New Carlisle, Quebec, Canada

We are third and fourth grader for New Carlisle High School, New Carlisle, Quebec, Canada.  We studied 9 squares near our school; we put the information from all 9 in our report.  We saw lots of different plants and trees, lots of insects but more spiders and ants than anything else.  Our non living things were mostly natural and we are proud to say that there was hardly any litter.

We compared our findings to three different schools: 1) Mrs. Jorgenson’s Blue Ridge Mid School in Lakeside Arizona 2) Jan McFarlane’s Warradale Primary in Adelaide South Australia and    3) Mrs. Beebe’s Lonnie B. Nelson Elementary School, Columbia, S.C.

We live in a rural area with about five months of cold weather (-5C to -20C) three of which usually have snow.We found all three areas had lots of insects with many similar to ours like spiders and ants.  Warradale Primary in Australia had something called a stink bug which we have never heard of and Lonnie B. Nelson in SC. Has palmetto bugs or flying cockroaches as well as fire ants.  We certainly have neither of these and feel that the warmer more southern climate with probably drier air would have something to do with it.

Our soil is quite rich, is a red color and quite hard when dry.  We have sand only on our beaches.  It is also a brownish red color.  Lonnie B. Nelson of SC.  Says that their ground is mostly sand as they live on the sand hills.  That is hard for us to imagine.

We seemed to have many of the same plants as all three places but each one had differences also.  We don’t have any Indian tobacco or ponderosa pine growing here as they do in BlueRidge in Arizona.  We have very few oak trees left as the first settlers used most of them for ship building.  We don’t have any gum trees, kitcuya, eucalyptus or bottlebrush as they do in Warradale in Australia. We think these differences again are because of climate.  The plants we don’t have must need a longer, warmer climate.

One thing similar in South Carolina at Lonnie B. Nelson is the name of the teacher.  Beebe is a very common name here.  Two of our teachers are Beebes.  The Beebe ancestors were United Empire Loyalists who left the New England States in the late 1700s and came to Canada.

We really enjoyed doing this project and learning about other places and how they are the same or different. Even though we are farther north than the schools we looked at, many things were also similar.

Below are our square photographs.