Thursday Science

Today in science lab, we learned about how pollution can affect wildlife. By using rubber bears to help us understand, we played a game that lasted for twenty generations of bears. First, we took ten red bears (healthy bears) and two blue ones (contamination), and added them in to a tub. My group would pull out two pairs of bears and count how many weren't contaminated from pollution. Then we would add cubs cubs to each pair and the process would start over for five generations. After five generations, the pollutants would become even worse and the bears slowly started dying off. On the twentieth year, every bear was extinct.