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[|this website of movies]Mz.spongeboblover Shore Tide Pool 1/21/10 = = =INTRODUCTION=

Hello! My name is “Mz.spongeboblover” at the [|Amigos School] in Cambridge, Massachusetts. My classmates and I have been to numerous Ecosystems in the Boston area.We investigated each spot very carefully. We drew pictures of biotic organisms. Our whole class took samples including water samples. We also took the air and water temperature.

=LOCATION= On our way to Deer Island everyone was so excited, screaming in exhilaration waiting for the right time to burst out “ we’re here!” Once we got to Deer Island everyone was silent. Seems like there were no emotions on their faces except for how are we going to get down these boulders. All I could hear were the waves crashing on shore like a crowd of people screaming someone’s name so loud all you could hear was a very loud mumble. But the sun was firing up as a very cool breeze sweeping you away like a boy on the first day. It was 15 degrees Celsius outside. The water temperature was 14 degrees Celsius and 57 degrees Fahrenheit. The water pH was 7.5, the turbidity was 20 JTU. We used water testers to help us through the way and help us find out. We also drew pictures of consumers, producers, and decomposers.

=BIOTIC LIFE= Deer Island isn’t an island it used to be an island long ago but now it’s a part of [|Boston] as a peninsula. As the seagulls were hovering over us looking for food we were all over near the rocks gazing at the creatures we never even knew were there. Crack, pop, oops! Was that a [|periwinkle snail]? This organism needs to be adapted to the cold air and water. Periwinkle snails are primary consumers that have slimy bodies and hard shells. Lets lift up a rock I wonder what could be under there. (Gasp) wow! A momma crab and her baby crabs following behind. These are called Asian shore crabs this organism is a secondary consumer also known as an omnivore. With the seagulls still watching our every move seagulls are also secondary consumers. The only tertiary consumers we saw were each other. One student stepped on a decomposer that has a wiggly body and a hard outer shell just like a snail. Can you guess who it is? A mussel! This organism gets its energy from decomposing insects and plants. Bacteria are also a decomposer but you can’t see bacteria so I don’t think I can explain it very well. The third decomposer is a clam. Clams also wear shells and they hid from us like they were tomatoes and we were ketchup makers and we were coming after them. But it wasn’t so hard to find the producers including the channeled rack the kelp and the knotted rack. The kelp was as flat as pepperoni and it had cavities like a sponge. The channeled rack was swiftly flying through the water and so was the knotted rack tied on to each other. The energy pyramid works for this ecosystem because there are more producers then consumers since so many consumers eat producers it works out very well.

=SUMMARY= At Deer Island we learned all sorts of things like how to go to the beach and not go into the water but more seriously we learned about tertiary secondary and primary consumers decomposers and producers. We tested the water to make sure it was clean and not cloudy. We investigated but we also had a lot of fun. Its like a new skill to have we can play but we also needed. When I saw everyone following the rules I knew they could do it because i've seen them all work hard before. I really love this field trip because it was fun and we learned a lot and it gave us power. We knew if we didn’t step up and do or work it would come out on us. It would either effect our grade or we just wouldn’t learn anything we wouldn’t know what to write about on our wiki but i'm very proud of the sixth grade. Even though we were workaholics when we got to Deer Island it paid of because we still got to have fun in the end. *Workaholics: Adj.People that are addicted or cannot stop working

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