Sand Creek Intermediate
Square of Life Project
Spring 2013
We are 6th grade students at Sand Creek Intermediate, in Fishers Indiana. Our team participated in the Square
of Life Project and will share our results. First, we compared our results with Korea International School, in South Korea.
We also compared our results with Argyle Elementary, in Florida.
At Sand Creek Intermediate School, we searched for abiotic and biotic factors near a creek behind our school.
Our group found lots of factors such as insects, trash, water, animals, and plants. The insects that we saw were ants,
worms, spiders, beetles, and flying bugs. The plants we saw were grass, weeds, trees, and bushes. Finally, the abiotic
factors that we saw were rocks, plastic, mud, metal, and paper.
As part of our project, we compared our results with two different schools in different ecosystems. The first
school we compared Sand Creek Intermediate to was Argyle Elementary, in Orange Park, Florida. The biotic factors that
Argyle Elementary saw were flying bugs, spiders, grass, mushrooms, and weeds. The abiotic factors Argyle Elementary
saw were sand and dirt. As you can probably tell, Indiana is very different from Florida and that's why our results are
different.
We also compared our results with a school in South Korea! This school's name is the Korea International School,
and they also live in a different ecosystem. The biotic factors that Korea International School found were ants, flying
bugs, a spider, a bush, some grass, and a tree. The abiotic factors that the Korea International School found were a big
rock, some dirt, mud, and small rocks. As you can see we chose two very different schools in very different ecosystems.
This allows us to compare results.
We showed you the other school's data, now it's time to compare! The chart below will show you the
comparisons between the schools. Now you can look below to see our results! This is our comparison chart for all of the
schools we chose!
Sand Creek
Argyle Elementary
Korea International School
Biotic Factors
Ants
Worms
Spiders
beetles
Flying bugs
grass
Biotic Factors
Ants
Mushrooms
Spiders
Weed
Flying bugs
grass
Biotic Factors
Ants
Trees
Spiders
Bush
Flying bugs
grass
Abiotic Factors
Dirt
Metal
Mud
Paper
Plastic
Sand
Small rocks
Abiotic Factors
Dirt
sand
Abiotic Factors
Big rock
Dirt
Mud
Small rocks
The possible reasons for similarities and differences are mostly the environment. Where our school looked was a
small creek. In South Korea, there are many forests and trees so there might be many biotic factors living there. As you
can see our school found lots of trash and metal. Yet the other schools didn't. The reason for this may be due to the
places we looked. As you already know we looked at wildlife in a creek, but Argyle Elementary is in Florida, so they could
be located in an area close to a beach.
In conclusion, this project was a wonderful experience to observe wildlife, in different environments. It was
interesting to see what other abiotic and biotic factors were found by other people in different states and continents.
We would love to participate in this project again! Thank you for viewing our report.