It has been awhile since we last updated the blog, but that doesn't mean that we haven't been hard at work in the lab. Over the past two weeks, we studied watersheds and discussed the impact that humans can have on our watersheds. The pictures below are from an activity where the children created their own watersheds out of crumpled paper. The blue lines represent streams and rivers and the red, brown and black markings represent various pollutants and soil runoff that can cause harm to their watershed. When it rained (a spray bottle mist) on our watersheds, we watched the polluntants and soil run into the rivers and streams. The children wrote reflections in their trout journals about their reactions to the activity.
