The workshop was led by the lovely Ruth who told us about the source of the Water of Leith and played a water cycle labelling game with us before taking us for a walk along the river.
We learned about lots of things on the walk, including finding out about the smell of otter poo!
We then did some work creating a map of the depth of the river, measuring how fast the river was running and dipping for river invertebrates. We found all sorts of creatures including mayflies (which indicate that the water is clean), pond skaters, small fish and a horse hair worm. The horse hair worm is a parasite which lives in invertebrates such as crickets, when it is growing. When it is big enough it begins eating them from the inside before exiting into water (I thought it looked really creepy).
Back at the centre we tried out some interactives including a flood plain model and a water wheel and watched an information video about the Water of Leith.
Click on this link to see an animated slide show with photographs from the trip.
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