Sandy Bottom

One day this past week, Adam's science class went on a field trip to Sandy Bottom to study the water there.  He is still at the age that he enjoys me going on the field trips as well, so I joined them.

They were looking to see how clear the water was.  They filled a really tall tube with water and then drained the water until they could see the marking on the bottom of the tube. 

Here, Adam is draining the water.  He is waiting for the girl to say that she can see the marking, then he would turn off the drain tube.

They wanted to see the velocity of the water.  The kids got a partner, then they each went to their own line.  One line got a ping pong ball, they released the ball and timed how long it took to get to the partner.

Adam is listening to instructions, he is in the ping pong release side.

Another station was to find macroinvertabrates. 2 kids are are working up the bottom of the stream.  2 kids are holding the net, catching what the others have worked up.

Then they carry the net out of the water, and look too see what they caught.

I love this picture of all the kids hunkered over the net, looking to see what critters they caught.

Then they went back in the water, and switched places.

Adam was excited to be a "dancer" and work up the bottom.

Since I know that this phase of Adam will come to end at some point (probably sooner rather than later)...

I had to get a picture of Adam and myself on this trip.