Second+Visit+Details

=Second Visit Details - Due by Nov 3rd=

Free Journal Entry:
Write 400-600 words of focused observations of your Eco-place. At this time you should have taken on an ASSIGNED ROLE that will narrow your interest in this Eco-place. Perhaps you are focusing on the Insect life, the Fish life, the Plant life, or the Abiotic Factors that heavily effect the community of living things in your designated Eco-Place. Please choose your focus with consideration to others in your group. There should be a wide variety of foci in the group - in other words, people in your group should be focusing on //**different**// aspects of the Eco-place.

In this free journal entry, ask questions about what you observe that relate to your assigned role. For example, you might notice that plant life is abundant on one side of the stream but not the other. Why is that? Or you may see Fish in parts of the stream with low current but none in areas with high current. Why is that? Ask authentic questions that you may be able to answer further down the road of this project.

Assigned Journal Entry:
Write 400-600 words about some of the environmental (or predatory) pressures that are driving Natural Selection in your Eco-place. Provide at least THREE examples of organisms in your Eco-place with heritable variations that might make them more (or less) fit than their intra-species competitors. For example, you may notice a variety of fish in your stream. Some are beige colored, the same color as the sediment at the bottom of the stream. Others have bright pink tails. Which variety is more fit? Note, there isn't necessarily ONE right answer in this example, it all depends on how you support and defend your ideas. Pictures are optional but might add descriptive power to your journal entry.