Summary
Evaluation
Background
Index of Projects
As sixth grade students at Blessed Sacrament School, we have been working with
[MBGnet is produced and maintained by The Evergreen Project, Inc. MBGnet@mobot.org. Copyright © 1995-8 The Evergreen Project, Inc. Missouri Botanical Gardens.]
In the process several members of our class have questioned the materials and methods that were used in the mystery. Some of our class have expressed an interest in determining if those methods are standard procedures and what results would we get if we used those methods to determine the health of our nearest stream--Beach St. Tributary of Rock Creek. After Dr. June Hunt of the Audubon Naturalist Society of the Mid- Atlantic Region led us in the watershed workshop, she called to ask if our class would consider monitoring the Beach Street Tributary. It seems that no one has monitored the stream since the budget cutbacks in the early 1990's. During our last class meeting, we voted to make this our class project for the year. Our teacher says she knows of another school that is interested in doing a similar project. It might be possible to compare data and so on by using the electronic journals of our JASON@School accounts.
So, by our account, we have a lot of preliminary work to do. During our discussion in our class meeting, we prepared the following list of jobs that need to be done. Our job is to:
The executive officers have organized these jobs into four teams. Those teams and their responsibilities are:
Each team will have 7-8 members. The first team meeting will be to
organize the team determine jobs that need to be done and what qualifications are needed to do the job decide how jobs will be assigned...by election, random draw [using Uno cards that the teacher uses], or some other method
Each team will be responsible for:
The team leader will be responsible for reporting back to the central crew which is composed of the four team leaders. The classroom teacher will be available as an advisor to this group. Job assignments and due dates are to be posted by each team's scribe on the class bulletin board. The central crew will call general meetings when needed. First Meeting is tomorrow.