SCHOOLS FIELD LAB PROJECT: In the late 1990’s the Pearson College Diving Service ran a series of field trips involving students of grade seven classes in the Sooke School District.The field trips were to the Pilot Study Marine Protected Area of Race Rocks Ecological Reserve. The students of the Diving Service took responsibility for designing the curriculum, organizing the trips and conducting the field trips. The files below came from an earlier version of the Pearson College website. This page will show some of the images from those trips and the exercises the Diving Service members designed for the grade 7 students.
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- In the fall of 1997, the members of the diving service worked to establish a wet lab in the old Workshop at Race Rocks.
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- This involved moving two large touch tank-aquariums and installing a saltwater pump for the operation of the system.Local grade 7 students visit for a tour.
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- Andrew gets the students to think about the size of the Gray Whale mounted on the campus before the students load onto the boat for their trip to the Ecological Reserve.
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- On the way to the island, the boat stops at various islands to see the four species of marine mammal.
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- The visiting grade seven students were rotated around to the different stations upon arrival at the island of Great Race Rock in the ecological reserve.
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- Albert demonstrates marine invertebrates and their adaptions for feeding and locomotion , and Ragen urges the students top get a close up view of a sea star.
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- Ragen urges the students top get a close up view of a sea star.
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- Sarah showing members of Mr.Philion’s class of Wishart Elementary School, the operation of the SCUBA apparatus.
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- The students take turns breathing compressed air and test the weight of the equipment.
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- We were also able to get a group of Cubs from the local Metchosin community on a field trip to the island. Giovanni shows the cubs the invertebrates in the seawater tanks.
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- Nick at the base of the light tower with a group touring the various systems that help to support the operation of the station.
A special thanks to Duane Prentice (PC year4), now a professional photographer working out of Victoria, who has contributed his time and energy to help us build up a set of pictures on Race Rocks. Most of the schools program pictures above have been supplied by him.
