So one day last fall, Mrs. Brinza was driving and saw a really interesting thing on the side of the road...
A dead raccoon!
So after asking students to make some observations and generate some questions about the raccoon, here's what they came up with:
A dead raccoon!
So after asking students to make some observations and generate some questions about the raccoon, here's what they came up with:
With all this talk, we started thinking about what would happen to the raccoon over time, and students developed some initial models:
And then we began to share out our ideas with one another, and ultimately the whole class.
We quickly realized we have a whole lot we don't agree on, so we began thinking of investigations we can do in our class to help us figure out what would happen to this dead raccoon over time. Not sure we can bring a dead animal into class or find one over the weekend...ha!