Students utilize model ponds to obtain information as to the effects of pollution on the pond ecosystem. Students analyze sources of pollution and discuss their prevention.

Students embark on an exploration of the Ingram Pond ecosystem. Donning hip boots and carrying dip-nets, fifth graders stroll the pond edge collecting organisms such as crayfish, grass shrimp, small fish, and hatchling turtles. Bringing their samples back to the Fish House, students build food chains and webs analyzing the…

Students will build bottle rockets and launch them to investigate the relationship between mass, force and motion. Students will investigate Newton's Laws as they apply to canoeing to gain an understanding of reaction forces, reference frames, and net forces.

Students embark on an exploration of the Ingram Pond ecosystem by canoe. While canoeing students collect names of species they identify through the use of specialist prepared resource rings. Students observe and identify interdependent and dependent relationships existing in the pond ecosystem, focusing on the transfer and transformation of energy…

Upon donning hip and chest waders, students enter the pond ecosystem to collect macro-invertebrates and fish for laboratory study. Returning to the Fish House, students classify their organisms, identifying the structure/function relationships of their adaptations. Students compare the structures of a bony fish to that of a cartilage fish; the…