Moldy Bread Experiment Questions

Moldy Bread Experiment Questions

1) Why hasn't the bread gotten moldy?

2) Why was our manipulated variable flawed?

3) Will the bread ever decompose?

4) How would you re-design the experiment?

Snow Day!

I just got the call from Mr Fallat that we are having another snow day tomorrow (Wednesday 1/18/12)!
I went into school to check on the moldy bread experiment today and there is still no mold, so that wont be due until next week. However your science fair experimental question and notebook are still due on Friday. Some of you have told me your ideas already and they sound great! If your still not sure about what to do or have any questions just shoot me an email. dkehoe@novaschool.org

Hope you are all having fun playing in the snow!

Science Fair

Here are some links that I showed you in class today about the upcoming Science Fair the 6th graders are doing at NOVA. If you look at the important dates (to the right) you will see that the final projects are due on March 9th, then we will have fair on the evening of March 14th where ribbons will be awarded. And for those of you who are intested you can enter your science fair project in the South Sound Regional Science fair on March 24th.

www.sciencebuddies.org - a great resource that will help you in every stage of your project.

www.plu.edu/scifair - more information about the regional science fair.

 

 

Food Web Video

A few of you asked for a link to the video I showed in class today as part of our unit on Ecosystems and Food Webs. So here it is. An incredible amateur wildlife video taken at a watering hole in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Don't forget on Monday morning there is no assembly. Go to your academic advisory, for most of you this is where you have closing crew.

2011's harvest

We received an email from the Thurston County Food Bank with the final tally of what we donated from our garden in 2011. Here's what they had to say.

"Your garden produced 333 pounds of produce for Thurston County Food Bank clients this year—that is nearly one third of the 1005 pounds we gleaned from the nine school gardens that grow for us!  In your first season of production, you were our top school garden produce donor."

This is great news, hopefully we can produce even more in 2012. Thank you to all the 7th graders that came in over the summer to pick vegetables, and to the 6th graders who did a great job harvesting over 100 pounds of potatoes in the fall!

2012!

Happy New Year!
I'm looking forward to seeing you all in class tomorrow again. I've got some fun activities planned for the rest of this trimester! I'm back in Olympia now. Here are some more photos from Scotland.

This is a common sight in Scotland, solar panels on new homes. I must have seen a hundred of them.

I had to drive up in the Highland to see any snow. It was unseasonably warm over Christmas. The ski slopes were not running.

The Christmas lights in Downtown Aberdeen, the granite city.

My dad and I supporting Aberdeen FC at a Scottish Premier League game.

 



My Mum and I out on a walk near our house.



My new niece Ariana Catalina Reyes Kehoe, my sister and I.