Circular School Eco Club

Today’s session was all about our inquiries and projects. To reiterate, our inquiry questions were: Can mangrove plants be grown in garden soil?  What is the relation between salinity and growth in mangrove plants? For our first inquiry question - can mangrove plants be grown in garden soil, we found that they can. Salinity is not necessary to the growth of the plant. For our second question - what is the relationship between salinity and growth in mangrove plants, we found that we would need more time for the plants to grow enough for us to give an answer. Then, we presented our projects: Mangrove Adaptations (ppt)     And our second project, a film voiced by Mario and Constancio from Std. 9 Mangroves and Climate Resilience (stills from the film)     This marked the end of our very informative journey with The Mangrove Life Programme with Pikiji Learning, Australia and The Pomegranate Workshop.

For today’s session, we delved deeper into our inquiries and projects. For our group, we chose the following inquiries:  Can mangrove plants be grown in garden soil?  What is the relation between salinity and growth in mangrove plants? And the following projects: Mangrove Adaptations Mangroves and Climate Resilience The session began with our vocabulary words: Then, we discussed some of the issues faced by the educators, and after, went ahead with the first speaker of the day, Jacob. The three widespread types of mangroves in the region                                 Jacob spoke about the local species of Mangroves in the Gladstone region, and how they’re differentiated from one another by the underside of the leaf. The milky mangrove leaf is glassy green, easily identified by its seeds/ berries which come in a heart shape. The yellow mangrove plants have a yellow tinge on the underside of their l...