Day 34 & 35

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

 Farm School

Sophie worked on her 4 part comic strip storyboard. Today she created the dialogue and did a rough-in/stick figure image for each strip. She also finished her lead in story for the Fall Almanac. We discussed the need to retake some of the photos she took with her I-POD with the digital camera.

      Sophie wrote the dialogue for all four comic strips.

      Sophie worked on the rough draft illustrations for each strip.

      Sophie finished the lead in story for her Fall Almanac.

ASSIGNMENT:

      Sophie needs to work on the final draft of her comic strip. She is to take 8x11 white paper and draw each block of the storyboard. We will then scan them into the computer and reduce them. Lastly we will edit and add the text in the appropriate font.

o   Please remind her to keep the drawings simple so they can scan down and still be seen.

Wednesday, September 28

Sophie worked on her Geometry project with Emma & Andy--she caculated finding the area of a lot of trianlges.

Sophie skated with Coach Linda for almost 2 hours, still working on her new program for testing. *see post about figure skating presentation*

Book Report

Title: A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark

Author: David A. Adler

1.       Summarize the story: This book is about the expedition of Lewis and Clark back in the early 1800’s. This book tells every good and bad fact about Lewis and Clark and their journey. It started when Lewis was appointed secretary to Thomas Jefferson. They were planning a secret expedition to go landscape the French territory. Jefferson than bought that territory in 1803 and sent Lewis and Clark and the Corps of discovery on their way. They camped in St. Louis Missouri for the first winter. The Mandan tribe kept Lewis and Clark safe and warm. Toussaint Charbonneau joined the Corps as an interpreter with his wife Sacajawea and her baby. Sacajawea acted as a guide for the corps and led them threw the land and back. We are now grateful for our faithful landscapers Lewis and Clark.

2.       List at least 3 characters with one sentence describing them:

Meriwether Lewis: Private secretary to Thomas Jefferson and leader of the Corps of Discovery expedition.

William Clark: Country man to soldier, to co- leader of the Corps of Discovery expedition, that is William Clark.

Sacajawea: Native American woman, husband to Toussaint Charbonneau, and guide to William and Clark.

3.       What did you like best about this book?

I liked the great facts and the education of this book. I also liked the great literature and illustrations of the book. It taught me a lot about Lewis and Clark.

4.       Write a one sentence advertisement for the book. Sell it!

I think you are a gal of history, you are well that is great girl, because there is this great book all about Lewis and Clark’s expedition in 1803-1805 (customer is walking away) Wait stop walking away!)  Look here there are beautiful illustrations and a marvelous story about how Lewis and Clark almost got eaten by a grizzly bear, shot in the butt, and almost lost in the wilderness. (Customer is walking back) Hey, I knew that would get your attention! It’s true and it is only $ 15,000! (Customer is walking away again!)

5.       What did you learn from the book? What lesson does the book teach?

I learned some great facts about Lewis and Clark that I didn’t know before! It teaches all about Lewis and Clark’s amazing journey through Louisiana.

Ecosystem Observation Worksheet    Front Pond

Date:     9/28                                                                       Season: FAll

Time of observation:      2:45                                        Duration of observation:  15 mins

1.       List three details or parts of the ecosystem you are observing:

Waterfall: a couple of fish reacting with it, lots of bubbles at bottom, dark rock, extra water

Socks (frog): interacting with fish, sitting half out of water, ate a bug

Cattail: almost all strands in water, brown and yellow, fall leaves all around, bent over looking

2.       What did you notice or observe?

I observed the ecosystem by looking at the 3 details and how they interact with each other. It is neat to see how three completely different things can relate to each other.

3.       What elements (weather, temperature, light, etc.) affected the ecosystem during your observation?

Warm, no sun on pond, cold water, leaves falling into pond, slight wind

4.       What things changed since the last time you observed the ecosystem?

More leaves, fish deeper in water, darker water, colder water

5.       What changes do you expect to happen to the ecosystem before your next observation?

Slight ice on pond, no fish, slower waterfall, more leaves

6.       On back, draw part of the ecosystem (can be specific detail, food web, metamorphosis chart, picture):

Day 33 Skating Presentation

September 26, 2011 Day 23-33 : 10 days school

Monday, trip to Colonial Skating Club, Boxbourough Mass

Day 33: 10 Days School Credit for completed PPP on “Figure Skating”

Sophie’s Blog: Write long, detailed, edited journal about skating to use for your PPP. Write at least 50 good sentences about figure skating, freestyle, ice dancing, your accomplishments, and your goals for this year.

