POND LIVE WAS THE MOST FUN YET!

Ponds are fabulous! One of our favourite activities to do with students is exploring aquatic systems. We miss it a lot! So we thought, let’s get in there and share our explorations live over the internet. Please, join Outdoor and Environmental Education Specialists, Al Woodhouse, Sean McCammon, Nathan Mantey, Levi Moore and special guest, Joe Bell, as they get muddy exploring the hidden depths of Heidelberg Pond.

Follow along as we catch pond creatures with our Pond Live Activity Sheet.  Keep track by circling things as we catch them.  If you want an aquatic invertebrate key in colour click click here.  For distance learners, this link will take you to a google slide deck that you can copy and ‘drag drop’ circles to record your observations.

 

Below is a a fun promotional video for the Pond Live event with all of the lyrics for the stickleback song.

I Wish I Was a Stickleback Fish

I wish I was a stickleback fish

I’d swim around the pond wherever I wish

Give my tail a little swish

I wish I was a stickleback fish

 

I wish I was a leopard frog

I’d sit all day on a sunken log

Start my life as a pollywog

I wish I was a leopard frog

 

I wish I was a dragonfly

With a real long lip and great big eyes

Water’d shoot out of my backside

I wish I was a dragonfly

 

I wish I was a painted turtle

I’d walk around in my rainbow girdle

For Oktoberfest I’d wear a dirndl

I wish I was a painted turtle

 

I wish I was a hellgrammite

Bunch of little spines sticking out of my side

I’d roll in a ball to protect my life

I wish I was a hellgrammite

 

I wish I was a damselfly nymph

Nothing rhymes with damselfly nymph

La-la-la, La-la-la-la

Nothing rhymes with damselfly nymph

 

I wish I was a stickleback fish

I’d swim around the pond wherever I wish

Give my tail a little swish

I wish I was a stickleback fish

 

(If you play guitar, the chords are just A-D-E repeated over and over)

Here is just the song:

If you are feeling really ambitious, here is an instrumental version of the song that students can record themselves singing to:

If you would like .wav files of these songs e-mailed to you, please email Sean McCammon.