Naturama! - Saying Goodbye. The LAST DAY OF CAMP 2009

Nick & Sama leaving their handprints on the ENC's new tapestry.

Kathy, Valerie & Lauren serving up mud, water, plants, worms and plankton for their "Edible Wetlands" on Naturama Day.

having an orca painted on his face.

Bob telling the campers about deep sea fishes.



Making Jellies!

Completed Jellies!

Decorating our bags donated by Mother's Market!


Eating our Edible Wetlands! YUM.




Sea Star pancakes.

Sama telling a story.

Fish, Crabs and.... Ultimate Frisbee?

Campers flocked to the field to cheer on their Junior Naturalists in an Ultimate Frisbee competition!

Every time I take a picture of Will he's 2 feet in the air! Boys won, but both teams did great. Stay tuned for next Summer for the re-match. I will be sure to recruit more Frisbee players as JNs next year!



Kate read the Yellow & Orange Group a story in our Tongva kich.



The Yellow & Orange Group also made these fabulous fish!


Valerie reads a story to the Red/Purple Group - it was definitely a story time day!


Kathy also read a story to the Red/Purple group - they're a very well read group of kids!


The Red/Purple group painted "Side II" of their t-shirts - the salt water side.

My money is on Keeley becoming an artist one day.


The Turquoise & Burgundy group made sharks out of clay.

Oh those colorful, crazy ENC Campers!

Green & Blue learned about the rain forest and created rain sticks.


Red & Purple played a game to learn about biomagnification. Some of the students were worms, and they ate "plankton." Some of the students were fish and ate worms, and one of the students was an osprey and ate the fish. Once the game was over students discovered that some of the plankton had been contaminated by DDT, and so the poison had moved up the food chain (biomagnification).

The osprey is eating the fish.

The worms are eating plankton.




The Black & White group played a game to learn how energy is transferred up the food chain. These cups represent the producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and top consumers. The water represents energy. All of the cups but the top consumer cups had holes at the bottom. Students learned that each time energy is transferred up the food chain, 90% of it is lost.





Tie Dye contest nominees (above) and the winner (below).


And the red and purple groups learned about the estuary, in a fantastic song that Valerie taught them!

Field Trip to the Ocean Institute!

Our Ocean Institute Naturalist helps us measure the juvenile Gray Whale's length.



Baleen.

Using combs to simulate baleen.

Anther Ocean Institute Naturalist shows us some marine mammal bones. Here she is holding a dolphin skull.


Searching for intertidal animals in the harbor rocks.

Listening to a story about the sea.

This Naturalist showed us the length of a squid using the rope!