Week 6 Blog Post

                 Week 6 Lab Post 02/26/2025

This week in lab, I learned quite a bit. We finished working on our ecosystem slides with our table groups and we had deserts. From doing this mini project I learned more about the food chain of the desert and we also did scenarios about a drought happening and how that would affect the food chain and we had to come up with an alternative as a solution. We went over our NGSS lesson assignment as a class. We got to look at caterpillars in their cocoons and talked about their life cycle briefly. We also looked at our fast plants and ours bloomed! A couple stems were falling over so we used a silicon ring to hold them up. Next, we used dead bees to pollinate our flowers by putting them a stick and touching the flower blooms with it. Then, we read a book about turtles and then we did an activity with turtle fortune tellers to see which baby turtles would survive. After, we did a short worksheet over what we learned from the turtle activity. We learned quite a bit this week in lab! 

I am able to relate what we learned this week to some of my prior knowledge from my time as an elementary science student. We learned about ecosystems and food chains, but the project we did was a good refresher on my knowledge. Looking at the butterflies and their life cycle was also prior knowledge for me as we did a whole project on their life cycle in elementary school and watched them grow and eventually set them free. Using the bees to pollinate using a bee stick was new to me, I knew that bees pollinated flowers, but I had never heard of a bee stick before until today. Lastly, learning about the turtles was prior knowledge, but it was a good refresher! 

I can use everything we learned this week in my future career as a teacher. Everything we did was hands on, and engaging which is super important when teaching science so I will definitely be using these activities someday in my classroom! 


Comments

  1. Olivia Katic's Science Blog26 February 2025 at 14:29

    Hi Makenna,
    You seem to have had a really interesting and practical lab experience this week! Drought simulations and the desert food chain project seem like excellent ways to comprehend environmental consequences in the real world.

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  2. Kamryn Becker - Elementary Science Methods 126 February 2025 at 15:50

    Hi Makenna! I agree that everything can be used in our future teaching careers. I really enjoyed the engaging movement activity about the sea turtles. I think students knowledge would truly be deepened from this activity.

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  3. Macy Blum27 February 2025 at 07:14

    Hi Kenna! It sounds like you had such an engaging and hands-on week in lab! The ecosystem project and drought scenarios seem like a great way to deepen your understanding of food chains and problem-solving in environmental science. The hands-on activities, like using a bee stick for pollination and observing caterpillars in their cocoons, must have made the learning experience even more memorable.

    I love how you connected these experiences to your prior knowledge from elementary school—it really shows how foundational learning can carry over and be reinforced over time. It’s also great that you’re already thinking about how to apply these activities in your future classroom! Hands-on, interactive lessons are such a fantastic way to keep students engaged in science. I’m sure your future students will love learning from these activities just as much as you did!

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  4. Taylor2 March 2025 at 18:13

    Hi Makenna! I agree that everything can be used in our future classrooms. I really enjoyed how engaging the movement activity was with the sea turtles. Great post!

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