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Educational Activities > Guffey Charter School Plays With Water |
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GUFFEY CHARTER SCHOOL PLAYS WITH WATER |
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 Shocking fish |
The Guffey charter School spent three months learning about watersheds. Teacher Linda McDonald led the students (multi-age grades 3-6) down a path of water discovery. Theresa Springer, Environmental Education Outreach Coordinator for CUSP, organized three field trips with different activities: What exactly is a watershed? The students viewed a PowerPoint presentation, used eraser markers while exploring topo maps, and at a dam face, experienced activities from Projects Wild, Wet and Learning Tree. How to diagnose a healthy or sick forest Students toured Trumble’s forest restoration demonstration site. They use hula-hoops to take vegetation percentage investigations on three different aspects (slopes). They looked at diseased trees, then toured the Hayman burn area and helped with a mulching project. Is mountain water all good and clean? Using hand lenses and tweezers the students investigated invertebrate samples for above the Hayman fire and within the Hayman fire from the South Platte. Then they collected their own samples from below the fire and wrote their observations about the difference in types and numbers of invertebrates caught. They then spent an afternoon shocking fish near the confluence of Four Mile Creek and the south fork of the South Platte, in an area where stream restoration had taken place. |
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