Last week, we had a few visitors to the science room. First, Dottie Baumgarten from the Philadelphia Water Department came to 3rd grade science with Enviroscape. The purpose of Enviroscape is to help teach students about the importance of protecting our watersheds. The students were able to easily see the sources of pollution in a watershed, and were able to "pollute" the landscape with various materials. Paper, Koolaid powder, sprinkles and food coloring were all used to represent different kinds of pollution. Next, the students made it "rain" on the watershed, which showed how pollution is carried into our streams and rivers across the land and through storm drains. We took a walk outside with Dottie to look for the storm drains on the AFS campus.
It was lots of fun to "pollute" the landscape with various materials!
Students started making it rain.
The rain carries the pollution through the streams to the river and then to the ocean!
Next live owls came to 2nd grade! Mike Kaczmarczik came from the Academy of Natural Sciences with three owls and a hawk. He brought a Barred Owl, an Eastern Screech Owl, a Barn Owl and a Cooper's Hawk. It was a terrific way to kick-off our bird study this fall. Students learned about all of the wonderful adaptations that raptors have, and were able to see these amazing animals up close. Mike explained about the features of the birds, their habitats and the reasons why these particular birds had been injured and need to stay at the Academy.
Students learn just how big owl eyes are! If you close your fist, that's how big they would be - much bigger than our own eyes!
The beautiful Barred Owl!
It stood on a special perch because of an injured wing that made it difficult to balance.
The magnificent Barn Owl!
Students were able to touch real raptor wings and feet as they exited the program.
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