Waterville Projects 2006
Presentations
Sharing the Horny Toad Project in Spokane 2006
Seven people went to Spokane to present to the state meeting of the
Conservation Districts about 4 different projects that many different
people worked on for 16 years. The projects are Douglas creek watershed
study, Horny toad project, tree project, and farmer books. The Douglas
creek water shed includes a bioblitz by the 3rd grade. The 6th grade did
a soil analysis and found the velocity of the water. The rest of us did
water testing and collected macroinverterbrates.
Next we explained how we work with farmers to collect data on horny
toads. Then we told how farmers came in and told Mrs. Petersen that
they wanted a book of all of their farm lands, so Bryan and Walter spent
about one hundred hours on the first book of maps. Finally we explained
the tree map we made for the town of Waterville.
Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Petersen drove us to Spokane and the heater broke
and the front had no hot air but of course the kids had all the heat
they needed. While we waited for the suburban to get fixed we stayed in
one of the commissioners hotel rooms and watched TV so we got started
home a little late. Before the presentation we got to have a fancy
lunch and we got a lot of free things from the exhibits. Some of us got
stuffed chickens. We got hot chocolate before we started the
presentation. After the whole program we all thought in our minds "Can
we go to the mall?" but it was snowing so we went home and ate dinner at
Doxie's.
Giving a presentation like this to several hundred people made us feel
scared and proud. We worked hard and practiced for about 12 hours. It
wasn't easy memorizing our parts, but we did it. We thought about the
advice that Allen's mom gave us when she said, "Pain is temporary, but
pride is forever." We will always remember our feeling of pride in our
accomplishments.
Adopt-a-Farmer Project
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