Elements And Atoms 3/18/17

Science Notes and Projects

Summary: Atoms are what make up literally everything. Atoms are made up of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons. The middle of the atom is the Nucleus. The Nucleus is made up of Protons and Neutrons. The Electron is flying around the Nucleus. Electron's have a Negative Charge, Protons have a Positive charge and the Neutrons have a neutral charge. The Protons are what determine/identify what type of atom it is. Elements are made up of only one type of atom. And ALL Elements are found on the periodic table. If its not on the periodic table then its not an Element. Density is how much stuff is in a given space. Mass divided by Volume is the formula to find the density of something. And Volume is the amount of space something takes up. To find volume you must do length times width times height.

SP3: Planning and carrying out investigations: To figure out more about density,volume, and mass we did an experiment in which we had giant tub of water. Then we had different types materials that all had different densities, mass and volume. Some of the materials sunk because they had more density and mass while some didnt because the had less volume and mass. We also tried to use aluminum foil we filed it to the size of the bin of water and put it in. It floated. But we folded it into a little square to make it more dense and then it sunk.

XCC: Cause And Effect: The amount of protons an atom has is what identify what type of atom it is.  If your atom has a negative charge it is called a cation. This happens when electrons get added giving the atom an negative charge. If electrons are lost then the atom has a positive charge which makes it a anion. Cause and effect is very key in the atoms. So if a atom is positive its a anion. If it has a negative charge then its a cation.

The Asian TIger Mosquito Project 2/8/17

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Summary:  The Asian Tiger Mosquito is a well know species around the east coast area due to its deadly bite and white and black color . The asian tiger mosquito is most know for the deadly disease that it carries which is called  the chikungunya fever .The Asian Tiger Mosquito is also an invasive species. An invasive species is a type of animal or plant that is transported somehow to a new environment that it does not belong to, causing environmental harm and unhealthiness.

Backward looking: I knew that the invasive species are species that are somehow transferred to a new area where they don't belong causing havoc in the area. But i never knew that the Asian Tiger Mosquito was a Invasive species. I didn't know that invasive species were so harmful towards the environment.

Inward Looking: One thing I found frustrating was that I was the one that had to do most of the work. Because at the last minute I didn't have the brochure printed out. And I felt like I could have managed my time at home despite my busy schedule and I could have maybe spent more time on this project.

Outward Looking:  I would give my project a B+ just because I knew that my project didnt meet the full required fields that we needed and what the rubric said. So maybe if we read the rubric a little more our project would have been a A with full credit. But for us the lack of reading the rubric brought us down.

Forward Looking:   One thing I would like to improve upon is Time management because we we scrambling to finished up our project during the last few days and I feel like we missed a couple of things that the rubric required. And in the future I wish to be more on top of my work and to pay more closer attention to the rubric.

Invasive Species 2/6/17

Invasive species in Canada and Climate Change on emaze

An Invasive species is a type of organism that somehow gets transferred to a different place that it's not native to causing it to disrupt the new environment it got placed in. There are many type of interactions that can happen. Predation is when one organism contains all or one of another. So it a win-lose situation.Competition is when two organisms are fighting for either food,shelter,mates etc. Next we have Symbiosis which is the relationship of two different organisms. Mutualism is when both organisms benefit off of each other. It's a win-win situation. Commensalism is when one organism is benefited while the other isn't benefited or harmed. It's a win-meh situation. Lastly we have Parasitism which is when one organism is benefitied while the other organism is harmed.

S&EP:SP6:Construction Explanations And Designing Conclusions
We have to construct a brochure to show that our animal of choice (Asian Toger Mosquito)  should be removed from the US because it's causing environmental problems and the fact is that the Asian tiger Mosquito transfers many different types of diseases to humans and animals causing the disease to spread when a animal consumes the animal intoxicated with the disease. This makes the environment go all wrong and every animal begins to either under populate or over populate due to a animal that is not supposed to be in that environment. So we have to design conclusions on how to get rid of this animal and we have to construct our explanation to pursuance people that we are correct.

XCC: Cause & Effect:  Basically the environment is all about cause and effect. When a organism that does not belong to a certain area gets transported there somehow that causes the new area it in to go crazy and messed up. This is because it will start consuming others food leaving less food. Then when it starts to replicate the issue will just grow more depending on the type of organism. So another example of cause and effect is the food chain. If we have to many wolfs they will eat tons of bunnies leading to the increase of grass and decline of bunnies. Once all the bunnies are gone the wolves will start to die off without any food. Causing the consumers of the wolves to die them everything just collapses.

