Blog Post Week 6

 


1. In lab this week, we first observed our fast-growing plants. I was surprised to see how much they had grown from last week and excited to see that we now had flowers. After this we finished up our activity from last week where we were given an ecosystem to research. I learned what would happen to an ecosystem if danger presents itself. For the tundra, climate change caused the ecosystem to warm up too much for some plants to survive. This made some animals in the food chain migrate and the whole food chain to be disrupted. Following this activity, we learned a lot about turtles by reading a book and participating in the activity, "Turtle, Turtle Watch Out". I learned that turtles are independent as soon as they hatch and go into the sea but many do not survive because of natural causes as well as by humans. I learned that only one in 1000 turtles will survive! 

4. I can apply what I have learned to my teaching in the future by using my own knowledge on turtles. I can educate my students on turtles and how we can help turtles by not littering as well as not driving on the beach and instead protecting them. I want to use the book and activity we did in class with my students. I think this would be an interactive activity to get them thinking about turtles and how they survive or why they might not. This may influence students to make an effort to protect turtles themself. 

5. New or remaining questions:

Without changes from humans, would food chains die off because of climate change?

How many eggs does a turtle hatch at once?

How long does it take for sea turtle eggs to hatch?

Comments

  1. Alicea UlrichFebruary 22, 2023 at 5:51 PM

    I really enjoyed how you did your blog! I think those remaining questions are very helpful because it expresses that even though we are college students we still have questions, as our future students will as well! I liked seeing how fast out plants grew!

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  2. Ali McDermottFebruary 22, 2023 at 8:20 PM

    Hi Abby! I also learned a lot of new facts about turtles in the book we read. I was also curious how many eggs a turtle hatches at once so I went to Google and did some research. I found out that the average number of eggs they hatch are 65-180. I couldn't believe it was this many!

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  3. Matt LorenzFebruary 23, 2023 at 6:10 AM

    Hi Abby. Nice job on this post. You provided some meaningful questions at the end of your post. I think you bring up an alarming point that our food chains could start to die off due to climate change. We definitely need to do more to combat climate change and protect our ecosystems.

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  4. Lexi MooreFebruary 26, 2023 at 5:04 PM

    Hi Abby! I really enjoyed your post. I liked the questions you incorporated at the end. I had some of those same thoughts. Even though we learned a majority fo this information when we were younger, I still have questions!

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