Hello everyone and welcome to my first post of the school year! Today I’ll be reflecting and telling you about a project that I did in science, called Handle With Care.
In this project we learned all about ecosystems, and how we’re impacting them. The first thing that we did was learn about micro plastics. Micro plastic are these little pieces of plastic that come off of our clothes when we wash them. We made our own “washing machine” with a bottle of water (warm or cold), a piece of cloth, marbles, and soap. W e put all of those things in our bottle, then shook it all up for a while. After that, we took a filter and a funnel, and poured all of the water out into the funnel. We then took a microscope and looked to see if we could find any plastic. We could see so much! 
You can see a couple black things on the filter. Those are micro plastics
Our first keystone for this project was making a scratch project. We had to show how the flow of energy went between all of the different animals.
Our second keystone was to make a mock news report about a certain problem. My group and I got sea urchins. We had to show the problem of how sea urchins were eating the kelp forests off the coast of California. My group was Mackenzie, Silas, and Charlie R.
For the news report, we had to include some different facts about sea urchins, and we also read a couple of different articles. Here are just two:
Our third Keystone was to make fake instagram posts about these different things. The Earth’s spheres, and human impacts on each of them. Bioaccumulation/biomagnification, and human impacts on them. Local, interconnected, foodwebs and how humans impact them. Local wildlife management practices, and how humans impact them. Nutrient cycles, and how humans impact them
We made five and here they are!
Thank you for reading, and I’ll see you soon!