Figure skating, f as in freestyle, I as in ice, g as in glide, u as in unspeakable, r as in rockers, e as in elements, s as in skate, k as in kick-butt awesome!, a as in amazing, t as in tough, I as in indescribable, n as in nothings quite like it, g as in great! That pretty much describes figure skating, well sort of.

 There is actually a whole lot more! Figure Skating is all about making people happy watching you as much as the elements and the judges, well at least how I see it. How I think about figure skating though is probably different than most other 11 year old girl figure skaters though. They think of it as a way to become known all over the world as the best figure skater there can be, but not me no, I think of it as an opportunity to perform while using all sorts of cool jumps and spins. But today I am going to tell you about figure skating at my perspective alright. So here we go,

let’s start with the most common interest of figure skating, “freestyle.” Free style consists of 5 different main jumps which are, “the flip, the lutz, the waltz-jump, the loop, and the salchow.” You can double and triple these jumps once you think you are ready. There are also three main spins, “the scratch-spin, the sit-spin, and the camel.” You can advance these into more complicated spins when you want to such as the flying camel or pancake sit. You can put any of these elements together with some movements and footwork to music and you can compete with it. Freestyle is not the only part of skating though.

There is also something called ice dancing where you skate with a partner. You learn dances on the ice. And you test the dances to move on and learn another. You can also do free dancing, with is with a partner where the couple does lifts and spins and other stuff.

 Now I should probably talk about my skating life. Well, this year I have competed at the pre-juv level and am about to test for juv. I have landed my double toe-loop, double loop, and double lutz. Learned 3 different spins, the haircutter, the death drop, and the beilman. And recently placed first in Providence for a competition. I hope to land my double flip and start to learn double axel in the following year, place high in the juviniele level. And get a score over 30.

I first started skating when I was 2 and my grandmother Emma took me to the rink in Augusta and I skated. She was holding me up by me jacket and I loved it out there. I decided I wanted to do more of it. Emma’s best friend is Linda Despres, the head of the Skating Club of Brunswick so I started taking lessons there. I was in the basic skills until I was six. I learned all sorts of basic skating moves during the classes and also with my coach, who is Linda. I was taking lessons with her on Wednesday every week. She took me to a skating competition in Colorado Springs when I was 7. I took 4^th place in my freestyle event and first in showcase.

I bet you’re wondering what showcase is right! Showcase is when you perform a program with your elements telling a story with the music using a prop and a costume. I won first in Colorado with my program Buffalo Gals. I also did Buffalo Gals in a show one year. Every year the Skating Club of Brunswick has a figure skating show called “That’s Entertainment.” Where all the skaters from the club get a solo and skate to it in front of an audience. The program matches the theme of the show.

I told you my coach is Linda Despres right, Well she isn’t really Linda Despres she is Linda Big Hair Despres. Linda and I have had a super good relationship since she started teaching me, until now. She is funny, the best skating teacher ever, and has Big Hair. She has taught me so well and I admire her. My ice dancing coach is Rob Yokabaskas and he is great too. He is super tall, (6 4’ exactly) and he lifts me up over his head and he is awesome as well. Emma is amazing as well, She supports me in my skating and as a person, and drives me everywhere and stays and watches me skate. If it wasn’t for these three wonderful people I probably wouldn’t be skating, or at least not as well. Thank you to all the people who support me,

Well that’s probably all there is about my figure skating life, which is a big part of my life! Thank you for reading, BYE!  P.S that ending isn’t good so I am just going to make you laugh with this one instead :P

Follow Link to check out my presentation:

Sophie's Figure Skating Presentation

Day 22

Friday September 23, 2011 Farm School: Day 22

Friday, September 23, 2011

Sophie worked on designing her storyboard for her 4 part comic strip of the Louisiana Purchase. We discussed caricatures and how to find recognizable facial/body features.  She looked at photographs, paintings and cartoons of the main characters in her story. .

      Sophie drew 4 main characters for her comic book and chose two landscape features that would help make her characters recognizable.

