Return to Caroline

WOW! What a great trip to NorthBay!
I think that I am pretty safe in saying that everyone really enjoyed the trip. Besides having fun we also learned a lot about the natural environment as well as learning a bit about ourselves. Filters, invasive species, and degraded conditions have really been on my mind for the last week. I'm wondering if there is something I can do around Caroline County to make a positive change.
What do you think? What are you going to do with everything that you learned at NorthBay? Post your answer this week!

By the way, check out NorthBay Live.net!

Community Issue

What is an issue that people in your community care about? What is a possible solution to the problem? Post your answer this week!

Owl Pellet Investigation

Now that you have completed the investigation on owl pellets you should be able to answer the question. Please respond as a group and put your group number and period number as your signature. For example: group5period1

How does the owl act as a limiting factor for the population of voles or field mice?

Changes in Population

Here is an activity that helps explain how populations can change.
Play the game and then take the self test.

Food Web Game

I found a great site to learn about food chains and food webs.
It's a game that shows how food chains can be linked to each other. Each level of a food chain is called a trophic level. The word trophic refers to organisms gaining energy - usually by eating. The game takes you through the different trophic levels that exist in a food web.
Play it and see how many points you can score!

Click HERE to play the game.

PHSchool

For a review of the scientific method go to the following site:
The Nature of Inquiry
Click start and then follow the directions to complete the task. Make sure you read the directions!!!
After you have successfully completed the task, close the window and take the Self Test.

Frog Science

Check out the following story.

There once was a scientist who studied frogs. One day, the scientist put the frog on the ground and told it to jump. The frog jumped four feet. So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with four feet, jumps four feet."
So the scientist taped up one of the frog’s legs. The scientist told the frog to jump. The frog jumped three feet. The scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with three feet, jumps three feet."
So the scientist taped up another leg. He told the frog to jump. The frog jumped two feet. So the scientist wrote in his notebook "Frog with two feet, jumps two feet."
The scientist taped up one more leg. He told the frog to jump. The frog jumped one foot. So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with one foot, jumps one foot."
So the scientist taped up his last leg. He said, "Frog jump. Frog jump. FROG JUMP!" So the scientist wrote in his notebook, "Frog with no feet, loses hearing."

Do you agree with the scientist? Do you have a different conclusion? Tell me what you think about thhe scientist's thinking.