Halifax/Kejimkujik

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This is me, counting hare poop. Seriously. One at a time. As a team we counted 4,811 pooplets. We collected all of these pooplets (that's my word by the way, I own it) on 3 sections (ten meter by ten meter). What was the average amount of pooplets per section? What is the area of a section?
Each of these sections is one-onehundredth of a hectare. A hectare is a 100m by 100m of land. It's about 2.2 acres. So, about how many pooplets would you expect to find on a hectare?

The weekend of wonders.

We spent yesterday in Halifax. It's a large city by a bay/inlet. I hope you like my photo next to the boat! Can you name that boat?Today we spent the day hiking around Kejimkujik National Park. This is much like our national parks, with many trails, picnic areas, and signs to read to learn new things. We went on a six mile hike. Here is a fellow teammember, Mr. Wignal standing next to a hemlock tree. These hemlocks are in an old growth area. Some of the trees were several hundred years old. This particular tree, as you can see, adapted to an situation where erosion did its part. Can you explain how erosion played a part in this odd situation?
Also, we did a lot of deer dropping counting to make predictions about the deer numbers in the park. I found a lot of poop today! Yippee. I'll tell you this much, I feel very confident in identifying various types of poop. And in the case of deer poop, I probably could get pretty close to telling you how old it is!



It's tiring to walk about 5 or 6 miles each day. I'm really not used to that. To be honest, I have a sprained foot at this point. I don't really know how I did it. I think it was on some rocks on the ocean. I don't really know. I'll tell you that I'm really, really glad I have some good hiking shoes. That was one of your points about safe hiking right? Good shoes?

Weird, I've never seen a sign like this. Tree huggers.

Hey, all you kids. All this week. Say positive things. Get good sleep. Eat healthy foods. Do your absolute best on the exams! You can do this! You are good. Remember that the correct answer is on the page. Just do your best to get the correct one!