Science with Lexi

  8 Characteristics of Living Things Learned this Week  This week I learned about the characteristics of living things. I also learned how to dissect a bean, which was really interesting. We were able to find the seed coat, cotyledon, and embryo. We also learned about what it means for an organism to be dormant vs. alive. I also learned about Germinating seeds, and we learned to not overwater the seeds. I also learned that all you need to do this is a warm environment, water, cotton balls, seeds, and a cup! We dove deeper into the NGSS and worked on identifying all topics within the one standard! Already knew  Something I related to was when we talked about the 8 characteristics of living things. When we did this, I remembered doing something almost identical in elementary school. It was really cool that all of our groups came up with many different examples for the same topics.  Confusing  I found the information about the 8 characteristics of living things ver...

  Dream Classroom What Questions we Investigated During our class, we investigated with a partner what our "Dream Classroom" would look like and what we would have in our classroom. In my classroom, I want to know how my students are feeling; I implemented a temperature check bulletin board that will allow students to rate how they are feeling and also have a note bin where they can write what they need from me to have a successful week. Another thing in our classroom we included was a therapy dog that wills occasionally visit to help ease the anxiety of life for our students. We investigated the National Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and went to their website to learn about the standards and how to read them. We did this due to Iowa switching from Common Core standards to the NGSS; we learned why they did this and how the two education systems are different.  What Did to Investigate  In our lab, we had to come up with how we wanted our classroom; we had to collabor...