The Bubble Giraffes did a writing exercise about Soleil's field trip to Brightwater. Each student wrote a nonfiction paragraph that described what the picture showed and that gave their audience enough information about the trip to have a clear idea of what we did. Under the photos are the paragraphs that were written about it. We really enjoyed learning more about what makes a cohesive blog post and look forward to building our skills in the future.
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Our class went to
brightwater to study pond ecosystems. One of the reasons is to look at animals
and plants. There were lots of algae. We looked at and sorted water bugs
to see all the types of water bugs. We compared different ponds. We learned a lot
about water bugs during our field trip.
By Amelia and Isabella
In this picture we are predicting about
the waterbugs ecosystem web, so that we will have background knowledge before
we collect the waterbugs. The reason we want background knowledge before we go
out and fish for the bugs is to improve our understandings of waterbugs. A
couple things ecosystem webs give us is information about food, predators and
shelter in their habitat. An interesting fact about waterbugs is they eat
algae and also a couple of their predators are birds,frogs and small fish. We
had a fun time learning about the freshwater habitat webs!
By Emilee
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Soleil is predicting about the ponds
A student is making a prediction in a
science lab at BrightWater before we go to observe the Storm Pond and Otter
Pond .He makes his prediction on one of the ponds because Soleil is comparing
the two ponds. The comparison is about wich pond has more waterbugs. We made the
prediction because it is part of the scientific process which is a
process you you do when you are observing and comparing
something as a scientist. We had fun during the fieldtrip observing the ponds
and catching waterbugs and making predictions.
By Ethan
All
the soleil students drew a sketch of a pond named Otter Pond. So they can
figure out where the water comes from. They figure out that it comes from a
surer. So they can learn about the ecosystem. In all the students really like
mapping the pond.
By Alec
Two students from the
soleil center are observing and mapping the Otter Pond at Brightwater
Environmental Center. The reason why we went there was to learn more about
habitats and then we can have some more background knowledge about them. The
experience was like putting yourself in a scientist’s shoes or to act like one.
So that if one of us became a scientist we would know how they act, work, and
the stuff they do. We learned the Otter Pond drain ended up in Edmonds which is
where we live, we had a BLAST and want to come back and learn more.
By Naomi
Soleil center was
looking at the otter pond mapping and observing the otter pond to learn more
about habitats. So we can have more background knowledge. To put our self in a
scientists shoes. So that if someone became scientist they would know how they
act and work also the stuff they do. we learned that the map had a drain that
connected edmonds, we had so much FUN!!!!!!!
By Ava D
We are taking observations at storm pond In this photo, two students are pointing at a duck while the other students are observing Storm Pond. We all made a map of the pond and whatever we saw we would write on our map. We even wrote the ducks on our map. Some people even saw duck weed and algae, and they wrote that on their map. We looked where the water was coming from and it was a drain called the Storm Drain. I had a blast making a map of Storm and Otter Pond.
By Sydney D
Fishing
for Waterbugs at Brightwater.
Two students are fishing for Waterbugs at Otter Pond. Later they looked at the Waterbugs that they caught through stereoscopes. They were trying to answer the question, “Which Pond has more Waterbugs, Storm Pond or Otter Pond?”. Then they added up their data and found the amount of Waterbugs that were in each pond. We wrote predictions, conclusions, and observations to find out which pond had more Waterbugs. Otter Pond had more Waterbugs.
By Kelvin
In the afternoon Devin and Noah were
fishing for Waterbugs at Otter Pond with their group to analyze data to answer
the question “Which pond has more types of Waterbugs Storm Pond or Otter Pond?”
Next we looked at all the Waterbugs in tubs that say Otter Pond or Storm Pond
then picked them up and put them under stereoscopes and that was one part of a
scientific procedure to help us find the answer to the question “Which pond has
more types of Waterbugs Storm Pond, or Otter Pond? We added up all the data by
circling the types we found. We wrote predictions, observations, and a
conclusion. We had lots of fun fishing for Water bugs at Brightwater and we
also had fun learning so many fun and new things!
By Livia
Students
are at Brightwater looking for waterbugs in Otter Pond using nets to find them.
We are looking for waterbugs because we need to count how many there are and
observe them. There are many small waterbugs in Otter Pond so, we have to use
nets to catch them. that is the reason why we were at Otter Pond that day.
