January 6, 2017- We are environmental scientists!

Agenda:

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Curling residency Monday

What did we do today?

• As environmental scientists, we were given pieces of paper that we had to sequence to figure out the nutrient cycle in nature.  This is how natural waste in nature is recycled.
• After that, we had to play a game called Nutrient Tag.  We were assigned as either a producer, a herbivore consumer, a carnivore consumer or a decomposer.  The producers had a "nutrient" ball, which the herbivores needed.  The carnivores could take a nutrient ball away from a herbivore and a decomposer could take the nutrient ball away from a producer, herbivore or carnivore.  If a decomposer got a ball, they would put the nutrient ball in a hoop, representing that the nutrients went back into the soil.  They could then be picked up by the producers.
• When we came in, we wrote in our Fresh Air Friday journals about our part in the game.  We needed to make sure we used the proper science terms and sentence starters.

Questions:

1. Will our Fresh Air Friday next week be science related?
2. How many animals and plants survived, other than the decomposers?