Tuesday October 10th
Students enjoyed experiencing the museum’s rocks and minerals gallery. They saw glowing minerals under an ultraviolet light, picked their favourite rock or mineral to sketch, and tested to see if a rock has carbonates rock (if it would bubble in acid). Students even got to take home a rock! The students wondered “why do some minerals glow in ultraviolet light?” Then the students participated in a “How to Sketch” lesson. The worked in the African gallery on sketching freely, not using an eraser, and letting their eyes “disconnect” from the brain to draw what they saw. They also worked on shading. “We had fun!”
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Bow Habitat - October 3, 2017 The students spent an excellent day today at Bow Habitat Station in Pearce Estates Park. We started the morning with a Learn to Fish course. We learned about how to identify fish, how to know when you can fish, where you can fish, what you can catch and release, how to tie an Improved Clinch knot, what to take fishing and how to hold the fish once you catch it! Then we went fishing in the trout pond. Lots of excitement, some nibbles and lots of algae and leaves were caught! In the afternoon, we learned to identify a variety of fish in the amazing aquariums and learned about water conservation, life cycles and habitat. The students in 305 had a number of questions and wonders afterwards which we will try to investigate in the coming weeks. Kai – How do trout get their names? How do fish get their colour? Gabe – Who invented fishing? How many different kinds of trout are there? Tanush – How can sturgeon live as long as the dinosaurs? Alaynna – I wonder why every fish has to have a life cycle? Aurelia – How may different types of fish are there in the world? Rayan – I wonder if brown trout are more endangered than Siberian Tigers? Carson – I learned that bull trout have been around for 6000 years. Katja – I wonder how high can flying fish glide. Elliana – I wonder why baby fish are called fry. Taym – I wonder how many fish a lake sturgeon can eat when it is full grown. Osman – I wonder if trout eat different things than other types of fish. Gabe – I wonder why the fish don't eat the sea weed that is growing in the pond. Carson -The algae in the pond where we fished - do the fish lay their eggs in their so the predators cant find them? Aurelia – Why do the lake sturgeon have those little whiskery things on the bottom of their mouths? Jesse – Jesse says the sturgeon have whiskers so it can feel around on the ground. Theo – I thought all trout eggs were adopted in schools. Please ask your child about what they are wondering about after the trip. |
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