This week we continued our discussions about reproduction and development.  We studied the development process in placental mammals and then studied marsupials.  many students were amazed with the process in kangaroos and insisted on watching this video a second time.  Boy, we were so lucky that we were able to stay in the uterus when we were little embryos.

Well, it's spirit week and we no longer have a wild plant area in the school yard.  It has been replaced by a smoldering pit of wood scraps left by last night's Bonfire.  Bonus for us....we get to see "Succession" in action.  Stay posted to find out more...

Today we learned about all of the garbage that we produce and where that waste goes and how it affects other living organisms.  These were the different stations that we went to and the videos we watched.  We then went to the Smartboard and did a quizlet for review and then answered questions on a survey at station N.  It was a paperless lab.

•     Station A  Landfill Video (2:19)
•      Station B  Regular household garbage
•      Station C Captain Charles Moore Pacific Ocean Garbage Dump (7:23)
•      Station D  Recyclable Trash
•      Station E Electronic Waste Video (2:18)
•      Station F  Food scraps that could be fed to our pet worms
•      Station G  Composting National Geographic (5:33)
•      Station H The Wonder of Worm Poop (1:55)
•      Station I  Worm poop
•      Station J  Info about Worm Composting 
•        Station K  Worms breaking down food.
•      Station L Take out the Trash (7:31)
•      Station M Smartboard Quizlet about Garbage(click on "Play Scatter")
•      Station N What have you learned?