Exploring+Deer+Island+Meadow

I am Maria one of the members of a 6th grade class in the [|Amigos School] (that is a link to the amigos school page). We speak Spanish and ingles (English). Every one of us is a scientist. We have gone on wonderful fieldtrips to improve our skills and learn more about eco-systems all around us. One of the fieldtrips we went on was to Deer Island. There are two eco-systems there, one of them was a rocky shore. The one I chose was a meadow.

We got to Deer Island ([|http://www.nps.gov/boha)] by bus and found a beautiful landscape. It was a brisk sunny day and the wind whipped our faces. Soon we started our way up the hill. Deer Island is a peninsula but is called an “Island” because it used to be one; it got blown into the coast by a hurricane in 1938. It is located in Boston Harbor to Winthrop. The meadow there has a sandy loam (the soil is sandy). It is a wet meadow, because it is on the edge of a wetland (the sea). While we went up and down the hill we wrote down all that we saw: producers, consumers and decomposers as biotic (living) organisms. Natural and man- made for abiotic (non-living) things. We used informational books to identify anything we found.

In the meadow of Deer Island there are many living organisms. We classified them by how they got their energy(here are a energy pryramid and web). There are 3 groups, producers, consumers, and decomposers. Producers produce their energy. They take the sun energy and turn it into food energy called glucose, which is a type of sugar. Some examples of producers in the meadow we visited are Thistles, Daises and Milkweed. Consumers consume other organisms to get their energy. There are three types of consumers. Primary consumers eat producers. They are also known as herbivores. Here are some examples, Hummingbird, rabbits and cricket. Secondary consumers, or omnivores, they eat producers and consumers. Tertiary consumers eat only other consumers; they are carnivores. Here is one of each that lives in the meadow, woolly caterpillar, skunk and owls. Decomposers, decompose dead organisms, producers and consumers. Some examples from the meadow are lichen, mold and earthworms. At Deer Island we had a wonderful time. We learned so much. We found a dying praying mantis. We wanted to take it to school. Our teacher told us not because their still was energy and a decomposer was going to need it. The discovery of any new organisms caught people’s attention. When I first got there I saw grass. When I left I had realized that every plant in the field had a name and there were many more than just “grass”. So next time you’re in any eco-system discover, explore, and remember there’s more than what you see at first glance. And it is all important to keep life going.

Visit my wiki on the history of Georges Island it's in spanish!