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Square of Life 2009 - Final Report Prepared by Room C20 - Grade Two Goodnoe Elementary School Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Other Square of Life Final Reports can be found here.
About Our School Newtown is in Southeastern Pennsylvania and is a suburb of Philadelphia, located at 40° 14’ 76” N and 74° 55’ 33” W. We have a park in our community. It is called Tyler State Park. You can go through a maze, fly kites, explore a barn, go for walks, go on a canoe ride, or go fishing in the park. We also have a main street, called State Street, that has houses and lots of little shops. State Street was even featured in a movie called Signs. We decided to compare our squares with the information provided by Watershed School in Fairbanks, Alaska. Our class worked in our science teams and explored many of the introductions posted to the Square of Life site. Teams voted for the areas they most wanted to examine. One of the reasons we decided to examine Alaska is because soon we will begin our research of Alaska as part of our Iditarod project. What Did We Find in Our Square - How Did We Compare? Second grade scientists know that using a Venn diagram and similar charts are excellent ways to show how two things are alike and different. Here is a Venn diagram comparing Goodnoe Elementary School and Watershed School: {square of life comparison} Conclusions Although Fairbanks, Alaska, and Newtown, Pennsylvania, are far from each other, we found several similar items in our squares. We noticed that the Alaska squares did not include litter materials as did ours, so we think we should try to clean up the small bits of litter when we find them in our playground area. Some of the items found in the Watershed squares but not the Goodnoe squares are actually things we have seen around our school, just not in our squares during our observation time. We know, though, from the Watershed introduction, that there are many other differences in our environment. Fairbanks is a large city, we are a suburb. Those in Alaska can see the Northern Lights, and we cannot. Some of our recreational activities are the same (hockey, soccer, skiing), but we do not participate in dog mushing - although we are looking forward to learning about it! |