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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Chemical Reactions

What were some of the products in today's reactions?  Was your hypothesis support or not support by your observations?  Which reactions were exothermic?  Was does that mean?

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Nature Walk

How did having a dichotomous key help you to identify the trees on our walk? What made it difficult to identify the trees?

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Classifying Leaves

1. Why do scientists classify organisms?
2. How do you write a correctly punctuated scientific name?
3. Why don't we just use the English or common name for organisms in science?
4. Recall the leaves you classified. What are three leaf traits or characteristics you used to classify the leaves?