From: Mellie Lewis <mlewis@umd5.umd.edu>
Subject: Storage Devises / Collection Tools
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 08:54:43 -0500 (EST)
Name of Teacher: Mellie Lewis Name of School: Atholton Elementary Grade level of students Fourth Number of students 33 Top three choices for STORAGE DEVICES Baggies of all sizes. We choose this as our top pick because they are cheap, won't break, lightweight, and we can put almost anything for collection. Film canisters (clear). We choose this because we want to collect soil samples both on dry land and from the stream bed. We thought these would be firm enough to collect the stream bed sample. Yogurt Cup with lid. We choose this for the stream bed sample. We thought we might want more of a sample than we could collect in the film canisters. COLLECTION TOOLS Leatherman's Toolkit is our first choice. The Leatherman's tool kit is just like a swiss army knife because it has a knife, blade, tweezers and forceps on it. We are not allowed by School Board Policy to have a Swiss Army Knife, so we thought this would be a good substitute. Magnets. We would like to include magnets in our kit so we can collect the iron filings from our study site. Multimeter. We would like to include this because they are cheap, We can use it to get a light reading, pH of soil, and moisture of soil. Submitted by: Taryn, Brian, Matt and Lindsay