Our last big plp event of the year is finally complete! The spring exhibition and I think it was the longest time I have ever been at school! This was the first time that science has ever been presented in an exhibition. You might be wondering what our exhibition this year is about? Well read all about it below!
And we didn’t have any fake vines so I literally went around the corner and scavenged for them and hung them around our tent. 😂
The Story Of Canada!
The whole theme of our exhibition today that connects all the grades together was the story of Canada. My grade is focused on the land before humans and how the land grew to be how it is today through… POLLINATION!!!
Driving Question 🏎️:
How can we support and protect local pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems in our community?
A way that we can support and protect our local pollinators is my informing the public. We did that with our calls to action. I feel that with our spring exhibition we actually did inform the public by like I said using our call to actions. Our call to actions are things that we sent to organizations to look at and use when advertising protection to our pollinators. I feel that these help ensure a healthy community by making sure everyone knows what is happening and that everyone can do whatever they can to help.
Pollinators?
There were 5 different groups representing different pollinators there was:
Hummingbirds (my group)
Bees
Butterflies
Bats
Plants
We would be representing our local pollinator by setting up a booth that is showing the public how we can help them by using pamphlets, posters and lots of other things so we could talk about what our station was about.
My Group:
We were the hummingbirds! And I love hummingbirds and so I thought it was perfect! My group members were:
I think my group worked well together and I am very proud of how we did in the exhibition!
Food Web
Hummingbirds are very important to our ecosystem they are one of our main local pollinators and without them the whole food chain would collapse. I made a very detailed food web about all the animals and it is interactive so when people came up to our booth they could click around and interact with it. Here’s a quick video on showing how it works:
And the bonus is when you clicked the hummingbird and it said to see what the food web would look like with them disappearing and showing how it is destroyed. So that was our interactive food web!
Our Pollination Pamphlet
Our pamphlet is something that took longer than it should have but we are very proud of it. There is another side to it as well with a diagram of a flower and the title slide. Our pamphlet was also something we had at our booth for people to look at, we did have some people that stole a few of our pamphlets during the exhibition though…
Exhibition!
The date of the exhibition was busy and chaotic but it’s kinda fun not gonna lie. We had a lot to get set up before our doors opened up and lets just say it was even more busy and chaotic.
Our interactive element was a relay that people can participate in to win a sticker or a growing bookmark that you can plants in the ground, or a regular bookmark you can put in your book. The relay would consist of you holding a spoon with a ping pong ball on it and delivering it to the flower cup on the other side of the path draw my chalk.
We had a lot of food options we had cookies, beignets, pretzels and fruit kebabs. The food was a hit with all of it being gone when the night was over and we also had lemonade that people could grab while observing and listening to us talk.
These were our call to actions. They were things we could do that could inform the public public (the people that weren’t there) of what they could do to help. We focused on 3 main points, not using pesticides, looking after you birdfeeder and letting your garden grow wild so that nature can continue to thrive.
Conclusion:
I really loved this exhibition. It was only my second one and I had forgotten what it was like talking and smiling for hours and my face getting sore from smiling. I learned that with this project it’s so much easier to work together. If we had to do some of this work load on our own it would’ve been so much harder. In conclusion I had so much fun in our spring exhibition 25!
Thank you so much for reading! Stay posted for my next post! 👍
