Mitochondria 09/22/16

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32434347

Summary: This week in class I learned about mitochondria. Mitochondria produces energy for the cell. You also get your mitochondria DNA from your mother.  The mitochondria also controls the amount of calcium the cell has. Mitochondrial disease can happen when it fails. Some of the symptoms of mitochondrial disease are nervous system dysfunction and muscle weakness.

SP7: Engaging in argument from evidence:
This week in class we did something called smears. Smears are a friendly and academically correct way of saying why some people are wrong. An example would be "a vote for a vacuole is a vote danons disease", with the cited document of where you found the information next to it. An example of what a smear isn't is: "the vacuole sucks". Everyone in your group has to do two smears to help each groups organelle win the election.

Organelles 09/16/16

https://www.biologycorner.com/APbiology/cellular/notes_cells2.html

Summary: This week in class we learned about organelles. Organelles are like the organs of the cell, they do things like provide energy protect and control the cell. One of the organelles is mitochondria the organelle the provides energy to the cell and controls the cells calcium. Fun Fact: You get your mitochondria DNA from your mother.

SP2: Developing and using models
This week in class we started our cells wars project. One of the things that we had to do in the project was make a poster with a slogan that explains what our organelle does an image of what it is and the name of the organelle. The poster that we made was "Vote Mitochondria the powerhouse that powers you, with our image. That was the model we made in class this week.

Experiments 09/11/2016

http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/us-military-involved-controversial-social-experiments/201087

Summary: This week in class we learned about experiments and variables. Experiments are test used to support or turn down problems. There are three types of variables 1. Responding what your trying to measure like how many paper clips can a magnet hold up, the responding variable would be the amount of paper clips 2. A controlled variable this is purposely made to stay the same in the other example the controlled variable would be the type of paper clip. 3. The manipulated variable is purposely changed in order to support you question in the example from 1. the magnet would be the manipulated variable.

SP3: Planning and carrying out investigations
This week in class we planned out the experiment that we had to do. My experiment was how far can different magnets attract each other. My results supported my hypothesis that the bigger magnets will attract further away.

Scientific Method 09/2/2016

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Scientific_Method_as_an_Ongoing_Process.svg

Summary:This week we learned all about the scientific method which consist of  making an observation, forming a hypothesis, conducting an expiriment, gathering data, and finally sharing your results! We learned that it is important to share with others because is you find the cure for cancer and you keep it to yourself then cancer will be just as bad as before. We also learned that there is no fixed way on doing the method except how you want to do it.

SP4: Analyzing and interpreting data
This week we anlyzied data by looking of what we had infront of us and what we thought was true to us in the worksheet they had us do that by writing the scientific method in a circle and we could write it. We interpreted the data through the question on the back for what we thought everything ment and what it did mean.