March 27, 2009

Things Are Growing In Room 17


Mrs. Rogers from the First Presbyterian Church comes every month to explore the wonderful world of science with each first grade class! It is a blessing to have their support and the students are very excited to work with them. Last month, the class started bean seedlings and this beauty, a large lovely sweet potato. The class have been observing it's growth and are amazed at what a little water can do.

These little guys are our brine shrimp (a.k.a. Sea Monkeys!). I was super excited about growing shrimp. I always wanted Sea Monkeys as a kid, but never really got them, so here we "grow". (giggle^_^). We were able to micro-zoom on them using our ELMO and are going to set-up the microscope camera after spring break. Cool beans!

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