Susan Haskell

Bonny – Hoepfully Liza’s comments helped? Let me know if I can help further. I think Charlene had problems uploading the revision and ended up starting a new thread by accident. We are all getting use to this format.

Thanks to Laura and Bonnie. I hope you both can test it befoew we see the students on Tuesday. Always good to tinker and do a trial run.

Hi Katie and Amelia, your 2nd draft looks good ~ have you tried this yet? I’m worried that there may not be enough of a difference between the fresh and salt water in how the boats float. I love the idea of creating waves using a straw. Have you thought about using those small hand […]

Oops, Kyle and Melissa, I forgot something. I was going to ask you to pretend that you are a participant walking up to your activity. Based on your layout, what is the first thing you’ll see? Will people already standing there block your view? Will you be able to see the pictures with people standing […]

HI Kyle and Melissa, Bonny has a good point about using hole punch paper for the pollution ~ I wasn’t taking into consideration the resetting of the model, and the glitter may be too hard to scoop out. The place I saw glitter used, the water ran into a container, so they just dumped the […]

Abe, thanks so much for answering the question I just knew my students would ask, so it’s not so much just the sand ~ which is the idea most of them will have after watching Discovery Channel showing sea turtles making their nests on the sandy beach. Great idea turning the tanks sideways so all […]

Hi Jenny and Charlene, thanks for the clarification on your activity ~ a lot of my original questions are actually what you want the participants to figure out as they use your model. Having just taught this concept to my 5th and 6th graders, it’s really hard to get them to understand how the water […]

HI Liv and Laura – You seem to be on track. Please be ready to submit a second draft on Th of this week in prep for our student visitors on April 13.

Great job – you are are the right track for our April 13 presentation to middle school youth.

I think it will be really easy to slip into just a biology lesson on terrapins unless you give careful attention to how to connect to the habitat issue. Laura, Bonnie and Liza all raise good points. Keep in mind this needs to be repeatable in classrooms and other informal learning centers. I suggest you […]

For the food coloring challenge – you can use dry tempor paint (comes in a little jar that you can add water can get “paint”). I have used that to color oil before and it works. I would like to see your next draft incorporating Liza and Laura’s comments by Th of this week. Pay […]