After big buddies we went back to our work about human impacts in Whispering Woods. We started by reading the Lorax. It is about someone called a Once-ler who is causing very negative impacts. Trees get cut down and animals get hurt, and lots of pollution is created. We had a big talk about the important job of environmental scientists to make people aware of their impacts because it didn't seem like the Once-ler was trying to be mean, but he just wasn't paying attention to the negative impacts his decisions were having. We went out to the Whispering Woods in our research groups and marked the human impacts on a map to show where they were happening the most. We also took photos of the impacts using the iPads so that we can evidence of the problem.
During our recess break we had a visit from Sam and Brian from grade 5-6. They told us about some strange red powder they have noticed at the bottom of some of the aspen trees in the Whispering Woods. They have asked us not to touch the red powder until they can do some research and figure out what it is. They think it might be a fungus or virus that is growing on the trees. Once they have some answers they will report back to us.
After recess we started making awareness posters to show the rest of the school the human impacts we have discovered. We will continue working on these next week and we will let you know when they are on display so that you can come to see them.
Our helper on Monday is: Abdul Ahad
