LEARNING FROM OUR TERRAQUAS!

A terraqua is a combination of a terrarium and an aquarium. The students created their terraquas to learn more about garden worms and pond snails in their natural habitat. In addition, the students were able to learn about ecosystems and habitats using their terraquas.

The students were able to make regular observations to answer questions they had about the garden worm and pond snail and learned how their mini habitats met the needs of these organisms as well as how the different living things depended on other living things as well as non living things in order to survive.

Finally, we used our terraquas to learn about three nature cycles (water, carbon dioxide/oxygen, and nitrogen) and how each cycle works within the terraqua and how these cycles are essential for life within.

WHAT IS A TERRAQUA?

SO WHAT IS AN ECOSYSTEM?

WHAT IS A HABITAT?

INVESTIGATION #1: DO GARDEN WORMS COME TO THE SURFACE AT NIGHT TO

FEED?

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INVESTIGATION #2: ARE OUR POND SNAILS DECOMPOSERS, HERBIVORES, OR

BOTH?

Snail eating dead fish Snail eating algae

WHAT NEW DISCOVERIES DID WE MAKE?

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STUDENT EXPLANATION OF THIS DISCOVERY

WHAT PROBLEM DID WE SOLVE?

WHAT INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS DID WE MAKE?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW OUR MINI HABITATS MET THE NEEDS OF OUR

GARDEN WORMS?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW OUR MINI HABITATS MET THE NEEDS OF OUR POND

SNAILS?

CAN YOU GIVE SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW LIVING THINGS DEPENDED ON OTHER

LIVING THINGS?

CAN YOU GIVE SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW SOME LIVING THINGS DEPENDED ON NON

LIVING THINGS?

EXPLAINING THE WATER CYCLE

WHAT DOES THE WATER CYCLE LOOK LIKE IN OUR TERRAQUA?

Transpiration

Condensation

Percolation

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EXPLAINING THE CARBON DIOXIDE CYCLE