Blue Ridge Intermediate School

Mrs. Miller's 4th Grade Class and Mr. Galbreath's 4th Grade Class

Class Note: Classes registered seperately. However, our classes worked together collecting and identifying the macroinvertebrates. The classes met to discuss the project and develop a hypothesis.

Location: Lakeside, Arizona

Geography: Lakeside in located at an elevation of 7,000 feet in the White Mountains of Arizona. Vegetation includes Ponderosa Pines and Aspens. It is an area that enjoys all four seasons.

Hypothesis:

Collection Site: Our class walked to Big Springs Environmental Study Area to collect our water samples. Big Springs is a 40 acre site within walking distance from our school. It includes a pond and two steams. We collected samples from the point where the spring enters the pond and also at one of the streams. Students took temperature readings of the water and checked the oxygen level in the water at each site.

Site One: Our first site was one of the streams.

Site Two: Our second site was at the point where the spring enters the pond. .

Total Number of Organisms Collected:

 

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