I was SO excited to talk to everyone at Hopewell School, Nayaug School, Colchester Elementary and UCONN via our live web conference today. I wish I could have answered all of your questions. Your science thinking was GREAT! I loved talking to you about the fair testing we have been doing. We have taken hundreds of measurements to make sure that our data is accurate and represents the environment the way it is right now. Our time was so short though. Please feel free to write to me with the questions you had that have not been answered.

Today we did more sampling. That means that we took "samples" of trees and recorded data about each tree. Mr. Mamet wanted to know how tall each tree was, how many branches it had, and many more details. Here is a photo of Mr. LABMAN in the "cold lab" with Miss J and Dr. Foo Foo. The cold lab is a room with no heat. It can be very, very cold when we have to work there for long periods of time.

The teachers and scientists are counting the number of whorls on the little tree. That means that they are counting the number of branches coming off of the main trunk. This helps us to know the age of a tree. It can be challenging to count though. Thank goodness we had LABMAN there to help us.

The work went much faster.

Tomorrow we are going to take a day off from working. We are going to try to drive to a place where there might be polar bears. We'll make sure we approach that place safely though.

Miss Santoro