Hampshire POND Project

Harrison Primary School

Maddy, George and Sam

Our pondBirds-eye view

school

pond

Close-up

We have collected data about our pond area

Water level Water temperature Air temperature Light level

Pond dip survey Worm surveyDigiblue video and photos

The water level of our pond has been going down and down

March July

GraphThis is what we found

Water level of the pond

38 3734.5

33 33 32

28.8 29

23.721.5

19

15

12 11

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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

10.03.0

9 1

17.03.0

9 2

24.03.0

9 3

31.03.0

9 4

Easter 5

Easter 6

Meetin

g 7

28.04.0

9 8

05.05.0

9 9

12.05.0

9 10

19.05.0

9 11

half te

rm 1

2

02.06.0

9 13

09.06.0

9 14

16.06.0

9 15

23.06.0

9 16

30.06.0

9 17

07.07.0

9 18

the week

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level cm

Water level of the pond

Depth in cm

Our pond dipping survey on 02.06.09

animal Deep water Shallow water

Chaser dragonfly x x

Damsel fly x x

Hog louse x

Lesser water boatman

x

Midge x x

Pond skater x x

Diving beetle x

Water beetle x

Frog tadpole x x

Newt tadpole x x

Water habitat score Deep = 4.8, Shallow = 5.2

Dragon fly larvae

Damsel fly larvae

Our worm survey on 23.06.09

we only found 2 immature worms

Comments

We have liked doing the pond project because:

George: It involves ICT and Science

Sam: it involves working with other people and

Looking at creatures.

Maddy: I liked it because we got to find out about the blue Damsel Flies

Other information

Releasing baby froglets from the school tank in May

A cluster of tadpoles

A water lily

The video conference

George: “That was great – I really enjoyed it, and it was fun seeing all the other groups there at the same time. And meeting up this way, we have saved energy and haven’t made lots of waste carbon dioxide”