This weekend we had a "Hands on Nature" event for local kids. We had a great turnout---14 kids plus a few parents! We all had a lot of fun learning more about Long Pond, and all managed to get a little wet! Here are some photos:
In this photo, Liz is showing the kids a 3-D map of Long Pond and the surrounding mountains. This helped the kids visualize where Long Pond's watershed (the area of land that drains into the pond) is.
We spent a lot of time hunting for macroinvertebrates (backbone-less critters that are big enough to see with the bare eye.) In this photo, the kids are using nets to scoop mud and dead leaves up from the bottom of the pond in search of the critters.
Once you have the mud up from the bottom, you have to search through it to find the animals.
Despite our intentions to only catch invertebrates, the kids did manage to catch a few frogs as well! (Evidently the frogs jumped right into their nets.) In this photo, Liz is holding one of the frogs that the kids caught.
And if you can't find the animals from the docks, clearly you need to go into the pond to find them! By the end of the activity, most of the kids were completely soaked--which is how you know they had a good time!
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