Good Wednesday! Today's off-schedule Science Solutions blog assignment is to reflect on yesterday's field trip to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. We are to explain what we learned about our animal and if going to the zoo changed our perspective of it.
Well, the field trip was nice in some regards, but in the respect of actual learning about a specific animal, it was kind of disappointing. I loved going around to various exhibits and learning about other animals, but the plecostomus, my group's animal, didn't even have an exhibit. We think we might have found a spotted one in part of the rainforest exhibit, but there was no display information, and the zookeeper who was there informed us that they didn't know the fish's classification information. That kind of left the window open to curiosity, I guess, but I'm still unsure of whether it was a pleco or not.
I don't know how the lack of plecos at the zoo will affect our grade, but I have an uneasy feeling it might. Mrs. Poole explained to us that she already knew that certain animals couldn't be found at the zoo and to just go with the rest of our group, whose animals were the domestic alpaca and a type of peccary. So in that way, going to the zoo didn't change my perspective on my animal very much at all. Most of the fun yesterday was seeing the other animals and learning about them, as well as doing the many stations; I thought a lot of those were really cool!! We didn't focus on learning about animals all year in science, but I saw some hints about adaptations and evolutions in the information given at some of the stations. Overall, going to the zoo was educational and fun, even if a bit of a letdown in some respects. There are certain things about the field trip and project that I think could have been fixed, but some made the unit overall very memorable and rewarding. For the rest of this week we'll continue working on our zoo website and adding more information about the plecostomus to it. Unfortunately, I don't think that will change much. The value of our understanding, however, was improved on by the efforts of ourselves and our teachers, and I cannot thank them enough for that!!!!!!!!!!
Well, the field trip was nice in some regards, but in the respect of actual learning about a specific animal, it was kind of disappointing. I loved going around to various exhibits and learning about other animals, but the plecostomus, my group's animal, didn't even have an exhibit. We think we might have found a spotted one in part of the rainforest exhibit, but there was no display information, and the zookeeper who was there informed us that they didn't know the fish's classification information. That kind of left the window open to curiosity, I guess, but I'm still unsure of whether it was a pleco or not.
I don't know how the lack of plecos at the zoo will affect our grade, but I have an uneasy feeling it might. Mrs. Poole explained to us that she already knew that certain animals couldn't be found at the zoo and to just go with the rest of our group, whose animals were the domestic alpaca and a type of peccary. So in that way, going to the zoo didn't change my perspective on my animal very much at all. Most of the fun yesterday was seeing the other animals and learning about them, as well as doing the many stations; I thought a lot of those were really cool!! We didn't focus on learning about animals all year in science, but I saw some hints about adaptations and evolutions in the information given at some of the stations. Overall, going to the zoo was educational and fun, even if a bit of a letdown in some respects. There are certain things about the field trip and project that I think could have been fixed, but some made the unit overall very memorable and rewarding. For the rest of this week we'll continue working on our zoo website and adding more information about the plecostomus to it. Unfortunately, I don't think that will change much. The value of our understanding, however, was improved on by the efforts of ourselves and our teachers, and I cannot thank them enough for that!!!!!!!!!!
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