Apples Get Wet

AGW Presentation

2010-09-09T12:33:00.002-04:00

Here is an overview of the AGW program at Musselman High.

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df4rzwd9_583hpnm69fd

Grant Sites

2010-09-08T15:33:00.002-04:00

www.toshiba.com/taf
American Honda Foundation Grant
www.captainplantfdn.org
www.toolboxforeducation.com (Lowes)
www.dosomething.org/grants
www.donorschoose.org
VEE
Melinda Ardia
Norcross Wildlife Foundation

Projects Available September 1 2010

2010-08-27T14:01:00.003-04:00

Projects...
1. Native Plants (plant seeds)
2. GLOBE data collection or training modules
3. Collect and dry seeds.
4. Clean greenhouse
5. Order shirts.
6. Schedule training sessions.
7. Create and post Edline club page
8. BLOG
9. Picasa Photos
10. Campus cleanup
11. Cinderella Dress
12. Cell phone drive
13. Sept. 20th Club Drive
14. Backboard for Club Drive
15. PR rep
16. PR list of radio stations, newspaper, TV

Updates

2010-07-29T16:32:00.001-04:00

Here are sites for the Summit and the Baltimore trip!

http://picasaweb.google.com/deborah.stevens.stevens/MakingMusselmanGreat#

http://picasaweb.google.com/deborah.stevens.stevens/BaltimoreAquariumFieldtrip#

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cacaponinstitute.org/projects%2520webpage/2b_South_during.JPG&imgrefurl=http://www.cacaponinstitute.org/projects%2520webpage/PHWS_projects.htm&usg=__eER4821kNvwyqX-dPMy_dWsl6xg=&h=144&w=192&sz=46&hl=en&start=25&sig2=IzX_5zzFkWd3u9Mb2UDEig&itbs=1&tbnid=ENxsa7WLfna2SM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmusselman%2Bhigh%2Bschool%2Binwood%2Bwv%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=LetRTKS9L8H98AbsqpCSAw

NCTC Seeds

2010-03-15T10:07:00.004-04:00

DJ and Sam planted seeds. We put soil on the bottom of trays, placed seeds on top, and covered with the soil to see which seeds germinate. Once they germinate, they will be transferred to planters. http://picasaweb.google.com/deborah.stevens.stevens/NCTCSeeds#

http://picasaweb.google.com/deborah.stevens.stevens/BlackWillowsAndNCTCNuts#
(NCTC donated 50 bags of seeds collected from the NCTC property in Shepherdstown, WV. The students will take the seed that germinate and transfer the seedlings to planters. In effect, Musselman is starting a native plant nursery. Our goal is to use genetically local native plants for the bioremediation.)

Wet Team Meets

2010-03-03T11:51:00.002-05:00

Our Wet Team had a meeting today 3/3/10 in 5th period . We trained on the internet on cacaponinstitute.org and globe.gov. The members that attented it were Sam, Dustin, Tara, Breanna, Tyler, Cody Lyza, Elizabeth, Jacqueline, DJ, Nicole, Vasyl, Ashley, Samantha, Robert, Brandon, Jessica, and Misti.

Stream cleaner

2010-03-02T10:41:00.003-05:00

Rachel , Fourth period. Our Class went to Cacaponinstitute.org, and went to E-school, high school. We had to watch the slide show, then we did the stream cleaner activity.
Matt says 'it's like a sims game but not as fun." Steven played this game before and almost beat it. Missy says she likes the puzzles. Josh says "its complicated, he can't beat it." Brandon says "it's cool to see how we have messed the streams up and how we can save them." Robert says "its fun and educational, its Funducational." David Says "it's AMAZIN'."

