Project Description
For this project we were put into groups where we worked on our product that relates to the Escondido Creek Watershed.
Link to project website down below.
Reflection
My job in this project was to make a children's book with my partner. Our children's book explains things that are going on in a watershed that can affect salmonids. The production of the book started with making the sentences, then after that, we made the illistrations for it. We used watercolor for the illistrations. When we were done making the different components for the book we scanned it and made multiple copies. We cut and pasted the book together along with the sentences.
Durring this whole project I learned a lot of things I never knew before. I learned about watersheds, chemicals, salmonids, etc.Before this project I had no clue what any of these concepts were. I found out that things that we measure such as alkaline, nitrate, TDS can actually affect fish. I didnt think that fish are as sensitive as they actually are. We were given a chemical/bacterium in the beggining of this project that we would focus on. I focused on alkalinity which happensto be really complicated. Alkalinity is the waters capacity to resist change. Basically the change I am talking about it a change that would happen in ph. The ph scale is between 0-14. Near zero is more acidic and near 14 is more basic. The regular/good point for it to be at is 7.
Durring this whole project I learned a lot of things I never knew before. I learned about watersheds, chemicals, salmonids, etc.Before this project I had no clue what any of these concepts were. I found out that things that we measure such as alkaline, nitrate, TDS can actually affect fish. I didnt think that fish are as sensitive as they actually are. We were given a chemical/bacterium in the beggining of this project that we would focus on. I focused on alkalinity which happensto be really complicated. Alkalinity is the waters capacity to resist change. Basically the change I am talking about it a change that would happen in ph. The ph scale is between 0-14. Near zero is more acidic and near 14 is more basic. The regular/good point for it to be at is 7.