In class with Lower School science teacher Emily Davies, the students have been learning about the connection between structures and function in animals, specifically how every part of an organism has a distinct job.

 

For a more hands-on approach, the students worked together in groups at the tables to look at the skulls of carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores to see how their teeth matched the kind of food they routinely eat. They checked out raccoon, skunk, deer, squirrel, and coyote on their lab trays.   

The students have now started the next portion of the unity of study, which is a research project where they choose a native Connecticut animal and make a poster that details its adaptations that allow it to survive in this ecosystem.