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Because of supplies here in Bazil it is not always possible to do all the suggested experiments in our Apologia Science book.  A while ago Rebekah did the experiment about "natural selection".  The deer was the prey and the Cougar was the predator.  This was showing the correlation between the population of the deer and cougars.  It was very interesting to see how the numbers would go up and  down.

Here is Rebekah casting the Cougars among the deer.

(above) The cougar landed upside down and did not  "eat" any of the deer.  Poor thing he died. The cougar needed to land on/eat at least 3 deer to survive.


Here is a better shot of the cougars and deers.  This time there were 4 cougars and only one of them landed on/ "ate" 3 deers.  He survived and the other cougars all died. Each of the deer that were landed on all died (even if the cougar only landed on 1 or 2) .

I wish I had more pictures but at the time I was involved with the process and did not get many more.

Another activity was cutting out the map of the world and seeing how it may have been prior to the plates of the earth separating.


Here is what it may have looked like before the plates separated. The paper moved a little before my picture was taken but South America and Africa fit snuggly together.

We did not take pictures of all the experiments but we had fun getting everything together. And Rebekah did learn something in the process.  Out of the experiments that we were able to find the supplies I think they have all been a success so far.

Happy Homeschooling