Arizona Wet Water Education

I’m so tired! Today I went to the Rio Salado Restoration Area. It was wonderful to see an area that used to be nothing but a place to dump trash being restored. I saw rabbits and all kinds of birds, of course, lizards and turtles, and water fowls. I thought that I saw what might be a finch. It was the brightest, prettiest yellow. I think that I have this picture in my head of Phoenix as just desert that really excludes wetland habitats, but with the rivers, types of those habitats must be here. I mean not hours out of the city but right here. I can hardly wait to explore stuff like that once I transfer to university to take the classes specific for my major. Anyway, I was really there to volunteer for project Wet. We had groups of 4-5 sixth graders that performed science tasks related to difference fields in science (Botany, Soil Science, Entymology, Water Chemistry, etc.). My group used kits to test for the quantity of different nutrients in the water. Since it’s science, our kits were expired and didn’t actually turn the appropriate colors, but we did get some results. It was fun to talk about the science and why it’s important. And it was just so pretty out there. It just feels good to be outside sometimes.