Project Summary
Our final project is an environmental education cartoon on invasive species at the Rio Salado. When we visited the Rio Salado, many students were interested in bullfrogs in the wetlands demonstration area. When ASU interns taught a lesson on invasive species, we used the information as the basis for writing a story about a bullfrog at the Rio Salado. We wrote a script and drew storyboards to illustrate the story. Using laptop computers and microphones we recorded the lines and then animated them in a computer program called X!pster. During our second field trip to the Rio Salado, we took pictures of the area to use as backgrounds for our animation. We then burned the movie to a DVD and designed a cover and insert for it talking about invasive species.

Highlights for the year:
Over the course of the semester Science Club focused on the physical characteristics of water, hydrological processes, and aquatic environments. We conducted experiments of density, made different boats and tested their hydrodynamic design qualities, used the internal refraction of light through water to bend a laser, examined gambusia close up, looked at environmental clean up of petrochemicals, learned about erosion, capillary action in plants, and the water cycle. The highlights of this semester were fieldtrips to Rio Salado and conduction experimentation in the classroom to get hands on experience with the concepts covered in the lessons.