Weekly blog 2/22- 2/26

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Summary:
Many things can cause fish to die. The reason that we have been studying about is chlorine. The chlorine is coming from a local waterslide. We know this because it shows on the map that the water slide is pouring the water into the river. The water park had a chemical test on the river but it said that there is no chlorine. A boy named  Juan Tuno tested the river for water fleas because water fleas only live in water with no or little chemicals. Juan tested the river upstream (where the chlorine is not dumped) for water fleas. Juan found there were about 16 water fleas upstream and a healthy river has about 14 water fleas. When Juan tested downstream (were the chlorine is) he only found 1 water flea.


S&EP: SP1: Asking questions and defining problems

 At the beginning I wondered if a the water slide was helping cause the fish to die.I knew that the water slide was near the river. I also knew that the water from the water slide went into the river after it was used. I did not know if the slide used chemicals in the water like Chlorine. When we went further into the project I found out that the waterside did use Chlorine. I do not think that the chlorine is the only thing killing the fish because there are lots of other things like a oil refinery, a farm, etc that could also cause the fish to die.