Nutrient Cycling

We went over the rubric again for the bird study project. Here is a link: Project Rubric. It is on the wikispace. Everyone should be well on their way with collecting data or digging through the data to look for answers. We have one more week to finish this up. Everyone should have all their data by October 30th. Then we will look at the data and see how we can make graphs or charts to show our results.

We played a simulation game about nutrient cycling. Each player was an atom of some nutrient like Carbon or Nitrogen and they moved through the ecosystem from one organism to another depending on which "interaction card" they pulled. There was no beginning or end, but rather a continuous cycling of the nutrients.