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TEAM: Education Majors 

Team Members

Lina Salman- 2nd year- Early Child Education

Hometown – Easton, PA

Future Job – k-4 teacher 

Hobbies – Reading, cooking, volleyball  

Jaredis Flores– 1st year- Early Child education

Hometown – Exeter, PA

Future Job – k-4 teacher

Hobbies – softball, listening to music, and shopping 

Maggie Sheets– 1st year- Early Child Education

Hometown – Turbotville, PA

Future Job – k-4 teacher 

Hobbies – Playing soccer, going to the gym, and getting coffee with friends 

Ashley Barreto– 1st year- Early Child Education

Hometown – Vineland New Jersey

Future Job – K-4 Special Education Teacher 

Hobbies – Working , Shopping , Studying 

We all attend Penn State Berks! 

Our team is researching water pollution, it is when bad things like chemicals, trash, or waste get into the water and make it dirty and unsafe. It’s not good for the fish, plants, or even us humans who use the water. We all need to keep our water clean and healthy for everyone to be safe. It  is the water bodies, usually affect us that have a negative impact on their uses. Water bodies include lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers, reservoirs and groundwater. The results when it mix with these water bodies.

For our service project, we are helping a local middle school – The Northeast Middle School in Reading, PA. We were able to participate in different activities with the students. We also got to enjoy getting to interact with all the students during snack time for 10-15 minutes every week. We also had the opportunity to present google slides about invasive species. The invasive species we chose to focus on was the spotted lantern fly because it is very wellknown in this area. After we talked about the invasive species, they had to go in small groups and research an invasive species of their choice and make posters with their friends.

Invasive Species Presentation 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10pz2kjKukY3qkx5n-zuBuOZf-UUNXvETInblz6sfqJA/edit#slide=id.p

Pictures

Reflection – Overall, It was an amazing experience. We have a much better understanding about water pollution and how it affects our lives. We learned about how harmful the water gets if there is chemicals or garbage. It’s not good for the plants and animals that live in the water, it can make the water unsafe for us too. We have to keep the water safe and everyone around us as well. We also loved going to the northeast Middle school to teach the students about invasive species. It was a great experience having them do different activities and work on small groups and helping them know better about species.