Field Trip
by Robyn
A few days ago we went to
Chittinden .I learned how to measure trees. First we take
a ruler and then you put it up to the tree. Then you see
what it says then you pot your finger were the end of the
ruler is. I learned how to find B and A soil. First you
take an auger to get the soil. It was hard to put the
auger in to the soil. You have to use your left hand to
push down.
We also learned how to see
what type A and B soil is. First we cleaned our
instruments. We listened to the teacher. We followed her
instructions to figure out our soil samples ph and how
much nitrogen. Our soil had a ph of eight. It was acid.
Our soil needed two 90-nitrogen level. Then we went back
on the bus. And on the way back to school we wrote about
what we did.
Cedar
Trees
by Olivia
We went on a field trip.
The place we went was called Chittenden. We learned about
cedar trees. Animals help trees and cedar trees help
animals.
Cedar trees give a lot of
shelter. When enough snow piles up on the trees, the snow
drops making a bank so no more snow can get in to the
space between the snow and the trunk of the tree. They
provide a very good shelter from bad weather. They also
provide a good running space for a verity of animals.
Cedar trees also help animals by giving them leaves to
eat and grass too.
The way animals help trees
is by fertzling them. Fertlizeaction helps trees because
it seeps into the ground and the tree eats the nuerince
out of the waste from the deer. Mice, deer, wolves,
coyotes and other animals help out a lot to the trees.
The trees need the animals so they can get food.
Animals are very important
to trees. Trees are very important to animals. Animals
give trees food. Trees give animals shelter and running
space and food.
My
class Field Trip To Chittenden
by Andria
November 1st
Thursday my class went on a field trip to Chittenden for
a science topic. Our topic is about trees.
When we got there we were
put in groups. In my group were Lucas, Ryan and Kaylyn.
We went outside and a lady showed us how to measure trees
and get samples of the soil. We measured 20 Ponderosa
trees. We got two samples of soil. The dark top layer and
the light bottom layer. You get samples of the soil with
an auger.
Later we typed our
information on ponderosa trees. We did chemistry on our
soil samples. First you mix the dark soil with nitrogen.
Shake it up in a tube and compare the results to a chart.
You do the same thing with the light soil but you mix the
soil with lime.
I think our trip was cool.
I liked the chemistry part. I hope we get to go again.
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Field
Trip
by Sarina
Today I went to Chittinden
and we did lots of things. I will talk about them in this
report.
You could tell the
difference between the jack pine and the ponderosa pine
because the jack pine has lighter pine needles and the
ponderosa pine has darker pine needles.
The cedar tree helps deer
because it gives them shelter from stormy or snowy
weather. And the deer helps the tree because it
fertilizes it. So they have like a relationship.
I also learned that the
prairie caught on fire. So most of the plants turned the
color brown or tan but some even stayed green. There are
also 52 species of grass there.
And we got B and A soil.
The A sample was darker and the B sample was lighter. We
kept them later for chemistry. So we put them each in a
separate cups.
Then we got test tubes and
put some potash or lime in them with some soil. And we
saw what color it made. Our group made the color goldish
yellowish color. Then we wrote what percent the color was
worth. Ours was worth 8ph and the other one was 6ph.
We also want on some
computers. We went in a program called Excel. We made bar
graphs out of what number of what row it was in and how
tall it was. Then we saved it on the desktop. And we went
on the Internet and went in to a place called under
ground exploring or something else.
Then we had to go and on
the way back to school we wrote in our journals.
CHITTENDEN
by Maria
On November 1, 2001 the
class and I went to a science field trip to Chittenden.
We had so much fun there. We measured pine trees. We
gather some dirt and we did some tests on it. I am going
to Tell you what we did word by word.
First we measured some pine
trees with a foot ruler. We measured each tree the way we
measured is by putting the ruler in the site of the tree
if the tree was to big we had to put are finger nail in
the end of the ruler. Then we got the ruler to the 0
where we started again to measure. Then we put the high
and the number of the tree and we kept on going to the
other trees.
After we measured the trees
we got dirt out of the ground and we had to have to kinds
of dirt. First we got the black one out then we kept
putting the agar in til we got the Iron dirt. Then after
we got bout of the dirt out we put them in some plastic
cups.
Then we went inside to do
the data some of use went. The groups 1-5 where doing in
the experiment. The groups 6-10 were in the computer lab.
Doing the data putting each number in the order that you
went and putting the high of the trees down.
At last we changed and the
groups that were in the computer went to do the testing
in the tubes. The people that were doing the test went to
the computer and did the data. We where doing the test on
the dirt and we checked to see what color of liquid we
got.
The
Field Trip
by Ryan M.
I got to us the auger for
the group. First you had to have your elbows out. Then
you push down and twist it while pushing.
We put the dirt in the cup.
We put it in the hole and twisted it again. Then we got
are B line. Then we put that in the cup.
That was it.
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