Parry McCluer Middle School, Fall 2008
| In November 2009, 90 6th grade students from PMMS in Buena Vista went to their city's park to find out about the health of the Maury River. Below are pictures of some of the activities they did as watershed investigators. |
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| Do you know your watershed address? The return address on these watercolor postcards is PMMS, Maury River, James River, Chesapeake Bay, Atlantic Ocean. |
These students are recording their data from chemical tests they did to find out about water quality in the river. The results were good: healthy water is on its way to the Bay. |
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| You can also find out about the health of the water from what lives in it. These students are doing a macro-invertebrate sampling. The numbers and kinds of aquatic bugs they catch told them how clean the water was for living things. The score was good. |
Everyone enjoyed a game called Bufferella that our partner from Soil and Water taught. Some students pretended to be soil trying to get into a river. The trees and bushes had to catch them. Riparian buffers are important for keeping soil out of streams. |
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