My students’ favorite lab is building and taking care of Ecocolumns. This lab gives them practice in long-term data collection and a myriad of other essential topics in APES. Here are the posts you can click on to learn how to build, buy supplies and assess ecocolumns.
Prepping Ecocolumns
Buying Supplies for Ecocolumns
Ecocolumns with a Small Budget and a Big Budget
Making Ecocolumns
The following posts are the order in which students should build ecocolumns. The fish doesn’t come for 2 weeks!
- Cutting and Filling Ecocolumns
- Planting Seeds, Setting up Data Charts, Taking Soil Data
- Adding Bugs, Worms and Leaf Litter
- Building the Aquatic Chamber
- Adding fish
This is a folder with all my probe directions. Some probes are used later in water quality testing.
When things go wrong
Things go wrong in ecocolumns and its okay!
Data and Assessment
Group Data Analysis
Scientific Concepts Kids Should Learn in Ecocolumns
10 thoughts on “Everything Ecocolumns”