Pre-K Mud KItchen Explorers

 

And Then Bring Stuff Indoors to Continue Their Work

K Kids Test: Washable or Not

Students Draw on Fabric with Washable and Non-Washable Markers...

Teaching kids to be skeptical is all part of our job as science teachers.

Turns out the washable markers are really washable.

BEFORE

AFTER

There is a class action suit against a famous brand Washable Markers...but our tests show that their Ultra Clean brand are Washable.

Mud Kitchen Reno

New Oven/Microwave

Fresh Baked Muffins

The Scaffolding is Down and Now The Mud Kitchen is 3 Times Bigger

And 3 Times More Interesting and Fun

It's History, Art, Poetry, Sustainability, Science

 

Artist and Poet

Long Time
Ago There
(Were) Streams 
& Rivers

Under
What We
Call NOW! 

As part of our walk and chalk mapping of Brooklyn of 1766.

Fifth Grade Joins BOP (Billion Oyster Project)

Fifth grade is the new BOP grade--taking over the monitoring of  two Valentino Pier Oyster Restoration Stations.

About 50 living oysters in one station. 

Tapping on shell to determine if the oyster still alive.

Oysters aren't the only things living in the stations.

Is it a mud fish?

Musa following in Barent's footsteps...literally...trawling for microplastics.

 

Helping kids learn about a problem for all of us up and down the food chain.

Then collecting trash to keep it from becoming micro-plastic. 

Kamili, CAS intern, co-teaching the chemistry of water.

Is there enough oxygen for the oysters?  All you need are 5 parts of oxygen to 1,000,000 parts of water.

A long walk on a long pier to get to the next task.

What's the pH? 

Looking neutral!

Turbidity Tube:  It's becoming clearer and clearer.

A View From the Pier

What do you notice about the land and the water?

See you in the spring.

Thank you Justin Weiner for these amazing photos.