For the past week we have been growing dinosaurs. On Halloween day we started off with every student getting a small dinosaur. They got to name their dinosaur and we measured the length and found the mass. We had some great names like Oliver aka Huckabeast and Timothy his best friend, along with Paco and his best friend Taco. The students had a great time naming their dinosaur and I've even heard them call them by name over the past week. We made some predictions about our dinosaurs' growth using rate of change and now that we have pretty much grown them to their maximum size, we are exploring graphs of the data collected and again rate of change. Mrs. Wilson, our science teacher, suggested we also look at the volume so we could determine the density of our dinosaurs so we used water displacement to accomplish this.
Now that our dinosaurs have reached their maximum growth, we are going to shrink them and see if they will go back to their original size. It will also be interesting to see if they shrink at the same rate they grew and how if at all the density will change. This is the first time for me for these "grow beasts" and it has been a lot of fun for me and the students!
Oh, and the picture projects came out great! I can't wait to share some of them!
