Hi, this is Angela Oh speaking on behalf of the fourth day at Compton for the Heal the Bay Creek Week.
Today, the students got ready behind the casino and did their assessments bright and early. Right afterwards, they picked up trash around the creek, learning about all the difference in water quality and severity of the city of Compton's affect on the water there.
After eating lunch, the students shortly had an activity on what they would bring, as a team, to a deserted island. Each team leader came up and presented their list of items, also being critiqued and questioned by their peers. As a connection from this activity, each team then decided on a mascot, animal or object, and then discussed their own list of items and questions regarding their projects. They were able to discuss what they needed to do, who they needed to contact to facilitate and enhance their projects, and how they were going to pursue them.
Each project and research papers seems to be developing tremendously and I am extremely excited for the students to begin their actual projects after talking to PAVA. I hope that PAVA can support and encourage all of their research ideas and projects and I am sure to help them after Friday as well as much as I can.
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Angela Oh
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Heal the Bay Water Research Program Course 1, Day 3 -- June, 29 2011
Hi this is Angela here to report back after the third day of the summer creek program. The students gathered at the rio de los Angeles park, where pava has had a cleanup in the past. First we had a speaker from the Los Angeles river conservation Corp, who discussed all about how they work to restore and conserve the rivers and creeks especially the Los Angeles river.
The students then quickly did all of the four assessments by themselves with only brief guidance from Tera and Edward. After eating lunch, we played team games of dodgeball and capture the flag to promote more team spirit.
With an hour left, I started my lectures on advocacy and projects. I introduced myself and my background in working in research and scientific projects and then briefly went over all the details of the history of the heal the bay pava creek education program. Each group chose a topic and project to do and are actively working together to plan their research papers and projects out. The topics and projects that were chosen were :
1) host a pava cleanup at one of the creeks
2) create a documentary focusing on the biological creatures and insects of the five creeks and compare and contrast. Perhaps this project will include a research paper follow up.
3) host a recycling competition between the districts of pava and donate the collected money.
4) write a research paper on the water chemistry an quality of the five different creeks.
These were the four projects that were chosen by the four teams. If there are any changes I will make sure to let you know.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the projects, please let me know through phone or email. Thanks!
Angela Oh
The students then quickly did all of the four assessments by themselves with only brief guidance from Tera and Edward. After eating lunch, we played team games of dodgeball and capture the flag to promote more team spirit.
With an hour left, I started my lectures on advocacy and projects. I introduced myself and my background in working in research and scientific projects and then briefly went over all the details of the history of the heal the bay pava creek education program. Each group chose a topic and project to do and are actively working together to plan their research papers and projects out. The topics and projects that were chosen were :
1) host a pava cleanup at one of the creeks
2) create a documentary focusing on the biological creatures and insects of the five creeks and compare and contrast. Perhaps this project will include a research paper follow up.
3) host a recycling competition between the districts of pava and donate the collected money.
4) write a research paper on the water chemistry an quality of the five different creeks.
These were the four projects that were chosen by the four teams. If there are any changes I will make sure to let you know.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the projects, please let me know through phone or email. Thanks!
Angela Oh
Heal the Bay Water Research Program Course 1, Day2 -- June, 28 2011
Today was the second day of the heal the bay creek program. The students arrived in the morning learning how to make friendship bracelets and teaching others different methods. The second speaker of the program was jessica hall, who discussed different project ideas on decreasing water use and energy. She talked about the types of water streams and creeks.
They then started the four assessments again, this time with the instructors only watching over the students, who will independently do these tests tomorrow without the guides.
Afterwards, Edward spent some time talking about the water audit and how to decrease the use of water amongst the Los Angeles community. We wrapped up the day with a short brief and reflections on the environments of day one and two.
Thanks and I hope to respond with more information after the advocacy portion.
Regards,
Angela oh
They then started the four assessments again, this time with the instructors only watching over the students, who will independently do these tests tomorrow without the guides.
