Having fun at the beach!

What is this intertidal worm?

Hello, from the 3rd-5th grade class! We went to the Gustavus Beach on 10-13-10 to collect data for our year-long scientific study. This was our second data collection trip. We were looking for plastic and living things on the beach and the intertidal zone. We found a lot of sea stars, jellyfish, amphipods (sand hoppers), and barnacles. We found 27 pieces of plastic. The most common things we found were earplugs and pieces of rope.

Do you think the Gustavus Beach will have more plastic than the Bartlett Cove Beach?

This is the 3-5 grade class and we are doing a blog just like last year. Here are the topics for this year’s science project.
1. PLASTIC
2. SOUND
3. LIVING THINGS ON THE BEACH AND INTERTIDAL ZONE

So far we have developed a question about plastic. We are working on our other questions.

Plastic Question: DOES BARTLETT COVE OR GUSTAVUS BEACH HAVE MORE PLASTIC?

We would love it if you would comment on our work. We will be posting field reports after every trip we go on and we will be posting one very soon. In the field reports we will be talking about the things we saw and about the jobs we are doing.