Class Monday, 9/17

Today in class we turned in our lab number 58 from our biology workbooks. That was the lab that we went outside for in class on friday. Our homework for today was to finish our Water Testing labs by tomorrow and to read chapter 6.3 by Thursday. Our comparison chart for chapters 6.2 and 6.4 was supposed to be due today, but it is instead due for tomorrow because of technical issues with moodle. We will be presenting/turning in our Duckweed lab presentations on friday. We also have to post a "Muddy Point" on the blog by wednesday, which is something that we had trouble with in this unit. Today in class we met up with out lab groups and did a Water Testing lab to find out how polluted the Des Plaines River is. We used actual water from the Des Plaines River to use for out tests. Most of my group's test results showed that the Des Plaines' River water is very polluted. One thing we did to test the water was but Nitrates in the water in a test tube and let it dissolve for 5 minutes. Then we check the color of the water to the color chart for the Nitrates test. The color of the water shows how polluted the water from the Des Plaines River is. We talked a little bit about how the river water might have gotten so polluted. There were sheets at our lab group tables that instructed us on how to organize and do the lab.

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