Santa Barbara Low Tide Walk Teacher Field Reports

Santa Barbara Low Tide Walk Teacher Field Reports

D. Caesar @ VHHS: . . . . Wed, Jan 30, 3:44PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Hello Fellow Teachers, My name is Dave Caesar. I teach World History, Life Skills, English, and Math to Special Education students at VERDUGO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL, (click button button School’s home page) where I am also a digital high school Tech Coach. This is my first year to Camp Internet as part of the Global Garden Track, and I’ve just recently completed Day 2 of the 3- required training sessions, which took place this past weekend in Santa Barbara. Our school will be fully Internet ready as part of our DHS funding by March 2002. I’m excited about incorporating Camp Internet into my curriculum by having the students involved in observing local weather conditions, charting and gathering data of interesting things around campus and the community with the GPS, and a whole lot more! :>). Here is the URL to the school's home page if button above did not work. button

Joyce from Humphreys Ave. Elementary: . . . . Sun, Jan 27, 11:52AM PST (-0800 GMT)
What a beautiful day! Yesterday, I participated in the low tide walk in Santa Barbara, and the experience was even better than I thought it would be. The day was overcast but bright – not too hot – not too cold, just very comfortable and pleasant. If you see a picture of a sea star here, then I learned how to include pictures in my reports. If you don’t see a picture then I have more work to do. At any rate it was a great trip.

Mrs. Montoya, Peter Pendleton Elementary: . . . . Mon, Jan 28, 11:36PM PST (-0800 GMT)
A Tide Pool Walk…. This is a fascinating journey that I never imagined would take me to a place that would want to visit over and over again. On a cool, afternoon day, January 26, 2002, I went on a tide pool walk on a beach in Santa Barbara. The beach is called Leadbetter Beach. The beach had an unusually low tide. You could see many tide pools. Tide pools are areas on rocks by the ocean that are filled with seawater. I learned that tide pools can be small, shallow puddles found high up on the shore or huge, deep holes closer to the ocean. button Tide pools are formed when the ocean covers the beach two times a day. Some of the plants and animals that live close to the ocean are covered when the tide washes over them. They have to be able to survive in both wet and dry conditions. When the tides come in, they bring fresh oxygen and food to plants and animals such as crabs. Between tides, some of the smaller pools become too warm and begin to dry up. Many of the animals hide under cool, damp rocks and moist seaweeds so that their bodies do not dry out before the tide comes in again. Tide pools are exciting places! I saw several creatures there. I really enjoyed seeing the sea anemones. These were really beautiful!! I think that they were my favorite too.

David Caesar, Teacher, Verdugo Hills H. S. : . . . . Wed, Jan 30, 10:23AM PST (-0800 GMT)
D. Caesar, Verdugo Hills High School- LAUSD Last Saturday, January 26, my family and two other families traveled from Valencia, CA to Ledbetter State Beach in Santa Barbara, CA. to participate in a Tide Pool Walk. Boy, what a wonderful time we all had!!! (N: 34.40259 / W: 119.69840; Elev. 6ft.) Once at the beach, we met with Carl (our CI Trainer) and went through a brief training session on the GPS unit. After our GPS training, we met our tour guide Lori Bursek from the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, who gave us a brief history lesson and other tidbits of information about the area we were about to explore. We then set off on our hunt for various tide pool “critters” (both plant and animal) charting our exact latitudinal /longitudinal locations along the way with our GPS’s in hand, and recorded our observations. As we excitedly trekked along the way like a swarm of honey bees trying to keep up with Lori (our “Queen Bee” of information) listening, writing, recording, and toting various “stuff”, my family and I spotted a school of bottle-nosed dolphins just off the shore (N: 34.40070 / W: 119.70078) Our next journal entry was made at (N: 34.39947 / W: 119.70219) when my youngest daughter Lauren was the first child to find a pair of crabs located under a shelf of rock in the lower inter-tidal area where other small to medium size plants and animals can be found such as kelp, sea anemones, and eel grass. More to follow……

Ms. Spencer: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:48AM PST (-0800 GMT)
This is a picture taken at the low tide field trip in Santa Barbara.

Ms.Carroll-Nightingale: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:48AM PST (-0800 GMT)
This is a picture of the green algae on our Low tide walk- Santa Barbara.

Ms. Carroll-Nightingale: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 2:43PM PST (-0800 GMT)
On January 26, five teachers from Nightingale Middle School went on a field trip with others of our group of Camp Internet people.We went to Santa Barbara and visited the tidepools. It was a low tide, and although the tide was really low, we found that there were no echinoderms at all. The tidepools were somewhat linear instead of the round type. We did see chitons, limpets, anemones, olive snails, eelgrass, kelp, and finally, a starfish and a mermaid's purse, which our guide said was from a Swell Shark. The cliffs had caves that came right down to the sand's edge. We marked some of the things we saw with our GPS instruments, which we still need practice using comfortably. The weather was mild with a cool breeze.We now have a fieldtrip planned with our classes to a local reserve near downtown L.A. where we will observe urban nature.

Mrs. Cohen: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 2:52PM PST (-0800 GMT)
I went on the low tide walk in Santa Barbara and I found a starfish and a crab.