Watershed Explorers take three field trips during the course of each program year.

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• In the fall, explorers visit the Narragansett Bay Commission's Field's Point Wastewater Treatment Facility, and then they head to their designated water quality testing location for water quality testing.

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• In the spring explorers visit the same water quality testing location which was visited in the fall, but this time the students discover the biological life of the water body through the search for macro invertebrates. Students are given nets, pans of leaves, magnifying glasses and other testing equipment  which they use to identify the types of macros living at their site. 

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• The last field trip which takes place in May encompasses all of the 900 plus watershed explorers. This field trip is a culminating end-of-year conference which brings the watershed explorers together for data presentations, speeches, and fun environmental education activities.