Well, today started like a usual Monday, until Emma realized that it was "terrarium day". She sprung out of bed, brushed her teeth and was ready to get "dirty". We started with the 10 gallon tank from wal mart. and some gravel and potting soil from there too.
Here she is adding a layer of soil over her layer of gravel. We forgot the sand that we meant to use between the gravel and soil.
Emma planted a fern, and another plant we bought at the nursery at wal mart. We also dug up a few things from our yard.
This is what the terrarium looked like when it was done being set up. The science experiment that we are using said that we could put a small animal or two in the terrarium, to give it the true "ecosystem" feel. So, Emma and I went frog hunting. (sorry no pictures of that). We ended up with two toads. At least I think they are toads. So they now live in our "new world".
And finally, here is a shot of Emma standing next to her terrarium.(notice her Bull Frog swim team shirt) It was a fun experiment and I am hoping that Emma does some good observations as prescribed in her science book. I am looking for some "Darwinian" observations from Emma. I'll keep you posted.Elizabeth also did a science experiment today, but it was on a much smaller scale, at least in my eyes. But she is not as impressed with the scientific method as Emma is so I do not know that she is getting all that much from Science as Emma.
3 comments:
I think you should teach the kids about local wildlife and put an alligator in there. That would be authentic.
Uh, Scott...I am having a hard enough time with the frogs. And the 10,000 crickets they put in the teraiaum (SP). Steve had to take them out, because he forgot crickets CHIRP!
alligator sure would be cool, or maybe a skunk, we have a bunch of those around here... the Toads are now eating or being fed little meal worms we bought at petsmart...
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