Ready for Research!

Today we listened to the "tall tale" of Paul Bunyan. In the story we heard many funny explanations for things in nature. One of them had to do with Paul's ox, Babe, making lakes from his big footprints. This made us wonder.....How are lakes really formed? We chose to research this topic on the computer using Google.(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_are_lakes_formed) We learned that dents and cracks naturally happen in the Earth and then rain and melted snow fill them creating a lake. Next week we will begin our own research on an animal and create an informational paragraph.