Prompt: Following the slideshow above, collect recycled materials and odds and ends that you can use for making. Try to find a variety of materials - soft, flexible, colorful, see-through, etc. You’ll also need a pair of scissors 

Stow all of your found items in a bin or box so that you can have them ready for class each day.

This is an ongoing assignment! For the rest of this cycle, keep an eye out for useful and interesting materials in your recycling bin.

Deliverables: Post a photo of your found materials in the response tab of this assignment.

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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160418-animals-urban-cities-wildlife-science-coyotes/

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190118-how-do-you-bring-wildlife-back-to-the-city

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/animal-superpowers/

Tardigrade, aka Water Bear (Tardigrada) These tiny, adorable creatures grow to be only a millimeter long but may be the hardiest organism on the planet (or perhaps any planet). Tardigrades are virtually indestructible[pdf]. They are polyextremophiles, meaning they thrive in multiple kinds of extreme environments. Among the things they are known to survive: Freezing temperatures as low as -200 C (-328 F), scorching temperatures up to 150 C (302 F), outer space, no food or water for over a century (or only a decade if you are a spoilsport scientist), ionizing radiation up to 570,000 roentgens (a dose of just 500 roentgens would kill you), solar radiation, gamma radiation, ultraviolet radiation, high salinity and lack of oxygen. How can a creature so tough be so cute and cuddly looking at the same time? It hardly seems fair. Image: NASA

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/animal-superpowers/

Cuttlefish (Sepiida) There's nothing to see here. Nope. In reality, the yellow thing in the photo above is a cuttlefish doing its best to impersonate an aquarium plant. Shapeshifting masters of camouflage, cuttlefish can rapidly blend in with the scenery to avoid predators. They can disguise themselves to look like just about anything aquatic, assuming a vast array of postures and colors -- the latter being the result of pigment-containing sacs in their skin. A cuttlefish can control the size of the sac, called a chromatophore, and change color accordingly. The end result is a spooky feat of invisibility that's much more successful than James Bond's car. Image: Justine Allen, Marine Biological Laboratory