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When student work is displayed in our school,

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there is always a label that goes with that artwork or sculpture or whatever else is on display.

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And to get the information on those labels,

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teachers give what we call prompts-open-ended prompts;

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those usually are aimed towards our essential questions.

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Students write answers to those prompts, which become labels.

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So we're able to go through the school and get a sense, by reading those labels,

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of whether students really understand the key concepts and the big ideas.

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There are certain essential questions that are seen throughout a student's experience here,

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so some of those big, overarching questions students come back to over and over

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and over again to different levels of depth.

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>> Student: There are many adaptations and this is one of them, they're called swim bladders.

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A swim bladder is very important to a fish because their fins don't really help them swim up

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or down, so they use swim bladders.

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When they breathe in, since they are inhaling more air, just like a balloon, it goes up.

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So a fish goes up.

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But when they breathe out, it's the opposite; they go down, they sink.

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But their fins just help them go side to side.

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They don't really help them go up.

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The balloons that we're experimenting, they are the same thing as...we can't get real fish

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and experiment on them, so we are using balloons, they are like them.

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There is one that's inflated and we put it down and see, it has a harder time sinking,

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so you will see that's why what it's like for fish.

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And with these, the uninflated balloons, they are easier to go down just like a fish would.

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It's not like when they breathe out, they can't go down, it's just easier.

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And that's what swim bladders are.

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This wall shows all the fish that we did research on;

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each person got to do a research on their own fish.

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Each animal has a special adaptation.

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My animal was a puffer fish and it has a very cool adaptation.

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Whenever it gets scared or to attack, it can puff up into a ball with spikes around it

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and the spikes are actually poisonous.

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>> Student: The okapi has to live on the forest floor

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because the forest floor actually has these colors.

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Like it has brown colors, a little peachy color, some stripes over here and this gray on it,

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and mostly the rocks are gray and stuff, and this animal has to live on the forest floor

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because it actually blends into it.

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