| DeadFish Herpetological |
| Photographs of Activities, The Science of Life, Session II |
| Our Daily Schedule (all times are approximate): 8:45 Arrival and freeplay/classroom choices 9:15 Small Group Activities 9:45 Science Activity Block 1 10:25 Snack 10:45 Science Activity Block 2 11:25 Get organized/change for Swim & Lunch 11:45 Swim Lessons 12:15 Lunch 12:50 All Group Game/Playground Time 1:20 Change from Swimming 1:50 Choice Time (drawing, animal investigations, games, etc) 2:50 Daily Wrap Up Meeting, and Story 3:20 Head to Buses, Carpool, and Extended Day |
| Monday, August 1, 2011: Today we played some get to know you games and traveled around camp to collect soil samples for a "spontaneous generation" project we will set up on Wednesday. |
| Tuesday, August 2, 2011: Today we hiked over to Lars Anderson Park to collect water samples and explore the pond. While collecting some pond plant samples to bring back for our giant Japanese Mystery Snails to eat we also collected four large green frog tadpoles, seven crayfish, and a minnow that we brought back to study in our classroom pond. |
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| Wednesday, August 3, 2011: Today we finished setting up our spontaneous generation projects by combining our soil samples with our water samples and adding a piece of a dry dead animal to act as an energy source (a chunk of old leather belt). We also planted our homework items to see if they would grow. Some things we are experimenting with are mint, ivy and violet cuttings, garlic bulbs, potato pieces, a daisy, some woody stems and leaves, and some African beans. Each camper also planted four seeds from a fast-cycling brassica that NASA scientists grew in outerspace. Though our original seeds were a gift from Dr. Paul Williams, their developer, and were directly decended from the outerspace cohort, they now have a few introduced genes from insects that visited our classroom over the years after previously visiting a wild mustard or cabbage. Consequently our variety doesn't grow as perfectly identical as the parent stock. |
| Thursday, August 4, 2011: Field Trip to Franklin Park Zoo Friday, August 5, 2011: Today at camp we observed some red claw crabs to identify distinguishing characteristics. We also began to create mini-habitats for some sea anemones that have phytoplankton living inside them.. |
| Monday, August 8, 2011: Today we completed our mini-habitats and ran some test trials with our crabs to see how they move and what kind of stimuli encourage them to move when they are out of the water. Some of the crabs were very stubborn. |
