Our students love Science to Go. This year, we spent two days with Ms. Poaster and debris from local animal nesting sites. Students identified different skulls in the debris from their animal's nesting site/pellets, and calculated the average percentages their animal's diet. Students were enthralled with each aspect of the lab. Again, thank you PTA for purchasing these lessons for us!

Our focus on science this trimester is all about ecosystems. We're learning about food webs and food pyramids. We've even had the chance to build our own self-sustaining ecocolumns (terrariums and aqauriums). Each group has two ecolocums, one control and one experimental ecolocumn. The control ecocolumn started with 3 fish, 1 snail, 2 crickets, and 2 isopods + different land and water plants. The experimental ecolcolumns had the same plants and non-linving materials, but no animals. Recently we began polluting these ecocolumns (each group is either using acid rain (vinegar), fertilizer, or salt). We are currently testing the pH levels and observing the effects of the pollution on our experimental ecocolumns.


Observing the mosquito fish before adding them to their aquariums

The circle of life. One of our dead fish that was later devoured by a scavenger.

Yahoo, we are done with the science fair. Our students did an awesome job meeting the deadlines and putting together a great final product. Grades and final reports are coming home today. Here are some pictures of our students with their hardwork!