The Great Mixing Bowl - Z Daily Journal -- Day 1

     Today, was the official start of our Chesapeake Bay project.  I arranged students into groups of three or four students per group.  Each group received the first of three packets and each group "signed-out" a laptop computer. 
     The first activity, due Tuesday, April 17, pertains to a bit of background information about the bay and asks students define such words as; brackish, gamefish, spawn, and Shad.  Additionally, students were asked to record several things they already knew about the bay and then interview another group to see if they could add to the list of things, already known.
     Students used the computers to learn more about where the bay is located, a bit of trivia about the Susquehanna River, and research information about the American Shad, a native gamefish species that will be making a comeback when all the dams between Williamsport and the bay are equipped with fishladders to accommodate the Shad's annual spawing behavior - similar to salmon.