Hurray, Science Lab 3000

Today's science lab concerned pollution -- and its effect on animals. Every group was given two piles of different colored bears, red and blue. The red were meant to represent living bears, while the blue ones were pollutants. We were also given a "game board," and a page to record all findings. The bears were tossed into a bucket, and groups of two were pulled out until they were all gone. Two red bears meant they lived, and got a red baby bear (or cub, if you prefer). A red and a blue meant a dead bear, but nothing happened to the pollutant. Two pollutants created a... baby... pollutant (don't ask how that's possible, I honestly have no idea). The task was to see how much pollution this species could take before being wiped out; my group almost made it past the fourth generation. I learned a few things in this lab. A) Pollution, even in small amounts, can really take its toll on an environment (of course, that's common knowledge, but still.) B) At the rate the world is going, species are going to be going extinct faster than they are now. And C) If this keeps up, the mighty species of plastic counting bears will reach its end.