- Class was held in the bird room instead of the microscope lab. We had all sorts of beautiful birds looking down on us.
- Beaver stick
- from a Hackberry tree
- has berries that are sweet and crunchy
- also called a Sugarberry
- the rings of the branch were counted
- it was around 11 or 12 years old
- check out the bite marks
- Note: On 2/27/14, we looked at Hackberry petiole gall psyllid.
- Quartz
- Starfish
- Cocoon from a Cecropia moth
- pull fibers out and spin
- moth incorporated the leaf and spun webbing inside
- Dead limb with fungus and lichen
- Jelly-eared fungus
- gelatinous
- Chinese use it in soups
- it was dry so we rehydrated it
- Lichen
- makes it own food
- algae and fungi fused together
- Bagworm pupa
- Oak apple gall
- from a wasp
- hole shows where the wasp came out
- Long branch pine tree with blue pine cones
Shaking a bit of pollen dust
- Musk turtle
- small
- hinged plate on bottom
- male
- short tail before where the poop comes out
- 2 stripes on side of head
- no teeth
- has hard beak
- squirts out a musk scent when aggravated
- should have algae on it but it doesn't
- older
- found near Stone Mountain; it is going to be returned to its habitat
 |
| Watch out for that bite! |
- Sweet gum balls
- knocked the sweet gum balls to see what lived inside
- found spring tails and spiders
- Cultures
- Last week, the children put leaves and sticks and things in the prepared cultures
- This week, we checked out the fungus that grew.
No comments:
Post a Comment