Class Response 2 08-09

Wednesday we watched a little part of Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax.” In the Lorax, one night, a boy comes to a desolate corner of town to visit the Once-ler and learn about the Lorax. The Once-ler recounts how he first came to arrive where they now stand, then a beautiful forest of Truffula Trees, colorful woolly trees that were spread throughout the area and supported various fantastical creatures. The Once-ler chopped down a tree and used its foliage to knit a Thneed, an odd-looking but versatile garment that he insisted "everyone needs." A strange creature called the Lorax emerged from the stump and protested, but the Once-ler ignored him, and, spurred by greed and the success of his first sale, began a huge Thneed-making business, much to the Lorax's distress. Unfortunately, we did not get to finish the movie, and class ended. While we were watching the movie, we started to go up and put more symbiotic relationships in the book. My opinion was that it was good to get a break by watching an educational cartoon. Also, it was a great way to teach pollution and how people cut down trees.

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210462/loraxsum.html

Class Response 08-09

Today, in class, we wrote about our symbiotic relationships and put them onto a book on the computer. My symbiotic relationship was a picture mosquito bite and a human and how it was parasitism, how it related to nature, and where the picture was taken from. Symbiotic relationships benefit most human beings and animals in a number of ways, but with parasitism one organism is benefited while the other is harmed. With the mosquito bite and the human, the mosquito benefits while the human is harmed because it gets blood and we lose blood. While on the computer, I used a jump drive to get my work onto the computer, and then I shrunk it, copy and pasted it, and put my picture on. My opinion on this idea to take pictures was that it was a good thingbecause it taught us the way symbiosis can show itself. It can show itself in many other relationships like a human and a pet, a vine and a tree, and a bee on a flower. Also, to show understanding of the topic, everyone wrote a paragraph and with that I can read about the relationships and benefit by learning about them.

Work Cited-http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081116171832AAXGbLm

http://www.scienceclarified.com/everyday/Real-Life-Biology-Vol-2/Parasites-and-Parasitology.html