      Sophie chose the design format of her comic book.

      Sophie began the process of placing the story … and we discussed important facts – timeline -  and that humor is part of the ‘comic book’ format.

      Sophie took 72 photographs of the farm for use in her Fall Almanac.

ASSIGNMENT:

      Sophie needs to work on the rough draft of her storyboard – we have discussed how to use the provided templates. The main purpose is to designate the action and write the story not work on individual drawings.

      When/if Sophie finishes the rough draft of the storyboard she can begin the individual drawings. She is to take a 8x11 white paper and draw each block of the storyboard. We will then scan them into the computer and reduce them. Lastly we will edit and add the text.

o   Please remind her to keep the drawings simple so they can scan down and still be seen.

Days 21 & 21

September 21 & 22, 2011 Days 20 & 21

Sophie worked on her Geometry Blueprint project with Emma and Andy and did some research on the properties of triangles:

1. scalene: Scalene triangles are unusual in that they are defined by what they are not. Most triangles drawn at random would be scalene. The interior angles of a scalene triangle are always all different. The converse of this is also true - If all three angles are different, then the triangle is scalene, and all the sides are different lengths.

2. acute: A triangle that has all angles less than 90°

3. obtuse: In any triangle, two of the interior angles are always acute (less than 90 degrees)*, so there are three possibilities for the third angle: Less than 90° - all three angles are acute and so the triangle is acute.

Exactly 90° - it is a right triangle

Greater than 90° (obtuse): the triangle is an obtuse triangle

Sophie also skated 2 hours and is working on her new program for testing in November.

Sophie also went to Glee Club practice and dance class!

6 x 6 for Sixth Grade

Louisiana Purchase

Vocabulary

1. Louisiana: a state of the southern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: originally a French colony; bought by the US in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase

2. manifest destiny: the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.

3. negotiation: mutual discussion and arrangement of the terms of a transaction or agreement

4. survey: to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation

5. Napoleon: Napoleon Bonaparte; “the Little Corporal” 1769–1821, French general born in Corsica: emperor of France 1804–15.

6. Thomas Jefferson: U.S. statesman, diplomat, architect, and author: third president of the U.S.

Sentences

1. Louisiana means the native land/ state where the man came from.

2. Thomas Jefferson believed in the manifest destiny, and he made it come true.

3. James Monroe had a lot of negotiation with Napoleon over the Louisiana Purchase.

4. Lewis and Clark were sent to survey the land which Jefferson just bought.

5. Napoleon Bonaparte was famous for being short, he was barely 5 6’.

6. Thomas Jefferson was elected President in 1802, just before the Louisiana Purchase was made.

Details/ Facts

1.       President Jefferson spent 15,000,000 dollars on the Louisiana Purchase

2.       Jefferson doubled the size of the U.S for only 4 cents an acre!

3.       Lewis and Clark’s real names were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

4.       Lewis and Clark wouldn’t have succeeded their expedition if it wasn’t for  Sharano and Sacajawea

5.       Sacajawea is now featured on the one dollar coin

6.       Sacajawea had a baby during the process

Questions

1. Why were so many new Americans heading west into the Northwest Territory?  A: Because there was more ELBOW ROOM! And more crops and animals to grow and use on there farms

2. Who owned Louisiana before the purchase? A: The French

3. Who was the first negotiator that President Jefferson sent? A: Robert Livingston

4. Who was the second negotiator the President sent? A: James Monroe (who apparently had a charm)

5. How many square miles did France sell President Jefferson and for how much money? A: 828,000 square miles for $ 15,000,000

6. What year was the Louisiana Purchase completed? A: 1803

Math *how was Math used to make the Louisiana Purchase happen?

1. Jefferson used math to see how much each acre would cost to make the purchase = 4 cents per acre

2. Napoleon used math to see how much the land was worth = about $ 15,000,000

3. Lewis and Clark used math to see approximately how long it would take them to go across the land.

4. Sacajawea used math to show Lewis and Clark the quickest way to go

5. Lewis and Clark used math to show the pioneers which way to go

6. Jefferson used math to see how much he was getting for his money

Current Events or 6 things “I Don’t Know!”

