Science Learning With Mr Hogue

Please check our window - somehow the super photos that Mr Hogue had with our learning journal have not copied across.  I am still a learner in how to get stuff on here, sorry.

We are learning to be scientists by:

Observing carefully

Asking questions

Using evidence

 

Observing

We looked at photos of Otago Skinks to observe carefully

what features of lizards we could see.

Sully then suggested we could draw our own diagram of a skink.

Questions we wanted to find out about.

- How do we know they are nearly extinct?

-Why are the Otago skinks are endangered of becoming extinct?

- How can we protect them?

Evidence

-Scientists monitor and keep track of Skinks and Lizards to find out how many are left.

- To learn more about them so that we can help protect them

- To find out about the predators.

They do this by photographing and trapping lizards and recording the results.

- We also learnt that scientists must let the lizards go again back to their homes,

and handle them with care.

                                                                          

Some of the Otago skinks were housed in a special enclosure at Mokomoko reserve to protect them from predators.

Lizards and skinks like living in and around rocky places.

Why?

Scientists can monitor and keep track of the skinks by taking photos.

Thank you Mr Hogue for exciting science learning.

Perhaps you can take a walk around the Alexandra area with your family and go on a "skink hunt".  Remember to be scientists and conservationists, "leave only footsteps, take only photographs".