Catharine Blaine – October 2015
Trip Day: Day 1
Location: Anacortes & San Juan Is
Name(s): Catharine Blaine School
School/Grade: 8th grade
Afternoon/Evening Report
These reports comes to you in two formats and straight from the thoughts of the students onboard each vessel. One was relayed as a text document, which comes from the S/V Carlyn student crew, and the other was sent as a picture file, which comes from the student crew aboard the S/V Orion. The picture file may be a bit more difficult to read, but the handwritten words are worth the read.
another daily report for Day 1
Morning thoughts
The adventure begins. The students arrived at the Cap Sante marina in the morning
Carlyn student crew
and were split into their respective boat groups. One group, led by Mr Self, would be aboard the S/V Carlyn. The other group, led by Ms. Anderson, would be sailing aboard the S/V Orion.
Packing gear down the dock
Each boat group came together first thing in the morning to finish developing their
Forming the hypothesis
science question, or hypothesis, which they had been pondering since late last week after classroom visits with other of the Salish staff.
Over the next four days they will be collecting information to test their hypothesis using the science equipment aboard the vessels, and learning the techniques to navigation and sailing .
Sailing under watchful eyes