1. Robert Livingston’s job was to discourage Napoleon from damaging the U.S relation’s by acquiring Louisiana

2. Louis XVI gave New Orleans to his brother Carlos III of Spain

3. Spain signed Pickneys treaty with the U.S

4. The Spanish governor of Louisiana takes away America’s rights to store cargo in New Orleans

5. Lewis and Clark settled to camp in Saint Louis Missouri

6. In 1819 America signs a treaty agreeing that the boundary will be along the Sabine river

Louisiana Purchase WebQuest

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WIMJOhOGKQ

A: Follow link & watch video

B: List 6 Facts & Details you learned (copy and paste these for your 6 x 6)

7.       President Jefferson spent 15,000,000 dollars on the Louisiana Purchase

8.       Jefferson doubled the size of the U.S for only 4 cents an acre!

9.       Lewis and Clark’s real names were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

10.   Lewis and Clark wouldn’t have succeeded their expedition if it wasn’t for  Sharano and Sacajawea

11.   Sacajawea is now featured on the one dollar coin

12.   Sacajawea had a baby during the process

2. http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=3794

A: Follow link and watch video

B: Watch it again, it’s good and you like to sing

C: Summarize the song here or write the lyrics of the song if you can

The lyrics:

One thing that you will discover when,

You get next to one another is everybody needs some elbow room, (elbow room)

It’s nice when you’re kinda cozy,

But not when you’re tangled nose to nosey,

Oh everybody needs some elbow, needs a little elbow room,

That’s how it was in the early days in the U.S.A,

The people kept a comin’ to settle though,

The east was the only place there was to go,

The President was Thomas Jefferson,

He made a deal with Napoleon,

“How’d you like to sell a mile or two” (Or three, or a hundred, or a thousand)

And so in eighteen hundred three,  

The Louisiana territory,

Was sold to us,

Without a fuss,

And gave us lot’s of elbow room,

Oh, Elbow room, Elbow room,

Gotta gotta give us some elbow room,

It’s the west or bust,

In God we trust,

It’s a new land out there,

Lewis and Clark volunteered to go,

“Goodbye, Good Luck, Wear your over coat,”

They prepared for good times and for bad, (And for bad)

They hired, Sacajawea to be there guide,

She led them all across the country side,

Reached the coast and found the most elbow room we’ve ever had,

Oh, elbow room, elbow room,

Gotta gotta give us some elbow room,

Oregon or bust,

In God we trust,

Gotta give us some elbow room!

3. http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/louisianapurchase.htm

A: Follow link and read web site

B: Use this website to answer your questions for the 6 x 6

4. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/1800/louisianapurchase/

A: Take the Quiz

B: Check your answers

5.       Search the web and find three good examples of maps that detail the Louisiana Purchase:

C:   http://www.sonofthesouth.net/texas/louisiana-purchase-map.htm

6.       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz1p_QotCrk&feature=related

A: Follow the link and watch the video

B: Tell me at least 6 things you learned from the video that “I Don’t Know!”

1. Robert Livingston’s job was to discourage Napoleon from damaging the U.S relation’s by acquiring Louisiana

2. Louis XVI gave New Orleans to his brother Carlos III of Spain

3. Spain signed Pickneys treaty with the U.S

4. The Spanish governor of Louisiana takes away America’s rights to store cargo in New Orleans

5. Lewis and Clark settled to camp in Saint Louis Missouri

6. In 1819 America signs a treaty agreeing that the boundary will be along the Sabine river

Copy and Past these and add them in place of your Current Events for this 6 x 6

Day 19

September 20, 2011 Day 19 Farm School

Day 19

Volunteered at The Theater Project—1 ½ hours

Farm School

Sophie and I began the our 1^st Semester, Grade 6 project Midden Earth Farm Almanac  Vol. 2, Issue 1. This is an extension of our project from last semester and is based on Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richards Almanac.

      The goal for this semester is to learn how to use the format and layout tools in Microsoft Publisher. She will be writing the stories and taking the photos herself for this volume.

Sophie created the template changes for the Almanac and she chose the fonts and worked on the title page.

      Sophie wrote the rough draft for the title page story ‘My Summer Summary’

      She found a watercolor painting that she had done of the pond and learned how to scan it into the computer for future illustration of  a pond observation assignment.

ASSIGNMENT:

      Do her webquest on the Louisiana purchase so that at the next farm school day we can do the storyboard and she can create the caricatures of Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon.

