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'Herps and Stream Exploration' at Huyck
Preserve
What do fourth graders, macro-invertebrates
and insect larvae have in common?
They love mucking around in mud and water
during the earliest days of spring.
BKW fourth graders returned for their second
of three visits this school year to the Huyck Preserve in
Rensselaerlville to get an up-close view of the smallest creatures
beginning to stir under the thin layer of ice still covering parts of
the pond, streams, and lake.
This visit, titled “Herps and Stream
Exploration” introduced students to the many species of reptiles,
amphibians, and macro-invertebrates that make their home in this area.
Students explored a pond, where they observed
habitat and evidence of emerging amphibian life, and they compared the
macro-invertebrates they found in the pond, creek and lake just outside
the field station. They observed the insect larvae, crustaceans,
tadpoles, beetles, salamanders, etc. that they captured and that were
later released. How they develop, live and survive, and how we can help
protect their habitat was the focus of the day’s activities.
The field trips are funded by the The Bender
Scientific Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital
Region, and an ExxonMobil Educational Alliance grant sponsored by David
Vincent, owner of the Countryside Mart/Mobil station.
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