Hermon Elementary School

Hermon, Maine

Bucket Buddy Results

September 2011

 On September 12, 2011 the pond water was collected from our neighbor, Hermon Meadows Golf Course.  On September 14 and 15 we observed it. 

Of the 49 third graders, 42 voted that we would see different bugs in our pond water compared to the other schools around the United States.  Some of the reasons for our hypothesis are:

• other places have warmer climates
• some places may have polluted water
• different creatures live in different states
• some states are closer to the ocean than others
• different bugs need different food so they will need to live in different places
• we have pretty common bugs here - other places may have unusual or endangered bugs
• we only looked at water from one pond, and there are so many ponds around the country
• some ponds might not have any dragonflies nymphs if they all changed into dragonflies at the same time

This bug project was so AWESOME!!!

We know our pond water was healthy because we found a gilled snail, and they can only live in clean water.