Shed

2009-12-10T08:44:00.000-05:00

On December 8th and 10th, members of the WET team, Dustin, Christopher , Samantha helped by Natalie , Tyler , Rachel and Dylan constructed a shed at Musselman High School. They built the shed to store all of the tools we’re going to need this year for all of our projects, as well as so we can access them at any particular time we need them.
--Sam

Team WET

2009-10-20T15:06:00.003-04:00

10-20-09
Shawnee Girl Scouts (now part of Nations Capital) is sponsoring WET clubs, now called WET at Musselman High School. Danielle Amistadi is in the process of organizing WET as a school club. She is preparing club passes, roster, posting notices for teachers, getting approval with the principal, and publicizing the club. There are about 40 students enrolled. Attendance after school has been scant; consequently, Danielle has made all the arrangements to have the group meet during club days as well as occasionally after school on Tuesdays. Shawnee provided green tee shirts; the club is waiting on paint supplies to decorate the shirts. More information will follow.

AGW launches!

2009-10-20T14:58:00.002-04:00

10-20-09
Frank Rodgers (Cacapon Institute) delivered an introduction to over 350 students; his presentation included an introduction to watershed dynamics, best management practices, the e-school on the Cacapon Institute's website, and an overview to Musselman's AGW program. Frank gave presentations each class period, all day. Mr. Hartman, Ms. Raines, Mr. Rickman, Mrs. Stevens, and Mrs. Waterworth participated in this event. The program was well received. Musselman High is creating Project Based Learning (PBL) models for the watershed curriculum. This presentation serves as the "entry event", which is part of the PBL model.

Back to School!

2009-08-25T14:56:00.002-04:00

AGW met on Wednesday, August 19th to meet with the partners and plan. Our newest partner is Lowes! Jamie Brown is the store representative met with Brenda Waterworth (Science Department Chair), Cindy Raines (HSTA), Frank Rodgers (Cacapon Institute), Jane Barvir (Girl Scouts), Ginny (DEP), and Deb Stevens (Project Manager). The group made plans to launch the education, remediation, and outreach program early in September; they planned an opening assembly for the first week of October to coincide with Musselman's homecoming festivities. Brenda has already scheduled a trip for two Honors Biology classes to train at The Mountain Institute in watershed dynamics. Buffy Wink, the environmental science teacher, has plans for her three environmental classes to create a "white-out" at MuHS. Her classes will measure and paint the roof white. Buffy plans to document the process so it can be replicated. Brenda and Deb are also taking part in a Watershed Dynamics program with West Virginia University; they plan to incorporate the AGW program into this program. The MuHS department is off to a good start!

Picasa is updated!

2009-06-02T14:55:00.004-04:00

Today, we sorted and loaded a variety of photos to Picasa to document some of the work the students have performed this past year. Key words are: Apples Get Wet, Apples Get Wet Album Two, Baltimore Aquarium, Hot spots, Tree planting, Water Testing, Mill Creek Intermediate Enviroscape Watershed Training, and Green Roof.

