A total of 21 student groups at 5 schools submitted projects for the 2020 Providence Virtual Science Symposium! Please navigate to the presentations by first clicking on the corresponding school below. Some groups also made a video, in addition to their project file, so please look for the video link where relevant. Additionally, the students would love your feedback on their presentation, so *please* fill out a Reviewer Form for each group!
Frank D. Spaziano Elementary School
Green Down Outdoor Classroom
Teacher: Soraya Santana Protocols: Green-Up / Green-Down Students: The Grade 4 Students of Room 8
For our class project, we adopted trees. We tracked the leaf color or our leaves and the air temperature, and surface temperature on our trees, near our trees, and away from our trees from September until November 2019. We are a bilingual classroom and used both of our languages - English and Spanish - to present our project.
Seed Germination by Room 22
Teacher: Esther Andrea Aguirre Protocols: Earth as a System Students: Camila Pineda, Valery Secaida, Michael Blanco, Vidalia Hernandez, Oliver Rosales, Daniela Lopez, Bayron Lantigua, Keilyn Natareno
We completed a 4 part project looking at Earth as a System. The 4 parts were Recycling in Rhode Island, Earth Day, the human impact on air pollution, and our overall reflection on how these things relate and what we can do to help decrease our negative impact on Earth's Systems.
Anthony Carneval Elementary School
Let's Save Tigers!!
Teacher: Daniel DeCesare Protocols: Earth as a System Students: Yazmin
I researched the similarities and differences of different plants and their environments in order to answer the question - are all plants the same? I wanted to explore this specific query because during my class investigation - where we observed how different plants reacted to different nitrate levels in their water - it was more than apparent that the results varied depending on the plant species. I simply wanted to prove the point that plants definitely are not all the same.
Does one type of mustard tolerate nitrates better than the other?
Teacher: Kathleen Johnson (inactive) Protocols: Phenological Gardens, Nitrates Students: Rayya Frayn and Beulah Chike-Okeke
We did a class project investigating how nitrate levels affect plant germination and growth. For our project, we looked at how nitrate levels in water affected two different species of mustard plants.
The Bluewater
Teacher:Eileen Nugent Protocols: Earth As a System, Air Temperature, Cloud Students: Julian Sanchez
This report describes what I liked about working with GLOBE.
Science and Plant Project
Teacher:Eileen Nugent Protocols: Earth As a System, Phenological Gardens, Nitrates, pH Students: Emma Gertrudes, Gelen Mercado Castro, Carter Nguyen, Becket DeShaw, Ida Cronin
For our project, we planned to investigate how different types of water affected plant growth. We were not able to complete our project because we had to move to distance learning and all of our materials were left at school.
The Wind Tunnel Effect
Teacher:Eileen Nugent Protocols: Wind Students: Benjamin Cavanaugh
The Mashapaug Pond is in Providence Rhode Island. It is surrounded by Alvarez High School and houses. There used to be a factory near the pond. Throughout the past centuries the pond was contaminated with dangerous chemicals, metals and disgusting things floating. It was unsafe for humans to be around and nobody could swim. This made the pond unsafe to be around. It was unhealthy for the environment and for the organisms living around it or in it. After a lot of years of people trying to get it clean and healthy for the environment it is better than how it used to be. There are no chemicals or any type of dangerous things floating or chemicals in the pond. It is safe for the humans to be around the Mashapaug Pond. The water temperature of the pond can affect the quality of the pond by holding less dissolved oxygen or holding a lot more oxygen than normal. This can cause the fishes and other living organisms in the pond to not survive a long time.
What effect does electrical conductivity have on dissolved oxygen in Mashapaug Pond?
The mashapaug pond has been around for hundreds of years. Over time the pond would go from a drinking source and swimming spot for local kids and families to being drastically changed to a toxic polluted inhabitable and unhealthy pond. The gorham company polluted that pond with so much toxic waste and other chemicals that today it's dangerous to go near. The pollution was so bad that the dissolved oxygen in the water would be around 2.9 to 4.5 which is terrible due to the fact that healthy water is usually from 6-8.5 ml of dissolved oxygen. This is inhabitable for animals and drinking wise, the pollution really altered the dissolved oxygen of mashapaug pond and to this day the water is still the same. Inhabitable.
How does dissolved oxygen affect the temperature of pond water in Mashapaug Pond?
Teacher: Michelle Goewey Protocols: Dissolved Oxygen, Water Temperature Students: Jolade Oshinkanlu
What do you know about the Mashapaug pond site? The Mashapaug pond was once healthy and clean until people started dumping waste, garbage, industrial chemicals, animal waste and other pollutants which went into the soil and water and caused the pond to be very harmful and dirty. Because of this, not only human health were endangered but also animal health too. The Mashapaug Pond was not looked at until last century because people thought what they were doing won’t affect or cause harm. Now they are taking actions in filtering the air, building school, and making sure the conditions at the pond don't get worse. How does your variable affect the quality of the pond? My variable affects the quality of the pond and plays a big role in many ways for example, if the temperature is low, the dissolved oxygen is low which suffocates and kills animals in the pond like fish. Another example is that, when water temperature is cold, it holds more dissolved oxygen which leads to more oxygen and aquatic life needs less oxygen at this time.
