NRE Fluvanna Middle School
Today Fluvanna Middle School 6th graders came to camp for a NRE (Natural Resource Education) Program. The 7th graders came yesterday and more will be here tomorrow.
So far both groups arrived late so we had to shorten classes a little but we still had fun.
They were split into 3 groups Alligators, Bats, and Coyotes. Tomorrow we will add the Deer. They are attending 3 different classes; Soil Studies, Aquatic Ecology, and Water Chemistry.
So far everyone seems to be having fun. Every class some of the kids seem to hesitate when it comes to getting in the water and search for invertebrates (Aquatic Ecology) and dig through the soil to look for insects(Soil Studies) at the beginning of class. It takes a few minutes and by the end of it, its hard to get them to stop. In my soil studies class, the girls today were screaming every time they saw a bug (we even had some boys do the same) but by the end of it they were asking to keep the worms and beetles they found.
In Water Chemistry the students learned that our lake is pretty healthy and about conserving the fresh water that we have available to us. My biggest worry for that class was something or someone falling in. Yesterday the wind was blowing pretty hard and a couple of the station sign fell into the water, we saved one, but we lost one, its new home is the bottom of the lake. Other than that nothing, or noone fell in to the lake!
It has been raining and pretty cold but the students don't seem to mind which is good to see!
So far both groups arrived late so we had to shorten classes a little but we still had fun.
They were split into 3 groups Alligators, Bats, and Coyotes. Tomorrow we will add the Deer. They are attending 3 different classes; Soil Studies, Aquatic Ecology, and Water Chemistry.
So far everyone seems to be having fun. Every class some of the kids seem to hesitate when it comes to getting in the water and search for invertebrates (Aquatic Ecology) and dig through the soil to look for insects(Soil Studies) at the beginning of class. It takes a few minutes and by the end of it, its hard to get them to stop. In my soil studies class, the girls today were screaming every time they saw a bug (we even had some boys do the same) but by the end of it they were asking to keep the worms and beetles they found.
In Water Chemistry the students learned that our lake is pretty healthy and about conserving the fresh water that we have available to us. My biggest worry for that class was something or someone falling in. Yesterday the wind was blowing pretty hard and a couple of the station sign fell into the water, we saved one, but we lost one, its new home is the bottom of the lake. Other than that nothing, or noone fell in to the lake!
It has been raining and pretty cold but the students don't seem to mind which is good to see!
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