Press Release

2009-03-17T12:14:00.000-04:00

Press Release
Update to AGW grant
Apples Get Wet (AGW) is a watershed study. The Musselman Science department has earned three grants this past summer from Ecolab, The Norcross Wildlife Foundation, and The Toshiba Foundation to fund this project. Additionally, AGW has several partners: The Eastern Panhandle Soil and Water Conservation District, the Cacapon Institute, Friends of Opequon Creek, (Kiersten Bivens delivered an informational slideshow to this group March 3rd.) and the Shawnee Girls Scouts. The Health Science and Technology Academy (HSTA) and the Conceptual Chemistry class are spear-heading the project. Students are collecting data, marking “hot spots” on the School property, learning about watershed dynamics, and participating in a Stream Cleaner activity with the Cacapon Institute. Sara Wurtenberg, with the Eastern Panhandle Soil and Water Conservation District, has brought in an Enviroscape watershed model to perform class demonstrations and to instruct students how to present the model. HSTA and the Conceptual Chemistry class have three upcoming dates (3-23, 3-30, and 4-14) to travel to Millcreek Intermediate to teach fifth graders watershed dynamics with the Enviroscape model.
Frank Rodgers, with the Cacapon Institute, delivered a slide-show overview of watershed dynamics in the fall; he works directly with HSTA and the Conceptual Chemistry class approximately twice a month. Frank has helped annotate Google Earth with Musselman’s “hot spots”. Frank is in the process of locating a landscape architect to work with Musselman’s CAD class to develop a plan for a rain garden at the School. Presently, the Conceptual class in participating in a mediated discussion board, called Stream Cleaners along with about three hundred students from Virginia and West Virginia. Cloe Raines, a Musselman student, has created a model “green roof” as a science fair project. Cacapon, Opequon, and Shawnee have promised to help with some funding to help with its installation. Frank has already invested several hours working directly with Musselman students to help launch AGW well in this its first year and to create a School survey to serve as the basis of an on-going watershed study.
Jane Barvir, with Shawnee Girl Scouts, is sponsoring a WET team at Musselman. There are about fifteen interested students who meet after-school on Thursdays. This program allows any Musselman student an opportunity to participate. Students who log thirty volunteer hours related to the grant goals may earn a trip to the Baltimore Aquarium in May. Shawnee is underwriting an Enviroscape model, buses for several field trips, and the cost of substitutes to cover for teachers chaperoning field trips. Shawnee has established WET teams in schools both in Virginia and West Virginia.
There are several upcoming dates planned; March 23rd, March 30th, and April 14th, students will use the Enviroscape model to teach Millcreek fifth graders watershed dynamics. On April 20th (April 24th is the rain date.), students will install a rain garden in celebration of Earth Day. On April 28th, HSTA and Conceptual students will participate in a stream study. (This is also part of the TMI trip HSTA took in the fall.) Additionally, there are plans for students from the Middle School and a primary school to bring students to Musselman for watershed instruction.

Updates!

2009-02-13T15:04:00.002-05:00

2-13-09
Frank Rodgers worked with the Conceptual Class on Tuesday in the computer lab. The kids explored the updated map on the Cacapon website and completed an on-line survey to determine their watershed background. On Wednesday, the class read several articles regarding watershed terms and issues. Sara Wurtenberberg brought the Enviroscape model in Thursday to go over watershed dynamics. My goal is for the Conceptual class to be able to teach other classes the concepts using the Enviroscape model. These students have already exceeded my expectations.

More computer work...

2009-02-10T12:45:00.003-05:00

2-10-09
Frank Rodgers, with Cacapon Institute, came today to work with the students in one of the School's computer lab. Frank has updated the web site to reflect some of Musselman's data. The Conceptual Chemistry class looked at the map with the other schools participating with Cacapon and completed the site's survey. After class, Mr. Rodgers met with Mr. Brock to explore the possibility of including the CAD class to complete some of the landscape plans. Today, T.J., Megan, Tessa, Marisol, and Tiff also went did a campus clean-up. Lastly, Tessa spent time outside taking more photos of "hot spots" for the cacapon website.

Student Volunteer Time Sheet

2009-02-06T15:00:00.001-05:00

Here is the time sheet for you to check on the hours logged.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pi2QovgVZ56fbRCCZ96DoBw

Student Logs

2009-02-06T14:55:00.002-05:00

Add your hours logged to the spreadsheet posted as a comment with your first name; a student will keep track of the hours in a spreadsheet.

Apples Get Wet Student Presentation

2009-01-20T14:45:00.001-05:00

Here is Tiffany and Kira's presentaion

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=df4rzwd9_12chbwfkgc

Slide Shows!

2009-01-12T12:30:00.002-05:00

The kids are psyched! A local environmental organization has invited the students to present their project. The students are completing powerpoint slide shows to present in class this week. Then, each group will be prepared to go out and speak. A team of volunteers and teacher's aides are coming in Thursday to critique the presentations. My hope is for the kids to get a little practive and feed-back before taking their show on the road.

