Stream report - Natalie Paterson

Stream Report
On every Thursday, most of the time this year our class - room 13 has been going down to kaikorai stream to do water testing on Kaikorai stream. At kaikorai stream there were lots of tests you could do; P.H., conductivity, G.P.S. and clarity. I was in a group with Sammy, Jessie, Jacinda and me at the start our group job was G.P.S. where we measured air and water. Then when Sammy moved to Kaikorai Valley College our group became Jessie, me and Jacinda. We stopped doing G.P.S. and started doing conductivity which to me is a lot more fun than G.P.S. Also it’s a lot easier because all you have to do is scoop up a cup of water from the stream and put a little measure thing in the cup of water. It will then come up with a number on its smallish screen which yo write down, then you repeat 3 times and BINGO! You’re done. Stream testing is always fun and I’m glad we had the chance to try it this year.
By Natalie.

Ashley Ryder - Stream report

By Ashley
Every Thursday me and my classroom go down to the steam and do water testing. I have not done much but the stuff I have been involved in was a big bug hunt, and we put same plants at the stream day with other schools. We found lots of bugs this is happing because people do not move old cars with missing parts they get wet and it goes in the pipe to the steam polluting it.

Gabby's Stream Report

Stream report.
Every Thursday we go down to Kaikorai stream to do water testing. I used to do conductivity until I had guitar on a Thursday. Then one Tuesday we went down and measured and make a map of the stream. I had to walk through the water to get the measurements. My feet got really numb.
By Gabby

Jordie & Arnold Stream Testing

Water testing 2008

Room13 have been doing water testing down at the Kaikorai stream. We have been testing clarity, temp, ph, con, do2. We have been going down to the Kaikorai stream since the start of the year, trying to make a difference. We go bug testing a lot and find out the good and the bad. I have learnt a lot in this year about the steam and that you are killing the fish. We have about 5 people that go down to the stream every Thursday. Some of our class went out to blow line to plant trees and we sprayed fish on the ground meaning (if you put rubbish on the ground you are kill most of the fish in the sea which means no sushi).also when the class went to bowl line for the stream (there was rubbish every where)! So this is what I expedients at water testing 2008.

By Arnold Te Kawa and Jordie Beres!

Water Testing - Jessie Sims

Water testing by Jessie Sims
I haven’t done much work down at the stream, but I’ve done most of my work in the classroom entering the results in to the computer on a website called globe. The new things I’ve found out the difference between a good day and a bad day. Although what I would like to find out is why it’s bad one day and good the next.

Will and Nathan's Stream Summary

We have been doing water testing for nearly the whole year weekly. We have been involved in two things like when we went behind bowl line. When we were there we planted plants cleared the field heaps of rubbish we also painted fish beside every drain we could find. The other thing was a massive bug hut at the kaikorai stream which took the whole morning. We found lots of bugs and found out how to identify different bugs. We have found lots of info and we put it in the globe website to show other schools around the world. We have lots of fun doing water testing and we hope we can pass our info to other class’s.

What a frosty day...

Wow today was frosty. Will and I walked down to the Kaikorai stream to collect the air temperture and water temperture. The air temperture was -2 c. the water temperture was 5.5c. Will and I then walked over to the pond. To our suprise the pond was frozzen over. I went down and put a foot on it and it cracked, the ice was about 1cm thick!

Written by William