Making or printing your own monitoring tools
_ Why make your own gear?
Having students construct their own monitoring equipment and calibrate the gear they build helps them understand the purpose of the equipment, the way it is to function in the field and the precision and accuracy of their equipment. Some of the equipment outlined below is quite simple and easy to build. Others require shop facilities, but none exceed the scope of school shop programs. Some of the tools outlined below have information templates that, when printed in vinyl, may be used outside, get wet, endure cold and school use only to survive to be used again. Click on the topic below for more specific construction information.
Forestry Studies equipment
Clinometer with tan functions (% scale)
Go-no go-gauge
DBH Tape
Canopy cover tube
Quadrat plot 1 meter square
Core holders for dendrochronology
Aquatic Studies equipment
Flow meter
`V`notch weir
Turbidity tubes
Swift water samplers
Sucker-uppers
Aquatic macroinvertebrate water quality chart
Snow Studies equipment
Snow study charts
Snow depth measurement sticks
Snow study student kits
Marine Studies equipment
Mudflat Sieves
Marine Quadrat plots
Paleoliminology Gear
Paleoliminology core samplers
Paleoliminology core holders
Diatom identification key
Diatom environmental conditions chart
Having students construct their own monitoring equipment and calibrate the gear they build helps them understand the purpose of the equipment, the way it is to function in the field and the precision and accuracy of their equipment. Some of the equipment outlined below is quite simple and easy to build. Others require shop facilities, but none exceed the scope of school shop programs. Some of the tools outlined below have information templates that, when printed in vinyl, may be used outside, get wet, endure cold and school use only to survive to be used again. Click on the topic below for more specific construction information.
Forestry Studies equipment
Clinometer with tan functions (% scale)
Go-no go-gauge
DBH Tape
Canopy cover tube
Quadrat plot 1 meter square
Core holders for dendrochronology
Aquatic Studies equipment
Flow meter
`V`notch weir
Turbidity tubes
Swift water samplers
Sucker-uppers
Aquatic macroinvertebrate water quality chart
Snow Studies equipment
Snow study charts
Snow depth measurement sticks
Snow study student kits
Marine Studies equipment
Mudflat Sieves
Marine Quadrat plots
Paleoliminology Gear
Paleoliminology core samplers
Paleoliminology core holders
Diatom identification key
Diatom environmental conditions chart
