Animalia Program

 In late April I worked with a fantastic group of naturalist/ botanist/ scientists at Brock.    These students created their own creatures naturally adapted to a biome.

Their work, and their ideas were fantastic.  

 I enjoyed the presentations.  I felt as if I was listening to graduate students discuss their research proposals!!

Always wonderful to teach these students and to have them explore The Future is Wild.  Although this DVD collection is 10 years old, the idea behind the program is very current and accessible to all students.  From watching this series, we discussed the ideas of Charles Darwin, the concept of natural selection, continental drift theories, the ice age, and global warming.

The question we pondered was, "if humans are extinct, a 100 million years in the future, what animals will evolve and exist?"  This lead to all types of speculation.  We also learned about earth's biomes and how they would change, and what types of biomes could support life.

I am hoping that a newer version of this DVD will be released in the future.  

A big thank you to this group....you were such interesting and wonderful students to work with.  I couldn't believe the ideas that were being discussed at the grade 3/4 level...concepts about the after-life, and aging, and family, and what it means to be a person.   Some of the students wanted to stay in at recess and lunch and have philosophical discussions about life.  Wow!  Truly wonderful and refreshing and good to hear.