friday morning, a perfect day to learn. The day started with us going to the Art room to meet Barret. He talked about what he does at Fortwhyte Alive and some of his experiences as a professional interpreter. Then we went through the circle and everyone said their name and what we are excited about and what we are scared of. He talked about some changes we could make on the document. Then we went through the circle and did an interpretation of our first stations. Matthew, Max and I went first, we only got 10 - 15 mins to orgainze what we were going to say. This was not enough time becuase this was the first time we had even gazed at this document. But despite that we did our best. We weren’t so spread out on the reading, Matthew ended up reading more then Max and I. Barret suggested that we spread out the reading and use a whiteboard to visualize the water cycle. After, we finished going through the whole circle, Barret talked a bit about Tilden Freeman. He asked

Tomorrow Barret Miller is coming to our outdoor ed class to teach us about interpretation. Some of the question I might ask (related to my stations) are: 1. What is a good technique to make the kids keep their interest on us? 2. How would I connect my game to the concept? 3. How do I deliver the information to kids and make them understand without boring them? 4. How long should I talk about the information of my station, before I start explaining my game? 5. When would I ask questions, during the interpretation? 6. Is it important to tell the kids all of the information on the outline or should I summarize the information? 7. One of my stations is critter dipping, what would be the best way to persuade the kids to learn about the bugs? 8. What are the different styles of interpreters?

The day started with us unloading the canoes. I was partnered with Gavin. We had a little argument about who would get stern, I gave up after 2 minuets and let Gavin be stern. We lifted the canoe and placed in the water sideways, this was becaucuse the river was flowing in the direction we placed the canoe. It was a little tough getting the canoe to move, mostly because of Gavin but when it started moving it was moving good. After everyone was on a canoe and were floating safely, Mr. Colson thought us how to do a ferry. This was pretty easy, Gavin and I got this on our first try. Then we moved on down the river, when we got to the first rapids, Mr.Colson stopped us and told us to go one at a time and to stay staring in the rapids. The rapids were pretty fun, I don’t think anyone got stuck at these rapids. We saw some sweepers and strainers through our whole trip. Kalean and Tyler were the first ones to get stuck, they got stuck in a sweeper. Then Jayden and Nathan got stuck on a

5 things that I learned were: 1. Our wetlands has turtles 2. There is a quite a bit of saw grass in our wetlands 3. We have bird and bat houses around the wetlands 4. There is a big raven nest in the classroom 5. I learned that the wetlands used to be a gravel pit

Today we went down to the lake to learn how to canoe. We had a great instructor who taught us the simple strokes and the basics of canoeing. We started by learning the J-stroke, then we learned how to do a 360 both ways, after that we took a trip around the island using the skills we learned. The trip was fun, I enjoyed the canoeing, the weather also helped with the experience. Somethings that we need for our next trip are: a change of clothes, a garbage bag to put your stuff in, a string on your glasses, a windbreaker, a bailer. 1:10:1 1 minuet of hyperventilate 10 minuets of moving around in the water 1 hour of staying conscious Sweeper is a tree that is over the water Strainer is a tree that is in the water

on May 4th, we tested the water in our wetlands. We tested for: Phosphate= 0 Ammonia= 0.05 pH=0 Oxygen levels, temperature, conductivity, turbidity. We did these tests because we wanted to see how clean the water is and weather the water is safe to drink. We found that the water is not safe to drink and that is somewhat due to the beavers that live In our wetlands.

Wa made an infographic about wetland. https://www.canva.com/design/DAC1GzROiKM/Zs0fVIOO0ky0CwGorQWcfQ/view Slides- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10RXaKXnKNaMvHqvRnJmjVjvL50Xs-fFUSWdDrhaJpOM