what we did in class 10/8/09

So this week in Mr. Finley's class we furtherr dicussed whether a bacteria is living or non-living. We finally came to a conclusion that it is not living. While bacteris may have some things that make it look living about it, it does not have all of the characteristics to be living. The other things it needs to be living iit needs to have a host (a human ) to support it. So now we know that bacteria is something that is non-living.

What we also did in class this past week was get samples of the some of the things that we think may have caused all of the kids being sick for school. We got pond water, pots from the resteraunt, chicken, and blood samples. My partner and I decided on what kind of experiments we would like to do. For the things from the kitchen we decided that we would use a petri dish that would test to see if there was any bacteria on the items. For the pond water we will use a microscope to see if there is anything that could potentially make us sick in it. we will do the same thing with the chicken from the resteraunt. Finally Mr. Finley will do the experimant on the blood samples. We will do most of the testing next week.