Ecosystem Observation Worksheet                         Farm Pond

Date:     9/20/11                                                                                Season: Fall

Time of observation:      12:00                                     Duration of observation: 30 mins

1.       List three details or parts of the ecosystem you are observing:

The big frog: resting on rock alone, fish around him, leaped on to lily pad, disturbed, croaking

Dragon (fish): interacting with other fish, eating algae, went to surface, away from waterfall, not still—keeps moving

Yellow lily pad: fish surrounding, frog on it, to algae, lots of water on top of it—more than green pads

2.       What did you notice or observe?

I observed the ecosystem through the three details. The lily pad gives the frog a resting place and a the fish a place to hide and feed from, the bog frog helps attract the algae to the lily pad which feeds the fish and attracts bugs that the frog eats

3.       What elements (weather, temperature, light, etc.) affected the ecosystem during your observation?

Cloudy, rainy, cold water temperature, cool temperature outside, no sun

4.       What things changed since the last time you observed the ecosystem?

Since summer: water was clearer, fish were skinnier, not as many frogs, warmer water temperature—more algae

5.       What changes do you expect to happen to the ecosystem before your next observation?

The frogs will be hidden, the fish will be deeper, less algae

6.       On back, draw part of the ecosystem (can be specific detail, food web, metamorphosis chart, picture):

Lily's Farm School:

Lily and Bo began the project Lily’s Farm Activity Book. This will be a blank workbook designed by Lily (with our help) to give to her friends for Christmas. She will also do one herself to document her semesters work.

            GOAL

      Learning basic Photoshop commands – learning Figure/ground. Placing figures within the background.

      Alphabetical sequencing - learning to recognize ABC’s in sequence using saved Photoshop images.

      Word/image recognition

ASSIGNMENTS

      Create with Bo an ‘I SPY on the farm’ page. Using photo images from Midden Earth Farm placed within the background of a found image.

      Creating the word key for the page

Day 17 & 18 Ecology

September 16th and 19th, 2011: Days 17, 18

Field Trip: Cathance River Education Alliance, Topsham Maine

http://creamaine.org/

Sophie’s Blog: Tell us about the walk we took on Friday and what we did, saw, and learned. Write 20 good sentences.

This afternoon, this afternoon was a special afternoon. It was a warm Friday afternoon in late summer, and we went on a walk and learned all about ecosystems (and mushrooms). Today we decided to go on a nature walk at CREA. CREA stands for Cathance River Education alliance. We started off walking on the Heath trail and we saw a small vernal pool and we sat down and talked about its ecosystem. We saw tons of frogs including a super huge one. We then kept walking and saw some liken, Mom told me what liken was and we kept looking for different types of it. We walked in to a big vernal pool with a dock were we saw people, we walked over and they asked us if we would like to set free a turtle. We said yes, so the man brought out the turtle and let us hold it. We set it off into the vernal pool and it went and hid from us. We looked at the ecosystem for the big vernal pool and the lady was impressed with us. So she invited us in to the ecology center and we learned more about liken. We left the ecology center and went back on the Heath trail home. Mom told me all about mushrooms and we probably saw and touched 50 different mushrooms. Like I said it was a special afternoon!

Mushy

Ugly

Soft

Hard

Rocky

Obese

Optimistic

Muggy

Never eat mushrooms,

Or you’ll have to use the flush-room!

Mushrooms can be brown, Mushrooms can be yella, I hope I don’t get Salmonella

6 x 6 written by Sophie using this book: Earth-Shaking Science Projects About Planet Earth by Robert Gardener

Vocabulary

1. Evidence:  That which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief

2. Pangea: The hypothetical landmass that existed when all continents were joined about 300 million years ago

3. Plates: Parts of Earth’s crust that can move

4. Volcanoes: A vent in the Earth’s crust which lava, steam, ashes, ect., are expelled , either continuously or at irregular intervals

5. Mantle: the portion of the earth, about 1800 miles (2900 km) thick, between the crust and the core

6. Earthquakes: a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating

Sentences

1. When people first started to think the Earth was round they needed more evidence so Aristotle took a sphere and a lantern in a dark room and proved that a sphere only made a round shadow, than during an eclipse the Earth made a round shadow on the moon proving the Earth’s sphere shape.

