last post

Today is the last day i will be posting, hopefully this project will be continued next semester and if it is you will have all new people working on everything we have worked on. This is a sad parting but it must happen have a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Creek

The creek behind our school 

what we are doing today!!!

Today we are going to the creek just to kind of study it and see how it is looking. We also have Davis coming in the next few days to put up an antenna so we can get information from the creek about the creek also this is out fourth trial with the buoy so wish us luck

12/2/14

So we went to the creek and while we were down there it started ti rain and everyone got soaked but even though it was wet and muddy everyone says they had the best time and that they will never forget it.

what we are doing today!!!

today we are doing video interviews and we will put some up in the next few days for everyone to see we also have some students in class teaching us how to work the lab quest  and we have pulled the buoy up from the creek and we are going to get jonas dad to look at it and tell us his opinion because every buoy we make leaks.

~side note~ did you know we have had to make three buoys and they have all been called baby 

what we are doing today!!!!

so today we where going to go to the creek but its supposed to rain so we are going to go tomorrow hopefully we can get some more pictures up yay!! so today we are really just trying to get everything in its place because sadly the semester is ending  and that means that this class with be over for us and we are all really sad about it but anyway today we are working on getting our journals done and getting all our forms filled out and ready to turn in we are putting the finishing touches on power points and we are working on finishing the wiki page so we are about all in order

On a side note happy holidays.   

what we are doing today!!!

today we had two guests come in and kind of check on how we are doing and help us with our problems it was a real good learning experience we had all kinds of questions for them to and everyone went down to the creek to check out what was going on down there i hope everyone has a awesome thanksgiving  break.

~this is just a side note~

these last couple of weeks have been a whirl wind, we are rushing to get things done so we can get ahead of the game. on another side note to this side note we will be getting some more pictures in the next few days so lets look forward to them.

what we are doing today!!!!!!

so today everyone is going to the creek but sadly i cant due to my leg so i am going to update the blog yay!!! so everyone going to the creek are going to see how the cold weather is effecting  the creek and its surroundings like is there ice are plants dying and such there getting the temperature of the water there going to look at the rise and fall of the creek what way it is flowing and check out our wiki its what all the cool kids are doing.   https://wiki.mocilla.org/Webmaker/HiveChattanooga/WirelessEartgWatchdogs

today's activities

so today's activities involve building the buoy working on our social media and trying to fix our computers its a busy busy day!

technology problems

As you know from our last post our buoy leaked and we are fixing it but also our computers are messing up and not working and that's putting us back a little bit because half of this class is about keeping our websites up and going  so we have fallen behind a little so we are working extra hard to catch back up but all we can do is hope it will all work out in the end in our favor.

what we are doing today!!

Today we are all in our groups and working hard we have Jonas, nick and Mathew working on our buoy we put it in the water the other day and it leaked so there fixing it up real nice another group is Alexis, jade, won and Kathrine are working on a power point to present to the call going over everything we have learned so far the next group is hank, Connor and Kylan  working on building a unit its always good to keep those skills sharp the next group is Katie, randy and Darius are working on the twitter you should go check it out @WEWHxHs and the last group is the blog group Cassidy ,Paige and Kathrine writing this awesome blog your reading right now.

What we are doing today!!!!!

Today Jonas, Nick and Matthew are building the buoy. Katie ,Sara ,Paige, Cierra and Kristina are working on the wiki and twitter and me and my group are working on this blog. a few days a week we have a big everybody cetch up on the things we have been doing because we dont have a lot of time because we are always studying the creek, on a side note everyone is excited that we will soon have the buoy done and ready to go and we will be getting all kinds of data we are so proud of everyone, everyone has been working so hard and doing so great way to go everyone

11/4/14

Today we hiked down to the creek again the tempature outside is 52 degrees fahrenheit, the water is still flowing noth east, Mrs. Johnston gave us a lecture on what kind of forest we live in and all the kinds of forest and such after the lecture we went to the place we have picked out for the buoy and we did some looking around to see what we could find we found giant leaves and animal bones that we later found out where dear bones, you never know what you are going to find in the woods. it was a really pretty day we all layered up with clothes because we thought it would be cold but it ended up being kind of hot.

