School days fly by and drag simultaneously. Fun and extremely boring. At least we cover the entire gamut. (Finding my silver lining.) This year, our fun has come from Biology, especially lab. We've been studying bacteria most recently and we took a field trip in our backyard to collect specimens to grow cultures to study under our fancy-schmancy microscope. (The microscope can be connected to our laptop so we can all study the same slide at once. I have to say, watching amoeba swim across my screen at 400 power is pretty durn cool.) Here are some photos of our labs.
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| Prepped lab tray next to lunch :) |
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| Collection--lake water combined with each "food" for bacteria |
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Kids sketching what they observe from the collection area
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After 3 days of waiting for our bacteria to grow, we were blown back by the stench of our collection while we viewed them under the microscope. Tomorrow we take another look. Think I might keep the trash can handy...blek!
Looks like they are having a great school year. Kudos!
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