RRC students and their teachers are taking learning one step further than traditional education by moving the classroom from indoors to outdoors. The entire seventh grade class at Red Rock Central spent Tuesday, April 28, discovering for themselves the connection of landscape, and water quality. The students were involved with soil sampling, timing river flow, mapping and writing narratives about the activities. Teachers have Compiled lessons that integrate five disciplines with water quality and water sampling. The students using GPS (global positioning system) instruments mapped the area around Highwater Creek while another group of students checked soil samples and river flow on Dutch Charley Creek. They will be testing water samples later for several different qualities including dissolved oxygen, temperature, total phosphate and nitrates. Students will visit Highwater Creek and Dry Creek May 12th and will be looking for macroinvertebrates as water quality indicators.
STORY FROM THE LAMBERTON NEWS
MAY 6TH 1998
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Red Rock Central seventh-graders and their teachers took learning one step further than traditional education by moving the classroom from indoors to outdoors. The entire seventh-grade class spent a day last week discovering the connection of landscape and water quality. The students were involved iwth soil sampling, timing water flow, mapping and writing narratives about the activities. Project leader is Leon Stalls, geography teacher. Other teachers involved in the cooperative, inter-disciplinary effort include Clare Polzin (math), Bob Rise (English), Gerald Dammann (science), and Leonard Runck (technology).
The students explored the landscape around Dutch Charley Park and Highwater Creek, and will be testing water samples from both. Students will visit Highwater Creek and Dry Creek to look for lifeforms as water quality indicators.