Oregon was an amazing trip and a great experience for me. We got to visit some amazing places such as canon beach, fort Stevens, and the Hatfield Marine Science centre.
It was a good time with good people, delicious food, beautiful sites, and fun activities.
In Oregon, it wasn’t just a pleasure trip, we did have things to work on such as our oregon book. This book was basically a recap of our whole trip, with a page for every activity that we did and place that we went to. The assignment was to fill out this work book with segments of text explaining the various things asked of you, and to add pictures and really make it your own. It seems easy, but their was a lot of hard work and effort put into this book in order to really make it pretty and unique. Here is the link to my book so that you can see it for yourself!
Oregon book link
If I were to create another Oregon book, some things that I would do differently would be to add some extra pages at the end, and to add some more detail to my paragraphs.
The next piece of work that I was assigned in Oregon, was my Oregon advertisements. The assignment was to create three individual ads. The criteria for each advertisement is in the photo below
The first ad that I created was my business advertisement. When making this ad, me and my group had to use our advertising skills to think of some key questions to put in a survey. We would then use these questions to survey the business chosen for us by the teachers. The name of business was the South beach fish company, and they were a fish and chips place. The fish and chips there were the best I had ever had. After the interview, we took our information, combined with the best photos that we took of the business, and from that, create our ads. Although we created and interviewed the business as a group, the ads were made individually. Below is a recording of when we had the interview, so you can see what the questions were that we asked. Also, beside that is the final draft of the advertisement itself. These are the links to the people that were in my group
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My second advertisement was my tourist ad. In this ad, my teachers assigned me a place that we would go to in Oregon, and I was to create an ad about it. This ad was supposed to persuade people to visit that place. The site that I was assigned was called Fort Stevens (non-historic). It was beautiful their and I took a whole bunch of photos for both my ad, and so that I could remember what a great time I had when I visited Oregon. When I went, the ocean was filled with huge waves and the sun was ever so slightly peeking through the big white clouds above. I tried to make my ad reflect all the beauty that I saw their and persuade people that they just needed to go and visit Fort Stevens. Below is a picture of my finished copy of my tourist advertisement.
My final advertisement was my Tsunami ad. We had recently talked about natural disasters in school, so it seemed logical to do and advertisement on tsunamis in Oregon, a tsunami prone area. When finding a photo for my tsunami ad, it was difficult because there was no specific place that I was advertising. Instead I had to take pictures of anything even remotely tsunami related, in hopes of making it work. In the end it all worked out because I found a tsunami precaution sign, but if not for that, I would have been out of luck. The picture Below is the finished product of my tsunami advertisement. On the ad I asked the question, do you know what to do? I did this to reel people and make it so that they would really remember this ad and the message behind it.
With all of these projects, I learned a lot of new things, as well as reflected on past learning experiences. I learned quite a bit about tsunamis when working on my tsunami ad, such as how their are many routs to get to higher ground in case of one, because Oregon is a tsunami prone area. With my tourist advertisement I learned that Fort Stephens contains a jetty, which blocks the waves from the open ocean and keeps unexposed waters more calm. I learned from my business advertisement that the South beach fish company only uses only hook and line caught fish that is fresh and non-farmed.
The last thing I did in Oregon was not a project, it was a field study. This field study was at the Hatfield Marine science centre. We did three main things on this field study. The first thing was a really cool activity where we used these cool things called shrimp slurpers. We went out on the beach to put them over the holes that you usually see in the sand, and in those holes contained a type of shrimp called a Ghost shrimp . We then took these ghost shrimp back to the science lab for analysis and found out that many of them had a parasite. The parasite feeds off of the shrimp and leaves the shrimp weak and malnourished. Because of this, the shrimp only sticks to its basic needs and doesn’t have time for things like reproduction. This is bad because then, the population of Ghost shrimp massively decrease. We found out the size, gender and weather or not each shrimp had a parasite. It was fun and I learned a lot.
The next thing we did in this field study was an experiment with crabs . We had to follow the criteria. The criteria was to think of what would effect your crab in ether a good or a bad way and then make a question out of it. An example could be something along the lines of this. If a crab has long legs, does that make it go faster? Using the materials provided, me and the rest of my group built a race track, got some crabs, and tested our theory about four times with multiple different crabs. We recorded our final results and from that, saw if our theory was correct and from what I could tell with our info, we were correct. I learned whole bunch in this little project, like the different types of crabs, red crabs and green crabs.
The last field study projects was our R.O.V project where we built under water drones out of pvp pipes and mini engines with a magnet attached to it. Once me and my group created the frame, added the engines, and the magnet, we added some small floaters onto it just so that it didn’t sink. Then we tested out the controls and battled to see who could pick up the most metal with the magnet in a race against the other teams. It was really fun and I learned a lot about under water drones and how they were used to scope out shipwrecks. It was really fun. IMG_1740-29jxivn
Oregon was an amazing adventure. I learned a lot, and most importantly, had fun.