We investigated cell reproduction through reading, looking at flower parts and watching a Brainpop video on mitosis.

 

Highlights:

Bacteria live about 20 minutes. Then they reproduce. In 6 hours, one can turn into  over 260,000 bacteria!

Flowers make pollen (on stamens) and collect the pollen on sticky pistils.  Seeds grow in ovules below the pistils.

 

How do cartographers make flat  maps from a spherical earth? We experimented with grapefruit to find out!

And the finished products on  display….

It turns out to be challenging to make a flat map from a spherical object. Afterward, we looked at Mercator Projections, Peter’s Projections, and Robinson Projections, as well as a few that were a bit more radical, like on by Buckminster Fuller that looked a lot like our grapefruit rinds!