Minerals
When we visited the Treasures of the Mineral World gallery, we learned about the difference between a rock and a mineral. Minerals usually are one colour and mostly have easy to see crystal shapes like cubes, triangles and needles. A mineral is one material; it's like a single Lego brick. It is different than a rock because a rock is made up of two or more minerals (it's like adding on more Lego bricks). We also learned about features of different minerals and carried out tests to help us identify different minerals. Some tests we performed to identify minerals were: Moh's scale of hardness tests, magnetic tests, light tests (light can pass through it or light makes a rainbow), and streak plate tests (looking for the colour a mineral makes when dragged across a streak plate). Here are some of the minerals that grabbed our curiosity: "Calcite because most samples have really cool needle crystals." - Max "Apophyllite because it's so beautiful and it has sparkly needles." - Harveen "Halite because it is the salt we eat." - Sydney "Millerite because it looks like it has feathers on it." - Liam M. "Rhodochrosite because my mom and me found a lot of it and we've never seen one as cool as we've found the others." -Lexi "Geodes seem cool to me. Geodes are a rock and the cool thing about it is you can flip it onto one side and it just looks like a whole rock. Then you can flip it around and inside it looks super cool. Like crystals inside." -Dexter "Tourmaline because it has beautiful colours." - Jyotsna Learning to Draw To learn how to draw, we sketched some African artifacts in the West Africa Gallery. Some of these artifacts included masks, costumes, jewelry, chairs, benches, sculptures, and pots. An artist guided us through our sketching. She showed us how to sketch without erasing, a new way to hold a pencil, different shading techniques and how to do a quick contour sketch (getting a quick outline of the shapes first before adding in the details). Our instructor said she thought we were amazing artists and a wonderful group of humans!
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"Bow Habitat was the best field study so far this year!" - Liam M
"I really enjoyed sketching the fish from the aquarium and learning about them." - Annika "Why were the fish so often laying on the ground of the aquarium looking like they were dead?" - Clayton "Maybe they were heavy and they can't lift their selves." -Jyostsna "Maybe because they were tired." - Kyra "I enjoyed fishing because we got to practice fishing for real fish and we got to pick out the colour of the fishing rod (the lures at the end of the hook) and see if it was our lucky one." -Layal "The lake sturgeon was here before the dinosaurs." - Devon "I wonder why the fishes didn't come to our rod in the water. Maybe because there were a lot of them (lures landing in the water). So they probably got a little scared/surrounded."-Taeya "I wonder why it's so hard to catch one fish?" - Maddalyn "I think that fish were laying on the ground (in the aquarium tanks) because they needed more room (they didn't have enough space to move around)." - Liam M. "Why do some fish have their mouths on the bottom?" - Ayla "Because some fish swim at the bottom because they eat their stuff out of sand and spit it out. That's where their food is and they just stay on the bottom. Their mouths are on the bottom because it's easier to eat for them." - Oliver "Why does the white sucker suck things?" -Harveen "Because it has to suck algae." -Sam "How come the fish were going around the fishing rod but they weren't trying to bite it (the lure)? -Jalal "Because we fished in the afternoon. Maybe they weren't biting because they were already full from lunch." - Max "Does anybody know what rainbow trout eat?" - Mrs. Keet "They eat minnows." - Liam M "They also eat algae if they're really hungry." - Clayton "How could you find out what rainbow trout eat? This is your homework." - Mrs. Keet |
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