Science
Who Was Charles Darwin? By Deborah Hopkinson
Rainforests by Lucy Bowman
Pagoo by Holling C. Holling
Chapters 1 - 13
Science Classes at South Florida
Museum
Oct. 14 – went outside,
identifying non-living and living things
Oct. 21 outdoors collecting
flowers and rocks, describing, and classifying.
Used a microscope
Nov. 4 – Seneca made a list
of science terms. She learned about cells.
Nov. 18 – Seneca learned
about the differences between plant cells and animal cells.
December – Seneca dissected a
flower.
January 6 – Seneca learned
about reptiles and amphibians.
January 20 – Class included a
bit of scavenger hunt through the museum.
February 3 – Dissection Day!
Seneca observed a frog dissection and identified frog-organ’s on a poster.
February 17 – Seneca learned
about hammerhead sharks. Class included a visit to the museum’s aquarium.
March 2 – Comparisons of
non-living things vs living things
March 16 – Observed a
pregnant-shark dissection
April 6 – Eco-systems
May – Made a diorama of a
habitat
Gills Club
August – Capturing sharks:
taking blood samples, stress in sharks
October – Shark Tourism: Pros
and Cons, collecting data from interviews, literature, and art
January – building a model
shark
April – Plastics and
pollution in the ocean
May – video conference with
scientists aboard The Nautilus and exploration in the estuary
Nature Study
-Seneca attended 3 Nature Lab
events at Emerson
Park
-Nature walk and birdwatching
at Robinson’s Preserve. Seneca watched a
bird intently as she knew it was preparing to hunt. Sure enough, it snatched up some food. She
knew it was hunting from what she had learned on Wild Kratts.
Nov. 20 – Around The Bend
Jan. 8 – Nature Lab: Seneca
dissected owl pellets and learned the terms biotic and a-biotic.
Feb. 5 – Nature Lab at
Robinson’s Preserve: Seneca dissected a clam and was shown its abductor
muscles, foot, gills, and digestive system. She also learned about estuaries,
pollution, dry ice sublimation, and went on a nature hike.
April 1 – Nature Lab: Emerson Park
April 5 – Ranger guided field
trip at Oscar Scherer State Park
April 8 – Nature Lab at
Emerson Park: Bees
