Field Day

Last Friday we went to many different places that we are going to be learning more about in this PBL class. The first place that we went too was the visitor center, I got some really good prickly pear trail mix from the gift shop. WE went out back of the visitor center, we talked a lot about the birds and how they do their surveys of how many birds are in the one area. The place that I found pretty cool was when we were at the dam outlook and Joel was talking about how it was made. It was interesting that they built the dam in layers and took rock samples from the earth to see if it was safe to build on. The sad part was the rebuild of the dam the crane went into the water and that person died working on the dam. I also really liked looking at the bald eagle nest and how they switch off was really cool to see. the view at the bald eagle's nest was really pretty looking out at the lake. When we were at the lake part that was only 50% full I picked up some shells that I thought was pretty cool because we are not by an ocean or a sea.
            One of the subjects that I would like to look into more would be the engineering side of things. For example, how they built the houses and how they did their measurements to know how big to make them. The engineering of how the dam was built was pretty cool too that he also got to blow things up. The way that the people built their water canals, houses, hunting trails, and much more is really interesting. What is even more interesting is that they did not have a letter alphabet or numbers so they pretty much did that without writing anything down that must have been tricky.