While we asked some AWESOME questions yesterday, we had to think about HOW were were going to answer them. We spent some time today thinking about the types of investigations we could design to gather evidence...
So we did an interactive "gallery walk" where students suggested investigations we could do for each question we thoughtfully asked.
So we did an interactive "gallery walk" where students suggested investigations we could do for each question we thoughtfully asked.
And the questions about flies seemed like the easiest place to start, since they were the first organisms to visit the dead badger in our video. If we figure out some stuff about those flies, maybe other questions can be answered, too!
Mrs. Brinza found a pretty interesting video about flies visiting a piece of meat, what we presumably thought the flies were going after.
It's a pretty gory movie, so be warned. We want to remember this is a natural process, so we put on our mature scientist lenses to notice and wonder what may be happening around us.
It's a pretty gory movie, so be warned. We want to remember this is a natural process, so we put on our mature scientist lenses to notice and wonder what may be happening around us.
time lapse maggots eating meat HD
A timelapse video of a chunk of meat eaten up by maggots. Photographed over a week. Photo taken every 15 minutes at the beginning, every 2 minutes at the end.
Each Class' Summarized Notice/Wonder Chart
And we ended class thinking about how the flies we saw at the beginning of the movie were connected to the white, wiggly critters we saw at the end. Since we're still not absolutely certain, students were thinking of new investigations to gather the exact evidence we need!
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