Mansfield+Hollow+Dam+Field+Experience

Staff and students from Chaplin, Norwich and New London went on a field experience to Mansfield Hollow Dam on Thursday, November, 2007, as part of their water study interdistrict grant project.



While there, the students participated in teambuilding activities, walked to the dam and learned a little bit about its history, and ended the day with a collaborative activity created by the TAG teacher in Chaplin called Upstream-Downstream, where they learned about point and non-point source pollution.

=Thoughts from students about the day= "It was nice to meet the students from Kelly Middle School and Bennie Dover Jackson." Kyle from Miss Walter's 6th grade class in Chaplin. I like that I met people from Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School like Jonathan.

My favorite field trip was the Mansfield hollow dam. I liked that field trip the best because we got to meet people from different schools. My group had troubles because we wanted lunch so badly we had to get three blue chips for a game to be able to eat your lunch and we spent a long time doing that. We also did not work so well as a group together in the game called up stream down stream game. But we worked together as a team and somehow we got it done and we got to eat our lunch. The Norwich school had to go earlier than everyone else so we didn’t get to meet them as we did with New London. I hope we get to see our sister schools again on another field trip that deals with team building. From Kara

It was fun to meet new people and make some new friends it was also fun to work on the team building activites. From Samantha