Field Report 11/11/10

Hello from the 3rd-5th Grade Class,

We went to the beach by the Gustavus dock on November 11, 2010. We found a lot of interesting things. The most popular thing was dead jelly-fish. We found about 20. Do you know why there are so many dead jelly fish lately?

We found 13 pieces of plastic such as: ear plugs, foam, a fire work top, yellow tape and more. We also found some metal, and paper.

We found a couple sea stars. One was eating a barnacle. We saw it crushing the barnacle it with its tubed feet.

One of the best parts was we found an orange mussel was on one of the pilings. That was really beautiful.

Thank you for looking at out blog. See you later!

Holding a Seastar

Seastar Feeding on Barnacle

Curly Seastar

Biggest Jellyfish We Found

Year-Long Study Questions

Here are our year-long scientific study questions:

1. Which beach and intertidal zone has more plastic—the Gustavus Dock beach and intertidal zone or the Bartlett Cove beach and intertidal zone?
2. Which beach and intertidal zone has more sound—the Gustavus Dock beach and intertidal zone or the Bartlett Cove beach and intertidal zones? Different sounds?
3. Are there more living things on the beach and intertidal zones in Gustavus or Bartlett Cove?

A Whelk From the Beach by the Gustavus Dock

It's a mottled sea star!

It's a blenny!

A Dead Sea Urchin

Do you know what this is?

Plastic in Barttlet Cove

Hi, we're back! We found 4 pieces of plastic in Barttlet Cove on Thursday, Oct.28, 2010. The pieces of plastic that we fond were a large piece of sheet plastic, a kit kat wraper, a ziploc bag, and a blue plug.

Our Field Report

On October 28, 2010, our class went to Bartlett Cove. We saw blennies under rocks, 21 jellyfish, sea urchins, mussels, sculpins, and a sea otter. We went with Steve along the beach. Steve taught us how different animals stick to different rocks. Steve said that sea stars have suction cups. That is how sea stars stick to rocks. Then Steve said mussels have threads to stick to rocks.

Thank you Steve