Field Trip to Sandy Hook

Last Thursday (May 8th), Ms. English and Mr. Haas took about 30 STEM students to Sandy Hook. I really enjoyed this trip, even though the weather was not in our favor. I liked that it was really hand-on.
When we got off the bus a woman (whose name happened to be Sandy) brought us to one of many tall, yellow buildings where she and her coworkers work and do research about Sandy Hook and areas around it.  Sandy and her coworker Mindy took us down to the beach where they introduced some types of shells and rocks to us and told us to be on the lookout to find more on the beach. We spent most of our time on the beach, measuring it and timing how fast the current was going. Ms. English handed out some plastic bags and Erica and I loaded up on unique shells and rocks, some of which I had now learned the names for. Sandy and Mindy took us back to the yellow building and we did some experiments about the make-up of different types of sand.
This was my favorite field trip so far!
Here are some bivalve shells vs. univalve shells: