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__Nelson Rural/St. Canisius - 2008 Collaborative Project__

Project Topic - Environment
Nelson Rural School - Miramichi, Canada

Students will be creating an experiment and sharing their results with students at St. Canisius. __The in's and out's of the project. (Nelson Rural School)__
 * The final project will be a multi-media design that can be shared between schools. PowerPoint, Video, Wiki, SMART file, podcast etc.
 * Each group (2 students max) will create an experiment. An experiment consists of a Problem, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment Materials and Procedure, Analysis and observations, and a conclusion.
 * The project will be presented in a manner so that the other school could be able to duplicate the project. All information must be clearly defined and outlined.
 * Comments will be shared amongs schools about each others projects.
 * Projects will be posted on a wikispace so that discussions can occur. The end of the project will have a video conference between the two schools (depending on availability).
 * Nelson Rural will focus on environmental issues in Canada and St. Canisius will focus on environmental issues in The Netherlands

- Identify factors that are affecting our Rivers. Sampling water from our River to demonstrate and determine factors affecting plant and animals that depend on those rivers for survival.
 * Environment Themes from Nelson Rural**

Ecological Pics

Assignment for May 7-10 1. From you Research Concept - design your purpose, hypothesis and Procedure for your experiment 2. List sites that you have used with your research - list them using the url or www that you found 3. Make sure that your project is something that can be measured, the project will be stored here at school and controlled in the classroom. Nelson Group 1 Nelson Group 2 Nelson Group 3 Nelson Group 4 Nelson Group 5 Nelson Group 6 Nelson Group 7 Nelson Group 8

- Influence of environmental changes upon population growth of //Daphnia// (or sexual reproduction) - Role of reducent microflora in making compost - Lichens and airpolution - Making bioethanol from biomass (fruit or vegetables)
 * Environment Themes from St. Canisius**
 * Two tubes of //Daphnia// cultures starting with estimated //Daphnia// population
 * Examine restrictive factor (e.g. salt concentration, temperature etc.)
 * Counting and measuring (using micrometer) //Daphnia//

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 * For those who don't know the purpose and use of a wiki  : ) **