Phys Ed; Friday, Third Period [04/07]

[chef_chocobro]

Much to Ignis' chagrin, his roommate was still a plant for some ungodly reason, and he was not one to let Gladio's class go unattended two weeks in a row. And he supposed that, in a lot of cases, a substitute teacher meant a light day of watching a movie or documentary, like Gladio had done for Prompto's class, but there were definitely reason why that particular route didn't exactly seem like a viable option for a class Ignis was substituting for.

So the Phys Ed class would be meeting in the danger shop that day, where a standard obstacle coarse was set up, but they would not be running it. Not exactly, anyway.

"Good morning," he greeted the class with a nod, as soon as the time to get it started hit and not a moment later. "For those of you who don't already know, my name is Ignis Scientia, and I will be handling this class today due to the fact that Mr. Amicitia is still a bit...indisposed. But we will not have a very difficult class today, but we will also not be entirely slacking off in light of his absence. We'll be playing a classic game: hide and seek. Only you won't have to close your eyes when you count, because we'll be playing it in the dark."

Of course, that was the moment when the lights dramatically cut, with the exception of the low-lights around the edges of the obstacles, because Ignis wasn't entirely evil, thank you.

"Any questions before we begin? And more importantly, any volunteers to be it first?"

An Introduction to Zoology - Friday, 1st Period

[itsananomaly]

“This week we’re going to take a look at animal habitats,” Cutter began that week’s lecture, once he handed out this week’s notes , “we have covered the evolution of animals a few weeks back when we looked at the Cambrian explosion but I did want to note that habitats began to evolve as animals did, after life began to evolve in the sea ,they began to move into fresh water and then on land in the Ordovician period when plants became a source of food,”

“A habitat is the natural environment where an animal, plant or organism lives,” he continued, “and there are 16 different types of habitats - these are Artic, Aquatic, Coastal, Desert, Manmade Deserts, Forest, Grassland, Tundra, Mountain Ranges, Steppes, Wetlands, Microhabitats, Extreme Habitats, Deep Oceans, Volcanos and outer space,”

“Most resources will officially list between six and eight habitats,” he explained, “and the ones that we’re going to cover today in particular are Polar, Tundra, Evergreen Forests, Seasonal Forests, Grasslands, Deserts, Rainforests, and Oceans,”

“Polar habitats are found at the North and South Pole and they form at the highest latitudes on Earth while tundra is part of the polar habitat that is on land and not covered in ice, in the South Pole you can find colonies of penguins, leopard seals and whales and in the North Pole you can find polar bears and narwhals, ” he went on, “and continuing on with the polar themes, evergreen forests are just outside the North Pole and they cover a region from Canada, Northern Europe and Russia and what is notable about this habitat is that they have more trees than anywhere else, here you can find animals such as snowshoe hare and the Canada Lynx,”

“Next we have seasonal forests which are in areas that are found in places around the world that are not to extremely cold, dry or wet. Owls are the main predators here and will feed off a variety of prey ranging from fish and frogs to snakes. Grasslands grow under conditions that are warm enough to support life but are too dry for trees but not dry enough that a desert forms,” he went on, “it is in the grasslands where the largest groups of mammals are found like in the African Savanna, where the herds support the largest land predators such as lions, hyenas and crocodiles,”

“Deserts are habitats that form in the driest places on earth but they don’t always have to be hot, such as deserts like the Gobi Desert in Western China and Antartica and animals such as the fennec fox and the sidewinder snake are particularly well adapt to survive the harsh desert conditions,”

“Tropical Rainforests in particular, are well known for supporting plant life as they are warm, dry and wet and they form near the equator so that they can get as much sunlight as possible and here animals such as the flying lemur have learned to survive in a tropical rainforest where sometimes the trees can grow so thick that light doesn’t reach the ground and so they learn to adapt by flying or gliding through the treetops,”

“And finally the last habitat that we’re going to cover is oceans, which as I explained at the start of the lecture is where animals first evolved so it seems fitting to end with this habitat, while there are some species that can only survive in specific types of water there are those than can survive in nearly every ocean environment like the starfish,”

“For next week’s class I would like you to write a report on a habitat of your choosing and on an animal that lives in it,”

Practical Engineering - Friday, 4th Period

[notagoose]

“Good afternoon,” he said when it time for class to begin, “this week I thought we’d look at doing more machine drawing and that’d we’d also have a go at building what we draw,”

“So this lesson is going to focus on two components and the first one is that you will work on drawing a wind powered car and then you will spend the rest of the class building it,”

Library - Friday

[onlyajones]

When Jo got to the library that day after class, she wasn’t really surprised to find that the rabbits seemed to be back at all, since this seemed to be a particular theme now in the lead up to a holiday.

At least the rabbits mostly stayed out of her way as she began to get the books she needed to put away back on the shelves and when she had finished, she sat down at the desk to start working on her assignment for next week, a rabbit hopped up onto her lap and stayed there so she didn’t get quite as much work done on her assignment as she would have liked.