Yesterday we went on an Out and About to the Backyard Garden, and learned about how form meets function. The basic idea of it is that something will look like what it would need to look like in order to meet it's function. To help us understand the concept, we did an activity. We made boats, no bigger than our hands put together, with at least 3 materials, that had to match at least one of three functions. Function one was being fast, and we found that a skinny, long boat went faster. The second function was strong, we found that a wide base could hold the most rocks, which was how we were testing it. The third and final function was looks. We found that big, colorful leaves made the best of this function. Another thing that helps to understand is your thumb. We learned that we might take them for granted. Try to tie and untie your shoe without your thumb! We tried, and it was pretty hard!
Today for an Out and About we went to the Boxer Gardens, a new garden built only a year ago by Pacific University. We went there to learn about habitat diversity. We had wooden frames that we set on the ground in a area of the garden. We had work sheets that had a grid on them and a color code. Then we used color pencils and filled out our paper grid with the color code to match the wooden grid on the ground. We found many interesting diversities, but some of the grids had less diversity, like mine for example. But over all it was a interesting and fun experience, and the Boxer Gardens were beautiful! |
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