Happy Earth Day!!
Happy Earth Day everyone!
I hope you all enjoyed your Earth Day and took sometime yesterday or today to think about some of your impacts on the environment or at least got outdoors to enjoy the natural wonders of our beautiful world!! We definitely got a chance to explore the environment of East Port Medway today! After checking our traps in the morning, we spent sometime creating a trail through the woods and surverying the land to make a map. (Watch the video below to find out more about maps at our sight.)
Maps are extremely important to many professions all around the world. There are also many different maps people use to show or find important information. As you learned in the video, we are helping to create a detailed map of East Port Medway for volunteers (like me) to use so we don’t get lost. In addition to practical uses of the map, we're working to create more trails to add on the map as well as use those trails to identify habitat locations such as forest areas, clearings, rock fields, and eventually active animal dens. Animal habitats, like the one we are creating, can take years to finish (up to 15 years for this map) and need to be updated at least once a year. Since we are the first research team at East Port Medway we are at the beginning stages of map making. Today we laid out the perimeters and created trails to add to the map.
Challenge:
1. Name at least 5 jobs that rely on maps.
2. Name at least 3 reasons why having a detailed map of a research area is important.
3. Why do you think it will take 15 years to create a detailed map?
To my responsive hour!
Thanks so much for all of your wonderful comments… you ROCK!! There were a lot of questions about some of the other animals I’ve seen besides porcupine, mice and voles. Although we haven’t yet seen any bear or moose, we are going beaver watching tonight and bat calling tomorrow night. Hopefully I’ll see a lot more animals and will be sure to get pictures to show you! On the other hand we have seen a number of white-tailed dear, snowshoe hare, muskrat, and snakes. We’ve also seen many signs of coyote and fox and I have a feeling I’ll be running into one soon :)
As far as trapping the animals, we are hoping to catch some chipmunk, flying squirrel, and rock lemming at this sight. We caught 1 vole today, however the weather is supposed to get cooler throughout the night which tends to bring more animals to the traps. Fingers crossed for tomorrow!!
P.S. Tanner M. ~ There will be much more on scat tomorrow!!
I hope you all enjoyed your Earth Day and took sometime yesterday or today to think about some of your impacts on the environment or at least got outdoors to enjoy the natural wonders of our beautiful world!! We definitely got a chance to explore the environment of East Port Medway today! After checking our traps in the morning, we spent sometime creating a trail through the woods and surverying the land to make a map. (Watch the video below to find out more about maps at our sight.)
Maps are extremely important to many professions all around the world. There are also many different maps people use to show or find important information. As you learned in the video, we are helping to create a detailed map of East Port Medway for volunteers (like me) to use so we don’t get lost. In addition to practical uses of the map, we're working to create more trails to add on the map as well as use those trails to identify habitat locations such as forest areas, clearings, rock fields, and eventually active animal dens. Animal habitats, like the one we are creating, can take years to finish (up to 15 years for this map) and need to be updated at least once a year. Since we are the first research team at East Port Medway we are at the beginning stages of map making. Today we laid out the perimeters and created trails to add to the map.
Challenge:
1. Name at least 5 jobs that rely on maps.
2. Name at least 3 reasons why having a detailed map of a research area is important.
3. Why do you think it will take 15 years to create a detailed map?
To my responsive hour!
Thanks so much for all of your wonderful comments… you ROCK!! There were a lot of questions about some of the other animals I’ve seen besides porcupine, mice and voles. Although we haven’t yet seen any bear or moose, we are going beaver watching tonight and bat calling tomorrow night. Hopefully I’ll see a lot more animals and will be sure to get pictures to show you! On the other hand we have seen a number of white-tailed dear, snowshoe hare, muskrat, and snakes. We’ve also seen many signs of coyote and fox and I have a feeling I’ll be running into one soon :)
As far as trapping the animals, we are hoping to catch some chipmunk, flying squirrel, and rock lemming at this sight. We caught 1 vole today, however the weather is supposed to get cooler throughout the night which tends to bring more animals to the traps. Fingers crossed for tomorrow!!
P.S. Tanner M. ~ There will be much more on scat tomorrow!!
posted by Ms. Messick @ 6:30 PM
3 Comments:
Hello Ms. Messick!
Mr. J's 3rd hour class wants to know what type of tree (common name) is it that is growing directly out of the rock? and also, why is it that this occurs? We dont konw of any other types of trees that have the ability to do this.
Thanks and keep up the hard work!
sweet videos!!!!!!! of the beaver
sweet beaver videos!!!!!!!
Tyler your 5 hour class
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