The Watershed Project
For this project we learned about the Escondido Watershed and things that affect it and the trout that live in it. We broke up into 6 teams. Website team, 4th grade team, Elfin Forest team, Measurement Team, 3D Visualization Team, and Political team. I was apart of the Website team and we created a website for our project and the Escondido Water Conservancy to spread awareness.
Reflection
For our huge Escondido Creek project I was apart of the website team. Our goal was to create a website for our project and for the Escondido Creek Conservancy. I created the How Can You Help? page and the Blog page. If you look on the how can you help page I created a calendar with upcoming events like beach cleanups that you can be apart of in the San Diego area. I will also put the calendar below this. From this project I have adapted the skill of knowing how to reach out out to the public and make people aware of important causes. Before I wasn't aware of what part I was taking in polluting the watershed, or even what a watershed is. I now keep in mind of what big or little things I am doing that contribute.
I hope to see next semester's class take a step further into learning more about the trout themselves. I think a cool thing would be to actually have trout in the classroom. They could also look at the chemicals and bacteria that is in the Watershed that is affecting the trout. As for our website I hope that they will continue to update it and put more data on. I hope that they will be able to show our project more to the public and make more people aware of it. If i could do anything different it would be to find time to actually test our samples that we took from the watershed because we didnt have time to do them and put them on our website.
I hope to see next semester's class take a step further into learning more about the trout themselves. I think a cool thing would be to actually have trout in the classroom. They could also look at the chemicals and bacteria that is in the Watershed that is affecting the trout. As for our website I hope that they will continue to update it and put more data on. I hope that they will be able to show our project more to the public and make more people aware of it. If i could do anything different it would be to find time to actually test our samples that we took from the watershed because we didnt have time to do them and put them on our website.