January 21st,2011 Carter Stumpf

To start off the day, Mr.Finley went around and checked the homework from last night. Which was to make a graph and complete the questions for the elodea and photosynthesis lab packet. This was the last assignment we had for the photosynthesis part of the unit. Next, we went over all the questions from the packet asking what went wrong with the experiment and what we learned from it and also what were the good things that happened in the experiment. We also discussed what new things and questions arose from the experiment as we did such as Noah's idea which was to see if photosynthesis would happen quicker if we put the test tube as close to the light as possible. since it was a half day today, Mr. Finely deicided to give us a lab to do to take a closer look at cells and organisms. The goal of the lab is to try and see some living organisms using a microscope. We have the option to look at the elodea under the microscope as well. We have to draw a picture of what we see and write a description about it to see that we understand adpatations and other things. Will and I put mixed protozoa on the slide and we will make observations about what we see. We saw live protozoa looking through the microscope which i thought was pretty cool. And for the last part of the day we drew what we saw in our notebooks and anwsered questions about the protozoa lab. Carter Stumpf