Taryn Van Hemert

 What did you learn this week?  This week we learned about turtles! Some things that we learned are that turtle eggs are buried in the sand to keep them safe. Once they hatch, their journey to the top of the sand takes about three days. Another thing we learned that is kind of sad to think about is that only about one in one thousand turtles survive to adulthood. There are many reasons for this; polluted oceans, predators, vehicles on the beach, etc.  In class, we filled out this worksheet about human and natural factors when it comes to helping or harming turtles.  Here is our updated fast plants. They have grown yellow flowers! They are growing so tall they aren't able to stand up straight as much. It really has amazed me how fast they truly do grow. Below is the picture I took on Wednesday of my fast plant.  Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already know?  Yes. I already had a little bit of background knowledge on turtles because I real...

 What did you learn this week?  This week we learned more about the 5Es and we critiqued an actual lesson plan. We got to see how we all scored the lesson plan and we got to hear everyone's different reasonings. It was very interesting. See below image.  We also started to learn about Ecology , which is the study of organisms and how the relate to one another and their physical surroundings.  We also checked in on our butterflies and our fast plants. One out of three of our butterflies have come out of their chrysalis phase. Our fast plants have also grown quite a bit in the last week. See images below.  Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already know?  I am able to relate what we have learned to what I already know because I already know about animals and different places. What I didn't know a whole lot about was how the different animals and organisms interact with each other and how many ecosystems there are.  How can you apply what...

What did you learn this week? This week we learned about different lesson segments and different ways you can change up the lesson segments depending on what you are teaching. We also learned a lot about the 5E model of science instruction. The 5Es are: Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, and Evaluate.  We also got to check up on our fast plants. I was amazed at how fast (excuse my pun) these plants really do grow! Please look at the picture below of our fast plants.  Next we got to check up on our butterflies. They are currently in their chrysalis phase and will hopefully be coming out of that phase and into the butterfly phase soon! Please see updated picture below of our butterflies in their chrysalis phase.  Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew? Yes. I knew already that there were more lesson segments than what I knew/could name. It was interesting to see that there are different ways you can organize and do the segments depending on differen...

 1. What did you learn this week? This week we learned about a few different life cycles. We learned about the mealworm lifecycle, the butterfly lifecycle, plant lifecycles, and more. We also got to make physical lifecycles with play dough. We chose to make the butterfly lifecycle. The butterfly lifecycle has four different stages. The Egg stage, the caterpillar stage, the chrysalis stage, and the butterfly stage.  Another thing we did this week was we started growing our own fast plants! The lifecycle of a fast plant is really short. Once you plant seeds, our plant will have harvestable seeds in about 40 days. That’s only a little over a month! The instructions for planting the fast plants was: 1. Drop one wick into each cell so that the tip extends about 2cm out of the hole of the bottom. 2. Fill each cell halfway with the potting mix. 3. Add 2-3 fertilizer pellets to each cell. 4. Fill each cell to the top with the potting mix. 5. Make a shallow depression on top of each ce...