Third Day in the Field continued...
See if you can guess what's going on in this fun picture from today! Pretty cool, huh?
So, I promised you a fallen giant. Did you guess it was a tree? Hope so!
You can see a picture of the fallen giant further down below, and just below, is a video clip that explains what happens when a huge tree falls in the forest.
This morning we continued our tree measuring and added on another task involved in data collection--entering all the gathered data into spreadsheets on the computer!
We also helped in another study this afternoon; we read numerous rain gauges to see how much precipitation has fallen in the different locations in the forest. Weather monitoring is a huge component of the work done here. Tomorrow I will share some amazing pictures and video on this including photos taken from a meteorological monitoring tower 120 ft. tall!
Before I head off to a much-needed sleep, I wanted to share this link with you:
www.greenschoolsalliance.org
Look on the sidebar that says "GSA Updates" and click on where it says "NYC Goes Green." Scroll down a little... Wait to you see what school is mentioned!
Way to go PS 132 and the PS 132 Green Team! I'm going to bed thinking happy thoughts knowing how much we're all doing to help Mother Earth!
Until tomorrow, good Earthlings...
posted by Stacey Leichman Cahn @ 9:54 PM
4 Comments:
How are you doing science in the forest? How did the tree die?
Hey Mrs. Cahn!
Looks like you are learning so many interesting new things! This experience is allowing us to learn a lot too!! We can't wait to skype with you tomorrow....Until then!
Jordan asks: Do you ever see bears?
Nicole wants to know: What are you eating for your meals? Does it come from the forest?
Cammore and Ms. Molina want to know: will you be bringing back any insect samples?
Julien was reading about poison ivy on the nature walk site. Is there poison ivy in your forest?
Scott Y. of Mr.Lew
How did the tree fall(nat. causes, flood, or by human intervention)?
If we got rid of our forests(all of them, how might we counteract global warming then?
P.S. I'm sure I posted other times too- just curious why they aren't up.
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