By Alexa
At
Brightwater a student catches water bugs at otter pond. We use the water bugs
for samples as one of the steps in the scientific method. We are taking samples
because we need to observe them to
gather data. There are many small water bugs to collect from otter pond. We
need to use nets to catch as many as we can. That is why we were at otter pond
taking samples.
By Devin
At Brightwater we examined the waterbugs from the two ponds and
sorted them out by their types for an example we sorted them out by shapes,
sizes and colors. we did this to see whether storm pond or otter pond has the
most types of waterbugs.The waterbugs were so tiny it was so hard to see them
so we looked through the microscopes to see the details of the tiny bugs. We
did this to look over the details so we can sort them in the ice cube
container. At this time we learned that there are lots of different kinds of
waterbugs.
By Mira
Brightwater
Environmental Education Center
We were looking for water bugs in a tub filled with pond water from one of the ponds we studied and we were sorting the different types of water bugs into a bin. Then we used a microscope to look at the tiny water bugs and to count the different kinds to find out if our prediction is correct. We discovered that there were many types of water bugs.
By Saki
Sorting Water Bugs
Some soleil center students are sorting
water bugs in the science lab and putting the water bugs in ice trays so we can
observe them for our project. The water bugs looked like little dragons with
lots of legs and were see through. Then, we wrote about it in our packet. We
keep all of our info in our packets. After that, we looked at all of the different types of water bugs and wrote
how much types there were and recorded it in our packet. Water bugs are a LOT
more interesting than people make them sound!
By
Ben
Sorting Water Bugs
The Soleil students are sorting water
bugs so we can observe them for our project at Brightwater on February
eleventh, 2015. We are sorting water
bugs so we can observe the bugs and write in our mini-journal. Some of the water
bugs looked like dragons! They looked like dragons because they had lots of
legs. Why we were writing in our packet is because we had a project to find out
witch pond has more water bugs! That was our goal for our whole field
trip. Our packet is holding all of our
data for our prediction of which has more water bugs; Storm Pond or otter pond!
In conclusion, we learned about all kinds of water bugs, and that water bugs
are WAY more interesting than you think!
By
Chloe
Looking through Stereoscopes
Students from the Soleil Center observe the
water bugs they caught at Brightwater where
we went for a field trip. We were observing them because we had just caught
them in the Otter and Storm ponds, and were seeing which one has more types. We
used stereoscopes to observe the microscopic bugs that we couldn’t see with the
naked eye. We learned about what
features they had, and what features they used to survive.
By Melia
Students were looking through stereoscopes to see the
different types of water bugs we captured. We all sorted the different types of
water bugs to see which pond had more types of water bugs in it. We soon found
out that Otter pond had more water bugs than Storm pond that day.We used
stereoscope.
By Nicolai
A 4th grade student from
Soliel center is looking at an amazing waterbug. Josh is learning about water
bugs at Brightwater Environment Educational Center. He is observing the water
bug to see what it looks like and to find out which pond (Otter pond or Storm
pond) has more kinds of water bugs. We also went there to find out what water
bugs do. For instance, how they act and what they do during there lifetime. So
on February 11,2015 Soliel center went to Brightwater.
By Bam
The Soleil Center went to the
brightwater Environmental Education Center on February 11th, 2015 to learn and
observe waterbugs. The reason why was to learn about waterbugs, how they look
and how they survive. Later, we went out to Storm Pond and Otter Pond to find
waterbugs and catch them in a net and put them in a bucket. We did it to find
out wich pond has more waterbugs: Otter Pond or Storm pond. we will never know
the exact number, unless we take them all out of each one-by-one from each pond
and count them! But we caught some and Otter Pond had more waterbugs that day.
After, we wrote a paragraph about what pond you thought had the most waterbugs
and why. I chose Storm Pond because It had more shelter, only ducks as
predators,a lot of food (Algae), and a lot of plants. Otter Pond didn’t have
any predators that day, but it has fish,
otters (OBVIOUSLY), frogs, and ducks. We had a good time as in IT WAS AWESOME!
By
Josh
At the end of the field
trip to Brightwater we wrote a conclusion to see which pond had more water bugs
Storm Pond or Otter Pond we wrote a conclusion. And to see if our predictions
were correct and to share our data. We also wrote a conclusion to practice the
scientific procedure because someday we might want to become scientists. We
figured out that the Otter Pond had more water bugs than the Storm Pond.
By Payton and Jacob
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