SECONDARY 1E2 SUNGEI BULOH TRIP SUMMARY

Done By: Suthan Selvam
Leddin Tan

My first impression about this trip was that it would be very boring with us receiving the biggest treatment: Mosquito bites. The trip proved how wrong I was. We went there and were treated to a pungent smell of mosquito repellent in the air. Then Miss Poh distributed all the necessary items like all the pails and the disposable cups. Then, we set off. Well, the first part already proved wrong and I was grumbling all the way but didn’t show my attitude. We were asked to measure the pH value of the water there. I cheered up a bit, but my spirits were dampened after it rained.

We were asked to go to Platform 1 to collect seawater and to compare our results. The walk was boring, but the scenery was excellent. I particularly enjoyed staring, taking in the cool breeze and just looking at the vast body of the ocean. After collecting the seawater, the teachers allowed us to roam around Platform 1, but obviously around it. I got my fair share of watching some long beak fishes and was very amazed at the tranquility of the area. The long beak fishes were quite nice to look at, their bright bottle-green mouths or their beaks, as the teachers call it. There were many mangroves, their roots sticking out of the water. I also took the chance to read all about mangroves. There were lazy snails relaxing on the tree, with their multi-colored shells visible. I was amazed as I had only seen snails with brown shells and not fashionable colors like the ones here in Sungei Buloh.

We collected the data and went back to have a snack and then we left. Mr. Leong, who went with the other group, showed us all the pictures taken. Other than my friends, the other route my other classmates went also was fun, looking at the crabs, squirrels and monitor lizards pictures taken close up. I was also amazed at how close they could go up to the monitor lizards. Girls are supposed to be scared of them. It was an enjoyable experience for Leddin and me as we learnt about wildlife and how to collect data and comparing them. I hope Yusof Ishak Secondary would post more excursions for us like this one. Sorry we don’t have any videos or pictures to show.

1E3 Pictures

Posted by Mr Leong.

STUFFY, ITCHY AND a bit BORIN...

We reached Sungei Buloh and we were divided into our assigned groups. We had a briefing and then we were each given a tablet pc and a webcam for us to scan barcodes.My webcam was a bit blurr so i could not scan the barcodes.Mr leong and Chris helped me with it but it was still blurr. My group members headed for the next station while i was stuck behind at station 1. It was very irritating and difficult to use the webcam but usin the internet on the pc was very fun.In the end, i did not use the webcam at all as i had given up on trying. I watched all my others classmates use the webcam, i did not feel jealous. I was free and did not have to stop at any station.A few other schools were there and when they saw our school usin the tablet pc, they were all jealous. It was quite irritating. They said we act rich only.While on the way, we saw a squirrel. It was so cute and it was not afraid of us. It stood still while we took pictures of it.There were a lot of mosquitos and other insects.We learnt about the flora and fauna of Sungei Buloh.Not many interesting things to see though. It was fun but a bit boring walking here and there scanning barcodes for 1 hour.After that, we ate and sat at the cafeteria waiting for the bus. We took a class photo and group photo. The one thing we hated were all the students starring at us using the tablet pc.











Rosalind(17)
Shayidah(18)
Siti Azwani(19)
Siti NurDiyanah(20)

Trip to Sungei Buloh 1e2 group 4

Today we went for sungei buloh trip.
Before we get into the bus, we were ask to meet our teacher at com lab 4 at level 2.
There we were being group n getting ready.
After that we were told to be in tows at the foyer.
Then, we went into the bus and our trip began there.
haha. After reaching at sungei buloh,we were given a lap top each with a webcam.
Then we were given a briefing about the web cam which were called Quickmatch.
We then, was told to get ready and off we go by groups..
Before that, we had given each a job to do.
Hehe. After we had finished all the station,we went to meet our teachers.
There we were given an instruction which we can have a break for a while.
During our break time, we had taken many pictures but we could not upload it.
Suddenly it starts to rain, not to heavy.
Haha. We then get into the bus quickly.
Soon we had reached back to school.



Done by: Naqiah Athirah(13),
Nur Syafiqah(15),
Ain Aqilah(16)

Post by :Tan Chew Mei,Vivian Wong,Lye Chia Peng,Liow Fang Yu .

Today we went for the sugei buloh trip..before we went in the morning we had some briefing and then we assemble in the foyer and then went boarded the bus..sungei buloh isnt far after a distance of about 15 min ...we reached there there were many school over there there were riverside and maha bhodi and many more other school,soon we were lead into a shelter by the teacher we wasnt with our friends..because we were separated into two groups..we were the one with the data logger...
We had to measure the pH value,temperature,conductivity of the water,air around the shelter.we had three sensor,the one to measure the temparature,the conductivity and the pH value it was very interesting..and we were pround of ourself as when people walk past we heard compliment of something like wow..this school so high tech this school like so fun..we really enjoyed ourselves at that part although the weather was rather wet ...
After that the teachers ask the leader to move on with her to another platform to get the rading as the weather was wet only the leaders followed but after awhile the weather when back to normal the teacher make a phone call and as the other members to come along..on the way there was some accident ...someone in the group drop their data loggers..and went they reach the platform the realise that their plastic pen was missing...
After doing everything and while proceeding back we were ask to look on the way for the plastic pen...we didnt have any clues of it..after to we went back to the entrance and while the teachers are collecting back the sensors..it finally came back a instructor got it inside a pail...such a relieve... We had our breaks and went to the cafe over there to eat and relax...after awhile the whole class gather again and took photos and waited for the bus to come ...after awhile the bus came and we finally went back to school...school sweet school ...haha.we went back to com lab 4 and had a break again..later when everyone is back we tried logging in into the blog.. NOW IT PHOTO AND VIDEO TIME !!!!ENJOY!
this pictures are not taken by us but we got it from google now here is the video that we film .. director fangyu speaker fangyu