Student comments

2009-01-12T12:28:00.001-05:00

The Conceptual Chemistry class is directing the watershed study. Their assigment is to comment about the experience. Here are some of their remarks.
Sam-The students believe that Apples Get Wet sounds a little seamy there is a contest to make up another name.

Samantha- A “hotspot” where there is pollution.

Stephen- Our class looks for places where they have water collected so we can see its depth.

Presley- A watershed is where water collects and includes lakes and streams.

Kirsten- Apples Get Wet is a group of Musselman students who have taken interest in the land around the school. They are studying the watershed and “hot spots” on our campus. They are taking pictures and recording information of what we discover along with collecting the data. They are also testing the water and finding areas where they could clean up for cleaner water run off to the Chesapeake Bay.

Amanda- The students GPS unit where “hot spots” are they did this to make sure that they tested the same area so that the data did change. Also they have done this to show the areas on Google Earth.

Emily- The clean-up is a part of this watershed study. It will help clean our environment, and make it much better for our world. By planting trees, picking trash up, and putting down new mulch, soil, the students can take part in this clean-up by helping with the watershed project.

Dustin- The purpose of these tests is to help clean up the water and the run off also to help clean all the water around the school. We are trying to help people to clean up all water sheds.

Alonzo- One source of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay is non point source pollution types of non point source pollutants include weed killers, fertilization, and sediment. These run into any watershed causing pollution.

William- To help prevent “hot spots.”

Corey's post

2008-12-22T12:22:00.000-05:00

This is going places! Walking around the School was fun. Outside we were investigating oil spots, run-off, and erosion. Mr. Rodgers calls them "hot spots".

Tiffany's blog

2008-12-22T12:21:00.000-05:00

Tiffany’s Blog

Let’s see we have been working on a watershed grant with Mr. Rogers from Capacon Institute .We have gone outside and collected water and sampled it once we got back in class. There are a lot of different sample kits that you get to use for the water that you have collected. I have helped with setting up the data table that we have collected on an Excel spread sheet. I keep track of making sure that the data gets put up every time we sample it with the date is was sampled on. We have a blogging site and we post blogs about everything that we have done so far since we got this grant.
Mr. Rogers has given up his time to come and help us learn more about watersheds and what they are good for. They help us when we need to choose which place is best to catch water so it drains back in to the earth and we help plants out this way.

Apples Get Wet...Some background

2008-12-16T13:35:00.000-05:00

Apples Get Wet (AGW) is an environmental project at Musselman High, home of the Applemen! The entire science department is part of the program. Ecolab, Norcross, and the Toshiba foundations have provided funding to launch the project. AGW is a watershed study and uses GLOBE protocols. HSTA is sponsoring the program and Conceptual Chemistry is spear-heading the initiative. Any interested student is invited to participate.

Apples Get Wet (AGW) plans to improve the local watershed by converting retention ponds in Inwood into wetlands. Musselman will convert a retention pond on the school property into an active wetland and then replicate the process at local businesses in town. Local agencies such as the Soil and Water Conservation District and the West Virginia Conservation Agency are stepping up to the plate to help Musselman create an environmental partnership that reduces non-point source runoff into the Chesapeake Bay.

Musselman High School is located in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a School dedicated to its students. “The mission of Musselman High School is to provide educational excellence for all students in an academically challenging, positive, and safe atmosphere.” AGW is encouraging students at all science levels to experience authentic chemistry.

Launching!

2008-12-16T13:15:00.000-05:00

Launching! Apples Get Wet has started!

Frank Rodgers (cacaponinstitute.org) came 11/17/08 to present an overview of watershed dynamics all day to over 500 students at Musselman. The Conceptual Chemistry class has taken ownership of this project. The class has done some ground-truthing, started to identify "hot spots", learned how to conduct water tests, and collected water quality and GPS data. Conceptual Chemistry is completing a school survey and is documenting the process. Above are a few pictures the students have taken. Google Musselman High to see some of the "hot spots" the class has identified.