What an interesting animal earthworms are! We are learning about two types of eathworms; redworms and nightcrawlers. Both of these worms have similar body parts and behaviors, but the nightcrawlers are huge! We have gone through the same steps as with our previous animals; scientific diagram, behavior observation, fair tests, ect. Now that we have explored a few different animals, it is fun to see students start to compare and contrast different animals. What do goldfish and worms have in common? |
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We're learning all about LAND SNAILS! This week we have been observing our land snails and identifying their different parts. We made scientific diagrams including labels for the eyes, mouth, tentacles, shell, foot, and MUCUS TRAIL! It has been really fun to watch their excitement brewing as they observe the snails. We designed a fair test to see which foods snails' preferred to eat. We narrowed our original list of foods down to lettuce, apples, leaves, and tomato! We talked about where the food and the snail need to be placed in order for the test to be fair. We also discussed how many trials we needed to do. Don't forget to ask your kindergartner what the snails liked to eat!
Most typically known as a Rollie Pollie or Pill bug perhaps, these Isopods have joined our class and are allowing us to learn even more about animal parts and behaviors. We did some observations, scientific diagrams, and some sorting to find out which isopods were Pillbugs and which were Sowbugs.
We learned the difference between and illustration and a Scientific diagram by simply drawing a fish to show someone hwo hadn't seen one before and then the next day drawing a fish like a scientist and labeling all of it's parts. Once we knew about all of the fish's structures or parts, we learned about the functions of those parts. We continued to dive into what we think we know about Goldfish and what we still want to know. When they FINALLY arrived on Thursday, we spent a lot of time observing our goldfish, noticing how they behaved when we added food and Elodea to their tanks. To get the kids to start thinking about how external things change behavior, Ms. Ledford and I did a little experiment. We put a big "x" of tape on the door while they were in art. On their way back, we watched to see what they would do. Would they stop, go under it, break it? We soon noticed a group of kids standing outside the door, not sure what to do. Soon enough, kids started ducking under the tape and going inside. I was last to go through the door and plowed right through :) Our next question became, are the fish going to act the same way when new items are added to the tank? We recorded our observations in our science notebooks with pictures and words.
Be careful when you're dealing with mustard!We continued our fabric exploration by experimenting to see what might stain our clothes. Each student got a piece of white muslin fabric to stain with common indoor and outdoor stains. These included ketchup, mustard, BBQ sauce, paint, grass, and dirt. Once their fabric was stained, we went through a few phases of washing to see which stains might come out. We noticed that some stains came out by just soaking the muslin in water while others took a little soap and scrubbing. At the end we discovered that mustard, grass, and paint were pretty tough stains to handle. Most of us were unable to get those stains out. During our last investigation, we learned that sometimes you might want to stain fabric on purpose to make it different colors! We practiced dying our fabrics and seeing how colors blended together on the muslin Fabric Unit KWL
What happens when you put drops of water on different types of fabric?We came up with a plan on how we could figure out what happens to drops of water when they are put on different types of fabric. Would the water soak in or would it bead up? We made sure that the number of drops and how long we waited before recording our results stayed the same. The one variable that we changed was the type of fabric. We found out that some fabrics absorbed water and some fabrics repelled water. Lots and lots of more fair tests to come! Which fabrics are best for wiping up spills?
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