"History"

Write what you learned about the history of the site.

It used to look like Frick Park.  -Miesha Johnson   It's over 100 years old (it was a place where there were steel mills). Duck Hollow's an old place.  -Chemera Stanley   The slag is made out of metal and rock. Duck Hollow used to be a busy neighborhood.  -Adina Segal   Steel Mills created the slag. It's the remains of steel.  -Kaitlin Bisdee   I learned that they started dumping slag in the 1920s and that slag is left over from steel making.  -Corey Lawson   The site used to look like Frick Park. Then Duncan slag dumped the slag here. people are trying to build houses here.  -Emma Shutko   It was a plain valley and when the iron cooled down they put the slag.  -Chifawn Jackson

 
 
 

"Homestead Brownfield Site"

Write three sentences that describe the site.

Used to be steel mill, there were no trees at the brownfield site.  -Shana Mowod The ground is actually brown. The only trees are around the river's edge. The smoke stacks from the mills still stand.  -Emily Shelly     There is nothing growing there. There's a train track. It's very flat.  -Tasha Helvy Where the steel mils used to be it looks like a golf course.  -Peter Horton   About ten years ago they shut down the steel mill there down. Now it's a brownfield. That's a piece of land with barely any green.  -Kaitlin Bisdee   About 10 years ago it was shut down. It made much of the pollution that used to be in Pittsburgh. It is the area that is left over from the steel mill (It was a steel mill).  -Alison Shapiro   It has trees on the bank. The land is flat. The ground has greenish brown grass. -Emma Shutko

Slag Plateau - Choose one direction and draw the view.
 
 
 

Adina Segal

Andrea Stravinsky

Emily Shelly

Emma Shutko

Max Kaiserman

Nikki Campbell

Shana Mowod

Patrick Brindle

What did you learn about aquatic organisms?
 
 

We learned that the pollution and chemicals will make the aquatic organisms unable to live in the stream. The organisms are a good sign for the water.  -Emily Shelly     That scud is part of the animal food chains (crayfish).  -Chemera Stanley     That they eat the leaves.  -Gary Jones     They live in rivers and streams.  -Montera Lindsey     They are eaten by larger things, which then decompose into soil and plants grown there.  -Owen Carson      They live in rivers, mostly under rocks. The bigger the organisms, the less polluted the water. The crayfish are the best.  -Emma Shutko

 
 

Draw a sketch of an aquatic organism which you observed from the stream today.
 
 

Emily Shelly

Gary Jones

Gavin Spearman

Lashay Regan

Nikki Campbell

Riparian Planting with your partner:

Shannon