3/31/10 Nothing special... cats..

A triangle means change, because it's a Greek letter in the alphabet called Delta, and it means change.
Thanks for clearing that up.

How many of you know that panthers lived in Florida at one time?
The Florida Panther lives. (which isn't even a true panther).

Student: Do saber-toothed tigers still exist?
...I don't think so... I don't know every single animal.


There was more site-worthy material said today, but I wasn't able to transcribe it verbatim, so I will not be putting it on the website.

I also added a quote from the 29th that I forgot to add..enjoy.

3/29/10 Food alters DNA & splitting genes

Biodiversity is just another name, for, (reads computer screen), biological diversity.
That was deep.

(student asked why only a small amount of the estimated number of bacteria species have been classified)
It's just one organism on the planet. Because bacteria mutates, it absorbs the antibiotics.
Someone is full of fail.

So when a child does not eat much for 5 years its DNA will be altered, and it will not grow as tall.



Think today about all of the species that you know exist, and we'll learn some that don't.
BIGFOOT!

The dodo bird lived off of a tree. It was called a (?????) tree. It needed the fruit. It was symbiotic, and its droppings fertilized the tree. When there were no more trees, the bird went extinct.
Facts taken straight from Encyclopedia Britannica's Out-of-Your-Ass Volume.

...for example, if they don't go through the bottleneck, and the gene is split, then the offspring will have them.
Alright, seriously, what the hell just happened?

What animal do you want to go extinct?
Student: The naked mole rat.
I don't know what that is. Why do you want it to go extinct?
Student: -because they're stupid, fat, and ugly.

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3/26/10 Contradiction, Comprehension, & Confusion

Other Teacher: No teacher should have students as friends on Facebook.
I agree, it crosses the lines, boundaries.
Ms. Sall has tried adding students from our class as friends on Facebook.

These are bacteria. (picture of erythrocytes & leukocytes)
Student: Those look like red blood cells.
Yes, well, they do, but they are bacteria. They may look like blood cells.
This looks like a teacher, but it actually is not.

I don't think there's an answer here. It actually has no answer. It's how you think.
(She read a question-of-the-day off of a word document, and scrolled down to find that she forgot to find the answer.)
I like how this teacher is prepared for each lesson.

The stone wasn't from the island, so it must have been transported with advanced machinery. (referring to Easter Island)
There's no way they just carved the stone that was already there! Oh wait, they were carved out of tuff from Rano Raraku, the giant volcanic crater (on Easter Island).

Excuse me, eh, Jack, Zack, Mister, 'Jurremy'
???

3/25/10 Nothing special.. someone was on their best behavior..

Whenever you have a graph, the whole idea is to see what the graph is telling you.
Wow, this whole time I've just been staring with my mouth open at the pretty lines.

Aboriginals are considered the most intelligent people in the world. They walk around in loincloths.
HEY LOOK AT ME I'M NOT RACIST!

Why hasn't this been updated?

As you may have realized, the most recent quote is from 3/22 (it's in the header). This is because since then (teacher) has not returned to school.

Hopefully (teacher) will return by Friday, and the site will get some fresh material.



Update: (teacher) returned to school today!

3/19/10 There are no trees in the rainforest (AUDIO!)

That, what, you notice with most the recent flooding a lot of trees will be knocked down because there are no more root support, which is why the tropical rainforest can't support trees. There's, to, the soil's not there, and there's too much wet rain.

Okay, how are musk oxen adapted to life in the tundra?

(student asks about how are there no trees in the rain forest)

They have vines. Right they have very thin trees. Most of the trees are supported with vines. If I can find a picture I'll show you exactly what they look like.
(students continue to question, (teacher) tries to cover herself by saying...)
It's not the kind of trees we think of in the boreal forest. (Boreal forest??? Where did that come from???)

(Student: Wait, but don't vines grow on trees for support?)

No, not these kind of vines.

(class laughing)

These vines..

(Student: How do they grow up if there's nothing to climb?)

They do, vines climb, they can grow all over the place.

(Student: So they don't climb, they just go straight up?)

They do, usually, lot's go side to side, a lot of them grow up and down.

For details you'd have to check with a biologist, I don't have any details on vine growth. It's not like not one of my, um, yeah, I'm not 100% confident in telling you a lot about the vines and trees.

Um, STUDENT?

(Student: So the tropical rainforest, doesn't have any trees?)

It has trees, but it's not the kind of trees that you find in the boreal forest. There's a difference, okay? Alright, let's go!


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How do insects, squirrels, bears, lynxes, wolves adapt to winter?

Essentially, insects hibernate, squirrels and bears sleep most of the time.
(student: That's hibernating.)

Well, it's different, hibernation is a prolonged sleep.
(student: Bears hibernate.)

Um, squirrels and bears sleep most of the time.
(Student: Bears do hibernate.

And lynxes and wolves grow heavy coats.

(Student: Wait, what was...)

Insects hibernate, squirrels and bears sleep most of the time, and lynxes and wolves grow heavy coats. There we go!