11/3/14

today we hiked down to the creek to check it out and see what is going on and we found that the creek was flowing north east, the tempature of the creek is 10 dergees celsius, the PH level is 6.8 and the tempature outside is 46 degrees fahrenheit. on a side note the leaves are falling it seems really fast this year and there everywhere around the creek and it makes the creek look to pretty.

what we are doing today!!

Today we are all in our groups working on our projects, so we can get everything done by Friday because Friday is Halloween and we want to have a party we are all really excited. we have Katie and Sara working on twitter, we have Jonas, Nick, Ben and  Matthew working on the buoy, we have Cierra and Kristina working on a power point, we have Amber, Mrs. Johnston,  Connor Hank and Kylan working on programming and we have Cassidy, Kathrine and Paige working on this blog we are busy bee's today.

the creek

part of the creek

the creek

the creek has gotten pretty low in some parts to the point where it just looks like mud.

the creek

the creek has gotten a little dirty from flooding and then draining really fast.

the creek

the level of the creek on the trail to the place we are placing the buoy.

Our hike to the creek on Monday

The water flow is very very slow almost stagnant. The water level is at its original bank and is at it's original depth. Weather  outside is around 60 degrees F, cloudy and foggy. Tearance Darius and Randy are testing the water tempurature and PH level. At one spot the temperature was 59 degrees F, and the PH was 7.1 at the other spot the creek water was 60.5 degrees and PH was 6.7

Building the buoy 10/16/14

today we are building the buoy and jonas's parents came in to help us jonas's dad helped do a lot of the hard work like cutting pip and and such but nick and Jonas did lots of work to help to like drill the holes and help with clean up so the room wouldn't be to messy and at the end of it all our buoy was built we aren't going to test it yet but soon we will.

the creek when it rained

We hiked down to the creek to check it out because it rained a lot the past few days its usually 6-12in deep but the day we hiked down it was 5-7ft deep and the creek smelled a lot and the current was stronger.

what we are doing today!!

Today we are hiking down to the creek behind the school to see how the rain has changed the creek and we are taking notes on the changes.

10/13/14

Mrs. Patterson-Johnston, Mrs. Perdue, and Matthew went to Home Depot and acquired the materials needed to build the buoy. 

 we will be learning to use Lab Quest and it will test the Ph level, conductivity, and temperature of the water. Once this is done it will make a graph of the slight changes we see week to week and eventually day to day changes.

Alexis, Amber, Katherine, and Jade are going through and making a list of possible things that could go wrong with the buoy once we set it up. We want to make sure we have the best product before we set it p and if something does go wrong we need a plan of how to deal with it.

 

9/29/14 we split up into focus groups

Amber and Katherine researching water quality and abandoned coal mines in the Chattanooga, TN.

Juan and Kylan are testing the ph levels and temperature in the water with our probes to make sure they work.

Cierra and Paige are researching the air quality for Chattanooga

Connor, Mrs. J, Nick, and Matthew are making a list of things to order so we can build the buoy and also the things we need to build our arduino.

Also as usual Sara and Katie are working on our twiiter and I am working on the blog. Cassidy is out today and Jaylan is helping me.  

falling water creek

What we are doing today!

We are watching a video lesson and taking notes on how to build a unit.

walking down the hill to the end of standifer creek on our feild trip

 

Dr. Mark Shor at standifer creek on our feild trip

Mrs. Jonston and Sara

one of our arduinos

we are the wireless earth watchdogs from hixson high!!

Amber working on a prezi

Today Sara, Jonas, Matthew, Nick, and Connor are in a conference call with Davis Mounger from CSAS.

Kristina and page working in the arduino

September 17, 2014

Today we're building our power point and doing more work on our buoy.

Matthew and Jonas working on the buoy design

Hank ,Connor and Jaylan Working with the arduino

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Katie and Sara working on a prezi

Video lesson today 💻📝