Afterwards, Edward spent some time talking about the water audit and how to decrease the use of water amongst the Los Angeles community. We wrapped up the day with a short brief and reflections on the environments of day one and two.
Thanks and I hope to respond with more information after the advocacy portion.
Regards,
Angela oh
Heal the Bay Water Research Program Course 1, Day 1 -- June, 27 2011
Hi, this Angela Oh reporting on the first day of the Heal the Bay PAVA creek team project.
All 32 students gathered together at the Tujunga League Baseball field around 9:30. All students turned in their payment of $150 except for one.
As the students turned in their payment, signed in, and gave their waiver forms, they were given their team numbers. There are a total of four teams, each of which contain 8 students. The teams were broken up by the staff at Heal the Bay; the students of each team are roughly from the same district and or areas.
For group and team spirit projects, the students created tie dye t-shirts in their according team color. These t-shirts were then hung and dried and will be worn by all the students each day of the rest of the program. This will help students identify each other with their team.
Edward Murphy then had a short introduction about the program and what we will be doing. The students then had a guest lecture, Melanie Winter, director of the River Project, a non-profit organization . She discussed where the water originates from and talked about how Heal the Bay influenced her work in saving parks and rivers. She emphasized how one person was able to change the environment and community as she had strived to pass legislation on saving a park, that was eventually brought to city council and successfully passed.
Afterwards, each of the four groups were to rotate about four different stations, each of which were guided by a staff member. The four stations consisted of
1) an instruction on bird watching
2) a guide to assessing the habitat of the creeks
3) process of taking out bugs and critters from the water and identifying them
4) the water quality tests (turbidity, pH levels, nitrate levels, etc)
These four stations are to help the students later on throughout the program to do these evaluations of the creeks by themselves. The teams will be doing all these tests and examinations again for the rest of the program. The first two days are merely instruction days while the last three days, the staff members will not be available to instruct them.
The students then gathered around, listened to short messages on how to wear different shoes tomorrow and clean their tie dye shirts to wear for the next four days, and were finally dismissed.
This is a rough explanation and guideline of what happened during the first day of the program. I hope to come to you with more information for the next four days.
Thank you.
- Angela Oh
All 32 students gathered together at the Tujunga League Baseball field around 9:30. All students turned in their payment of $150 except for one.
As the students turned in their payment, signed in, and gave their waiver forms, they were given their team numbers. There are a total of four teams, each of which contain 8 students. The teams were broken up by the staff at Heal the Bay; the students of each team are roughly from the same district and or areas.
For group and team spirit projects, the students created tie dye t-shirts in their according team color. These t-shirts were then hung and dried and will be worn by all the students each day of the rest of the program. This will help students identify each other with their team.
Edward Murphy then had a short introduction about the program and what we will be doing. The students then had a guest lecture, Melanie Winter, director of the River Project, a non-profit organization . She discussed where the water originates from and talked about how Heal the Bay influenced her work in saving parks and rivers. She emphasized how one person was able to change the environment and community as she had strived to pass legislation on saving a park, that was eventually brought to city council and successfully passed.
Afterwards, each of the four groups were to rotate about four different stations, each of which were guided by a staff member. The four stations consisted of
1) an instruction on bird watching
2) a guide to assessing the habitat of the creeks
3) process of taking out bugs and critters from the water and identifying them
4) the water quality tests (turbidity, pH levels, nitrate levels, etc)
These four stations are to help the students later on throughout the program to do these evaluations of the creeks by themselves. The teams will be doing all these tests and examinations again for the rest of the program. The first two days are merely instruction days while the last three days, the staff members will not be available to instruct them.
The students then gathered around, listened to short messages on how to wear different shoes tomorrow and clean their tie dye shirts to wear for the next four days, and were finally dismissed.
This is a rough explanation and guideline of what happened during the first day of the program. I hope to come to you with more information for the next four days.
Thank you.
- Angela Oh
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