Friday
May 10, 2013
1st
Period
My group and I learned that Leif was absent.
2nd
Period
I learned that Nigel had brought in an aluminum bat
to “fight” the honeysuckle with. We set a goal to get more than 40 plots done, find some missing property, and look into mapping software. We went out to the area we left off with Mr. Polk. We found one steak (stake) in the ground of the four or three we had missing. We went to work, continuing measuring plots and
counting honeysuckle trees. Below is an example of honeysuckle bush, taken on Thursday by me.
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| Aaron, Nigel, and Nic are in there. Can you spot them? |
Funny Story: Aaron broke his hammer and the head flew into the creek, he then retrieved it and got all muddy and wet. I had to
help him back up. I was going to have him recreate the scene in the afternoon
but some outside influences prevented that.
We recorded eight plots this period. Grand total of
66 plots.
Lastly we walked back to the school.
3rd
Period
We, with Ms. Cook walked back out there and worked. Toward the end of the period Aaron took off his wet shoes.We tallied our newly recorded plots at about six more.
The
Rest of the Day
The rain came along with it some lightning and we
couldn't go outside. So…
- Nic moved our handwritten information into a spreadsheet. We had about 72 plots.
- I downloaded a mapping program from Arcgis.
- Aaron and Nigel worked on the first draft of our PowerPoint.
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| Screen shot of latest data collected as of May 10th From left to right: quadrant, mature honeysuckle, and young honeysuckle |
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| First Slide of PowerPoint Presentation Nice, right? |
Reflection
We definitely did not meet our goal, however I think we spend some constructive time doing some catch up on technology based work we needed to do. We also got some time for relaxing and we also realized how important or rather how much each us was will to do for this project. We all were ready to brave the weather, but Mr. Polk, looking out for our well being, didn't let us kill ourselves going outside in the lightning.
I really like the level of description you used. If someone had no clue what the goal of what you were doing at first, from the way you layered the events of the day into pictures and class periods and how everything was split up was a very efficient organizational move in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI feel like you gave a good description of the day and I like the tone of your blog. I feel like you joked too much in your blog instead of describing the project. Also, I feel like you could have explained your data table more.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the layout of the blog. Instead of time points on the live blog you used class periods, and I thought that was good. I just think you could have described first period a little more. Was Leif being gone a good or bad thing? Also, I disagree with the acorn. She was dropped from an oak tree as a baby. You can't really joke too much in a blog post because that's just you talking like you normally would.
ReplyDeleteIt is really easy to follow what happened in your day because you say what you did in each period. The pictures are really nice to because they help with visualizing your project. The reflection is good because it tells me about how it made you feel.
ReplyDeleteI liked the reflection part because it summarizes what you did that day and how you felt about that day. But you could describe what you did during 1st period more?
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