Element Sharing and Experimental Design

Today students shared the elements that they researched over the weekend. We are now going to move forward from the inorganic (elements/nonliving) to the organic (living) things found in the soil.

Tomorrow we will be making Berlese funnels and begin talking about how we will classify what we find.
The illustration above shows how it works: a funnel (E) contains the soil (D), and a heat source (F) such as an electric lamp (G) heats the litter. Animals escaping from the dehydration of the soil descend through a filter into a preservative liquid (A) in a receptacle (B).

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