Day Two

Yesterday when the eggs were delivered, one of the questions the students asked was "How can you tell if they are dead?" This became a concern from the first moment we discussed the project and I began talking about how we would use math to figure out the percentage of the trout that survived during the course of the project. "You mean some of them will die!?" Jacob asked as his puppy dog eyes stared into my soul where I was searching for the perfect teacher answer. So when the eggs were delivered, the class was very insistent on finding the clues that would let them know if one of our precious fish had passed. Robert told us the dead eggs are easy to spot because they will be white. Since the eggs are almost florescent orange we knew the white would stand out. Today, we found one bright white egg in the basket and one turning white on the gravel below. We used our tweezers to carefully remove the dead eggs to prevent fungus from growing. The kids were fascinated and so we used a magnifying glass to look at the egg we had removed. They had a lot more questions and we recorded them all to ask Robert and Ameka next time they come for a visit. (Photo taken by Jacob Sneed)