In Science, we are currently learning about
adaptations. Adaptations are things that help an animal or plant survive in its habitat. For example, a polar bear has thick fur to help it survive in its cold Arctic habitat. We discussed several amazing animal adaptations, but then we realized, we're animals too. We must have adaptations to help us survive! This is when Ms. Birdsall pulled out a roll of masking tape. (We thought she was a little bit crazy). She explained that humans have opposable thumbs, thumbs that are placed opposite to the rest of the fingers. They help us hold things.
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| Humans have opposable thumbs. |
We decided to find out what life would be like without our opposable thumbs. First, we taped down our thumbs so they couldn't move. Then we tried things like . . .
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| Tying our shoes. |
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| Writing. |
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| Buttoning our coats. |
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| Zipping our hoodies. |
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| Grasping our water bottles. |
We found that while we could still do many of the actions, they were a lot more difficult and took a lot longer. We definitely appreciate this "handy" adaptation!
OMG!!! It was so hard to zip my hoodie! It was really easy to write though. :D When we took the tape off it hurt SOOOOO much!
ReplyDelete~Kaylee!!!
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ReplyDelete-Peter
It was great experecing having no thumb. Like zipping up our jacket.
ReplyDeletefrom:Andrea
It's me! I'm so happy I'm in the picture!(In the "tying our shoes" thing.)
ReplyDelete-from Borae
It was really hard not using our thumbs in Science and alot of fun doing that activity.
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Love Victoria
It was so fun taping our THUMBS and trying to write our names and tying our shoes!!!!!!!!!JENNY
ReplyDeleteIt was really fun doing that activty I hope we can do an other expirment like that again. I really like the picture you took us of me and Andrea bottoning our coats.
ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching us that activty!
-From Alina
The science experiment was realy hard and fun.I wrote my name it was hard.I tryed tieing my shoes I ended up with three loops.
ReplyDeleteJayden
It was a really fun taping our thumbs and it was really hard doing it but it was AWESOME! I was trying to write my name. It was super fun!
ReplyDeleteIt was sooo hard to zip my zipper!!!I couldn't even get grip of it!
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Zeena
This adaptation experiment is really cool.That was awesome. I tried writing on the white board it was hard but fun.
ReplyDeleteby.Matt
When Ms.Birdsall said that we have to put tape on on our thumbs I thought she was insane but after we tryed it I realized it really really hard.
ReplyDeleteSawsan
I really liked how we taped our thumbs.It was hard to pick up stuff but I got the hang of it. happy comments.
ReplyDelete-Gurshawn
I liked it when we taped our thumbs to our hands.I did lots of things but they were pretty tough
ReplyDelete-from Ravin
it was hard to write my name on the borb with no thum and it was hard to opan the cap .
ReplyDeleteI loved the thumb science experiment! Boy it was funny! It was awsome. I wish we can do it again. Yes it was very fun and hard! I tryed ziping my backpag without my thumb!
ReplyDelete-From Amy
I liked the experiment that we did it was awesome.Doing the experiment.I did not know that we need our thumb that much.
ReplyDeleteShana
I liked the movie alout and the picture's also but they were both epicelyawsomelegendarygood.
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