GH Power Plant Field Trip 2013

Today at Calvary Christian Schools Mr. Langdon's 9th grade physical science and 10th grade chemistry classes went to visit the Grand Haven power plant. The students were to learn about combustion, energy, limiting reactants, and how electricity is produced by using coal.

We arrived early at around 8:30 and entered the power plant, then going into a room to receive a lecture which would slowly turn into a tour throughout the power plant. We started by heading up to the second floor to check out the generator, where the temperature was 122 degrees Fahrenheit. We entered the room and quickly left to explore more of the plant.

We headed up more stairs to look inside the furnace, the flames of the furnace are blinding and are not to be played with. After 30 minutes we found ourselves at the top of the plant looking at the final way that the electricity is produced. Then tons of anxious students wanted to go onto the very top of the plant, the roof. It was a long walk of almost 20 sets of stairs but when we got there it was a relief, the cold air rushed into the faces of students and cooled them down from the 115 degree heat of the top of the plant. We then attempted to work our way back down, we got a head count and then headed back to school to finish out the day.

  - Ryan Cashler, Sophomore