Drafting season has begun. Our first draft of our lit review is due next Thursday so Charlie and I have been writing a lot. We hope we can get everything finished by Sunday since Tuesday is our SAT and Friday is Junior Ring dance. So next week we won’t have time to do much in terms of writing. At the beginning of the week Charlie and I picked out 4 of 10 groups to narrow it down to to choose to put in the enclosure. We later had a conversation with Ms. V about the groups and came to a conclusion. The first group was a giant millipede, giant land snail, and house geckos. I personally had high hopes that we would get this group just because I love millipedes and the land snails are adorable; they also had a arboreal terrestrial, and a burrower which wouldn’t compete for space. We were strongly leaning towards this group before talking to Ms. V. She pointed out to us that the enclosure we were going to use was large and had poor ventilation, and with the humidity needs for these creatures, there was too high a risk of mold growing in our terrarium. The second group we had was house geckos, hissing cockroaches, and giant millipedes. We didn’t think they would do very well as the temperatures were a bit different, and there was too high humidity again. The third group was blue tongued skinks and sugar gliders. This was the only group of two in our top four, and it was the only pairing that included a mammal. As much as this grouping sounded amazing, we were afraid of the reptile spreading salmonella to the sugar glider. The final group is the one we will most likely be using. It is one of hissing cockroaches, crested geckos, and green tree frogs. We were not able to find any negative notes for this grouping. I won’t bore you with the details of writing the lit review for the rest of the week. The only important thing to add is that we’re doing it and have a good top 5 sources. Tags: #collaboration #problem solving #creativity and innovation #information literacy Mold Vivarium (n.d.) Mold Vivarium. [Photo]. Retrieved from: https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/mold.html
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