We took a real action for living things in our grounds. Here is the big question for today: did our action help, and how would we know?
Hands up: what is one clue you would look for if the action had made a difference?
Today we check whether our action made a real difference. Scientists call careful counts that show this evidence of impact. To be fair we measure the same place the same way (a before-and-after comparison). Checking again later is monitoring.
With your group, talk about the questions below.
Take your audit notes from earlier in this project, a hoop or string square, and your Investigation Journal. Go to the area of your action.
Re-count or re-observe with the method your group just agreed, in the same place and the same way as the audit, so the two counts can be compared fairly. Record what you find, and return every living thing gently when you finish.
This is the moment we find out what the numbers say, not what we hoped.
Bring your before numbers from the audit and your after numbers from today. On the board, each thing we counted gets two bars side by side: one for before and one for after. Watch each pair. Which ones changed? Which stayed the same? What does that suggest about our action so far?
On your Investigation Journal page, record the comparison, what the evidence shows, and one next step you would take.
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