Team One Field Journal
 

Nadeem

Blake

Austin

Cassie

Allie

Keanna

Note: In addition to recording their daily activities, students were asked to note each day the coolest thing they saw or did, the funniest thing, the most challenging thing they experienced, their personal top excuses, and the lessons they learned that day.*

Sunday, June 10, 2007

On our canoeing trip today Nadeem and Blake’s canoe tipped over.  Cassie and Allie saw a turtle and a lot of bugs.  We all agree that it was tiring, hot, challenging, and very buggy.  We all saw wildlife, turtles, ducklings, dragonflies, and many, many mosquitoes.  Austin’s canoe also tipped over.  Austin also saw some purple flowers that he believes are called purple hearts.

Keanna and Sydney on the Black River.

Nadeem:

• Coolest thing was seeing a garter snake eat a catfish
• Funniest thing was flipping the canoe
• Most challenging thing was not getting mad when we kept flipping and getting wet
• My top excuses
  • I’m tired
  • I’m too wet
  • I got a scratch
• Lesson learned: keep your promises and follow your dreams

Blake:

• Coolest thing was flipping
• Funniest thing was flipping again for the same reason
• Most challenging was communicating with my partner
• My top excuses today:
  • They never said we couldn’t

Austin:

• Coolest thing was canoeing
• Funniest thing was tipping
• Most challenging thing was up righting tipped canoes
• Lesson learned: be yourself/share feelings
• Excuses for today:
  • I weigh too much
  • I’m too lazy
  • I don’t feel like it

Cassie:

• The coolest things I saw while we were canoeing were a turtle.  It was soaking in the sun on top of a log on the side of the river
• The funniest thing I saw was Blake and Nadeem trying to drain their canoe of water after the flipped.
• The most challenging thing I think that we had to do was steer going upstream
• Excuses for today:
  • I’m too short
• Lesson learned: with passion and motivation you can to anything

Allie:

• The biggest challenge was killing all of the spiders eating lunch and rowing at the same time
• The funniest thing was seeing Blake and Nadeem try to flip back over their canoe
• The coolest thing as waving to the people in the houses by the lake
• My excuses for the day:
  • I’m too tired to row
  • My arms hurt
  • I have athletic asthma
  • I’m not as strong as you
  • You’re older than me
• Lesson learned: take and use other people’s advice and to never give up

Keanna:

• Coolest thing was going canoeing, and seeing the house along the water
• Funniest thing that happened was looking at the houses and falling in
• Biggest challenge was paddling
• My excuses:
  • My arms hurt
  • I’ve never gone before
  • I’m tired

Monday, June 11

Allie, Cassie, and Keanna washed and dried dishes.  After we were done at camp we drove to the shipwreck.  We divided the shipwreck into sections for each team to map; we got the last 25 feet.  We started to map the rows of pegs and planks.  We thought that today was going to be harder than the following days because we had to figure out what to do.  We also thought that it was cold and windy.

Team 1 working on the Joseph S. Fay.

Tuesday, June 12

Today we headed off to 40 Mile Point at 8:33 am.  When we got there we headed down to the wreck with the measuring tape and our graphs with the rows drawn.

            We set up our graphs with planks and rows on the same graph.  To make it easy to read we used two separate pieces of graph paper.  To make sure that we had the same amount of pegs, frames, keys, and trunnels we had Blake, Nadeem, and Keanna count them and make sure the graphs have the same amount of them.  A lot of the frames looked like they had been ripped out so we marked them on the graph differently so you can see what has happened to the ship.

            The section of the shipwreck we had today looked different than it did yesterday.  It looked like a lot of the sand had been blown off by the wind, but not enough that we could see everything that we needed to so we could graph our section properly.  Because the sand blew away a lot of the sand we could see clearly how the 13^th plank turns upward into the hull.  Also, we could see more of the first plank that we thought had been torn off.

Something else we saw today, that we didn’t see yesterday, was a supporting frame on the right side of column 0, the last column of the shipwreck on the right.  We thought this was interesting because it shows us, even more that this really used to be a ship and that it’s not just a piece of wood.

Our graphs are almost completely done.  All we have left to do tomorrow is graph where the keys are.

After we ate lunch the MUCC came to show us different species of prey that live in Michigan.  We saw five different species; red-tailed hawk, American kestrel, barn owl, bald eagle, and an Eastern screech owl.  They told us that there are 25 different species of predatory birds.  Our two favorites that they showed us are the bald eagle and the red-tailed hawk.

Nadeem:

• Coolest thing was waiting for the birds to come
• Funniest thing was Blake
• My top excuses:
  • I don’t feel good
  • I have sand in my shoes
• Lessons learned: Don’t express you opinion or you will get in trouble.

