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=__Welcome to the Amigos School Field Study in Earth Science Page!__= This Wiki is was composed by all of the 7th and 8th graders at the school. We have been studying the Earth this third of the school year. To really understand the processes that have made our land, we had to go out there and see it for ourselves. We have been to many places.

We have been to the Boston Harbor Islands created by glaciers during the Iast Ice Ages. We have observed evidence of erosion from wind, waves, water and from man.

We have been to the Arnold Arboretum, where we have observed evidence of glaciers (drumlins & erratics) and we have seen evidence of nearby ancient volcanoes! There is so much puddingstone there; it would be hard to miss.

We went to Fresh Pond and studied further evidence of glaciers and made models of what happens when the glaciers started to melt. We worked at the Maynard Ecology Center while we were there.

We were led into the Middlesex Fells by an engineer by trade, geologist by leisure, Mr. Ed Mykowski. We observed evidence of glaciers, (again) and we saw lots of evidence of ancient volcanoes. We had lunch sitting on Pre-Cambrian Igneous Rocks!

We visited the Harvard Museum of Natural History to partake in two labs (archeology & fossils from "New England's Prehistoric Past"); we visited and studied exhibits from prehistoric reptiles and amphibians, to meteorites and minerals.

We even had a guest speaker, a geologist from MIT, speak to us about the formation the solar system and the age of the earth.

__We are grateful for the following people that helped us on our journeys!__
Marianne Dunne from Cambridge Science Department Deyne Meadow from Cambridge Science Department and her husband at HMNH Susan Agger from Maynard Ecology Center Capt. Weinstein from the Island Alliance Rangers Kelly Fellner, Ranger Jessica, from Boston Harbor Islands Ed Mykowski & Michael Arnott from Friends of Middlesex Fells Terry Blackburn from MIT