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Karen Dvornich and the class discussing how to build this site.
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 | This is a picture of Junior and Ian explaining the food preference graph to the 4th and 5th graders. |
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Karen's note: Fish and wildlife biologists from local, state and federal agencies and researchers from universities meet once a year to share information about fish and wildlife in the Pacific Northwest. This year 4 students involved in the Short-horned lizard study traveled to Post Falls, Idaho to present their project. One of the students wrote about their experience. My name is Kendra Cousineau. I was one of four people that presented how we started this whole Horny toad project. I'm in the fifth grade. The other people that went were Bryan Thomsen, Ian Daling, and Junior Velezquez. Finally, the day had come! We went to a conference center for wildlife where we met Karen Dvornich and we got all set up. FINALLY, it was time to present!!! |
When it first started, Dr. Chuck Peterson from Idaho State University was talking about what a Horny toad was and where they lived. He also showed us two pictures of a Horny toad. One like lived in the desert or something because it was buried in sand. The next one he showed us is the kind we have here in Washington.
Then, Karen asked me to present the maps and how we got started. So I showed the maps and how they were approximately 20 miles around Waterville and then I explained how we got started, the letters and the farmers coming in. Then, she asked me where Horny toads like to live most and I told her they like scab patches. Then, I showed the graphs we made out of the data the farmers collected.
Next, Ian and Junior presented how they started the food preference study and how they got the bugs to feed the Horny toads in their room.
Finally, Bryan told them how they built and put the cage in the ground for the over-wintering project. Then, the professors had questions like "When the plows picked up the Horny toads, did it hurt them?" "No, they just tumbled along with the soil."
Then, there was another question "How oong have you been doing this?" "For almost two years now. We started at the end of October, 1998".
FINALLY, it was over! It seemed like hours! Still we had to pose for pictures (Ian's dad videotaped the whole thing. We showed our classmates when we got back.) THEN, Karen gave us a stack of Dolphin Log magazines! (I got the most, of course, because I LOVE DOLPHINS!)
FINALLY, it was time to go home! And it turned out to be a cool day!!
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