This is where I will show some of my work that I do in my science class throughout this year. In this class we have done many very interesting labs and explored cells, genes, the effects of air pressure, and the growth and development of living thing specifically baby rats. There have also been other things that we have studied this year, and all of it has been pretty interesting to me. I have never really liked or been interested by science until this year. Another thing this class does is go on big field trips to places such as Zion National Park in Utah, or to go explore tide pools on the coast. I was lucky enough to be able to go on the trip to Zion which was an amazing experience. I am excited to learn everything else that we will be learning this year in science.
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Baby Rats
Way back at the beginning of the year my science class got to do be part of something really cool! That was the birth and growth of baby rats. We started out with a few adult rats, and as soon as we knew it, there were dozens of babies running around the cage. The picture on the right shows one of the babies before it has any hair, and its eyes aren't open yet, which means it is probably less than a week old. During the time that we had the young rats, we would take different measurements of them ever few days. The measurements included weight, tail length, and head circumference. I really liked doing this because I have never had a real class pet(s) before, and it was fun to be able to do all the hands-on type stuff with the rats. I also learned a lot.
While studying the baby rats I learned a lot about how animals develop. Every time we measured the rats, we wrote down all the different measurements in a chart that we made in our composition books. Another thing I learned was how to use a scale, which proved to be an important skill because we have used scales a lot of other times this year. Studying the rats reminded me of something I did in third grade. In third grade we each had a pet snail, and we also had to take measurements for them too. we even had a snail olympics. The baby rats reminded me a lot of doing that. The only difference is that the rats move much faster than snails! Either way though, being able to what we did with the baby rats was a lot of fun because I love hands-on stuff like that and I hope I get to something like that again.
While studying the baby rats I learned a lot about how animals develop. Every time we measured the rats, we wrote down all the different measurements in a chart that we made in our composition books. Another thing I learned was how to use a scale, which proved to be an important skill because we have used scales a lot of other times this year. Studying the rats reminded me of something I did in third grade. In third grade we each had a pet snail, and we also had to take measurements for them too. we even had a snail olympics. The baby rats reminded me a lot of doing that. The only difference is that the rats move much faster than snails! Either way though, being able to what we did with the baby rats was a lot of fun because I love hands-on stuff like that and I hope I get to something like that again.