Sample Discussion Area Entries

Madden Pond, New York

When we went to the Madden Pond we collected samples of macro invertebrates and put our data on the Bucket Buddies website. Then we looked at the other schools findings and compared them to ours.

Question: Are the macro invertebrates that are found in pond water all over the world the same?

Hypothesis: Macro invertebrates that are found in pond water are different all over the world.

We looked at reports from students in Minnesota, Arizona, Australia, New Jersey, Illinois, and Florida. Florida found the most macro invertebrates that were different from us. The macro invertebrates that they found were: Adult water beetle, water beetle larva, bristle worms, pea shell cockle, daphnia, midge larva, and mayfly nymph.
Out of the macro invertebrates they found, we only found the mayfly nymph.
We think the quality of their water is pretty clean.
Based on what we looked at most ponds all over the world have similar macro invertebrates in them.

 

Waunakee, Wisconsin

Our hypothesis was that there would be whole different types of macro invertebrates. We were half right. We found about half of the same and a few different. One of the possible reasons for that is most of the data entries, were in fact, in the United States of America. In places that are not in the USA we found slightly different data. The numbers were very different! We wondered about how many samples they had. The data we found was very surprising. This draws a conclusion that they (the macro invertebrates) can live in very different climates. The 4th graders and the 2nd graders paired up with partners to do this project. It was a lot of fun!