We've been seeing some patterns with all the organisms that the raccoon eats:
1. They're dead.
2. They get smaller as the raccoon grows and gets bigger.
We were able to come to an agreement about all these connections, and summarized, it looked like this!
1. They're dead.
2. They get smaller as the raccoon grows and gets bigger.
We were able to come to an agreement about all these connections, and summarized, it looked like this!
While all the animals seemed to be consuming either animals or plants bit by bit, piece by piece, or particle by particle, we didn't see anything going into the plants. And we have lots of evidence to suggest that plants get bigger over time, too. Before we started remote learning, we even had evidence in our Dead Plants Columns that there were plants actually growing!
So this led us to two things:
1. Where do plants get the matter they need to grow?
Here are some students' ideas:
1. Where do plants get the matter they need to grow?
Here are some students' ideas:
2. How could we investigate this?
Here are some students' ideas about plant investigations:
Here are some students' ideas about plant investigations:
Looks like we need to discuss exactly how we're going to figure out how plants get the matter they need to get bigger!