Anyways, in this unit we studied ecology, which can be easier than other subjects because some of it is common sense. At the same time we did several dissections that were pretty fun. The ecology notes were pretty easy for me. Most of it is common knowledge which makes it easier to understand.
We started the unit with an earthworm dissection, this was pretty fun. No one in my group wanted to dissect a worm so I did. We got to identify and learn all the simple parts of a worm.
After that we had a lab practical on the earth worm. This was pretty easy because the questions were taken right of off the lab. I got a 100.
After this, we took some more notes studying food chains/webs succession, populations, and much more. I already new some of the content. The second dissection lab we did was a Planeria lab. This was about flatworms, we only did a little bit on this lab because we had to continue with notes. We basically look at several live small flatworms under a dissecting microscope. We had a quiz that I got a 97 on. I missed a question.After this we had a squid dissection lab. Unfortunately, I was unable to participate in this. But it looked fun, here are some pictures:
We then had a third dissection lab with grasshoppers. This was pretty fun, I noticed that a lot of of the same structures that were in the earthworm. were in the grasshopper. The only part that was weird was when we cut into the outer shell, which was crunchy.
