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APES students 2012-2013 semester! This week was chock-full of exciting things in the realm of Earth Science in Ms. Bergeron's Class! I will be mostly talking about what we did at the start of the week. Monday was interesting where we learned more in depth on natural selection with the help of a very interesting lab. Each person in the class was given one of three tools or no tool at all. A Popsicle stick, representing a certain finch, a pair of tongs, representing a different bird, or a metal piece. The person with no tool was a squirrel. Then we went outside to test them out. Ms. Bergeron threw out a few of each type of bean and our goal was to get as much as we could in a certain amount of time with the tools provided. We learned that it is easier to get different food sources depending on the resources you have to obtain the food. Some species were better adapted to getting the food, so that species would thrive and survive while the other species who were less adapted might suffer or even become extinct. It was a great lesson! I am looking forward to more like it!

Finches trying to earn their own in the wilderness.

Scavenging for food!