2007-2008 Calvine High School Blog

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• 1    KiaraD // Oct 16, 2007 at 11:13 am

  The biggest challenge working with a younger student was having more knowledge in the test we did at Strawberry Creek. The children were very motivated in doing this assignment, not only testing but writing about them as well. Being a teacher for a day was a dramatic difference from being the student everyday. Usually students confide in teachers to know what’s going on and what should be done. Although, it was the first time for myself along with the younger children at this specific assignment I had a better understanding. It was great having the opportunity to share this assignment with people younger than us.

  The benefits of my community by teaching elementary students how to sample water were giving them more opportunities to learn the basics and the importance of why we should keep our water clean. It’s very important that not only students know but the people who live in our community as well. Everyone should be aware of the downfall society gets when they don’t care about our water. The value of constant testing of the water will help provide clean water. Not only just because it’s the water from the creek, but also because it eventually flows down to the Sacramento River, which has the chances to being the water we drink. That being, benefiting the society by help testing what we drink, or just allowing it into our system would make a huge and better difference at that.

• 2    Cody.S. // Oct 16, 2007 at 11:13 am

  The biggest challenge to working with these younger students was the fact of trying to get them to do the worksheet that was handed to them. Even though I had the answers and was providing help when needed they needed to do the work. They were very enthusiastic when it came to doing water samples. Showing them some of the wildlife that was out there, they enjoyed it very much. Some of the language I heard was like that of a sailor’s mouth. But as the day progressed they opened up more toward the Calvine students.

• 3    Loseula T. // Oct 16, 2007 at 11:14 am

  The biggest challenge for me, working with a younger student was to act more civilized and set an example for him. Getting to know the student more was a lot of fun and working with him reminded me a lot of myself when I was at that age. One thing that surprised me was how smart he was. It looks like as my generation gets older the younger generations get smarter. Another thing that some of the other students surprised me with was their language. It was shocking to hear some of the words that they were saying.

  The benefits to our community of teaching elementary school students how to sample water is to show them that we care. Most people think that the students here at continuation schools are bad teenagers, us going with them to the creek and helping our community changed our image. We want to show the community that we care and we can make a difference. Not only that but we can even work with little kids.

• 4    Vincent m // Oct 16, 2007 at 11:17 am

  The biggest change of working with younger students was they had a little bit of trouble paying attention to the work and the testing of the water. But these students were really smart they used words that when I was that young I didn’t know. I was really surprised at how motivated they were about this project.

  Some of the benefits of helping teach the younger students about testing the water is they can get a under standing of how what we do in life can effect the ecosystem. And how a simple thing such as a construction site can affect this delicate balance of the ecosystem. The students were learning how something so small in the word can make a big problem later on down the road.

• 5    JhayB. // Oct 19, 2007 at 9:51 am

  Working with younger children can always be a challenge. During our World Watering Monitoring Day field trip working with sixth graders was a big challenge. My biggest challenge working with a younger student was making sure they understood the safety and facts about the work we were doing that day. The student always had a hard time staying on task and focusing on their work. But overall working with younger students was a helpful experience. It help show me that being a teacher is not as easy as it seems, but the interaction and joy you get from the students make it worth the while.

  Elementary students can benefit in many ways from learning how to sample water. With the knowledge of knowing how to take water samples students can then take samples of local streams or rivers to learn more information about it. Teaching our younger students can make our future better. The youth have control of the future and by giving them the knowledge they need to make the world a better place such as water sampling it can help us guarantee a better future. With educating the kids that throwing trash in your storm drains lead to contaminating the local rivers and creeks helps to keep our community cleaner and helps the aquatic animals live a longer and safer life.

• 6    melissay // Oct 19, 2007 at 10:30 am

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  Sixth graders are usually a challenge to me because they are in the range of pre-teen. I was shocked to learn that I was going to be teacher of the day with a student. My student was very quite and shy, he didn’t seem as interested about anything. He would follow my direction and he would rush into things so he could be around his friends. But working with my student of the day doesn’t bother me as much, as long as he goes home. I honestly think he didn’t learn anything at all, the fact that his eyes were always wandering around and he didn’t seem to be concerned about his own work but other students.

  What we did was, go down to Strawberry Creek to test the water. After the testing they have a worksheet to answer and with most of the questions he would rephrase the question and make it into the answer. Like for an example “what is sanitize water?” he’ll answer “water that is sanitize.” He did angered me because he didn’t really try to answer the question , he just wrote whatever is on top of his head and he’ll look around for his buddies; it really bugged me but then he paid attention to me at times. Since that day I realize one thing about me, I don’t want to be a teacher.

• 7    AlexF. // Oct 19, 2007 at 9:35 pm

  The biggest challenge working with an elementary student was I didn’t think I could work with someone younger than me, and for myself to teach them on something I didn’t really know about. As I worked with my student I realized that it wasn’t that difficult. My student and I worked very well together and it wasn’t challenging as I expected once we got going. My student was very quiet and helpful at the same time. He followed directions as I directed them. Being a teacher for an elementary student at Strawberry Creek was a big experience because I had never worked with a younger student as my partner, while testing samples of the water and completing worksheets.

  The benefits to our communty of teaching younger students how to sample water is to know if our communiy is keeping our water clean and to help it to be always clean and safe. The importantce of sampling our water benefits our community to show that we care about our little bit of wildlife that we have near the school. Teaching the younger students about the importance in keeping our water clean is good so that they can be aware about their surroundings and how we live in our community. I want the community to know that we care and it does make a difference to have clean water and a clean environment.

• 8    RickM // Oct 23, 2007 at 10:57 am

  The benefits of this field trip was influencing the younger students to take care of the area they live in and maybe it will make a difference later on in their life. Now, maybe they will think twice about throwing paper out the car window. I also benefited from Strawberry Creek because I learned ways to take care of the environment. With this experience I improved my camera skills and also my communication skills.

  My roll in this field trip was being a part of the media team. My biggest challenge was getting motivated to do the work that was expected of me. But once I was in the mood it was easy and went very smooth. Another challenge was the interviewing, helping the younger students to remember what they had learned about the assignment. They didn’t understand the science terminology, like what P.H. means. I was able to help them to remember by asking them questions about the information they had learned. Then they were able to come up with the answers.

• 9    Maurisha H. // Nov 1, 2007 at 11:03 am

  The biggest challenge for me working with a younger student was if I was going to be able to explain the information clearly so that the student would be able to understand and take in what I was saying. The other thing was if my student was going to give me a hard time. My student was very quiet making communication a little difficult.

  The benefits of teaching elementary students about the sample of the water was to help them learn the basics and importance of water sampling. Water sampling is important in creeks because there are lots of things that live in the creek. Its important for the creek water to be clean because the creek flows into the Sacramento river were we get our drinking water. People in the community should want to keep the water clean because they are going to be drinking the water in the future, that’s why it’s important to keep the creek water clean.

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