Extraction and Harvesting 04/27

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fertilizer_applied_to_corn_field.jpg

Summary: This week in class we learned about extraction and harvesting. To extract or harvest is to get natural resources in a quick and manageable fashion. When people extract resources from the land, it destroys the land and all the homes that animals have made there. After resources have been extracted, they are transported to a factory and processes, which adds to carbon emissions.

SP6: Constructing explanations and designing solutions
This week in class we discussed the problem that extracting and harvest natural resources causes. We discussed possible solutions, like: Making the trucks that transport the resources electric, powering the factories using clean energy like solar power. On last solution would be: using old fashioned techniques to extract the materials and using regular factories to process the materials and ship them out.

Natural Resources 04/22

https://www.tes.com/lessons/XmIMYcGUEgbgRg/natural-resources

Summary: This week in class we learned about natural resources. A natural resource is something that can be found in nature and used in some way shape or form. Most natural resources are finite meaning that there is only a certain amount of them in the world. This is causing problems with natural resources like water, not being in places where people need it; like when California had its drought.

SP1: Asking questions and defining problems
This week in class we asked the question: How are natural resources used, and are the being used efficiently. We defined that while he are using some resources efficiently, we are not using other efficiently. Water for example is becoming rarer and rarer in today's society. We also determined that it would be very hard to change how resources are used, but that it is possible.

Landforms project 04/14

https://wikitravel.org/en/Mount_Fuji

Summary: This week in class we finished our land forms project. In the project we learned about how the plates in the Mantle affect different things on the top of the crust. The land form my team chose, Mt. Fuji is on top of a convergent boundary, this affected Mt. Fuji by making the volcano got dormant after three eruptions. There are different types of plate tectonics that cause different things to happen.

Backward looking, we had one problem when we were working on the project: my absence. After the project had started I got sick and I couldn't help my team when they were relying on me to help with the project. When I got back though I worked as hard as I could to help my team finish the project on time.

Inward looking, I found it frustrating that one of my teammates kept forgetting the clay that we needed for the model. We used the time in class to work on the proposal done, but the model was still the main part of the project. When they finally brought the clay it was almost time to be done with the project and the model did not come out the way I wanted it to.

Outward looking: if I was in the teachers shoes the comments I would make about the project would be mostly criticism. I would first say that the model doesn't even remotely resemble Mt. Fuji and could be any mountain. I would also say that we need to work on our presentation skills because no one in our team did well in that regard.

Forward looking, I think my team needs to improve upon how much we work, because I found that sometimes our team would stop working and start procrastinating instead of working. I need to improve on my leading skills in particular because when I noticed this happening I didn't stop them some of the times and jut let them do it.