After figuring out what happens to dead stuff (with larvae and a dead raccoon) and looking at it with a mathematical lens, we figured out a couple things:
1. The organism doing the eating gets bigger.
2. The organism getting eaten gets smaller.
3. The total weight of them together stays this same.
This got us revisiting our DQB for a couple reasons. First does what happen to animals happen to plants, too? And how do different conditions/variables affect what happens to the dead thing?
We decided to revisit our investigation ideas, and both classes wanted to recreate mini-models of the outside and change something about them to see how that variable would affect how dead things disappear. We decided to use clear bins because that would make it easier to see what happens. We brainstormed variables along with materials we could bring into class safely that are dead (plant parts) and mimic outside (soil, worms, bugs, water, heat, etc.) Between the two classes, we've got some interesting things to investigate!
1. The organism doing the eating gets bigger.
2. The organism getting eaten gets smaller.
3. The total weight of them together stays this same.
This got us revisiting our DQB for a couple reasons. First does what happen to animals happen to plants, too? And how do different conditions/variables affect what happens to the dead thing?
We decided to revisit our investigation ideas, and both classes wanted to recreate mini-models of the outside and change something about them to see how that variable would affect how dead things disappear. We decided to use clear bins because that would make it easier to see what happens. We brainstormed variables along with materials we could bring into class safely that are dead (plant parts) and mimic outside (soil, worms, bugs, water, heat, etc.) Between the two classes, we've got some interesting things to investigate!