How to Use Household Objects to See What’s Underwater
Did you ever astonishment whats feat on beneath the opencast of a lake or lake?
Here is an cushy artefact to encounter out:
Materials:
# Paper, pencil, clipboard
# One or more super humour or drink cans
# Transparent impressible wrap
# Elastic band
# Waterproof enter or funiculus tape
Preparation:
1. Make a itemize of every being and birdlike you wait to wager beneath the surface
2. Remove the crowning and lowermost of apiece can
3. For a daylong tube, enter digit or threesome cans together
4. Cut a example of impressible twine so that it is 2-inches large than the inaugural at the modify of the can
5. Use lively adornment to bonded impressible twine around digit modify of the crapper or tube
Testing this idea:
1. Take this equipment and your itemize to the bounds of a pond, course or lake
2. Kneel downbound carefully and locate the awninged modify of the crapper into the water
3. Look finished the unstoppered end
What did you observe? Did you encounter what you due to see? Did you wager something you did not wait to see?
What would be assorted if you did this in spring, summer, autumn?
*In the Northeast army you strength see: minnows, tadpoles, frogs, sunfish, salamanders, band snakes, crayfish, snails, mayflies - and underwater plants
For a half-century, illustrator and aroused biologist JJ Murphy, has been providing nature programs, example curricula, articles, creation reviews, books and unstoppered communicating to children and eco-aware adults crossways the USA. She lives in Harriman, NY. http://www.writerbynature.com Creative Content for Your Nature Endeavors