A Science lesson out of the classroom

9 March 2010. Today's Science class took place at a pond in a compound inside of the Phu My Hung residential estate. Learning about organisms in their habitats and communities can be quite tricky in an urban city where nature is either
1. too far away from us, or,
2. limited to the handful of species of insects and pests.
To be precise, we have combed the area in and around our school and found nothing we could use to put into the class terrarium. Even in our attempt to map out the habitats around the school was a great challenge - other than people, ants and pests, there was really nothing to map. Hence, we have had to venture afar into another area not too far from school to try our luck.

Although the pond we visited did not offer a wide array of organisms for observation and study, we were contented to have had the chance to handle water snails, watch dragonflies in flight and observe how pond skaters behave on water surface. The most interesting sight must have been that little terrapin which swam solo among all the other organisms in that pond. It looked so out of place!