Teatown Reflection

Teatown is a super fun place to learn about nature.

I liked learning with the town model and seeing what we are doing to the Earth because I would always like to know what I’m doing and trying to fix it. I learned that you can take toxic, but natural things and turn them into fertilizer. You can plant trees or even flowers. The fertilizer strengthens the soil to make better plants grow.

I learned that water is connected to land, like the geosphere (Rocks), atmosphere (Air) and the biosphere (Life).The three things I named are all connected to the Hydrosphere.  The second thing that I learned about water being connected to land was if we have more fertilizer we could plant more trees, bushes or even grass to have more filtered water. let me tell you how it works. If you have grass in a sloped lawn and it was just raining the water at the end of the slope would be mostly clean because the root of the plants job is to hold. To hold the plant,but it can also hold loose soil in the ground. the bigger the roots the better your water will be.

I think the sand box should be a little bigger because if there are to many kids in a class some kids might not be able to stick there hands in at all. kids have to rotate, but one kid doesn’t want to give up there spot. I also think each student could build a model to see how the water cycle works like getting a cup and putting water in it, cover the open part of the cup with saran wrap and place a few ice cubes on top and do other activities. At the end of the trip we check on our cups to see what happened and predict what will happen next. (We all get to take the models home so we can test it out again.)