Sketchbooks and Environmental Studies

As part of their studies students will be using science sketchbooks to collect data as well as practising their skills of obervation. There have been sketching sessions while at Sherbrooke Lake as well as detailed observation activities with peer evaluation in the classroom. The most popular subject in the classroom has been the giant water bug that was found wandering on campus. The first image is a dragonfly nymph viewed using a document camera and an interactive whiteboard and the second is a picture of two students sketching in the class.

ENS and ESY at the Pond

The students of the ESY and ENS classes have completed their fieldwork at Long Pond and the Bio Pond. They have sampled the physical factors as collecting and sketching the organisms of the pond. Each student is now using the data that he or she has collected to write several lab reports and one is titled "Determining the Water Quality of Local Aquatic Ecosystems".

ENS Microclimate Work

The ENS classes went outside yesterday to investigate microclimates on the KES campus. The average temperature was about minus thirteen with a windchill of about minus twenty.