Science Blog 6

1. What science ideas did you learn?

I learned about the different types of bacteria. There is bocillus, cocci, and spirillum which are the shapes and diplo, tetra, strepto, and staphylo which are the groups. I also learned what bacteria could be in the pond water. I learned that campylobacter or salmonella can be found in our pound water samples. I also discovered that we could have different types of algae in our sample which is not harmful.

2. How did you learn these ideas?

I learnd these ideas because for homework we had to research what organisms we thught were in our pond water sample. I researched online and found the answers and made new predictions and hypthesies with the new data. I learned about the different types of bacteria by doing a wrkshet that we had for homework.

3. Why is it important to know this idea?

It is important to know this idea because when we are doing experiments with our samples, it is imnportant to know the different types of bacteria and if they are harmful or not. If we didn't know if they were harmful our predictions and hypothesies will be wrong. It is important to know what organisms are in the pond water because we can learn more about the water if we know the exact organism and what it does. It is also important to know the names of the organisms so fellow students can understand us when we are talking about our finds.