ENTRY H

Water Shed Field Trip

This was a very interesting field trip because I never even knew that the watershed was there. I did always assume that the city had a water treatment facility, but I had in no way imagined that it was incorporated in the city's art program. We went out to the watershed and got a general feel for the place one day, and provide an art experience for visitors another day.

We had a great deal of fun interacting with the kids at the field trip. My team created a miniature version of the Boise River, complete with fish and trash. We gave the children a free gold fish from our river if they would help us to identify the items in our river that didn't belong.

Integration

• This experience would be very easily integrated into children's science curriculum. They could attend the presentation on water preservation.
• The watershed deals with a large volume of flow, so it would make a great segway into mathematical calculations.
• The trip could be integrated into the student's life science curriculum by examining all of the wildlife effected by the water in our area.
• Writing or English class could be integrated into the trip by assigning the students to write a story about the experience.
• Students could learn about social studies by exploring the way that other cultures have dealt with wastewater treatment or irrigation & such.