Last week was a busy week, we learned lots of new information in Science!!!
Science: Ecosystems, Food Chains, Food Webs
To see some of our vocabulary words that are illustrated, click here. When you follow this link it will take you to a Flickr page. These are the words that will be hung on our word wall by the end of the Life Science Unit. The first page that comes up is a quick synopsis of the words included. You can click on each of the pictures/words individually to see their descriptions. These descriptions include explanations of what the students should be "seeing" or getting out of the word cards. You can also click on the slideshow button on the top right and watch the cards slide by, with their descriptions showing. This could be a very useful topic for discussion between you and your student at home.
Monday and Tuesday we built our Terrarium's and Aquariums. On Wednesday we added our animals, and on Thursday the students put it all together. Next week, we will begin daily observations of the changes in both the Terrariums and the Aquariums. The purpose of this activity is to witness the unique interactions between two differnt environments and how they combine to create an ecosystem that provides the essentials for both living and non-living things in that environment. Here is a slideshow of a few finished Eco-columns. link: Eco-column Slideshow.
On Friday, we reviewed our vocab cards: Herbivore, Omnivore, and Carnivore; as well as our Objective 1 (Nature of Science) cards: Gram, Meter, Decimeter, Centimeter, Millimeter, Contract, Expand, Stretch, and Permeable. Ask your students about these words, and what the pictures told us about them. Then the students broke up into partner pairs and did a word sort. They had a 5 key words that were gray, Producer, Consumer, Herbivore, Carnivore, and Omnivore. Then there were about 19 or so other cards that had on organism listed on each card. These were all organisms that we had discussed while reading the book Butternut Hollow Pond, earlier this week.
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