River Kids
September 29, 2011
Wow, River kids was really fun! River kids is a monthly activity that Trinity 5th graders do to find facts all about the Trinity creek. Each month you and your group receive a new job. The River Kid jobs are: Trash collector, photographer and GPS, temperature and visual survey, pH testing, DO testing (dissolved oxygen testing), Macroinvertebrate finders (big, no spine creatures such as snails), and equipment manager. I was a pH tester. I really enjoyed it because testing the water with chemicals made me feel like a real scientist! In pH testing there is a scale from 1 to 14. 1 being a lot of acids and 14 being a lot of bases. Two examples of acids are industrial waste and battery acid. Three examples of bases are detergents, bleach, and fertilizer. 7 is what you are trying to get. 7 is right in the middle of the scale so no acids or bases. 7 is perfect. We tested three times. The first test we got 7.5. The next test we got 8. The last test we got 7.5 again. It looks like there are a few bases in the water. Overall Trinity creek is in really good shape! Thanks for putting River Kids together Mrs. Edwards!
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Wow, Madeline, thanks so much for sharing this detailed reflection on your River Kids experience and on your own learning! It sounds like you not only enjoyed RK but that you also acquired a great deal of knowledge about Trinity’s Creek. The great thing is that you get to do RK a number of times and you’ll have a variety of jobs…I look forward to hearing which job you enjoy the most.
My favorite quote of your blog post is: “I really enjoyed it because testing the water with chemicals made me feel like a real scientist!” That’s the point of so much of what we do at Trinity! And, Mr. Parrish has you blogging because that’s a LOT of what good writers do (and need to do) to get better at writing and to explore different areas of interest and passions.
Keep up the good work! I look forward to reading your future posts!
Ms. Howard
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