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Driving Question: How can we support the Water and Natural Conservancy in our community?
Driving Question: How can we support the Water and Natural Conservancy in our community?
The Chattahoochee River originates in the southern Appalachian Mountains and flows southwest directly through Metro Atlanta. This urban environment can harm the Chattahoochee River ecosystem. We take action to support the natural ecosystem of the Chattahoochee River!
Raise Fish Fry: The school supports the Labitat, a trout raising trough system at the school, to introduce several thousand rainbow trout into the river each year. This helps the ecosystem by restocking the fish from fishing and pollutants that may reduce the population from construction and water and waste runoff.
Environmental Footprint: Teaching the students about the environmental footprint we have in our community instills the understanding of natural resource stewardship.
Conservation Efforts: Caring for the fish fosters a conservation ethic in the students, and the act of walking to a streambank and directly releasing the fingerlings into the water makes a concrete connection between caring for the fish and caring for our environment.
Education and Awareness: Through raising of trout and working to improve our water conservancy has a direct impact in our local ecosystem, students are able to educate and raise awareness to others in the community. These experiences provide students with a deeper understanding of the importance of taking care of our environment and the wildlife in it.
3rd Grade
3rd Grade
We are creating an outdoor classroom space for the school at our Trout Trough Labitat. Through developing design ideas, understanding the needs of the space, and researching the water runoff impact in the space, third grade is developing a plan to transform the area into a working interactive classroom while respecting the need for reducing the impact this has on water runoff and the surrounding environment.
4th Grade
4th Grade
After having a representative from the Hemphill Water Treatment Plant speak, our 4th grade began their PBL on Water Capturing Systems. They are developing a system to collect rain water using several modalities. This will replenish the water usage in the Trout Trough without having to use 10 gallons a day from our tap water, which over the course of the entire school year equates to roughly 9000 gallons. This is a plan for them to reduce our use of resources and lower our environmental footprint.
5th Grade
5th Grade
Students are working to create a sustainable water filtration system to clean the trout trough water without having to rely as heavily on dumping and replenishing the water through stored dechlorinated tap water. Through investigating different systems of filtration, multi-media, biofiltration and aquaponics, they are developing a system that will work best with ours and keep the water cleaner without wasting water resources. The students are developing a system that reduces our environmental footprint.
Interested in partnering with Trout Unlimited? They are looking to expand the program in Metro Atlanta! Reach out to Shawn Grismore if you would like to learn more about what we do at Jackson Elementary email: shawn.grismore@apsk12.org
Learn more about Trout in the Classroom: https://www.troutintheclassroom.org/
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