Blake:

• Coolest thing was finding new things on the ship I’d never seen before
• Funniest thing was Nadeem
• Top excuses for today:
  • I have a stomach ache
  • But why?
• Lesson learned: if we don’t put 100% into mapping this ship and difference between 100% and the places we are in will be lost and after the ship decomposes that much history will be lost

Cassie:

• Coolest thing was seeing the red-tailed hawk and the bald eagle
• The most challenging thing was removing the sand from the shipwreck so we could properly graph our section

Allie:

• The funniest thing was when Ronny, Blake and Nadeem were arguing bout politics
• The biggest challenge was staying cool and not burning
• My excuses were:
  • I’m tired
  • I’m hungry
  • I’m done
  • It’s hot
• The coolest was knowing we were almost done

Keanna:

• Funniest thing was Nadeem and Blake discussing politics
• Coolest thing was revealing that we were almost done
• My excuses:
  • I’m tired
  • I’m sick
  • I’m done
• Most challenging was staying focused

Wednesday, June 13

Today we had a small assembly before we left to go back to the Joseph Fay.  At first we were told that we would not be returning to the shipwreck until tomorrow.  But, after we went over our data with Sheli and compiled our information.  Afterwards Sheli decided to give us some slack and let us go back and recount data.

The faculty: Ms. Devin, Ms. Anne, Dr. Sheli and Ms. McAllister.

When we got there we noticed that it was very hot and the sun was beating down.  We recounted the large, small, and total number of pegs and regraphed all of the columns.  Cassie took control and got everything into order.  We divided the duties between five of us (Cassie, Allie, Austin, Blake, and Nadeem) while Keanna dug to find the thickness of the frames and planks.  We used a scale of three square of graph paper equal to one foot.

We ate lunch on the beach as we did Monday.  After lunch we drove to a wetlands facility and got a tour on the boardwalks.

We then went to a quarry and searched for fossils and learned about the nearby area.

Happily we all then piled into the vans to come back to camp and change into bathing suits.  We went swimming in Ocqueoc Waterfall and ate a delicious dinner.  It was in all a very fun day.

Nadeem:

• Coolest thing was completing a graph
• Funniest thing was dressing up like terrorists
• My top excuses:
  • I’ve had enough
  • I’m tired
• Lesson learned: don’t let small things effect you

Blake:

• Coolest thing was seeing the falls
• Funniest thing was Nadeem
• My excuses for today:
  • I’m tired
  • I’m sick
• Lessons learned: think before you act and also think before you lead.

Cassie:

• Coolest thing was swimming in the waterfall
• Funniest thing was getting left behind for the waterfall
• Most challenging thing was organizing my group

Allie:

• The funniest thing was when Kelsie’s lollipop got stuck in my hair
• The coolest thing was learning more about Pride and Prejudice
• The most challenging was staying awake
• My excuses for today:
  • I’m bored
  • I’m tired
  • I’m hungry

Thursday, June 14

We had an early start getting up at 6:30 and leaving at 7:15.  We drove for an hour to Mackinac Island.  Our first attraction seen was Fort Mackinaw.  There were 50 boy scouts there to raise flags and watch over the fort.  The activities there included the rifle shouting along with the cannon shooting.  Then we split up for two hours to see the shops.

Later we drove back to camp to eat dinner at 5:00 pm.  Then we left to go to the Maritime Museum.  There we listened to a presentation about the restoration and preservation of the USS Monitor, which was one of the first ironclad warships of the Civil War.  The Monitor was the first ship to use a turret for guns instead of fitted cannons.

Nadeem:

• Coolest thing was seeing the rifles fired
• Funniest thing was the boy scouts
• My top excuses:
  • I’m tired
  • It’s not my job
• Lesson learned: Civil War history

Blake:

• Coolest thing was Mackinac Island
• Funniest thing was Nadeem in the haunted house
• My excuses for today:
  • But why
  • I don’t want to
• Lesson learned: be yourself

Cassie:

• Coolest thing was getting to shop
• Funniest thing was Nick’s fake knife
• Most challenging thing was money conservation

Allie:

• Funniest thing was the look on Anne’s face when she saw Nick’s “sword.”
• The coolest was walking around by ourselves
• The most challenging was not having too much fun or drinking too many energy drinks
• My excuses:
  • My feet hurt
  • I’m hungry
  • I want some fudge!!!

Famous fudge.

Friday, June 15

Nadeem:

• Coolest thing was the skits
• Funniest thing was me in the skits
• My excuses for the day:
  • But it’s the last day
  • Don’t you like me?
• Lesson learned: the life of a fish

The fish hatchery.

Blake:

• Coolest thing was the fish hatchery
• Funniest thing was the skits
• My excuses for today:
  • I already helped
  • But why
• Lesson learned: don’t do stuff behind people’s backs
   

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