Older Kids

So I got to work 2 days with Black Hawk Christian school.

With the 6th graders it was really good with the morning group because there was time and I felt that I made the connection with the water quality. Making sure that I said the word diversity a lot to connect it with what they would do in the afternoon or what they did do. One way which may have been a fluke was that all the groups were spilt between males and females. That worked really well for 6th graders, less drama.

Something that I would do differently is be on the page with what was happening with the biodiversity program. I was a little surprised that the Carol and Leah were also going to the vernal pond. Because that was the only thing I was doing, it made me fell a little pointless after I heard that. But it turned out ok because the afternoon group was late getting to the water quality so the walk took longer than the dipping. I think if there was more communication between the water quality and biodiversity we would have been able to use their time more wisely, instead of doing the same thing twice.

I really like that vernal pond. We found lots of caddisflies, and they walked around the bottom of the pail.

Tanya