Thursday, May 22, 2014
JFK library and freedom trail
We spent our morning on a tour of the JFK Library museum. In the museum, we saw many exhibits featuring video clips of several of Kennedy's speeches and interviews. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable about all of the history preserved in the museum, and this made for a very rich and thorough tour. After the tour, we ate a picnic lunch outside the library, then headed into the city of Boston for the rest of the day.
After the JFK Library, we began our walk down the Freedom Trail. Everyone was engaged and interested for pretty much the whole time. Starting at the Boston Commons, the oldest public park in America, our fabulous tour guide asked us questions and interacted with us, making the tour a conversation rather than a lecture. We hiked through the streets of Boston, laughing and learning at the same time; all in all the day was great.
After the freedom trail we went to Quincy Market for dinner (and shopping). Here we had the opportunity to be independent. We got to go through Quincy Market by ourselves, well, with a partner, but we had the responsibility to take care of our money, keep track of where we were, and be with our partner. Overall, we had a great time trying all different kinds of food and shopping.
Izzy, Caroline and Veronica
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Salem and plimoth
It turns out that we didn't already cover everything there is to know about the Salem witch Trials in the past months! Yesterday morning, we went to Salem, Massachusetts. We started at the Salem Witch Museum, where we saw an interesting animatronic presentation of the Salem Witch Trials. We also went on a museum tour, where we learned about the history of the Witch, from the Celtic pagans to modern Wiccians. We also went on a trolley tour of Salem, seeing historic sights like the houses of colonial officials, the House of Seven Gables, the old burial ground where many characters we studied and played in the Crucible are buried and the beautiful but historic beach front. Later, we went to the Witch House, a historic house with period furniture that is set up to look like a Salem house would have been in the 17th century.
We also got to go to the Plimoth Plantation. First we got to see a short orientation video. Next, we got to go in a Wampanoag shelter that had some actual modern day Native Americans in it. It was interesting hearing from a Wampanoag modern perspective. We also went to the 17th century village where we met many pilgrims in character (accents included). All in all, we had a busy, but fun, day.
Aidan L. And Connor C.
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Boston Day 2-Wellfleet Audubon
This morning we went on a beach and relaxed there for a while, enjoyed the sun and the vast miles of beach. Continuing our experience, we headed on our way to the Wellfleet Audubon. The first part of the activities there were completing community service for one of their most popular trails. This involved shoveling wood chips onto the trails. It was a lot of work! The importance of this is , since naturally the trails are completely made of sand the visitors walking on the trails would cause erosion which would ruin the trails. Wood chips almost completely diminish this problem. The second part of our activities was dissecting and learning about squids and Mullusks. We participated in a squid dissection, which was somewhat gross, but pretty cool! Then we got to take a tour of the salt marsh. We waded through the water to get to the beach where we got to see a few people tagging horseshoe crabs; some of even got to catch the crabs with our bare hands ;-) we then got back on the bus to come to our hotel (2 hrs) but it was definitely worth it. We had a great time and we're looking forward to three more days of fun!
Submitted by Sophie Claire Jora and Vama
Dissecting squid and hike to the salt marsh
Students learned about the parts of the squid and the importance of the salt marsh as a natural barrier to the ocean. It filters the water and can absorb water from storm surges.
Mass Audubon Wellfleet
This morning we toured the Mass Audubon Nature Center and learned what makes a LEED platinum building (Also used the composting toilets!)
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Boat ride and back to the lab
This is information about the automated and remote control underwater vehicles. They have used these types of vehicles to find plane wreckage. 
Exploring the coastal and tidal zone
Rob Reynolds the President and founder of zephyr marine led the exploration
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