The Journey Begins

As of 9:20 today the journey of are ecosystem began. We entered the classroom at 9:00 a.m. to start the construction of our ecosystem. We first cut open the top so that we could access the insides of the bottle. We started off by poring an inch or so of gravel into the bottom. It would act as our reservoir of water, like the ogallala aquifer. So we then pored water into the gravel so that there would be water in our ecosystem. We followed up with some dirt filled with two worms. The dirt was moist for the worms to live in. Then we dumped in some good field dirt for the onions to grow in. We planted 4 onions in the ground. Three around the edges so we can watch them grow and one in the middle. We also placed some dead leaves on top so deteriorate into the ground. Now that we had everything in place, we sealed the top back on with some good packing tape, that is see through. We placed the ecosystem in the south windows of the room hoping to get the best sun. And thus begins our journey.