HI All,
It was great getting to meet so many Parents on open school night! I hope that you encourage them to stop by the blog every so often to see what we are up to!
On Monday we finished the last of our eco-sphere creations. Hopefully we balenced them appropriately with the right amount of producers, consumers, decomposers and abiotic factors. We'll checking in on them this week and journalling our observations about them.
We then went over our returned lab reports on the mealworm experiments. For the most part they were very good. There were a few issues about graphing and the elaboration ideas that we reviewed. Next we reviewed the HW on testable or researchable questions and caught up on a few cornell notes.
Wednesday and Thursday we conducted "mini-bio-blitz '08!"
We searched the campus for insects, plants, trees and other living things that were not already identified on our pre-existing bio-blitz list for 2007! We did pretty well and had a good time discovering the producers and consumers on our own property! We then used them in the Inspiration food web project being produced in tech class and discussed their role in the Scofield energy pyramid.
Classes on Friday (due to rain) stayed inside and produced powerpoint energy pyramids. Great job!
I thought this was very fun to do. It gave us a chance to see how many organisims there were in our eco system. I hope that we can do it again or something like it.
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Danny Soifer
I thought the mini bio-blitz. I wish we had had more time. It was a lot of fun identifying the plants.
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There never seems to be enough time to do cool stuff! You're right. i think this really helped us to appreciate the diversity of living things on our own campus and allowed us to place them on my dramatic looking big gree energy pyramid in the back of room!
ReplyDeleteI am glad you enjoyed last week.
Mr. F :-)