So our first stop was with the bugs that visited the badger. We've recognized that they were the first organism to visit the dead animal, and after zooming in on some dead meat pictures (no, Mrs. Brinza didn't bring in any dead animals to school), we've began making some connections!
Our timelapsed meat pictures (from outside, just like the badger) weren't good enough. So we wanted to zoom in on them, and here's what we found!
Putting two and two together (and a lot of talk about flies), we decided to build out our thinking about how flies, eggs, and little white things are connected!
We built out our consensus model and are agreeing on a few things:
1. The white things we see on the dead meat are maggots/larvae. They are consuming the meat.
2. When the fly lays her eggs, her weight goes down. The eggs hatch, and the larvae that come out begin eating, which makes them larger.
1. The white things we see on the dead meat are maggots/larvae. They are consuming the meat.
2. When the fly lays her eggs, her weight goes down. The eggs hatch, and the larvae that come out begin eating, which makes them larger.
All this fly talk and "getting bigger" and "getting smaller" talk is making us think that we can represent what's going on in a different way, like mathematically! So we used some Lego to build out our thinking...and then tried it ourselves with other mathematical avenues. We're on to some incredible, new models to represent what's happening scientifically AND mathematically!
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