We are Meagan, age 10 and Luke, age 8. We are home learners living on beautiful Vancouver Island, Canada. We are doing the bucket buddies project as part of a pond study. We have a pond in our yard where we collected the specimens.

Question : Are the organisms found in pond water the same all over the world?

Hypothesis: We predicted that some of the organisms would be found in all of the ponds and that some would only be found in a few ponds because of different  climates and environmental conditions .

 Date: April 14, 2006

 Time: 11:00-12:00

 Water temperature:13 c

 Air temperature: 12 c

 Weather conditions:  mainly overcast with a few sunny breaks

 This is what we found:

• Amphipod (or scud) - 4
• Caddisfly larvae      - 8
• Damselfly nymph     - 6
• Water snail              - 2
• Water beetle            - 1
• Water boatman        - 3
• Pond skater             - 2