Monday 2/13 Homework:

1. For the final product of this project, I would like to (as simplistic as it sounds) create a tri-fold or some kind of poster that displays my findings and conclusions after completing the research portion of the project. Since we would be tracking all of the life that passes through a cubic foot of land that we will have plotted out at the garden, I would be taking photos of the piece of land for everyday of the project. I would use a selection of these photos for my tri-fold. I would use the photos that showed significant findings of mine made in the process and I would include brief explanations as to why they are significant and some conclusions I have made about them. I would also like to perhaps display some sort of a 3D visual that would aid in the total understandings of the findings made and the knowledge gained from the project. Finally, I would present this tri-fold display at our senior exhibition night at the end of the semester.

2. My expectations for the project are to gain an in depth knowledge about the fairly foreign world that lives beneath us, to build a project that I can be very proud to show to the parents at the senior exhibition night, and to hopefully be able to have something published in the Encyclopedia of Life. I hope that through completing this project I will come away knowing more about the similarities, differences, and overall information about several types of species and more about just how important every aspect of our ecosystem is to its overall survival.

3. I am expecting that I will follow through on my goal to achieve the best possible product that I can achieve for our exhibition and so I therefore also expect that my classmates will do the same. I expect that they will put forth all of their effort even as we come to the end of our high school careers so that we may have the best environmental science exhibition yet. I expect that our final product as a whole will be complete and extremely professional to those who view it.

4. For this project we should have lessons that coincide with the discoveries that we make in the one-foot areas that we are examining at the garden. We should also continue to have days when we will have the opportunity to review what we have been learning from the lectures, individually in our own ways that we learn best because this proved to be extremely helpful when we tried it last week. I think we should have days when we are able to use the microscopes in order to examine the specimens we collect from our one-foot areas of land in class.