Science--Intro+to+Inquiry

= **Science: Intro to Inquiry** = • Learn how to teach yourself--you won't be in school forever. • Questioning is a //good// thing. • There's no right or wrong in science! • All of us together are smarter than one of us. • Life is full of Author & Me and On My Own questions--we need to be able to think that way.

I can make accurate observations of animals feeding.
Predator, Forager, Opportunist (styles of eating) Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore, Detritivore (names for animals that eat meat, or eat plants, or eat meat & plants, or scavenge for food) Prey (what predators stalk)
 * Vocabulary:**


 * 1) Each member watch the same video on different computers.
 * 2) Each member write down observations.
 * 3) Group gets together and compares observations.
 * 4) Group decide on inferences.
 * 5) Repeat 1--4 until all videos for your fox have been observed.

**Group #1:** You will observe the feeding habits of the Fennec Fox. Fennec Fox eating grubs. Fennec Fox eating a snake. Fennec Fox eating invertebrates (bugs). Fennec Fox eating insects.

**Group #2:** You will observe the feeding habits of the Red Fox.

Red Fox storing food.
Red Fox searching for food in winter Red Fox searching for food in summer Red Fox finds lunch

Arctic Fox hunting a lemming. Arctic Fox scavenging on polar bear kill. Arctic fox catching and retrieving food. Arctic fox foraging.
 * Group #3:** You will observe the feeding habits of the Arctic Fox.

Grey Fox foraging. Grey Fox searching for food Grey Fox carrying lunch Grey Fox taking an opportunity to eat
 * Group #4:** You will observe the feeding habits of the Grey Fox.

//Week of October 25: Why do animals feed the way they do?//
Project Board (Modified October 28) Groups for Presentation:

 //Week of October 18: Why do animals feed the way they do?//
Project Board

Video "Feeding Behaviors--Chimpanzees"

Break--changed instructional strategies because Magic Tubes was not structured enough to allow for growth in formal operational thinking

**//Week of September 13: Magic Tubes//**
• In your group, use observation and trial and error practice to figure out what the cords need to look like inside in order to act like the model does on the outside. • You may not take the model apart :) • I will not give any hints.

 //Week of September 6: Peanut Butter Instructions//
• A form to write the instructions on can be found here. --Make sure you give enough detail so that an alien from Alpha Centauri who doesn't know anything about making a sandwich can use the instructions to feed himself! • E-mail this as an attachment to **bekeld@gmail.com** • You will make a sandwich using instructions from another student. --Make it exactly as they direct you!

==** //Week of August 30: Bio Poem// ** == • Go to [|the Bio Poem page] and find out what a Bio Poem is. • Come back to this page and read "**My Bio Poem**". • Come back to this page and select "**Bio Poem Form**". • Fill in the blanks with your descriptions. • Save the form to the Document Folder on your computer. • Open a new email in your Gmail. • Email me at b**ekeld@gmail.com**. • Add your email as a CC (send this to yourself as well in the "CC" field). • Attach the doc to the email. • Click "Send" • This assignment will be checked off in Standard Score after I receive it.

My Bio Poem:

The Bio Poem Form: