Monday, May 20, 2013

Quote responses + food web practice + great video (Trees + Mass)

Hello! Today, the 7th graders began with the following quote:

Three hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
-- G. Tyler Miller, Jr., American Chemist (1971)


They were asked to respond and their responses are written below. Please read through all of the responses and then do the following:

  1. Select the one that you enjoy the most.
  2. Begin a gDoc by copying in the response you most enjoyed.
  3. In the document, also write your thoughts on the 7th grader's response. Do you agree? Disagree? What does it make you think of? (Please take some time to thoughtfully answer.)
  4. Share the document with me. Thanks!
Once you are done with the response, practice building a food web. Go to this link and select Build a Food Web. Read the directions and complete the web. Then, it will give you a scenario. Instead of filling the scenario out in the box, please add your ideas to the document you started earlier. ***Please make sure you write so that anyone would understand the scenario.


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