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For Earth Day, April 22nd 2006, we have
several projects:
New this year
is a "Cache in, Trash Out" Elementary School Earth Day Clean Up
project to be held on Friday, April 21, 2006 - the details:
The Tri-County Regional School
Board, sponsored by the
Tusket River Chapter of Trout
Unlimited Canada, is holding a “Cache in, Trash Out” event
for Tri-County Elementary Schools as an Earth day project
for 2006. The event will take place on Friday April 21,
2006, the day before Earth Day – April 22, 2006.
Each participating Elementary
school may designate one class to take part in the event,
which will see the students use a GPS receiver to locate a
cache of Garbage Bags and other treasures hidden near the
school on a watershed. The students will then find the
cache, and use the bags to clean up the area on the
watershed, and return to the school to properly dispose of
the garbage and view their travels on a map. The students
will also be using the GPS receiver (which we will loan out
from the Board Office – no need to run out and buy one!) and
will learn how to post their route to a map and then view it
on a satellite photograph from Google Earth, which will also
show the watershed area and teach students the value of
watersheds, restoration and clean up efforts. The skills of
Mapping, using a GPS receiver to navigate and the use of
aerial photography and the Internet are all key outcomes for
this exercise and are listed by the Department of Education
as outcomes for the higher (Grade 4 to 6) Elementary Grades.
Schools will also be encouraged to submit photos of the
activity to the Tri-County Regional School Board for
uploading to the Board’s main website. It is hoped that many
of the Board’s 20 elementary schools will choose to
participate. Students will also be exposed to the sport of
GeoCaching, the use of a GPS and the Internet to locate
hidden caches around the world, as a way to improve
navigation skills and respect for the outdoors and our
environment.
Contact
Bill Curry, Director of Programs and Student Services, for
more information.
Then, there are two WebQuests -
A
Birding
WebQuest
for Grades P-6
and
An
Acid Rain
WebQuest
for Grades 7-12
and
our Acid Rain Project is still on-going and looking for that
school who will take this on!
The
TCRSB has an exciting project for all schools to participate in
which came about as part of an Earth Day project in 2005. We are
gathering pH data on streams, initially in SW Nova Scotia, but
we hope to expand this project to all schools in Nova Scotia
soon.
We
invite schools to participate in our pH studies, and thank our
sponsors,
The Tusket River
Chapter of Trout Unlimited,
TREPA and the
Nova
Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
and the
Nova Scotia Department of
Education.
What we're doing - We ask any
school that wishes to use the password provided and enter the pH
data as requested. Please take the readings from as close to the
middle of the stream as possible (see
Help
here)
and be sure to write down the exact location where you took the
sample.
We
will be building a map with all this data, and sending the data
on to the Department of Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries for
their use.
Local Business have donated some prizes for distribution to some lucky
participants, and the TCRSB also has some awards for
schools/students who enter data.
So - what are you waiting for? Why
not go to the:
Want more information on Earth Day?
Earth Day Network
Earth Day
Canada
More on Acid Rain :
Canadian Government Acid
Rain website
and the
Atlantic
Provinces Information
from same
Nova
Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Nova Scotia Department
of Education
and
Why not take our
Acid Rain WebQuest
Challenge? |
