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this trip was a lot of fun. the best thing about it was being able to learn a lot about our environment. this was a very fun and educational trip and i cant wait to go again next year.

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I am greatly disappointed that I had to miss this experience, however determining the oxygen levels seemed to be very interesting and I hope I will be able to experience this next year!!

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I had a lot of fun, and I found the observation station really interesting.  The boats weren't bobbing up and down like they would normally do, so I guess the water level left them sitting on the bottom.  Was the water level unusually low that day, or was there a reason behind it?

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I liked this trip so much that I want to come again. My favorite part was my second station, scavenging for garbage and living organisms. I learned what water chestnuts are, and I learned that there are a lot of water chestnuts in the area. They are an invasive species, and they are bad for the river because they deplete the oxygen in the Hudson. :-)

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This trip was very fun and interesting. When looking for the garbage I realized how much of it is around. The science trip at the Hudson River was very fun.

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I had an amazing time at the river and I look forward to going again next year. I was able to learn new things and have firsthand experience with the things that I already knew

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I thought that the trip was really fun and interesting. I enjoyed looking for trash and trying to figure out what kind of fish we caught. I am looking forward to going again next year.

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I loved this trip because it was a beautiful day and we did a lot of experimenting with ph levels and turbidity. I learned that sea chestnuts are an invasive species, which mean they were imported to an environment that they are not used to. My favorite station was scavenging. We got to climb on the muddy rocks!!

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I think it was a bit confusing yet fun, because we got to do experiments. But, some of the things and subjects we (7th graders) discussed, we hadn't learned about yet. One of my favorite stations was looking for garbage on the rocks because we got to climb the rocks and there was a suprising amount of garbage from the groups before us.😂😂

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It was exciting to be able to tie in our prior knowledge we learned in class, with hands-on experiments and explorations at the Hudson River.

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The trip was so much fun and a great experience to learn more about wildlife.When exploring the rocks I realized how much trash there was due to people,and I learned so much more about the environment.

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I understood the activities better and it was fun to interact with the seventh graders.

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It was fun to interact with the seventh graders and participate in the activities.

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When we were identifying the fish we used a dichotomous key. We effect the environment a lot and we use it for many things to.

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My favorite station was Station 7 where we caught fish in the seine net, and later identified them using a dichotomous key. Species like the spotted bass and the shiner showed up in majority.

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This year, we knew more about what we were doing. This helped us have a better understanding of the

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This was my second year coming and it seemed a lot different. I seemed to know a lot more about what we were doing with things like dissolved oxygen and turbidity. I had a great time learning a lot first hand.

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Being able to come back a whole year later as an eight grader was a really reflective experience. I got to use all of the knowledge I've learned in the past year and apply it to this trip  now with a full understanding of the topics which was very educational.

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Going to the Hudson River was a great experience both years that I went. It was cool to see the things that we are learning about on paper, for ourselves.

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As a seventh grader i was basically clueless but now that i have had two years of this trip,  I understand the science behind everything.

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The second time going on this trip I was able to understand what was going on in each station. And I was able to catch more fish saining!

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Coming back as an 8th grader, I found this trip much more educational than last year. Now I was able to fully understand what we were testing and it made much more sense to me.

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This was my second year going on this trip and I enjoyed it both times. It was much easier to understand this year because i had a better concept of the materials and more experience. This is a great way to take part in helping and learning about our environment!

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This is my second time going on this trip and it put the ideas we learned last year into real life situations.

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Going a second time to the Hudson River was great. This year I knew more about what I was doing with things like dissolved oxygen and salinity levels.

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The first time going I did not really understand as much as I did this year. When knowing what each station is about, I got to enjoy the experience much more.

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This was my second time going and I understood a lot more of the stuff at each station. It is cool to see how much I have progressed over the past year.

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This was my second time and I felt like I understood the activities more

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By going on this trip for a second time, I was able to get more out of the trip. We already knew how to complete the activities and we were able to be more accurate in our findings.

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Great day at the river to learn about the ecosystem. The experiments were much better because us 8th graders had prior knowledge of the trip. overall, I enjoyed the trip.n

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As 8th graders, we had more opportunities and/or chances to be more hands on than last year. I enjoyed it a lot more and had way more fun. I enjoyed the freedom and responsibilities i was granted

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The second year at the Hudson was easier because I had more information and a better understanding on the things we did.

