What we did this week

This week the students had a guest speaker from LiMPETS to talk to them about long-term monitoring and why they do it for the sandy beach and rocky intertidal.  Students then played a game of jenga that is representing an ecosystem. Students were to pick up a card and read it out loud to their groups and the either had a direct or an indirect or a positive impact on the ecosystem.  The direct and indirect impacts are the orange and red blocks and the green are positive impacts. The more orange and red blocks that were taken out the weaker the tower so the green blocks were there to support the tower if they were played.

Jenga game 

We also got into the rocky intertidal monitoring protocol and students were given some species they might find on the field we have next week. Students then went outside to try to identify some of the algae, and other species.

Overall I think the students enjoyed their activities for the week. I saw excitement in their faces when they were doing the activities.