On Thursday we were joined by the final group of Grade 6 students from Quispamsis. These students also learnt about the Linnaeus Classification system, which is a system developed hundreds of years ago to classify and describe all living things. Next the students attended a seal feeding where they found out that seals, during the winter, eat up to 40 herring a day. Later in the day, students also discovered some interesting facts about lobster, such as, they have two stomachs and can smell with their feet. In the afternoon they were taught about plankton. One interesting thing they learnt is that plant plankton (phytoplankton), although microscopic, is very important as it is responsible for producing two-thirds of the world's oxygen supply.
Here students are deciding which criteria they will use to classify or group things.
Students worked hard to give a detailed drawing and description of various marine invertebrates.
Students watching the seal feeding were very impressed by the learnt behaviours of Snorkel and Loki.
A copepod under the microscope. This is the plankton the Plankton from Spongebob is based on. See any resemblance?
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