This week, we remotely practiced some fair test examples with dead plants, knowing just how important a controlled experiment is in trying to figure out what is causing change to something! Here are some examples Mrs. Brinza set up in her notebook!
Before we left school this week, there was an explosion of mold in almost all of our Dead Plants Columns and even in some of our jars! Our jars are pretty much staying the same weight over time, and we've come to an agreement that changes can happens but all the pieces/particles are still in there somewhere (the lid plays a role in this for sure). We decided to focus on mold, as we had lots of mold questions and LOTS of mold everywhere. Mrs. Brinza snapped a ton of pics before we left, so we had some good evidence of what was in our columns. |
We read through a mold article and watched some pretty incredible mold videos, one of which was filmed right in our classroom before we left!
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After engaging in a a question/response format on Google Classroom, we agreed that the stuff in our Dead Plants Columns is indeed mold! Mold is an organism that is consuming the dead plants, which totally make sense that our Dead Plants columns are getting smaller and the mold is getting bigger!
We also developed a mathematical model remotely....
We also developed a mathematical model remotely....
Mrs. Brinza even found an interesting finding about mold in the fast food industry...a great connection to how understanding science helps understand the world around us!
Next steps...worms!