Week 3 Lab

 What We Know 

Based on week 2, we knew coming to class, we were going to see if our beans germinated successfully. Another thing we also knew was the characteristics of living things, and we learned about the life cycle. This allowed us to be able to construct our own life cycle and be able to know the 6 different characteristics of a living thing. 

Questions 

A question I have is how can the life cycle of the animal go with the food cycle? How are there different colored lady bugs if they all go through the same life cycle, why are they different colors? How does the characteristics of living things play a role in the life thing itself?

Clear and Confusing 

These experiments are very clear, and there is little confusion around them. The most confusing thing was the need for colors of playdough, this provided a more imaginary way of what the life cycle looks like in color, but it still gave a very good understanding of what the life cycle is and the different stages for different organisms. 

Use in the future

These activities are simple and very interactive. All three activities provide a great understanding of life cycles and demonstrate the life cycle in three very different ways. The playdough activity is fantastic because it also uses a sense of engineering, the student has to build the model, and this would be awesome to use as a group activity or even to allow the students to do it on their own. I will be using these activities in my future classroom.