Helmer Nature Center Field Trip

Last Friday our class took a field trip to the Helmer Nature Center. In class we are studying ecosystems and our trip to Helmer gave them a pond ecosystem in real life!

Our class learns what they will do at Helmer.

In this picture the class is pretending to be macro invertebrates that live in pond water. They learned some of the organisms are tolerant of poor water quality while some are intolerant. In the this game I was a pond stressor and the kids acted like the organisms. I had to catch them while they moved like the organisms. Some were fast movers- I caught the slow ones!

Here the kids met a pond turtle and a box turtle.

In this last picture the class is about to take water samples to find pond macro invertebrates.  We had a few slips in the mud but no one ended up in the pond!