January 21, 2008

    Today we had two presenters from Oak Hammock Marsh at our school.  Their names were Dusty and Andrea.

They did a presentation for each of the classes.  

 

The grade 5/6 class had presentation called, "Radio Telemetry and The Study of Waterfowl".

 

 

 

 

 

When you stick transmitters in ducks it lets you know where the duck is.

By wade

 

I learned how to search for duck’s and how to release duck’s. Male duck’s have bright colors. Female duck’ are dark so they can blend in.

By Emily

 

 

I think that Oak Hammock is a very cool thing. And I like there building because it has grass on the roof that looked really cool!

 

By, Spencer Reimer

 

I think oak Hammock is really radical.  There building is covered in grass so it can blend in to its surroundings.  I like the process of how they insert the transmitter.

 

 

BY Benny Klassen

 

 

Ducks are actually pretty neat creatures, but not many people think that they are cool. Male animals are almost always brighter than the females. Transmitters can be really really small!

 

I think that Oak Hammock is pretty neat, but I think they could improve to radar tracking. If they would step up to radar tracking than they could pinpoint the animal instantly! They could sometimes even insert the transmitters with a needle. I think that when I am an adult I might work at Ducks Unlimited!

 

By Conor Adrian

 

 

 

 Ducks are pretty cool.  I learned that the female ducks are lighter, even though some males are brighter.  I learned how you put on a band and how you put in a transmitter I also learned all the different kinds of transmitters.  Did you know that female ducks pick their mates that are why they don’t have to look all everything?  I think that Oak Hammock is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

 

BY EMMA MARIN!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I learned that most ducks can’t smell. I also learned that tracking ducks could be very hard. I wish that more people would stop hunting ducks because they already don’t have a good chance in nature. Most ducks get killed when they are young.    

 

                                                            By Teresa Rempel

 

 

It was cool when we went out to do radio telemetry. 

 

By. James

 

 

 

I learned that boy duck’s don’t stay with the female for long.  I learned that only female get the tracers in them.  I taught how many tracers they are.  I learned the tracers are for the female’s case they want to see the nest and eggs.

 

BY. Abigail

 

  

 

I learned that you do surgery on ducks! Its hard to find ducks after you a banded them.

 

By Steven

 

 

Hen's have dark colors that is cool.

 

 

By BOB

 

 

 

 

I learned how to catch a duck without killing it.

 

By Derek

 

 

I leaned how to catch a duck

 

         By benie

 

 

I learned that most transmitters stay in the duck.

 

By : Joeanna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Kindergarten class enjoyed their presentation called, "What are the Wetlands?".  This was the response of the Kindergarten students to Dusty's presentation:

    The water is 2 Gabrielle's deep (2 meters).  We want to keep the water clean.  I liked the fox and mouse game with the parachute. The beaver skeleton had big teeth.  Cranberries are from the wetlands.  We saw a duck and a rabbit foot.  There were many sounds in the wetlands, like cows.  Some eggs can really hide.  The frog was very tiny.

 

 

 

 

The Grade 1 & 2 class enjoyed the presentation, "Discover Watersheds".  The students learned about the importance of wetlands and watersheds. Andrea showed the class how much water in the world was 'drinkable' compared to the total amount of water on Earth.  It turns out that only a drop is drinkable when compared to the large cylinder of water she had.  Students worked together in groups and drew a home where they had food, water and anything else they wanted.  Everybody loved Andrea's three dimensional landscape model.    The students realized how necessary it is to look after our environment when they saw how rain washed waste into the rivers and lake.  The relief model made us think of the Miami Hills and how Roland sits on the prairie land below.  We realized that the Shannon and Tobacco creeks rise when there are heavy rains, and that products we put on our land can wash into our water systems.  Students were encouraged to pick up garbage and work to keep our environment clean.