James and Matty measure the length of their cord with Dore's assistance.	Jesse and Hugo measure where to place their "knots" on their cord.	Brieanna helps Gregory and Sarah measure their cord. Joey and (Kayla, unseen) work together on the same project in the background.

Brieanna, Kayla, and Joey experiment to determine the number of knots that get measured as someone moves fast or slow, like a boat in the current. Dore helps time Matty and James. Hugo and Jesse work in the background.	Jesse puts on the speed as Hugo counts how many knots unwind in 2 seconds.	Matty and James work together to determine how many knots pass as Matty dashes backwards in 2 seconds. They went the farthest and the fastest!

Students created "Wave Viewers" to learn about wave movement, troughs, crests, wave height and length, and water molecule movement.
 

Sarah and Brieanna look at their completed "Wave Viewer" to answer questions about wave movement in their handout.	Hugo displays his "Wave Viewer" for this photograph. The wavy line over his face is a piece of the "Wave Viewer" on transparent (overhead) paper.

In this experiment students are studying how wave movements effect something floating in the water.
 

Sarah (far right) creates a surface wave by tapping a pencil on the surface of the water, while Brieanna and Dore look at the effects of the wave movements on a floating piece of straw.	Students found that the straw moved slightly away from the pencil at first and then drifted back to the pencil as the wave movement was reflected off the sides of the pan back to the pencil. They decided that was why things on the surface of the water looked like they weren't really moving.

In this experiment students are trying to understand the moon's effect on the tides.
 

This group is working on cutting the materials for their model.	Gregory and Dore are happy about how their model works!

This group is is showing off their model. The red oval models the tides bulging from the gravitational pull of the moon, the circle models the earth, and a quarter (unseen) represents the moon.	This group is measuring the circle for the earth as they prepare their model.

This group is measuring materials for their model.

In addition to experiments, students are working hard on recognizing and learning about the species of coral they are responsible for learning.
 

Dore works on drawing one of the three coral species we are responsible for monitoring at Trunk Bay.	Jesse reads information about the 3 coral species so he can help his group write a description of them.	Kayla carefully sketches a picture of Elkhorn coral.

Group 1 works carefully on their sketches of Elkhorn, Staghorn and Finger corals.	Group 2 works together to sketch and write about the three species of coral we're monitoring.	Matty and Joey work hard on the details of their drawings.

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