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We were able to furthermore help our waterside community by picking up rubbish along the riverside.

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This year was different because we knew more about  the Hudson River than we did the first year.

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Being an 8th grader i felt i understood more things going on in the different stations. In 7th grade we did not learn much before we went

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Since this was second time going to the river I had a better undertsanding of what i was doing

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From this year from last year it was different because you didn't know what you were doing but this year you understood more

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Since it was my second year going to the Hudson River, I knew more about what to do at each station.

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I liked measuring the dissolved oxygen in the  river and the different factors that could affect it. Last year I got a very general understanding and this year I learned more about the specifics.

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This is my second time doing day in the life and I still loved it. Doing science on the Hudson river was fun and it is amazing how much you can learn even after you already know about what you are doing

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This experience was different this year because last year i didnt really know what i was doing but this year i had more knowledge

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Going in 8th grade was better because I was able to understand what was going on. I knew the topic better.

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It is amazing that so many before us, now, and in the future are in full appreciation for the need for maintaining the health of the biodiversity of the Hudson River ecosystem, yet so many are unaware

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Great trip with a great way of doing a hands on activity. we were able to find the oxygen levels identify wildlife and sooooooo much more.

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One of my favorite stations was the turbinity station. There we measures the turbinity of the water using a turbinity tube.

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One of thrree stdations was to test the turbidity of the water. First, we took a bucket of water from the river. We then poured it into turbidity tub

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The Hudson River trip was an amazing experience.

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This was my first time going and it was an amazing experience. I learned many new things but also had fun. My favorite station would have to be the collecting trash station because it was very interesting to see the weird things that people put in the river.

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It's was a cool trip! I liked the fishing station best😊

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It's was a great trip. Can't believe how much trash there is and how fish survive in that environment.

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I think it was a fun experience. The one that appealed to me the most was the garbage and seeing how we can put other animals and species in danger from garbage. We should really step up and do something about it because we are putting our environment in harms way. But overall it was a really great trip and I
cant wait to do it again in 8th grade

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I liked all the stations. My favorite one is the station where we went to collect garbage. It's really sad to see

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As a whole the trip was a great experience.  Overall I thought it to be informative, and catching fish and researching was the best part.

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The trip this year was very beneficial. Last year, I got a general understanding of each concept, but this year, I was able to fully understand the concepts because of what we learned last year. There were real life examples and data samples of what we learned such as pH levels, dissolved oxygen and even chemical reactions.

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This was my second year going to the Hudson River. Last year, I wasn't as involved in all the stations as I was this year because I didn't have a great understanding of the concepts such as dissolved oxygen and how to test it.

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This was my second time going on this trip. My first time going I did not understand the concepts of the activities but my second time, I did.

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In 8th grade I understood the concept more and the activity's in each station more than I did the first time. We went over most of this in class before we went bot times in 7th grade and in 8th grade but since i did this two years in a row my mind got use to what we were doing. I had a lot of fun!

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When I went in 7th grade, I was confused how to test the water and get the dissolved oxygen. Now, in 8th grade I knew what to do and participated more. I felt that I understood the topics. I wish we could go next year in 9th grade

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Going to the Hudson River was a great experience both years that I went. Going for the second time in eighth grade gave me the chance to understand the stations that I didn't last year. I enjoyed catching fish and other species with the net.

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Had lots of fun today. Went seining with Erica which was so cool! But we only caught 1 fish because I think we did something wrong. Oh well. I'm so glad I could come again and wish I could come next year too! I think it was better doing this in 8th grade because you already took & finished accelerated science, while when you're just starting the class you don't know much about what we did today. Its great that we could come back to help out the 7th graders and learn from our mistakes from last year.

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We were lucky to have great weather today for the trip. Megan and I caught six fish with the seine net and it was a really fun day. This was my second year going, so I knew more about what to do at each station.

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It was an an amazing view of the leaves changing color and the Hudson River

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This is my second time going on this trip and it was fun both times! I learned a lot about the river and then we all got to hang out and eat lunch. I wish I could go again in 9th grade!

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I saw that they had a lot of different species in the Hudson.

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I didn't get to fish, but I got help sort through.  I got a crab!

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At a first glance the park looked pretty clean. Then I got to the garbage station and saw just how much garbage the other groups before me had collected. There was so much!

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There was an extreme amount of garbage.

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Great day at the river to catch fish