While on my commute to school one day, Waze took me by the Forest Preserve on the city's NW side where I live, and I happened to find this dead raccoon. Knowing we were about to start a life science unit, I just couldn't pass up a great photo opportunity.
I brought the picture in and students were just as curious as me. We spent quite some time noticing things about the raccoon...and then we began to wonder...
And eventually decided together that the raccoon would disappear. But what would happen to it? Our ideas were all over the place! We're trying to make sense of all this stuff.
Here are some of our initial thoughts!
I brought the picture in and students were just as curious as me. We spent quite some time noticing things about the raccoon...and then we began to wonder...
And eventually decided together that the raccoon would disappear. But what would happen to it? Our ideas were all over the place! We're trying to make sense of all this stuff.
Here are some of our initial thoughts!
And here's what we all agreed upon!