“sense of place”Haley Cooper
How Lancaster county was settled
• About 300 years ago, there was a small Amish community that arrived here from Europe, and settled in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. They arrived here during the time when William Penn was promoting religious and cultural freedom.
• The village I live in: Bowmansville
Likes and dislikes
• Likes: there are a lot of trees where I live, there is a creek and there is a pond, and big fields.
• Dislikes: in my development there are houses being built so there is a lot of noise, and sometimes there is trash by the creek and graffiti sometimes written on the bridge.
Weather patterns
• In the winter the average low is 21 degrees Fahrenheit, and the average high is about 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In the fall, the average high is about 67 degrees Fahrenheit, and the average low is about 53 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In the spring, the average high is about 72 degrees Fahrenheit and the average low is about 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In the summer, the average high is about 80 degrees Fahrenheit and the average low is about 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
The environment
• 3 native birds: bald eagle, hawk, blue heron• 3 native mammals: white tailed deer, black bear, cottontail
rabbit• 5 native plants: American ash, eastern hemlock, Carolina
willow, white oak, American holly
Home Life
• The water in my home comes from a well.• We have “public sewage” and the sewage goes to
Brecknock Township sewage plant. When it goes to he sewage plant, it gets filtered out.
• Our recycling and our trash gets picked up by Goods recycling truck. The trash goes to the garbage dumb after it gets picked up.
• We reside in the Chesapeake water shed and it feeds into the Chesapeake bay.
Habitats
• Three habitats around our home is the woods, the creek, and a field.
• We put out bird feed for the birds
food
• 5 favorite foods: spaghetti, cheeseburger, strawberries, tacos, red beets
• spaghetti comes from wheat and originates from Italy.• Cheeseburgers come from cows.• Strawberries grow I the ground from seeds.• Taco meat come from cows.• Red beets grow in the ground.
environmentally friendly/not friendly
• Some environmentally friendly things I do are : recycling, I usually don’t have a lot of trash,
• Some not so very environmentally friendly things I do: I leave the TV on a lot when I leave the room, I use a lot of running water,
• What I can do to change the not environmentally friendly things I have a habit of doing, is try to turn off the TV when leaving a room, turn off the running water when I brush my teeth,
Bibliography
• http://theamishvillage.net/lancaster-county-amish/• http://
www.padutchcountry.com/towns-and-heritage/outdoors/birding-in-lancaster.asp
• http://www.co.lancaster.pa.us/toolbox/lib/toolbox/nativetreesandshrubs/panativetreesshrubssm.pdf
• http://darylrice.com/paanimal.html• http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate.php?location=USPA0857