Science Chapter 6: Living Together

Since the beginning of this new term, we have embarked on a new discovery into the relationships between organisms, populations and their environments. We are learning new ecological terms and have gone around the school to observe the different types of habitats around us - the field community, the rotting log community and the garden community. We have had the opportunity to go outside of the school into the neighbourhood too to check out the various kinds of organisms and habitats that exist around us. The highlight of these lessons is the final project of putting together a terrarium by the class, for the class. We tried to collect as many species of plants and animals we could to set up a swamp/rainforest mini-habitat in the classroom. Unfortunately, living in a city has its limitations - we were only able to get some 8 populations of animals for our terrarium. We have been rostered to take turns at caring for the terrarium. While all the boys are extremely enthusiastic about handling the creepy crawlies in the tank, some girls are apprehensive about going near them. Here is a video of us putting everything together for the terrarium. It was hilarious!