With our dead stuff containers set up and doing things, we're already noticing some interesting things! There seems to be some fuzzy stuff! But what is it???
With some new investigation ideas on the table for all the things we think are happening, we agreed that the changes in our dead stuff containers was happening too slowly and we wanted to speed it up! We turned to some timelapse videos to see if they would help us!
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We had so many new questions come up from these videos!
We decided we needed to do some research and zoom in on the fuzzy stuff, which we're fairly certain is mold!
It totally surprised students to figure out that mold is actually a living thing! Zooming in on the mold was pretty incredible, recognizing how it moves from location to location, how it's everywhere, and how it's actually pretty diverse!
We're trying to make sense of what the mold is really doing to the dead plants, so we began to think about how we could model this phenomenon. Here are some students' work:
After a lot of discussion, we settled on some main ideas in our consensus model:
1. Mold travels in the air. It's EVERYWHERE!
2. If it's lucky enough to land to land on a food source, like dead plants, it'll be consuming them!
1. Mold travels in the air. It's EVERYWHERE!
2. If it's lucky enough to land to land on a food source, like dead plants, it'll be consuming them!