Charity Fair Blog 12/17

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Summary: This week in class I learned about the carbon footprint for our materials we need to make our stuff that we using for the charity fair. I learned that it depends where your item is made to  decide what type transport it has.There are three main factors in the way you have deiced is distance (km) quantity and g of CO2. We also did things in other classes an example would be in social studies we researched about our charity. There was a lot of things we also did in other classes but  the is the end of the summary.

Backwards looking to make this it took me through a long process to make. We did a lot of work in different classes and it was very hard to manage all the work I had to do. But in the end I got all the work done and hopefully my charity will get the money.

Inward looking I did not like the fact that it was in 5 of my 6 classes because I had to manage all that work. Another thing that bothered me was the fact that my group was doing different things because we were making different things. The last thing that bothered me was the timing of when we decided to make my muffins.

Outward looking I think i would give this project a B because we still have a lot of thing we need to work on still. The first thing we need to work on is our presenting skills when we presented to people it was kind of awkward. We also need to work on our team work when we presented one person did all the talking and it was different person each time.

Forward looking I would like to improve on my working time because I dragged it out to the last day. There was a lot a lot of work I had to do so I decided to spread things out so I did not get stressed . But in the end I finished Wednesday morning so barley finished. 

Water Cycle 12/13

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Summary: This week in class we learned about the water cycle. The water cycle is process that makes sure that everyone and thing has enough water to go around. The most common way the people see the water cycle is: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run off then it happens all over again. There are a lot of parts in the water cycle there is even an animal drinking water which is a part of the water cycle. Fun Fact did you know that the amount of water on earth will never change on its own.

SP4 Analyzing and Interpreting  data:
The way I analyzed data this week was we went on a website and did a water cycle adventure. It was completely random of where you go next so I thought that means the water cycle is kind of random. The way I interpreted the data was I drew a cartoon of the water cycle with at least ten panels.

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Atmosphere 12/6

Summary: This week in class we learned about the atmosphere. The atmosphere is made up of of layers: Troposphere,  Stratosphere, Mesosphere and the Thermosphere. The Thermosphere is made up of two layers Ionosphere and Exosphere. We also learned about the water cycle which is a loop that makes sure that everyone and thing gets enough water. Fun Fact did you know only 1% of water is usable to humans and land animals.


SP: SP 4 Analyzing and Interpreting Data
This week in class how I Interpreted data was that we had chart that I had to fill out. We had to use dots and draw lines between  them we did this was that we saw the height of where we had to put the dot and where it goes in the box was determined by the temperature. At the end we looked at the chart and saw the temperature for most of the altitude!

Letter to Cuttatree 11/16

Dear Mr. Cuttatree


I am the Spider Monkey.I am writing to you today to tell you a little bit about myself and my role in the rain forest ecosystem so that you may reconsider building the Uppity Resort.

My official name is Ateles Geoffroy. My body length is 38 - 48 cm my tail length is 63 - 82 cm i weigh 9 - 10 kilograms if i am a male. If i am a female my body length is 42 - 57 cm my tail length is 75 - 92 cm my weight is 6 - 8 kilograms. Some of my other diffing features are : i am usually all black but sometimes i have flesh colored rings around my eyes. I also don't have much under fur but i do have a slender body type. The last diffing feature i am going to tell you about is that i have long narrow hands.

What i do help other organisms is i eat all the bugs on my friends backs this helps other organisms by keeping the bug population stable. That is important because the bugs eat all the trees this is mutalistic relationship because the trees get protection and I get a home and food so we both get something out of it which is mutalistic.

I  am not the supreme god of the rain forest things eat me. I don't know why I bit into one of my friends once and he tasted horrible. I get eaten by a lot of things but I also eat a lot of things. So now that we are out of the fact that I eat and get eaten I will tell you what eats me and who I eat. I get eaten by jaguars ocelots pumas and eagles. I eat bird eggs, flowers, insect larva, spiders and more.

So Mr. Cuttatree do not build the uppity resort it will hurt me and my best friend bobby.  I hope I changed your mind about building the resort.

Sincerely,

Spider Monkey

Resources :

macalester.edu

animalcorner.co.uk 

Interdependice of Organisims 11/15

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Summary:  This week in class I learned about symbiosis.  There are three types of symbiosis.  The first is parasitic, which is when one organism gets a good thing out of it and the other organism is hurt.  An example of parasitic symbiosis is the dog and the tick. The second type of symbiosis is commensal, which is when one organism gets something good out of it and the other organism is not hurt by it.  An example of a commensal symbiotic relationship is the spider monkey and a rainforest
tree.  The third and final type of symbiotic relationship is mutualistic, which is when both organisms get a good thing out of it. An example of a mutualistic symbiotic relationship is a bee and the flower.

SP4 : Analyzing and interpreting data
In class the way  I interpreted  data is we got a research paper and we had to write down the defining features of the organism we were assigned also what it eats what eats it also another symbiotic relationship besides parasitic and we also had to write down what would happen to the rainforest ecosystem if the assigned organism went missing from that eco system.

Food Webs 11/6

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Summary: This week I learned about food webs in class. A food web is a bunch of food chains rolled up in to one. A food chain is a straight line that goes producers, herbivores, first level carnivores, second level carnivores, then at top of the food chain are decomposers. One thing I learned about food webs is if one thing goes out of the food web, everything will change in that food web. The last thing I learned is if one thing dies it's predator will lose numbers in population but probably will not die off.


SP4: Analyzing and interpreting data
We studied a food web in class and we had to answer questions related to that food web. An example would be; what animals would compete more if the toad disappeared from the ecosystem?

