Melville Students Learn About Local Watersheds

Thanks to grants from the Portsmouth Public Education Foundation and NBNERR's Teachers On The Estuary Stewardship, Save The Bay educators were invited to visit  on Friday, Oct. 28.

The educators taught third-graders the importance of keeping clean and free from run-off and pollutants so it can continue to thrive and survive as an interdependent ecosystem. 

Students wondered how they are linked to Narragansett Bay. Through the use of a watershed model, students built a town and then polluted it to see how their actions on land affect our rivers and the bay.

Participants defined a watershed, located their place within the Narragansett Bay watershed and discussed various pollutants that impact their local waterways. 

A field trip to Melville Pond is scheduled for Nov. 9, when the educators from the Norman Bird Sanctuary will meet students there to help them learn what animals and plants live and thrive there.

Stay tuned for my next post apprising the community of their findings!