Kindergarten Naturalists examine the Wetlands
by Lisa Preston, lower school naturalist
The Kindergarten Naturalists traveled across the Mighty Cumberland to visit the USN wetlands. On our earlier visit to the wetlands, there was no water, but this time we found the wetlands full of water!
The Kindergarten Naturalists traveled across the Mighty Cumberland to visit the USN wetlands. On our earlier visit to the wetlands, there was no water, but this time we found the wetlands full of water!
Our focus was to look at the water to see what lives there and to use our thermometers and measuring sticks to find out the temperature and depth of the water. We wondered if the water temperature and the air temperature would be the same or different.
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After preparing their bins with water from the end of the boardwalk, our Kindergarten scientists used their nets to collect some of the many things living in the water: aquatic sowbugs, crayfish, water boatmen, scuds, water fleas and mites. One group of naturalists collected a giant water bug which was a first viewing for many of us (including me) at the wetlands. This bug is large enough to eat tadpoles!
After we recorded our data and drew pictures of what we had collected, we went to see what animal tracks might be left in the mud after so much rain. We found several deer tracks in the mud. One track we found looked like the deer had slid in the mud, which was familiar since that can sometimes happen to us when we move too fast!
Our last minutes were spent looking for moss and lichen, which are home to the micro-animal, water bear. Water bears are fascinating animals to think about, even though we cannot see them with the naked eye.
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