“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