Exit Slip: Oct 7th

Sitting activity:

My spot is located past the orchard shed, beyond the field and the forest to the left. There you will find a tree that its branches arches over the in all direction resembling an umbrella. It is under that tree that I sit, leaning on the trunk. 

One thing that I noticed other then the temperature difference, was the colour. Surprisingly, not a lot of leaves have turn yellow and fall for the autumn. To be frank I do not know if the tree is one that visually indicate the change in seasons. The colour difference was in the new grass that are growing under the protection of the tree. Some random weeds, some that seems to be dandelions. Since there are very limited sources of direct sunlight, the colour of the grass are very light in colour, especially when you compare them to leaves out in the open field. They are also smaller and often cases chewed on because the tree also provide shade that more insects would find appealing.

Compass activity: 

My group tried to replicate the overall shape of the leave with the angle in which the veins are formed. We did make the assumption where we would be drawing the leaves as if it was perfectly symmetrical. It is interesting because all we did was draw a line that would represent the main stem of the leave then draw a circle centred at the middle of the leave and at 1/4, 3/4 location of the stem. and draw lines at the intersecting points. We used bisecting techniques to find other intersections that could be point of interest. It was cool to see that everything can be described with circles and lines, and more bisecting we did, closer we got to the actual leaf. We often forget that as much as the nature seems to be random, it is has its own patterns that it follows. We often describe math and physics as tools to learn about behaviours and how things works but we often overlook this natural design of the world and why things look the way it does. This was a cool activity to get hands on experience in seeing such design.