Adorable Baby Koala Mistakes Pet Dog For Its Mother 11/3

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On October 6, 2019, Tony (an old terrier with inferior vision) was out in his yard in Adelaide, South Australia, with his owner Henry. Then a baby koala got on his back. The perplexed doggo struggled to get the cute koala, which was clinging to its fur, off his body. Every time he thought he had succeeded, the smart koala found a way to get back on. The careful doggo finally got rid of the koala by rolling on his back, then the koala ran back into the wood to find its real mother. Henry the owner, who recorded the incident in question, says the koala, who resides in his backyard, has recently left his mother. He thinks it might have mistook his dog for its mother.

WATCH CUTE DOGGO WITH KOALA ON HIS BACK

I chose this article because. I like dogs I like koalas, and I like Australia. This story is important and it affects society because it shows how much deforestation means to the animals on our planet. This little koala couldn’t find its mother because there was no familiar terrain to help him find her.

QUESTIONS

1.  What is the size of a newborn koala?

2. How did the koala get that grip?

3. Are those amazing claws a co-evolution so it can feed on eucalyptus trees?

 

BORNEO CATS WEB 10/20/2019

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This week we worked on parachuting cats in Borneo because we were on the topic of food webs. I made a storyboard about it:

We made either a drawing or a storyboard about parachuting cats in Borneo. We had to portray the sequence by which Malaria spreads across Borneo. The WHO sprayed DDT to kill off the mosquito population and in the process killed off the parasitic wasps because they ate the dead mosquitoes and got DDT. But the wasps also ate thatch-eating caterpillars and without the wasps they flourished and ate all of the thatch roofs. In Borneo, being an impoverished Country, there were many houses with thatched roofs. The DDT was also consumed by flies and they died of DDT which were consumed by lizards who died of DDT who were then consumed by cats who died of DDT. The death of the cats lead to flourishing rats, and rats were bad because they carried Thyphus and the Sylvatic Plague so the WHO parachuted cats into Borneo.

Food webs show the consequences formed in our food system when it is tampered with.

 

After studying  all of this, my questions are:

  1. Can I have a king rat?
  2. Why is there a lion in the last frame?
  3. Why are my fourth and fifth frames so trash?
  4. What can we do to prevent this from happening?

StRiX nEbUlOsA

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Dear Ms. Cutatree,

I plead of you, do not cut-a-tree, a single tree, especially not my tree. I am the coolest owl out there. If you destroyed my habitat you would be killing the only owl with super hearing. My entire face is a cup so I can send all of the sound waves that hit my face straight to my ears, allowing me to hear through up to four feet of snow. My population of owls weighs from 580 to 1,900 grams, our wing spans range from 61 to 84 cm, and our usual clutch size is 3-5 eggs, so we would put up a fight. It would be hard to destroy my home anyway because we all live in dense conifer forests with bogs and meadows nearby. We also eat many things such as voles, pocket gophers, squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks and weasels and sometimes we even eat ducks and smaller raptors. Because of my preference for voles, I cut down on their population. If their population got too high, you humans would have to deal with all of their tunnels. You should care about us a lot because we cut down on the vole population, and we’re cute.

Not so sincerely,
Gr8 gReY oW1

 

 

OWL PELLETS 9/29

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This week we worked with owl pellets. They looked something like this:
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We were split into groups of two and our goal was to get a sufficient amount of pellets to create an ugly beast, a picture on a piece of paper made out of bones glued to the paper. We found lots of bones and it was gross, very gross. We did this because we needed to learn about the bones of rodents and a way scientists can learn about animals. I learned that owls eat rodents without chewing.

I preferred the day when we all felt dead so we got to watch HOOT. (Yes Shane, if the parents see this, they will know.) We watched a good first thirty minutes of the movie.

After studying owl pellets, my question are:

  1. What kind of owl was it?
  2. What would it be like to dissect the rodents ?
  3. Why are the pellets grey?

 

 

 

ALKA SELTZER PILLS 9/22

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In our first week of 6th grade science, Aidan and I worked on measuring Alka Seltzer tablets and the size of the explosions according to the size of the pill. We put some water in with tablets of different sizes in plastic vials, put the lids on, set them on the ground outside, and waited for fizz fizz pop pop and the big explosions to happen. We measured how high the vials shot up into the air using a tape measure taped to a flag pole.

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We did this experiment because it was a fun thing that we could do at the start of the year that involved measuring and fizz fizz pop pop and we made charts and recorded our data. I learned how to make a chart on G sheets,how to accurately record data and how to have fun with chemistry.

After the experiments, my questions were:

1.How high can an Alka Seltzer explosion go with no restrictions like weight or bad aerodynamics?

2. Can we do it with a really big jug of water and a bunch of Alka Seltzer?

3.Can we do this again now that we have knowledge on what works and see how high we can get them?

OUR RESULTS: