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Blog week 6

This week in the lab we look at our fast-growing plants. It has been about 20 days, and our plants have 
already grown so much! 

This week in the lab we look at our fast-growing plants. It has been about 20 days, and our plants have already grown so much! This is the plant and it is pretty tall. It still does have some yellow leaves but it does not seem to be affecting the plant. Since the plant is halfway done going through its full cycle I am excited to see what fully grown looks like since I have never seen this plant before. 


In class today we talked a lot about sea turtles. We read a book about how a turtle's life experience, and all the struggles it encounters. For example, turtles have natural and human experiences that can affect them, both positively and negatively. Some natural experiences that are dangerous for turtles are predators, while human experiences that are dangerous for turtles are littering. Although there are some negatives both nature and humans can positively affect a turtle's life. In order for us to understand we did an activity called "Turtle, Turtle Watch Out." In this activity played a game based on luck using a fortune teller. 

I learned a lot of facts about sea turtles that I did not know that surprised me. 

Remaining question
How long does it take for sea turtle eggs to hatch?
    - How many of those eggs are actually hatched/kept safe?

Applying to the future
After our sea turtle activity, we made a personal description of 3-dimensional teaching. In my words, I see 3D teaching as a new way to make science fun, hands-on, engaging, and interactive while improving student learning all through using the 3 concepts. By mixing the 3 concepts together I feel it makes science understandable for students. Instead of memorizing facts, students learn through experiments, observation, and investigation. This is what I will always think about for 3D teaching in my future classroom. 


Comments

  1. Matt LorenzFebruary 22, 2023 at 12:24 PM

    Hi Amber. Great job on this post. You made great points and did a great job explaining how you will apply the 3D model into your future teaching. To answer your question, I think sea turtle eggs take around 2 months to hatch. I would expect their survival rate to be extremely low.

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  2. Julia MikkelsenFebruary 22, 2023 at 12:26 PM

    We did learn a lot of new information about sea turtles in class today, but I am also still very curious on sea turtles and their eggs. I have the same question as you do. I would like to know how many eggs a sea turtle lays and how long it takes for those eggs to hatch.

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  3. Abby BorthFebruary 22, 2023 at 2:06 PM

    Hi Amber,
    Great post! I am loving how colorful your blog is as well as the pictures you have included. I agree that we learned a lot about sea turtles this lab. It was interesting to hear about all of the challenges that turtles face as soon as they hatch. It was sad to hear that only one in 1,000 turtles will survive. I am hoping to use the activity in class to educate future students on this topic.

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