Water: A Portfolio of Student Learning

This day we went on a trip to Qeens to visit this processing plant forgarbage. We also took a visit to new town creek. The dirtiest creek in the world.

Construction Site-On this day we learned how most people in NYC get their water threw  the water pipes  and how it traveled to the certain  pipes and tunnels.We also learned what would happen if one of the pipes burst with all of the gas in it,if this happened then all of that part of NYC would explode.

Not DONE YET DONT GRADE PLEASDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

This day we went on deck. The boat we were on was a 200 year old steel sail boat. The captians name was Magno. On the boat we learned about all different animal in the hudson river. We also learned how to map and read nautical charts and how the polution can effect estiuaries like the New York Harbour.

Rain & SlideIn this picture, we are doing a experiment that shows what happens when rain, rains on the mountains. It slides down to a lake or pond or river.Pull! In this picture, we are pulling up the sails. It was fun but hard work.Drink & PeeAs you can see, this is a skit. In this skit, an elephant was drinking some water and then it pee it out. Swim & PlayIn this picture,  my class(including me)  are cooling off at the  river.We were  having fun  and the water was  really cold.  I also steped on some rocks, fell on some...so if you was to go swimming/playing therewatch out!Fun at a parkWater course went to central park and played in the water. It was a blast. The boys and girls were having a water fight with water bottles.Pipes & PipesI learned a lot about the pipes and the water going through. I guess it was a bad day for me because i got a tan. Well,i guess it was a good day because we got the blue hard hats.Clean up.....This was not what i wanted to do.....but it had to be done.                                                                                                                    Puppet making!Here is a picture of Pro Jo's group making our puppets. It was one of my favorite part of going to black rock forest. Turtle catchingIn this picture we were getting the turtle traps ready so we can catch some. We have to put some bait inside. The bait was tuna, cat fish.Magnet ballsIn this picture we were donig an experiment. The magnet marble one islike water because water sticks togther unlike the glass marble.Measuring Trout!It was really fun because we got to see how long the trout was. i have a trout that was 9cm and 8.5 cm. Big Bugs?We were shaking and kicking these Macro Invertebrate into this yellow net. i found tons of "big bugs" we were able to see it with our naked eye. 

                                   My Water Scrapbook

In this picture we are working with magenetic marbles that is representing the water molecules. What we are doing here is showing how the magnetic marbles only stick to the magnetic board. This lesson here is showing how water can stick to certain things like it won't stick to wax paper but it would stick to a glass plate.

This picture is showing the people who went to the Croton Aqueduct swimming in the Croton Aqueduct. Not everybody got wet but the people who did enjoyed it. The water was one of the cleanest water we played in. the Aqueduct had rocks underneath so were not able to take off our shoes unless we are sitting on a rock and getting our feet wet.

This picture is showing Hannah, a student from banard, helping us collect water from the Hudson River to search for a bacteria called enterococci. This bacteria can be found in wter and can cause diseases. Hannah is a student from Banard college who is studying enterococci.

This picture is showing the girls, in the water course, posing under the sprinklers in the Water Park at Central Park. Every one got wet here(except the teachers) and everyone was happy because it was the dayof the heat wave.

This picture is showing an activity we did when we went aboard a boatcalled The Pioneer. This activity was showing how all the waste and nasty material us humans create gets into the bodies of water surrounding us when there is a storm or when it rains. Some of those nasty material were: dog poop(chocolate sprinkles), oil that leak from cars(soy sauce), and candy wrappers(salt).

This picture is showing another activity we did on the Pioneer. This activity was about us learning about the marine animals that were in the water that we sailed on. We saw a hermit crab, which had a small snail attached to its shell, a blue crab, which we released back into the water, a clam, and a small clam.

This picture is showing us hgetting wet in battery park. There was also a snad slide that was really long. The sprinklers were all different sizes from big to small to medium. It was really fum and really short.

This picture was taken when we were at the construction site. Construction workers were talking to us about the water main pipe that they were going to buil. Also they were talking to us about the different pipes underground and what they had to watch out for.

In this picture we are in Black Rock Forest making puppets for our puppet show. We took newspaper and made it into the structure we wanted it to be. After that we took newspaper and put it into paper mashae and put that over the newspaper structure. Then we took paper bags and put that in paper mashae and put it on the puppet structure. Finally, when the paper mashae dried, we painted our puppets. Everyone's puppet was different. Even Prof. Hill's puppets.

This picture is showing a group preforming their skits about water. These skits were done on the porch at the cabin that we stayed in at Black Rock Forest.The skits had to be related to what we have done in our classes and in our experiments we have done.

This picture is showing some kids splashing in the pond to catch macro-invertebrates.We wanted to know if the water quality was good by seeing how many critters there are in the water.

This picture is sjowing some student taking some invertebrates and putting them in water so we could count them. Our goal was to get at least 100 of them because 100 meant that the water quality was very good and that certain animals could live there.

     Here we were doing the molecular dance!  From this I learned how molecules work and how they move when they are freezing or when they are becoming a gas. It is interesting to learn how something so microscopic and yet they can do so much and move so fast.

We tested pool water and I learned how to test for the acidity better by learning this. We also learned

   We found different macro-invertibrates and we got to identify them. With this project I learned what different types of macro-invertibrates could live in the water. I also learned that if a river or body of water has a high amount of macro-invertibrates then the water is healthier becuase more species live in that water. If it has a low number of macro-invertibrates or of different species then the water is not so healthty.

Each pod created a skit about water. With this I learned a lot of different things. It was also hilarious!

                                    Model of water molecule

               What i learned about this kind of model of a water molecule is that this model of  a water molecule only tells/explains the cohesion(stickyness) of a water molecule.

