North County Lanscapes
Quick Description: During this project, we learned about four of the North County Watersheds. Students created paintings in groups and presented lessons about the watershed they painted. The team went on hikes to places on the watershed and got to see the places they were learning about. An option for students who wanted to learn about agriculture was to work on a space of land and learn about farming instead of creating a lesson and researching a watershed. These students worked for about four hours in total, taking time out of their school day to work on the land, essentially their biology period for the day. They worked with the farm bureau to see if they could plant coffee and avocado trees together and see if they could survive as well as plant amaranth to see if it can thrive in the Southern California weather. To the right, you can look at pictures from the hikes that we went on over the course of this project.
Reflection:
Over this project, I learned about four of the watersheds in North County, California: Double Peak/San Marcos Valley and Lake, Eflin Forest/Escondido Creek, Volcan Mountain/Santa Ysabel East, Sikes Adobe/Lake Hodges, and San Deiguito Lagoon/Del Mar Beach, as well as agriculture in San Diego. As part of the group of students who learned about agriculture, I got to visit the plot of land that we planted on. On the farm, I helped plant over twenty trees, our 'food forest', as well as rows of vegetables and fruits, including watermelons, pumpkin, corn, artichoke, and gourds. I also went on all of the hikes and got information from students about that place. I also completed weekly notes and summaries of packets my teacher gave out with additional information, which we were tested on every friday of this project. I really enjoyed this project because we were outdoors so much. We previously had done a Teen Health project, which I believe gave my teacher inspiration to get the classes out and moving. I loved to skip a class of sitting down to apply myself to the outdoors, which after all, was what we were learning about in biology. I actually really enjoyed the work that we did on the farm. It was pretty easy, just manual labor. I was comfortable with that, so I think that I got lot out of it. I also like that we got to choose some of the plants that we planted during the agriculture trips. The group got to put down plants that they wanted to see planted, and a lot of them were chosen, especially the fruit trees for the food forest. |
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