Week 6 Blog Post

What did you learn this week?

This week I learned about flower dissection and the parts of both a female and male flowers. The reproductive parts of a female flower are the stigma, style, and ovary. While the reproductive parts of a male flower are the anther and filament. Next, I learned about sea turtles and the risks and dangers they have when trying to survive. One of the risks when trying to make it to the ocean are raccoons. Some risks when they are in the ocean is plastic and sharks.  

Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew?

A lot of the things we learned this week I do not remember learning about too much before. Something I did have some previous knowledge on was the dangers that sea turtles face in the ocean and on land as well. Some specific ones I have heard about the most are the plastic in the ocean, and the raccoons trying to get the sea turtles on land. 

How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future?

  I really enjoyed the sea turtle activity we did in class with the fortune tellers. I think it was a great way to get us involved and allowed us to further our knowledge on the dangers that sea turtles face. This is definitely an activity that I would want to bring into my future classroom.