What We Did |
Activities Leading up to Exhibition |
The watershed exhibition took place in a long period of time if you factor in all of the things and activities that we did leading up to it. The main goal of this exhibtion is to get a firm grasp of a better understanding of how precious and important our water supply is, as well as learning to cope with a severe drought by saving and conserving water. The activities that we had to do for this exhibition were many in number. They varied from reading to creating our very own magazine.
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Between the date when school started and December 19th, we were mostly doing activities that contributed somewhat to what we were ultimately going to be making for our final product in exhibition. These tasks included: watercoloring, learning about watersheds, learning to use adobe illustrator, experimenting on fish wildlife, interviewing people in certain positions such as a every day water user, someone in land management, a farmer, and an environmentalist. All of these would end up as content in our watershed magazines that we did on a certain watershed. My watershed was the San Dieguito Watershed, which was really convenient because there are areas that are close to school so taking pictures of the settings were easy to come by. We used the pictures that we took in our magazine. The last few weeks before exhibition were used for setting up whatever we were going to present in exhibition. My partner and I decided to represent someway the effect of the removal of dams on wildlife that relies on a stable salinity with our experiments that we did on sea snails. Once we had that ready it was time for exhibition.
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Exhibition |
What Could Have Went Better |
The exhibition went very well, we did enough research to answer most of the questions that were asked to us, a few questions were a little far off from what we researched, but in the end I think that we did a very good job in informing people on the effects that dams have on wildlife.
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I think that my partner and I could have figured out a better, more artistic way of representing our topic because the fishtank on our workspace with snails in it seemed a little bland compared to others around us, I think that would have made a huge difference. In my defense, I was sick a few days, but I still think that we could have done something a lot bigger. I do think that our ways of communicating and talking to people about our project made up for this because everyone that we talked to seemed engaged to us describing the effects that dams have on wildlife.
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