Most of us had already been on inland seas, but this time was going to be different. Instead of doing an all science trip on the boat, we did an art one instead. Don’t worry though, there was still science in almost every activity. Sadly, it was sprinkling and foggy, but the weather didn’t ruin the experience. We still had lots of fun: my group was called “Good Name” and we started out by catching plankton in a fishing net. But before that, we helped raise the sails, and the motor was turned off. After we caught the plankton, we looked at them through a microscope and drew them as superheroes or villains. 

The next thing we did was glue small pieces of plastic that was found in the lake, or on Pathfinder campus, to a white paper. We were making a collage that looked like a fish. After that, we looked at the shapes that we could find on the ship, such as the triangular shape of the front sail. When we saw a shape that appealed to us, we drew the outline of it with a black marker onto a piece of paper and colored it in with bright colors. Then we painted the horizon with Duncan, on one big canvas (all the groups got to help paint it). The last thing we did was draw gobies with Ivy. After we got off the boat, we got to share our artwork in the Inland Seas museum.

• How can people be more responsible with their use of plastic?
• Will we get to do this art – special again?
• Where did gobies originally come from?