Dahlonega 10/26/12

This week on Wednesday we went to Dahlonega. It was really cool and fun. We got to pan for some gold. Some people did not get any gold. Before the trip we learned about where the gold is in Georgia. Then we learned what Hernando de Soto did when he came to find gold. The third thing is we learned about the Trail of Tears and the Cherokee Indians. What we learned in the museum was how the stamp mill work and how it was used with gold. The next thing we learned was how they made gold coins. The third thing we learned was that the top of the college and the state capital building have gold on them. The thing we learned in the mine was how big it is. The gold is so small in the mine that you can’t see it around you. We learned about how many stories are in the mine and how long it is.

                                        

                                     

                                                        

Cloudland Canyon

Last Tuesday, we went to Cloudland Canyon.  The three cool things I saw were the rock overhang, the waterfalls, and the sandstone.  What we learned before we went was the wet weather waterfalls, sole marks, and ripple marks.  When we were there we also filmed a vocabulary movie where we had to say vocab words in the movie.  I thought the trip was very cool, interesting and the canyon was big.

Wet like rain

Amazing

Tall

Everlasting water flowing

Really big

Fast

Abundant amount of water

Long

Large pool of water

- Amanda Pilkenton

 

Arabia Mountain

Last Tuesday, we went to Arabia Mountain.  The first activity we did was poetry. We stopped some times to write some poetry.  We wrote some poetry about whatever we saw on the mountain.  The next thing we did was take some pictures of plants and wildlife.  Next, we hiked up the mountain and when we got up to the top of the side of the mountain we sat on top of a boulder and wrote one last poem.  Last, at the top of the mountain we measured a weathering pit.

 

 

 

Two similarities between Stone Mountain and Arabia Mountain are that they are both in GA and they have the stages of succession.  The differences are that Stone Mountain is bigger than Arabia Mountain and Arabia Mountain is more isolated than Stone Mountain.