Middle-school Projects Focused onWater Quality of Crystal Creek in Cle Elum, WA
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC Ballroom A
Start Date
17-5-2012
End Date
17-5-2012
Abstract
Sixth grade students at Walter Strom Middle School in the Cle Elum �" Roslyn School District conducted research focused on measuring the water quality of Crystal Creek, a small stream located near the school. These students are part of the National Science Foundation’s GK-12 program which places graduate students in elementary through high school classrooms to enhance the state curriculum with hands on inquiry based science. Our GK-12 program, called the Watershed Activities to Enhance Research in Schools (WATERS) focuses on the Yakima River Watershed. Every year, Mr. Sweet’s sixth graders get to raise Chinook salmon in their classroom. The sixth graders were asked a year-long question of “Could we release the salmon we raise in our classroom into Crystal Creek?” The students were divided into groups, and each group came up with a testable hypothesis focused on one of four water quality indicators: temperature, flow rate, dissolved oxygen, or pH. The student presentations will focus on their answer to the research question based on their data.
Recommended Citation
Healas, Sara and Sweet, Dale, "Middle-school Projects Focused onWater Quality of Crystal Creek in Cle Elum, WA" (2012). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 58.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2012/posters/58
Poster Number
39
Additional Mentoring Department
Biological Sciences
Middle-school Projects Focused onWater Quality of Crystal Creek in Cle Elum, WA
SURC Ballroom A
Sixth grade students at Walter Strom Middle School in the Cle Elum �" Roslyn School District conducted research focused on measuring the water quality of Crystal Creek, a small stream located near the school. These students are part of the National Science Foundation’s GK-12 program which places graduate students in elementary through high school classrooms to enhance the state curriculum with hands on inquiry based science. Our GK-12 program, called the Watershed Activities to Enhance Research in Schools (WATERS) focuses on the Yakima River Watershed. Every year, Mr. Sweet’s sixth graders get to raise Chinook salmon in their classroom. The sixth graders were asked a year-long question of “Could we release the salmon we raise in our classroom into Crystal Creek?” The students were divided into groups, and each group came up with a testable hypothesis focused on one of four water quality indicators: temperature, flow rate, dissolved oxygen, or pH. The student presentations will focus on their answer to the research question based on their data.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Jason Irwin