2-16-08 The crazy day in learning places

Learning Places

Today in learning places we did went over the evolution of plants & flowers. Leah told us all she knew about plants & their evolution after we tried to guess first. Then we did the evolutionary challenge. In this challenge we first drew plants from our imagination that would be able to fit the characteristics we came up with. My plant was called the golden thorn sun plant. It had golden thorns that protected it from danger. It also had large leaves that collected water for it and had leaves at the top with seeds on them so that the wind can scatter them around the area. After we were done drawing them we went and got materials to make our plants or flowers. After we made them we presented them and said how they fit each characteristic we came up with. Later we did a quick written assessment on plant types. When we were finished with that we did our scans which was called the moderate challenge. In this challenge we had to balance our group of three on different size surfaces. In my group was Desmond, Nichole, & me. We were able to balance on each surface like no other group cuase we were the best. After that we did the daily assessment scale. We got in the green area. Then we blogged which is where I am now. Well that is all for now so peace out and have a nice week.

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Submitted by Leah on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 4:47pm.

Detail of Gold Thorn Sun PlantAaron's Gold Thorn Sun PlantAaron creating the Goldthorn Hi Aaron,

I really like that you were thinking about how your plant protected itself, you hit on another interesting thing, that the Golden Sun Thorn has thorns that cure cancer.  There are many plants that are used to help treat cancer.  One is the Pacific Yew, Taxus brevifolia, that is used to create taxol a drug to treat breast cancer.  The Pacific Yew grows in the woods near my parents house, and my dad uses some of its twisted wood to make really interesting and beautiful chairs.

Leah

Submitted by Felix on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 12:34pm.

Hey Aaron,

Great detailed blog. I really liked that you got the theme of the lab: evolutionary adaptations of plants. That was the purpose of the lab, and you were the only one that mentioned it. How did you conceive of the idea for your plant.

Submitted by Meesa on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 6:13pm.

Aaron,

Thank you for writing details in your blog this week.  I'm sorry that I missed the lab because it sounds like you guys did some really cool things.  It seems like you put a lot of thought into what your plant would look like and why.  I'm excited to see it. 

Submitted by Aaron001 on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 3:08pm.
this was a great blog aaron. There was nothing wrong with it. I t felt like i was there. Great job.