Describe your participation in the Marsh Madness program sponsored by California Waterfowl Association. Include what you did, what you learned, and how you feel about working with elementary school students. Explain how our community benefited from this program and if you recommend it for students next year.
Use complete sentences, paragraphs making thorough explanations.
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Karla M.
// May 19, 2008 at 10:30 am
In working with the Marsh Madness program I learned a lot of new things in our land that are very important to us. For instance, keeping the water clean, and also keeping it preserved. I also learned that it is very important to take care of our habitats, so that our animals can live in a healthy and clean environment as we wish to live in. I had a good experience working with the elementary students, by participating in the activities with them. Also it helped me with my confidence knowing that I can teach kids and not being shy. I believe that the students from Calvine High School help benefit our community in many ways because it helped us view those habitats like Stone Lake as important, and we can pass the information on to other people.
For the first time I experienced fun with nature. I think that this program is a really good experience for many people, the fact that you learn new things in nature and also because you get the opportunity to work with the nature and beauty in this world. I believe that this program is a good idea it helps a lot in nature or in other science areas etc. If the program was to be run in the fall I think it would be better because a lot of people aren’t able to enjoy it in the hot weather.
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ryan d.
// May 21, 2008 at 2:18 pm
While I was working in the marsh madness program I worked with 4th grade students teaching them the importance of our wet lands. I learned that we only have 5% of our wet lands left which isn’t a very big number. Also I learned there are many reasons our wetlands are important. While I was working with the students I had to learn the value of patience; although most of the kids were really nice and listened to you what you taught some were really rude. But for the most part I loved working with the kids because I love kids. I think our community benefits from the program because the students we taught now know the importance of keeping our wetlands clean.
I would definitely recommend that students next year sign up for the program because you will get to be apart of something big. While in this program we got to try things we probably would never try like eating goose and duck. I can honestly say I am glad I participated in this program
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Robert A.
// May 27, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Going to the Marsh Madness field trip was a good experience for me because there were so many good things to learn about and to teach to fourth graders. This field trip helped us learn more about the wetlands and nature. Also we taught the fourth graders about the wetlands and all the ways to make them interested about what they were learning by talking about the animals, plants, different type of habitats. We learned about so many birds and we were helping the fourth graders see them in the binoculars. We took the fourth graders on the safari guide which they really loved and enjoyed.
Teaching and showing these elementary students all these wonderful things made me learn how it’s important to learn about wetlands and the nature surrounding it. Having this experience gave me more knowledge about what is important to our life, even though we don’t realize it every day we have to be aware of our environment. All this comes in mind when we did all those safari guides and the activities with the elementary students because the more knowledge they get when their young, the better it will be in their future. I would definitely recommend this field trip again to Calvine High School students.
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