Field activity: water quality testing at Speyerbach
As a part of habitat study, our Year 5 and 6 lps worked in small groups to complete a water testing investigation at the Speyerbach River where they tested the quality of river water by checking the pH and hardness of the water. Lps also tested the presence of different compounds in the water such as copper, nitrates, phosphates and chlorine and collected data to answer a series of quantitative and qualitative questions to gauge the quality of the river water and river edge habitat.Since many of...