After we answered a whole bunch of our questions, we decided it was time to revisit the DQB and see the next set of questions we investigate. So we organized the questions into sub-groups and found we had lots of questions around:
1. Plants
2. Environmental factors affecting how something "disappears"
3. Organisms and what they eat
Questions about people's involvement, bones, and other miscellaneous things can wait!
We agreed that the questions about plants, environmental questions and organisms' eating habit might best be answered by going outside and seeing these things in action, but we also figured out that that might be really hard. We'd have to go outside a lot, and while that would be fantastic to do, it might be a bit challenging for many reasons.
So...some students suggest we build some models to mimic the outside and see if we could gather evidence to answer some of our questions. Mrs. Brinza had a whole bunch of 2L bottles lying around (science teachers collect A LOT of stuff), and we agreed this would help up build some models that could answer some of our questions. Since they are transparent, we can easily see what's going on inside them. We first discussed what might need to go into these models to answer our questions, and we came up with these ideas:
1. Plants
2. Environmental factors affecting how something "disappears"
3. Organisms and what they eat
Questions about people's involvement, bones, and other miscellaneous things can wait!
We agreed that the questions about plants, environmental questions and organisms' eating habit might best be answered by going outside and seeing these things in action, but we also figured out that that might be really hard. We'd have to go outside a lot, and while that would be fantastic to do, it might be a bit challenging for many reasons.
So...some students suggest we build some models to mimic the outside and see if we could gather evidence to answer some of our questions. Mrs. Brinza had a whole bunch of 2L bottles lying around (science teachers collect A LOT of stuff), and we agreed this would help up build some models that could answer some of our questions. Since they are transparent, we can easily see what's going on inside them. We first discussed what might need to go into these models to answer our questions, and we came up with these ideas:
So while groups are figuring out what they want their model to represent, along with the questions they want to answer, we built the base layers of the models today. We did agree that we should try to build as many types of models to figure out as many answers as possible...thinking about temperature, moisture, surface, wind, living/dead organisms, and what eats what.
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