On Wednesday, November 19, my AP Biology class and I will be working with the organization “Save the Bay” to learn about how we can prevent polluting the San Francisco bay and how we can clean up the bay. We still have to go to school, but during lunch and collaboration (basically study hall) we board a bus and drive over to the Save the Bay facility.
This is the first fieldtrip that I have taken since eighth grade, when we went to the Of Mice and Men play in Mountain View with my English class. I believe that fieldtrips are a great way to have hands on experience with material that we are learning in class and apply these concepts to every day situations. Fieldtrips are also ways to unwind after a tough unit and treat the class with a more relaxed atmosphere.
On this particular field trip with Save the Bay, I hope to get a better understanding on what is really happening to our bay and what we can do to help preserve it for future generations. I want to be able to show my kids the bay and have it be the same bay that I grew up with.
The impact on the environment that I want to make is to allow future generations to have the same animals and species that we have today. I also want there to be less endangered species. We can do so by not destroying habitats for our own selfish reasons. I love to shop and be able to carry around shopping bags with the store logo on them, but I will sacrifice that to be able to make a small impact to our environment and cut down the wastefulness of our society.
I am so pumped to go to Save the Bay and help them clean up the bay and collect qualitative and quantitative data in order to measure how we affect the bay.
Top picture citation:
“San Francisco Bay Area.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 17 Nov. 2014. Web. 17 Nov. 2014.
Second picture was taken by me.