Visit #4 to our BioCube (3/10/2021)

Pretty muddy.

Today's conditions (1st Period / 2nd / 3rd / 5th)
Temperature: 52* / 59* / 62* / 67*
*Light Levels: Medium / UV Index 2 / UV Index 3 / UV Index 4
*Humidity: 37% / 31% / 29% / 30%
*Wind Speed: 11 mph / 13 mph / 14mph / 21mph
*Wind Direction: S / S / S / S SW
*Weather Conditions: Partly Sunny / Partly Cloudy / Partly Sunny / Partly Cloudy
*Cloud cover: Medium / Medium-High / Medium / Medium-High
*Canopy/Leaf Cover of Cube Site: Dried leaves attached to branches
*Cube Composition: Tree bark, Air, Pill bug (?), grasses

1st Period's Research Question: What evidence of a food chain can we find in our BioCube?
Data/Observations: Lots of grasses and fungi in an around our BioCube. Several students observed tiny insects crawling in and around the BioCube, but primarily we only observed producers and decomposers today.

2nd Period's Research Question: What evidence of living things can we find in our BioCube?
Data/Observations: Lots of bird activity; heard a woodpecker.
"Things move which shows that maybe birds or things are around."
"I saw a lot of grass, birds, also some deer tracks around the biocube. "
"I noticed that the tree stump looked like it was a little brownish orange for some reason. I think it might be fungus"

3rd Period's Research Question: What species of insects can we identify in our BioCube?
Data/Observations: Heard the following birds: northern cardinal, red-winged blackbird, house sparrow.
"there where these little grey bugs that were under leaves plants."
"did not see any insects but possible inside the starting decomposed log."
"There were gusts of wind in the air. There was lots of trash around the biocube. I could hear sounds birds but I couldn't see any."

5th Period's Research Question: What living things can we identify in our BioCube in different seasons?
Data/Observations: Hard time hearing bird songs; very noisy. Observed a spider and a lady bug in our BioCube (hopefully we will ID)
"there was a spider in the BioCube today, outside the BioCube farther down there was a spiders nest on a log, the ground was muddy"
"There were a couple bugs in our biocube due to the warmer weather. It was around 66-68 degrees. there was a moss type in our biocube. It was muddy around the biocube."
"I found a eagle or hawk of some sort but i couldn't take a photo of it because it was moving around ."

הועלה ב-מרץ 11, 2021 12:46 אחה"צ על ידי ebartkowski