1E2 TRIP TO SUNGEI BULOH

Today, we went to Sungei Buloh.The journey from the school to there took us around 20 mins.When we reached there,the teacher told us to get off the bus and line up in twos.We went to a shelter on our way to the journey.We stopped there to get some samples from the river water and measured the temperature,conductivity and the pH level of the water.While we were finishing,it started to rain.We cannot go to the next station due to the rain as some of the pupils did not bring umbrellas.So,one of the teachers told the group leaders to use umbrella to go to the next station to collect water and the rest stay at the shelter.When we reached there, the rain had stopped.So,the teacher called the rest of the pupils to go to the next station.When we all reached there,we started taking the water from the river and we did experiments which are the smae as the previous one.After finishing, we went back to the starting point to have our break.To our dismay,the food there was very expensive.So we decided to go back to school to have our meal.Soon the bus came, we boarded the bus and headed back to our school.

Done by:Lim Zi Gui (33)
Andre Lim (32)

sungei buloh trip for 1E2 group 2 and route 2

Today our class 1E2 went to sungei buloh for science,
and our class was divided into two route.
Route 1 and Route 2,index one to 20 was in route 2,
and index twenty-one to the last person in our class.
we all took the bus and took around 20 minutes to reach sungei buloh
when we got down,we went to somewhere near the toilet to get into our groups.
One was using the webcams installed on the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), to access information on the wetland reserve.
The other was using dataloggers to find more about the temperature of air and water, conductivity of water and PH level of the water at the sections of Sungei Buloh.
My group was doing the webcams installed on the Ultra Mobile PC.
Our so-called task was to scan those bar-codes found on the mangrove walkway using our webcams.
There was about 20 bar-codes.
Starting our hands were shaky and we took a long time to scan the bar-codes.
but soon we got used to it and we scan the code quite fast and we moved to the next
station.it was very fun scaning the bar code and all of us learnt about the flora and florna.we also saw some animals on our way these are afew


Done by: Gisela Yin (6)
Lee Bao ru (8)
Chian Yin (5)

Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve - 1E2 group 3

When we first get the laptop, we were thinking what that webcam for. After listening to what the person-in-charge say, We then know that the webcam is for scanning barcode. We got to try it. We first do it and our hand keep shaking and we could not even stop for a second or more. The person-in-charge tell us that we have to stop and he say that there are around 15-20 station for us to try and we could master it while doing the scanning. We think that the use of IT in Sungei Buloh is very interesting.
As for the interesting things that we see as we walked around the Mangrove Boardwalk. We saw a squirrel doing gymnastic (just hanging on the branch of the tree), we use Digital Camera and handphones to take the picture of it. We also saw an organism that is white in colour , almost transparent. After seeing we straight away think of leech as it is long and a bit fat. We walked somemore and we could see some of the small crab climbing up the tree. We also saw Mudskipper, so big and fat. Here are some of our comments.
Our Comments:
YueXi: I feel that this trip was very interesting as there were many different insects and animals but there were too many mosquitoes so I did not really like the mosquito haha and one thing I like the most is the squirrel, Super cute!
Hidayah: I feel that the trip is so fun and adventuros. I saw lots of wild animals. The most interesting thing is when we scan the bar codes useing the webcam on the tablet PC.
YenTing: I think this trip was good as we could learn some facts about the plants and animals and when scanning the barcodes, I could see a Mudskipper lying on the mangrove tree. This trip allows us to train our hand's steady (how we scan the barcodes as we could not move for a few seconds as it was trying to scan).
That's all the comments.
Thank you.
1E2 group 3:
Yenting(9)
YueXi(10)
Hidayah(14)

Class 1e2 Group 1 [Science IT Project 2007]

Hello. =]

Today class 1e2 went to Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve.

Our class was splited into two groups.

One was using the webcams installed on the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), to access information on the wetland reserve.

The other was using dataloggers to find more about the temperature of air and water, conductivity of water and PH level of the water at the sections of Sungei Buloh.

My group was doing the webcams installed on the Ultra Mobile PC.

Our so-called task was to scan those bar-codes found on the mangrove walkway using our webcams.

There was about 20 bar-codes.

Starting our hands were shaky and we took a long time to scan the bar-codes.

We learn about flora and florna.

The most interesting part was going round scanning bar-codes and learning about different things.

We also learned about teamwork and others stuffs.

Last but not least, the animals we saw when walking the mangrove walkway.

These are the pictures we took,

Mr Leong.
The bar-code.
A mini white crab.
Mudskipper. Quite scary. =]
Tree-climbing crab. Can it be eaten? joking. =]

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1e1 group 2 :D

Today we went to Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve for a IT Science project.We had a lesson outside class so it is different enviroment.We saw two small squirrel hugging each other,they were very cute.We learn how to measure the temperature of the air the water from the lake.Although the computer was quite lag but we still manage to get our work done within the given time.We also saw many small fishes there.I feel that this trip was fun,enjoyable and we learned many things.

Ebel,Vaishnavi,Neha,Emily- 1e1

Sungei Buloh Learning Journey

The trip has provided a wonderful opportunity for students to learn more about the biodiversity in Singapore through first-hand experience of a real mangrove environment. It complements the classroom lessons and arouses the students' interest in Biology. The use of technology enhanced the whole experience and encouraged the exploration of new ways of learning outside the classroom. Kudos to the team of teachers who made this trip such an enjoyable and enrichment one !!

Pictures from 1E3's trip to Sungei Buloh

Posted by Mr Leong