Sixth grade students in Ms. Gabrovsek's class worked with the Galveston Bay Foundation to study bayou water quality and explore the ecosystem through seining, observations, and animal identification.
A few paddling instruction before the fun begins and the canoes come down.
Time to get out of the canoe and in the water!!!
Field
Testing
Water
Quality - Salinity, Dissolved
Oxygen, pH,
Temperature...
Water
Clarity - Secchi Disk
Time
for Lunch
No dry
land here - eat in the canoe or eat standing in the water!!!
Biological
Observations
Seining
Blue
Crabs, Shrimp, Flounder, Pipe Fish,
It looks
like everyone is used to the water.
Dana
Gabrovsek: dgabrovs@houstonisd.org