Friday, June 1, 2018
Friday, May 18, 2018
Cross Breeding Plants
Students have been working hard trying to figure out the patterns of inheritance. They have cross-bred plants to gather evidence. Here are some pictures of their investigations.
Friday, May 4, 2018
Flower Dissection
Students are trying to figure out how parents "mix" to make their traits. They are dissecting flowers to compare the reproduction of flowers with humans.
They figured out that reproduction involves the fertilization of an egg and therefore a mixing of DNA.
Why do organisms look the way they do?
Why do organisms look the way they do?
This is our new anchoring phenomenon. Students are full of questions!
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Worms
The students still have questions. They don't think that they have completely solved the trout mystery. They cannot explain why the the trout, sea lamprey and chub populations all decreased between 1960-1970. They are investigating possible abiotic factors now. Do abiotic factors change populations? Here is their first investigation.
Do the night crawlers prefer a wet environment or a dry one?
Does the Sea Lamprey have a major impact as a predator?
Students have figured out that YES, the sea lamprey is impacting the trout as a predator/parasite and competitor.
They virtually dissected the lamprey and trout and had lengthy discussions to come to this conclusion. Great work by all!
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