Project meeting: 29 March 2013

Meeting agenda 29 March 2013

• Water cycle presentation & discussion
• Thanks ML!
• Thanks for joining us & sharing great experiment ideas, Mrs. M!
• Remember to reflect on CAS!
• RT will represent WOW at the CAS Showcase
• Wednesday, 10 April, 6-8pm, held at West
• Possible project tasks
• Completed tasks are in blue to help you keep track of CAS bits

Project news!

• Interim data have been collected for the first 12 days of the continuous project [18-29 March].
• See Week 4 data links - thanks Mrs. J & JS for downloading the data at the field sites directly onto a laptop, so the loggers could get right back to work
• There appeared to be a 'battery' error with the data-logger at the Bismore Park site, but data appear to have been logged.  
• Data-loggers are continuing at the Aselton Park & Veterans Park culvert

Next meeting - Friday, 5 April - Room 206 - 11.55a-12.20p

• We tried to end earlier, but you all have too much good science to share, discuss & question!
• HOBO logger demo [field site or lab, weather-permitting]
• CAS reminders - RT run through CAS presentation?
• Info on Friday, 12 April meeting - special outside guest speaker

Project meeting: 22 March 2013

Meeting agenda 22 March 2013

• Lunch meeting canceled...
• snow - delayed opening - and MCAS English
• See you all next Friday!
• Remember to reflect on CAS!
• Would anyone like to represent WOW! at the CAS Showcase?
• Wednesday, 10 April, 6-8pm, held at West
• Thank you, RT!
• Sign-up for project tasks - talk with us & do!

Project news!

• New data-loggers are in the water - collecting data every half hour

Next meeting - Friday, 29 March

• Student presentation on the water cycle
• Discuss investigations for biology, physics & maths

Project meeting: 15 March 2013

Meeting agenda 15 March 2013

• Special 'science talk'
• Sturgis East science teachers will share knowledge with us on how water temperature and light intensity are important from the perspectives of the different sciences - cool!
• Thank you! Mrs. M (biology); Mr. W (chemistry); Dr. Pete and Mrs. G (environmental systems & societies); Mr. C (physics)
• Please bring your lunch, and arrive on time (try for 11.50am)
• We plan to begin promptly at 11.55am
• Expect to stay a bit longer, perhaps
• CAS annoucements [JS]
• Remember to reflect!
• Anyone for the CAS Showcase (Wednesday, 10 April, 6-8pm, held at West, participation counts as CAS, too)?
• Sign-up for project tasks & get started

Project news!

• New data-loggers have been tied & tagged - thank you, JP!
• Data-loggers will begin data collection today

Next meeting - Friday, 22 March

• Some Grade 11 students and dr.g. will be away on a field-trip
• Please see Mrs. J or check the blog later for project updates

Project meeting: 8 March 2013

Meeting agenda 8 March 2013

WOW! project: updates & sign-up list for project tasks (big & small)

Please stop by Room 206 during break on Friday to review the sign-up list.  

• You should add only your initials
• See Mrs J & dr.g. with questions
• Reflect for CAS, if relevant
• Thanks again for your help!

Next meeting 
Special event: Science talk will be given by four Sturgis East science teachers about how water temperature and light intensity are important from the perspectives of the different sciences - cool!

• Thanks-Mrs M (biology); Mr. W (chemistry); Dr. Pete and Mrs. G (environmental systems & societies); Mr. C (physics)!
• Please bring your lunch, and arrive on time, as close to 11.50am as you're able to, please, as you're hosting guests!  Expect to stay a bit longer, perhaps.  Thank you!

Project meeting: 1 March 2013

Meeting agenda Friday 1 March

WOW! project: updates, student presentations, next tasks

How are we doing in terms of working toward our project goals (see 15 Feb mtg notes)?

• Water-monitoring pilot data  on temperature & light have been collected for three weeks to date (updated 7 March); 2-3 days for the first two weeks, in two of the three project sites—Veteran’s Park culvert & Aselton Park docks
• Note as of Thursday, 7 March: This week’s HOBO loggers are presently still in the water due to poor weather conditions—dr.g. doesn’t wish to slip into the bay—the loggers will be removed when the skies clear over the weekend; it’ll be interesting to see how the data changes over this week given the storm…hhmmm….this idea could lead to a side project on analyzing WOW! water temperature & light data along with weather measures that could be collected from reliable sources…any takers? Let dr. g. or Mrs. J know.
• Toward understanding the need for stewardship of estuaries, during last week’s project meeting, CL gave a presentation on the properties of water.  The PowerPoint will be uploaded to the blog—check it out!
• Mrs. J shared ideas about developing interdisciplinary science & mathematics connections; she suggested mathematical, statistical & graphical analysis that’s possible with the scientific data on temperature & light that the HOBO data-loggers collect; we collect on-going data through the day and overnight, every 30 minutes—what will you do with the data (we’d like everyone by the end of the project to carry out some analysis, with student presentations & an end-of-project celebration, too)

Next meeting

• Half-day next Friday, 8 March, so we’d like to meet briefly at break for sign-ups for next volunteer tasks
• Try to come to Room 206 at break, 9.45-9.55a.  
• If you can’t make the meeting, please check the blog later on for the sign-up list, once students have had the chance to sign-up at break; the sign-up file should be editable, so you can add you name to any task for which there's need.  Thanks for volunteering!