Hello ladies!!!!!! Today's Core Concentration blog entry is to explain what our favorite station at the zoo on Tuesday was and say why we liked it!!! This was also a question on the Zoo Reflections sheet we were given out that afternoon.
My personal favorite station at the zoo was probably the Sea Lion Cove one. I thought the exhibit itself was pretty rad, and it was the first station my group did in the morning, so I had a lot of energy and wasn't very tired. Basically at the station, we stuck our hands into various substances, each to represent a layer on the coat of a sea lion. For fur, there were soft feathers. For blubber, there was a bag of Crisco. To represent water, there was cold water. We had to measure the temperature of our hands in the bag and write it down. I think we learned that the one that best insulated a marine mammal like a sea lion was the fur. I liked this part because it was fun and not difficult.
I also liked it because it helped us to better understand some examples of animal adaptations. In addition to their coats and layers, sea lions also have sleek bodies and flippers to help them move around their environments. My group's zoo animal was the plecostomus, which we learned has whiskers and a dark, spotted body to help sense things around them and hide from predators, among other things. Learning about adaptations this year in Science was very fun for me, so I enjoyed finding practical examples of them like these ones.
My personal favorite station at the zoo was probably the Sea Lion Cove one. I thought the exhibit itself was pretty rad, and it was the first station my group did in the morning, so I had a lot of energy and wasn't very tired. Basically at the station, we stuck our hands into various substances, each to represent a layer on the coat of a sea lion. For fur, there were soft feathers. For blubber, there was a bag of Crisco. To represent water, there was cold water. We had to measure the temperature of our hands in the bag and write it down. I think we learned that the one that best insulated a marine mammal like a sea lion was the fur. I liked this part because it was fun and not difficult.
I also liked it because it helped us to better understand some examples of animal adaptations. In addition to their coats and layers, sea lions also have sleek bodies and flippers to help them move around their environments. My group's zoo animal was the plecostomus, which we learned has whiskers and a dark, spotted body to help sense things around them and hide from predators, among other things. Learning about adaptations this year in Science was very fun for me, so I enjoyed finding practical examples of them like these ones.
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