                                    Testing pH of pool water

         What i learned about this is that when we tested the pH of pool water it seemed neutral.Also we use clorine on it to kill all the germs/bacteria in the water.

                           Testing pH of the resorvier in Center Park

            What i learned about this is that the water from the resorvier varifys depending on where it is.For example on the edges it is slighty acidic and in more farther would be neutral.

                                 At the Croton Dam with professor

            What i learned about this is that a lot of people(towns and cities)rely on getting some or must of there water from this dam and the dam was a man-made dam.Also there was a aqueduct built called the Croton Aquedct which New Yoek City gets its 10% of water from.

                                    Learning about enterococci

            What i learned was that there would be enterococci in the Hudson river if a storm happened because there was a pike that was from the sewage treatment plant and whenever it overflows all of the waste water and rain water would get into the river.

                                    Learning more about watersheds

              What i learned about watersheds is that a watershed is a land area that sheds water into a specific water body.

                                          At the pioneer

          What i learned about this is that any body of water is like a sponge because when waste, candy rapers,and stuff we pollute(not air pollution)and throw on the ground would then end up into a body of water which would absorb the waste.

                         Learning about Fulton street water main dig

            What i learned was that

                 Newton creek water testing and sewage treatment plant

               What i learned about this is that a sewage treatmeant plant is what gets our waste water and cleans it all up.Also there are many steps in doing this.

                            Learning about Wildlife in Black Rock Forest
               What i learned about this is that the wildlife in Black Rock Forest is much more different then from in New York City.This is because New York City doesn't have much nature and since Black Rock Forest is mostly nature it would have the more animals.Most of the animals in Black Rock Forest are different from the ones in New York City because the climate in Black Rock Forest is more warm and it rains more.

                   Learning about turtle population in Black Rock Forest

             What i learned about this was that a turtle population might grow really fast because when there are many turtles in one place then they can mate and have babies to increase its population.To know if the turtle population has grown you should have it numbered and taged.

                                       At Black Rock Forest

            What i learned about this is that making water skits is fun but also educational because it can teach you a lesson depending on what it is based on.

here Jonathon Lopez is testing the acidity of his own pee because each gruop had different designs to check if there hypothesis was true and Jonathons group obviously and something to do with his own pee.in the end his pee came out to be slightly acidic.

well what the three of us are doing here is a skit on water and proffeser hills pod did a skit about being water for one day and what happend in this scene was that the water (jaxon) is being dranked up and peed out by the elephant (jonathon and I).what the class is doing here is that we are all trying to catch turtles so that we can get some data about them such as their sex and there width height and other things like that.in this picture we are making puppets!!!the reason we were making puppets was so that later when we got back to nyc we would do a puppet show in order to cross across a point that you think is important and we should all be aware of.but this activity was fun and less tireing than the other activitys .in this picture molly and serenity are tesing the ph and conductivity of the harlem meer the ph though was slightly acidic it was around 6.90  and this water also didnt conducted elecrticity very well.this picture is soppused to be a model of water molecules because each marble is a molecule so the magnetic marbles are representing the adhesivness and cohesiveness.and they stick to each other the  same  way they do in real life.in this picture we are doing the water dance and this is sort of a another model and what whe are doing here is that our back are the oxygen and the arms are hydrogene and the hydrogene stick on to the oxygen and then move at very rapid speeds the same way we are doin in this human model.what we did here is that we tried modeling watersheds so we put a plastic bag down and some parts of the bag we made pointy so that it loks like a mountain and then we sprinkled water on the tip of the bag and it went down and with all the water it formed a puddle kind of like in real life but in real life it is a huge body of water.in this picture we were looking at the tunnels the water used to travel to get to nyc and deep in those tunnels there are 42 miles of walking.in this picture the proffeser is trying to test the pH of the pool water and the pool water was close to nuetral and right after we tested the ph we got into the pool and had lots of fun.in this picture we are not really doing anything educational but we are just having fun becoming one with the water and playing around.we may have not have felt it but a whole bunch of water molecules were shaking very rapidly.in this picture jonathon is trying to catch trout so that he can put it into the pond the rewst of did this. the fish were fast slippery and stobburn like even though your trying to help them the flaped their fins rapidly but i guess that was because they were scared but overall this activity was fun.

AND THE REST OF BLACK ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Here, we were testing the pH at Harlem Meer and we were also testing the Conductivity of it. We all used the probes to test the capacity of it and we saw our resultts there. Most people got to have a chance testing this out and we learned that if the pH was lower than 7, it is an acid and if it's higher than 7 it is basic.

Here, we were looking at different samples of bacteria like Enterococci that could be found in water. We saw all of this throughout the microscopes in the Science Room. We also learned that Enterococci is mostly found after a day of RAIN. This was very fun!

I learn in this picture the sewers sanitize waste water that we have use already. It just dosn't clean the water it also pollutes the water.

I learned that the fresh that we get is from the Croton Dam. Also that the croton aqueduct starts at the croton dam as well.

I learn that the Croton Dam water travels al the way to Central park reserovoir.

This land used to be own by African American and also people that came from ireland.

This is showing the water molecules that water has and they are  2 hydron and one oxygen.

This trouts that are being release are fry trout since they are tiny and they swim to the surface to look for food.

The fish that are bigger then these are called fingerling which mean that they are the adult fish.

The croton dam was made supose  to be made  buy a guy who goes by the name John B. Jervis.

Some jails for the women in the old days were way smaller then this one on the picture.

There are seven reivers in Black rock mountain and six of them are reservoir.

We living organism under water that look just like incects and some where shape like spiders other like small worm.

i learn that you can actually drink urine since it's  pH.