CHSS Envirothon Teams

2010-03-02T13:45:00.004-05:00

Here is a list of the students who are interested in being a part of this year's Envirothon teams:
Katie Crocker
Steph Brandon
Paul Hearn
Fraser King
Jack Weiler
Joel Brodie
Jeff Gibson
Megan Cardno

The following students may be interested.....
Courtney Karounas
Spencer Gibbs
Jeremy Crocker
Lydia Calderwood

Please come see me if you didn't attend the meeting last week. Even if you don't want to do Envirothon...it's fine! Come tell me though. Thanks!

2010-02-27T12:26:00.002-05:00

Hello 2010 Envirothon participants at CHSS!
This year's special topic is the protection of groundwater. Here's some text about the topic from the envirothon website. Remember, you can open the links to envirothon materials here on the blog to get current information and your modules.
I would like to have a meeting of all potential envirothon participants on Thursday March 4th. Please attend, or let me know if you can't.

Current Issue

Envirothon allows you to explore a current environmental issue each year and relate it to the core Envirothon topics (forestry, soils, wildlife and aquatics). The Ontario Forestry Association prepares materials on the Current Issue each year with examples and case studies specific to Ontario.
2009-2010 Protection of Groundwater

Access to clean and safe drinking water is essential to a healthy and thriving community. If a safe drinking water source is compromised or lost, there would be harmful consequences to human health, the environment, and the economy. These losses can be prevented or mitigated to protect current and future sources. The potential for contamination and the high cost of treatment and expense of locating or developing alternate sources make it imperative for government to adopt and implement effective strategies for long-term protection. Many factors including increasing populations and extensive development, put stresses on groundwater supplies. These include the use of pesticides, fertilizers, animal manure, and storm water runoff which contains metals, nutrients, salts and other chemicals that can leach into groundwater basins. Planning for groundwater protection often receives insufficient attention for addressing periods of drought, water conservation and efficiency, pollution prevention, recharge zones, surface water management and conjunctive use, storm water management and future water needs. Due to its nature, most communities have no clear understanding of how much groundwater is available. Envirothon participants will learn the importance of groundwater and efforts that need to be taken to protect this resource for the future.

2009-08-29T15:44:00.003-04:00

Welcome back to school everyone! If you are interested in participating in the 2010 Envirothon (March through April), please drop by room 228 or comment here through the blog (be sure to leave your name in the comment). I'm especially looking for grade 9 and 10 students, but seniors are also welcome to participate.
Mrs. Ross Holton

2009-05-06T16:03:00.002-04:00

Envirothon team members....some of you still haven't returned your modules to me. Please do so ASAP.

Thanks for another great Envirothon season! Looking forward to next year's teams.

2009-04-08T20:52:00.001-04:00

Team members, please be in the lobby no later than 9:10 Thursday morning to board the bus to Wawanosh. If you haven't given me your permission form yet, you must bring that to me in order to go on the trip.

2009-03-27T16:18:00.001-04:00

Teams, remember our first workshop day is this coming Tuesday March 31st. We'll be in our library and all the teams are coming. So, please come to the library as early as you can to help set up. Thanks.
On Tuesday, I'll be giving you the permission forms to participate in an extra-curricular event. You'll need to get this signed and bring in $20 to help cover bus costs.

2009-03-12T15:39:00.003-04:00

So, it looks like we have a few interested grade 10 students....Yeah!
Tyler B., Jack W., and Fraser K. will be participating on the "junior" team along with seniors Katie C. and Steph B. I would love to see one or two more grade 10's come out as alternates. Let me know if you are interested.

2009-03-08T17:06:00.004-04:00

CHSS Senior Team 2009

Here's who we've got for this year's team:
Steph S. - Aquatics
Gary P. - Soils?
Jeff G - Forestry
Courtney K. - Topic?
Paul H. - Topic?
Katie C. - Soils
Steph B. - Wildlife

As you can see, we have 7 repeating students and we only need 5 for a team. So, we need 2 of you to lead the "junior" team....although it will be a strong junior/senior combo team!
I plan to invite at least 5 grade 10's to give it a shot. If they all participate, then both teams will have an alternate in case of illness or other obligations that prevent someone from competing.

Please plan on attending a brief meeting on Thursday March 12th at lunch....Thanks!!!

2009-02-20T11:04:00.003-05:00

I'm looking for a few good people for this year's Envirothon teams....if you are in grade 10, strong in science, comfortable speaking in public and working as part of a team, and you have a passion for the evironment, science, and the great outdoors....then we want you to be a part of our CHSS junior Envirothon team. Please see me, Mrs. Ross-Holton, if you'd like more information.

2009-01-27T18:28:00.000-05:00

Experience Envirothon

It’s a perfect spring morning, and the early sun is just breaking through the leaves overhead. You’re sprinting with four team mates up a steep, ancient footpath winding its way up a forested incline. Then, as you near the top of the climb, everyone sees it. Just ahead a flag marks the spot of the first challenge of the day. Arriving at the spot, you find instructions along with a box containing various pieces of field equipment. You gather around as one of your team mates breathlessly reads the challenge aloud, "Identify the species and, using the clinometer, measure the height of the marked tree.” This is going to be cool.

The team-sport for environmental smarts.
- The Ontario Envirothon is an opportunity to take what you’ve learned in books and in the classroom out there—under the sky, in the forest, at the lake—and using your smarts and your senses along with like-minded peers, interact with nature directly.
- But the Envirothon is more than a competition that tests your team’s environmental smarts. A lot of what’s fun and interesting about joining an Envirothon team is the camaraderie and friendship while learning, exploring and preparing for the big day.

As part of an Envirothon team you will:
• Participate in fun field testing competitions;
• Take part in outdoor workshops;
• Find solutions to environmental problems;
• Gain exposure to career opportunities;
• Improve the environment.

What will Envirothon do for you?
• Allow you to explore the outdoors;
• Allow you to test how ‘green’ you are;
• Make you understand the interrelationships of the natural environment;
• Show you how to use field testing equipment;
• Learn about education and career opportunities in the field of natural resources

From www.ontarioenvirothon.on.ca

2009-01-23T19:04:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the CHSS Envirothon Teams' blog. Check here for links to the Ontario Envirothon site and its documents, as well as other useful information throughout the Envirothon season.