What Do Effective Researchers Do?

Le garcon qui joue des tours

Check out some of the final videos created by 7D, 7E and 7F by viewing the links in the comments.  It was wonderful to see the students so engaged right to the wire! Great job, students!


Le garcon qui joue des tours - 2017-18 from Mrs. Steinhoff on Vimeo.






French from Mrs. Steinhoff on Vimeo.

Bacteria - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Today we will continue our research on bacteria. Remember that your job is to research about 2 types of bacteria and create a poster or comic strip to demonstrate your understanding. Think about the following information when researching:
What is the name?
What does it do?
Where is it found?
How does it affect humans? Nature? How much does it take?
What is the shape or size?
What is special about this bacteria?

What is goal for research today? How much will you plan to get down? What will "working on this project" look like?

Microbes Game and Info

 

Decomposers - The Beginning, Middle and End!

Over the past few weeks we have been discussing ecosystems and more recently, food pyramids. We know that food pyramids are a visual representation of how plants and animals interact and depend on each other to ensure their sustainability. We probably have a good understanding about plants and animals, but we are now going to focus on a sometimes lesser known aspect - Decomposers. We will take notes while watching some videos to see that examples of decomposers are fungi and bacteria. You also see that these decomposers can be very tiny - even microscopic! Let's take a closer look!



Today you will choose a type of decomposer and begin a research project identifying it's characteristics. After you have a good understanding of your decomposer, you will create a short comic strip with speech bubbles to depict "A Day in the Life!"

Later we will be looking soil samples to see if we can find any of these decomposers in action!

To start, let's look online to make a list of possible "characters" for our adventure!

Fungi - Diversity of Life

Bacteria - Diversity of Life