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Up a Creek

by Max :: Tuesday October 18, 2005

Every Wednesday morning I find myself faced with five straight periods of class until school gets out at 12:40, but last week I started my normally tedious Wednesday schedule with a special field trip.

My Wednesdays usually begin with an hour-and-a-half Environmental Science lab period, but instead of working in the classroom this time, we all piled into two suburbans and drove down the road to Reeves Creek for a firsthand look at the aquatic ecology our teacher, Mr. Pidduck, had recently introduced. We split into groups of three and began to explore the creek, searching for insects with nets in hand. My partners, Hannah and Alex, and I ventured further up the creek after a while where we found an abundance of interesting water creatures such as the Giant Water Bug and Dragonfly Nymph.

After lifting up rocks and sifting through the streambed for about 30 minutes, my team brought our findings ashore and began to identify them beside the road. Using information provided by Mr. Pidduck, we found that our nets yielded 11 different organisms of varying sizes and characteristics and 43 bugs in total. Not bad for a few amateurs!

Sadly, we all had a third period class to get to, so the trip could not last forever. Our class’ excursion to Reeves Creek definitely stands alone as the funnest class I’ve had all semester. Not only was it a relief from the monotony of a brutal Wednesday schedule, but I learned a whole lot as well.

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