2.  Pangea was a continent that existed a long time ago when all present continents were joined.

3. Plates are parts of Earth’s crust that can move and form mountains and hills.

4. A volcano is an opening in Earth’s crust that allows magma to reach earth’s surface.

5. The mantle is the layer of heavy rocks under Earth’s crust.

6. An Earthquake is caused by the movements of plates; I bet there were a lot of Earth quakes back when the continents were forming the mountains and hills.

*Sophie, name and describe the 3 experiments in the book you want to do and explain why?

1. Other Evidence for a round Earth, I want to do this experiment because I think it sounds interesting to pretend to be Aristotle and prove the Earth is round

2. Earths moving continents, I want do this experiment because I want to see how we got our continents and everything

3. Earthquakes, I want to do this experiment because it teaches you how to build buildings to resist earthquakes, Lily might need this information in the future

Details/ Facts

1. Mount St. Helens, in the state of Washington, erupted violently in 1980

2. An earthquake in 1989 damaged buildings in San Francisco, California

3. Once there was a fence built across the San Andreas fault in California. It was straight when built but when the land moved part of the fence went with it

4. The Great Rift Valley in Eastern Africa marks a boundary between two of Earth’s plates

5. When Australia became a separate continent, its mammals were mostly marsupials

6. Earth is nicknamed a “beautiful blue marble floating in space”

Questions

1. What is lava? A: Magma that has flowed on to the Earth’s surface

2. How do you build buildings to resist earthquakes? A: You put building of the same height at different distances from the epicenter

3. How do mountains form? A: When two plates of land come together they can form a mountain

4. Which two continents do geologists and biologists think were the first to separate? A: South America and Africa

5. Who is Aristotle? A: The man that said only a sphere can make a round shadow which helped us discover the Earth’s shape

6. What are the layers of the Earth? A:crust, upper mantle, mantle, outer core, inner core, core

Math

*Look back through the book and give me 6 examples in the experiments where you use math

1. Other evidence for a round earth: you use math in this experiment because you have to use geometry to see how the Earth is round

2. Three layers of the Earth: you use math for this experiment because you have to measure with measuring cups how much water you put in

3. Earths moving continents: you use math for this experiment when you trace the continents to see the angles of the continents

4. Other plate movements: You use math for this experiment when you see how far away the plates need to be from each other

5. Volcanoes: You use math in this experiment because you need to see how much baking soda you have to use to make the “lava” come out

 6. Inside Earth: You use math to see how the mantle and the core are not the same thing

Current Events

*Find currents events about the Earth (earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, etc.) Write the headline, read at least the first 3 paragraphs, and copy link.

1. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/

2. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

3. http://www.volcanolive.com/news.html

4. http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcano_news.html

5. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/10/501364/main20041987.shtml

6. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/pictures/110315-nuclear-reactor-japan-tsunami-earthquake-world-photos-meltdown/

 Picture of back pond:

Ecosystem Observation Worksheet         Front Pond

Date:     09/19/11                                                                              Season: Fall

Time of observation:      4:00                                        Duration of observation: 20 mins

1.       List three details or parts of the ecosystem you are observing:

Waterfall: faster than normal, fish, rocks, algae in whirlpool at top and on rocks

Cattail: starting to fall, changing color, some strands in the water

Socks (fish): skinny, bog orange bump over head, still and deep, interacting with other fish, hid under rock

2.       What did you notice or observe?

The waterfall gives the fish oxygen, the fish eat the cattail, the waterfall gives clean water to the cattail, the fish eat the algae off the pump for the waterfall and the cattail attracts the algae from the pump to make the waterfall faster

3.       What elements (weather, temperature, light, etc.) affected the ecosystem during your observation?

Shade on pond, cool temperature outside, cold water temperature, slight wind, sun the distance

4.       What things changed since the last time you observed the ecosystem?

Since summer:  the fish were skinnier, the waterfall was faster (less algae), the plants sere small, the water was warmer, and there was a lot less algae on the rocks

5.       What changes do you expect to happen to the ecosystem before your next observation?

The water will be even colder, the plants will be more titled and brown, and the fish will be deeper and slower

6.       On back, draw part of the ecosystem (can be specific detail, food web, metamorphosis chart, picture):