Each member of the ecology classes calculated their "Carbon Footprint" which is a calculation of the number of tons of carbon produced by an individual. Students where then asked to summarize their findings and brainstorm ways in which they could reduce their footprint. The following are a few of their ideas:
Drive less (car pool, consolidate errands, mass transit, walk or bike short trips)
Eat less meat
Buy locally (produce, etc.)
Buy organic foods
Take shorter showers
Turn off computers and surge protectors when not in use
Replace incandescent bulbs with fluorescent
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
You can find you own carbon footprint at the following site:
http://www.carbonfootprint.com/
I created this blog to share with the greater New Hampton School community what the ecology class is doing in the past, present, and future. Visit to find pictures, projects and data of the natural history of New Hampshire.
Cinnamon Fern Fiddleheads
Snowshoe Hair
Open Your Senses
A major objective of this year-long course is to make the students better observers of the natural world. Weather permitting we get out at least twice a week to see what we can see, hear, smell and feel. During the winter term, we learn how to identify the tracks of the NH fauna. This winter, unfortunately, the HUGE amount of snow we had made it very hard to go into the woods. I might start ordering snowshoes so I can continue to go out in future winters. I have high hopes for better tracking conditions in the spring. Snow and mud are great places to find tracks and we will have both in April. Our meager track list is below. Visit this site in the future to see how we are doing. Also below is a list of the "Signs of Spring" the class will be observing. See if you can find any of these in your hometown.
Signs of Spring
Below is a list of harbingers of spring seen at New Hampton School and the surrounding area.
February:
• Chickadee territorial song
• Tufted Titmouse territorial song
• Male Starling's beaks have turned yellow
• Robins!
March:
3/14 Red-Winged Blackbird
3/14 Common Grackle
March:
3/14 Red-Winged Blackbird
3/14 Common Grackle
3/20 Singing Purple Finch
3/20 Turkey Vultures
3/30 Great Blue Heron
April:
3/1 Killdeer
3/2 Woodcock display
3/2 Snow bells
Daffodils
Bud Bursts!
4/17 Mourning Cloak Butterfly
4/18 Chipping Sparrow
4/20 Wood Frog Singing
4/20 Spring Peepers Singing
4/20 Green Frog
4/21 Common Loon
4/24 Blue Jay making nest
4/24 Blue headed vireo
4/24 Winter Wren
4/24 Yellow-rumped Warbler
4/25 White throated Sparrow
May:
February:
• Chickadee territorial song
• Tufted Titmouse territorial song
• Male Starling's beaks have turned yellow
• Robins!
March:
3/14 Red-Winged Blackbird
3/14 Common Grackle
March:
3/14 Red-Winged Blackbird
3/14 Common Grackle
3/20 Singing Purple Finch
3/20 Turkey Vultures
3/30 Great Blue Heron
April:
3/1 Killdeer
3/2 Woodcock display
3/2 Snow bells
Daffodils
Bud Bursts!
4/17 Mourning Cloak Butterfly
4/18 Chipping Sparrow
4/20 Wood Frog Singing
4/20 Spring Peepers Singing
4/20 Green Frog
4/21 Common Loon
4/24 Blue Jay making nest
4/24 Blue headed vireo
4/24 Winter Wren
4/24 Yellow-rumped Warbler
4/25 White throated Sparrow
May:
Track List 2008
- mole
- white tailed deer
- deer mouse
- grey squirrel
- long-tailed weasel
- snowshoe hare
- fisher
- coyote
- Otter
- Mink
- domestic cat
- domestic dog
- red fox
- red squirrel
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