The AWWA Blog
Tank Tales: Catching Critters
Last week the Paul School's 4th grade, and Acton Elementary's 7th grade, learned about how to determine water quality based on the types of macroinvertebrates or "water bugs" you find in a stream. These macroinvertebrates are important because once our brook trout are...
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What’s In Wakefield’s Groundwater?
Most of the water on Earth, 97% to be exact, is salt water found in the oceans. On the flip side, only 3% of the Earth's water is fresh! 2% of the Earth's water is in solid form, found in ice caps and glaciers. Because it is frozen and so far away, the fresh water in...
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Tank Tales: Acton’s Brook Trout Eggs Arrive!
On January 24th, the eggs traveled from a fish hatchery in Casco, Maine to Acton Elementary! The school was a buzz with many people asking if the eggs had finally arrived, and asking to sneak a peak. Before revealing the eggs to the 7th graders, we talked about brook...
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Tank Tales: Acton Student Asks “That’s cool, but why?”
On a Friday afternoon, Mr. Cote's students were left puzzled by a fish tank that had appeared in their classroom. After a weekend of waiting, the students were asked about their predictions for what the newest addition(s) would be. From turtles to crayfish, from...
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Tank Tales: Brook Trout Eggs Arrive in Wakefield!
Last year, the students were left in the dark about what they would be raising in their classroom. This year the anticipation of knowing they were getting the trout eggs made them even more excited than the mystery. Before the eggs arrived, I asked the students to...
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Welcome Back to Tank Tales!
"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout." ~Irish proverb. After last year's success with the Trout in the Classroom Program, we decided to bring brook trout back into the 4th grade classrooms of Wakefield. Schools all across New Hampshire...
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