If you are making a tower out of blocks, you need, well, blocks! If you are making a human, you need cells. And those cells need instruction: they need DNA. DNA makes us unique, its replication is very accurate, but mistakes happen and can be very dangerous. In short, DNA is essential for life.
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Snapping Turtles
If you hit a sibling, your mom would be mad. Nevertheless, if you were a snapping turtle and you used your brothers and sisters as stepstools when climbing out of the nest, there would be no “Go to your room”. The mom left more than 75 days ago! (Also, there…
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Wild Buffalo Buffalo, which are usually wild, eat three-inch long gamma grass. The buffalo’s sharp and pointy horns dig into the ground and the buffalo roll around playfully in the soft Kansas prairie to create buffalo wallows. Birds eat clingy ticks off the wooly beasts. Wild buffalo must look silly….
Continue readingLearning about the Coral Reef
We played a game to practice reviewing the facts we learned about the Coral Reef.
Continue readingSea Anemones
Last year (December 2014) I made a stop motion video about sea anemones. I do not think we ever posted it…. Anyway, here it is! I also made a paragraph about it in the post GIFT Stories: LEGO Class.
Continue readingScience: Junk Food Monster’s Emaill
Recently in science, we have been learning about the food pyramid and nutrition. An assignment was to pretend you are a dietitian and write a letter to a client. Dear Junk Food Monster, Junk food is not good for you. Junk food has lots of fat and sugary carbohydrates. You are…
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