
Morse Pond School
Falmouth Massachusetts
The students in my 6th grade class worked in pairs and each pair observed one square of life. The square were some what different from
another so this allowed students to
observe the diversity of life between their squares. Some of the
squares faced a pond and
these observations were included in their observations. To organize students they
were given a Square of Life Project sheet that had to columns for
recording. - Living and Non-living objects.
Many of our observations are similar to other schools. We compared our findings to those of St. Joseph School in Wisconsin, Harold Sheppard
School in Canada, The Sullivan School in Japan and Aanestad Home learners in Canada.
We selected schools that were far away
from our school in hopes of being able to compare our
observations with schools that may be different from ours. Our findings were
most similar to Canada and most dissimilar to those of the school in Japan
The students were most concerned and disheartened by the amount of garbage that they observed. They were most excited by any living things that they observed. They were also most impressed by how much could be observed in one square of life.
Linda Werner