Photosynthesis 11/1

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Summary: This week I learned about Photosynthesis in class. One thing I learned about photosynthesis is that oxygen is actually a waste by-product of photosynthesis. Another thing I learned is that photosynthesis is used to make glucose the food of the plant. One other thing I learned about his week is producers and consumers a producer is a organism that can make its own food using the sun. A consumer is A organism that feeds off of other organisms for energy and food.

Organ system argument 10/25

 

 

 

Summary: What I learned this week, was that all organ systems work together. I learned mostly about the digestive system, and one thing I learned was that the waste is just a by product of the digestive system and it has nothing to do with the urinary system. I also learned that the anus is part of the digestive system. One last thing that I learned is that the tongue is a muscle and heals really quickly.

 

Backward looking I think I need to improve on leadership skills. I need to improve on them because I was in group of people that like to mess around and it was too much for me. One last thing is that sometimes they would not work at all and I kind of gave up.

 

Inward looking this piece revealed abut me as a learner that I tried to learn as much as possible in a short time period, and so I think of myself as a quick learner. One downside of trying to do it quickly was the work was kind of sloppy and my team had to go back and revise it. The upside to being quick was I found my limit on what I could do in certain periods of time.

 

Outward looking I would give myself a B+ grade for this work. The reason I would give it a B+ is because although the work was a little sloppy, this is a hard subject to learn and it still had some solid facts. What is holding it back from getting an A was probably team effort, because some people on the team did not do any work, which is why I would give myself a B+.

 

Forward looking if I had a chance to do this piece over again, I would change what organ system I was doing because some of the questions were kind of hard as we did not know much about that subject. Also it was hard to find answers to some of the questions because the answers on Google were not obvious because they found lots of medical sites. Another thing I would change if I had a chance to do this piece again would probably be my team mates.

Digestive system arguement 10/18

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Summary: this week is learned that the large intestine is also called the colon and is not swirly like the small intestine.Another thing i learned is that the mouth is part of the digestive system because that is where digestion  begins that is because  the enzymes in the mouth. The last thing i learned this week is the pesticides can hurt the digestive system.

Organ Systems 10/09

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This week in class we learned about Organ Systems. One thing i learned in class is that all organ systems work together. I learned about urinary/excretory system one fact is that the pee is stored in the bladder and not the kidneys. I also learned about nervous system one fact is that it depends on where the spinal cord is hurt or where you get paralyzed and if it is high enough  you will die. I also learned about the skeletal system a fact is that your bones meet up at joints.

Organ System 09/28-10/02

Summary: This week in class I learned about Organ systems. I learned where the O2 turn in to carbon dioxide which is in the lungs. i also learned that there are 2 types of blood vessels veins and arteries. Another thing i learned is that the mouth is a organ.







S&EP:  In class I constructed a lung to represent and understand how the respiratory system works. I used a half a balloon and a small water bottle  to represent the diaphragm. and i used a balloon to represent the lung.

Organelle Trail Project Blog 09/22

Summary: The thing i learned about this week is cells and Organelles. I learned that mitochondria powers the organelles. the only organelles located in plant cells are cell wall and chloroplast. Did you know that the vacuole in a plant cell is huge but the ones in animal cell are smaller. the cell is a living thing. A egg is a cell you can see without a microscope.



backward looking i did not know much about the cell. I also did not know much about a organelle. but this project help me learn more about the cell and its organelles.


Inward looking i feel like i did a good job of making this poster. when making this poster i worked really hard to do the research because i got a hard part. i liked how we decorated the poster but i disliked some of the decoration. but i fell over all we did a good job.

i would give this at least a 93 percent because it did a good job of all the requirements. the thing i think did the best was accomplices because it said what it did with the other organelles. over all it was great project.

forward looking i would improve on my team work.i would improve upon it because i did not really work well with my team. also so i can use in the future.

Organelle Trail 09/18

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Summary: this week in class we work on a project called the organelle trail. the organelle I work on is mitochondria. when doing the project the first thing I did was check out the link that the teacher provided us. on the link that the teacher gave us I didn't really find any thing out for my part of the project accompanists. what I did after that was that I search it up on Google and finished my research for my part of the project typed it down my teams document.

Project reflection 09/10-09/11



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Summery: we wrote letters or drew pictures to show that science is important to board of education.
for the letters the people who that had to right the letter. they had to wright five paragraphs. the people who made pictures went through some steps. the first step was to make your draft. the second step was to fold the paper into fourths then cut it. the third step was to draw the pictures then

the process I went through to make the project was that the first step was to make your draft. the second step was to fold the paper into fourths then cut it. the third step was to draw the pictures then make a caption of certain questions.

what  I found frustrating was that I couldn't draw stick figures like I'm used to.

when people look at my work I want them to see I worked hard on the piece and that they should respect that.

I would like to improve upon my drawing skills I was never good so I would like to start draw ing more so I can improve.

Oreo experiment and a lab report 09/05

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Summary: This week in science Oreo experiment and a lab report about it. the question was are double stuff Oreo's really double stuff and the hypothesis was if double stuff Oreo are really double stuff then they would be twice as high and twice the weight. the first thing we did in the experiment was that we put down papers on the table so the Oreo's don't touch the table. After that we measured the height and the weight of a regular Oreo and a double stuff. we shared our data with the people at our table. a lab report is a thing that scientists wright after conducting an experiment the parts of a lab report are the name of the experiment a question the hypothesis the list of materials the procedure the data and the conclusion.

What is science and the sintific method 08 28

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Summary: Science is...  A body of knowledge and a process. It is also the study of things in the natural world and is a form of thinking. The scientific method, stars with a question usually and then it turn into a hypothesis. That hypothesis is tested with a experiment then you put all the data collected from that experiment into a data charge. After that you draw a graph and share your results with other scientists.

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