The third quarter of the 2013-2014 school year has been full of new experiences, information, and knowledge about marine life. We have done many things to acquire this vast knowledge, including 5 seperate dissections, a book about invertebrates, pages upon pages of coloring worksheets, multiple quizzes, more coloring, and also working with the fifth graders and teaching them about invertebrates.
We focused mainly on invertebrates this quarter. The main phylums are porifera (sponges), cnidereans (jellyfish, potruguese man-o-war), mollusca (sea snails, slugs, clams, oysters), platyhelminthes (flatworms), annelida (ringed worms, tapeworm, ringworm), arthropods (crabs, lobsters, crawfish), and echinoderms (starfish, sea stars, brittle stars). It was interesting to learn the variety of species with no vertebrae, i didn't know that there were so many. That's cray cray.
Among the other things we did to reinforce this knowledge of invertebrates was a whole bunch of coloring. I became very proficient in coloring in between the lines, and coloring two things the same color. If I ever have to help my 7 year old brother with his homework, I will be aaaaaalllllllllllllllllllll over it. Something that actually did help sink in the material were the dissections. Each one was a different level of complexity, ranging from the simple flatworm to the much more compley crawfish and squid. I liked this way of learning because it was hands on, and very easy to remember the stuff we did.
We focused mainly on invertebrates this quarter. The main phylums are porifera (sponges), cnidereans (jellyfish, potruguese man-o-war), mollusca (sea snails, slugs, clams, oysters), platyhelminthes (flatworms), annelida (ringed worms, tapeworm, ringworm), arthropods (crabs, lobsters, crawfish), and echinoderms (starfish, sea stars, brittle stars). It was interesting to learn the variety of species with no vertebrae, i didn't know that there were so many. That's cray cray.
Among the other things we did to reinforce this knowledge of invertebrates was a whole bunch of coloring. I became very proficient in coloring in between the lines, and coloring two things the same color. If I ever have to help my 7 year old brother with his homework, I will be aaaaaalllllllllllllllllllll over it. Something that actually did help sink in the material were the dissections. Each one was a different level of complexity, ranging from the simple flatworm to the much more compley crawfish and squid. I liked this way of learning because it was hands on, and very easy to remember the stuff we did.