What a wonderful trip!
Thank you to all of the parents that joined us on our trip and drove us to and from Mt. Saint Helen's!
3rd and 4th graders at Coldwater Lake getting ready to head out on the trail and work on a lesson about habitat near a volcano. We looked at landforms, water changes, plants, animals and how they all were changed by the eruption of Mt. Saint Helen's. Coldwater Lake before the eruption was a creek and became a lake and a kind of dam after the melt water came down during the eruption. Students practiced their climbing skills to get on top of this building (it is built into the side of a hill, but they all thought that it was great)!
Mt Saint Helen's as the clouds cleared away, for a moment.We were very lucky to see the mountain, the lava dome inside of the crater, and the steam rising from the lava dome!
Gate to Mt Saint Helen's, rest stop for us.
Here are the 3rd and 4th graders at the Johnston Ridge observatory. Mt. Saint Helen's came out for a couple of minutes while we were taking the picture.
We went into Johnston Ridge Observatory and watched the movie "Message from the Mountain." The students had an activity to do as they looked around Johnston Ridge Observatory learning about the stages of the Mt Saint Helen's eruption.
We hiked a bit around Johnston Ridge taking in the beautiful sights and cute little squirrels and frogs.
