Step 5

Field trip!

Reminder!

Students - remember to get your permission slips signed by your parents and returned to your teacher in time for the field frip.

Step 5.  Field Trip (recommended)

  • Conduct a field trip to Mill Creek. 
  • Get an appreciation for the size of this watershed. 
  • Look at how people’s influence to the environment surrounding this riparian area is impacting the creek. 
  • What do you think has changed in the last 5, 10, and 50 years?
  • Keeping in mind your newly discovered specialist information, what changes (if any) would you plan on making to this watershed?

Document your trip with a camera, notebook, and sketchpad.

Save this information for your final presentation.

Recomended Sites

  1. Mill Creek Regional Park
  2. Rutland Senior Restoration Site
  3. Enterprize Way Shopping Complex (near Wal-Mart and Home Depot)
  4. Parkinson Recreation Centre
  5. Mill Creek Delta at Okanagan Lake (next to bridge)

Ex-Golf Course