Energy Pyramid & The Food Chain 2/19/17

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Summary:
The food chain is the process in which animals go from the producer to primary consumer, herbivore consumer, omnivore consumer, and carnivore consumer. The food chain is like a cheerleading pyramid. The lowest get has more work holding up the people while the people at the top get less work by just balancing. And if on person missteps of is absent the the pyramid just falls apart. Its just like the food chain because the food chain at the bottom is the maintainment of the whole pyramid and if does its function wrong or if the producer starts to decrease it affects the whole pyramid by decreasing the insect population because the insects are running out of producers to eat. And if the grasshoppers decrease the the mouse population will lower because the insects are dying out causing the owl to start decreasing making the whole pyramid collapse and everything goes extinct.

S&EP:SP3: Planning And Carrying Out Investigations
We did gizmos and experiments and investigated what would happen if we increased the number of producers or consumers. Or what happened if we decreased the number.We also played a game where each table was given a cycle either carbon cycle or nitrogen cycle and you would have to roll a dice to see where you would end up like for the carbon cycle i went from atmosphere to surface water. And then once we got all the facts that the game gave us we would be paired up with another table that was he opposite cycle and have 8 minutes to explain our cycle to them and then after we had a quiz on both cycles based on what the table groups and game taught us.

XCC: Cause & Effect
Like I said the food chain is very fragile because if one animal or plant starts to die off everything goes down. And in this case the animals and plants all depend on one another so there no "every plant or animal for themselves!". They are all in it together. Either the plant and animals are in a stable chain or they are slowly dying off. Lets say the food chain is grass gets eaten by rabbits and the rabbits get eaten by foxes and the foxes get eaten by hawks. So if the grass population starts to decrease the the rabbits will decrease due to the lack of grass causing the foxes to die with lack of rabbits and so on.

Superhero Genetics Project 2/9/17

Summary: Genetics is what make up your body and how you look. You get your looks from your parents because they pass down their genes to you. An allele is one or two alternative forms of a gene. 99.5% of human genes are the same. DNA carries generic instruction for your body and how you are supposed to look. Our DNA is 3 meters long. There are 2 types of genes dominant and recessive. Dominant is obviously the greater allele and a recessive gene is a less greater allele.

SP2: Developing and using models: What I did was to create a poster and create an animated box. What the poster was about was that we have to put all the worksheets and drawings that we did on the whole project onto the poster. The animation box we had was to display our super hero and show that the superhero was like it was "flying". Then we also had to do multiple drawing of our superhero and their off-spring. We had to do a paper on epigenetic which was where we had to see if the choices our superhero made affected the off-spring. For example, if my superhero had a lot of junk food and didn't go outside to exercise then the off-spring would be overweight. And if the superhero drank lots of alcohol then the baby would have deformed lungs and trouble breathing.

Backward Looking - I knew some stuff about genetics before we started this unit but I didn't know much as I like a lot of detail like I did after this project. But our teacher did let us do some activities that would help us engage in the new project. I am really happy our teacher gave us almost 2 weeks to research stuff about genetics and mutations for our project because obviously without it I would have failed. But I did know things like the gene and characteristics, but I didn't know anything about the dominant and recessive alleles.

Inward Looking - I feel very proud about this work because I literally put my all into this project because we had to do a lot of work and I thought I would not be able to manage all this work. But surprisingly, I did and this caused be to be really on top of my A game for this project. And honestly, this is probably the best work I have done because there were so many different types of parts to it and that makes me have many different types of work that I am proud of. But one thing I am disappointed about is that my poster was a tad bit sloppy.

Outward Looking - Everyone in my class had to do this project. But the one thing that was unique was that we all got to choose our different superheroes and their powers. But other than that my class did the same thing pretty much and at some points we got to choose our own things. Such as our superiors offspring design and powers, our villains design, our villains superpower and our love story on how the superhero and husband met along with why the villain and superhero are enemies. Writing the stories was probably the most different thing we did because we all got to choose the special story for why our superhero and villain are enemies and how my superhero and partner met.

Forward Looking -  One thing I would like to improve upon is my neatness on my poster because my poster was the only thing that was last minute and I kind of had to throw it together. I didn't really have time to assemble the most neat poster because I also had my actual poster for the student exhibition night to do and that was very very very important. And I mean all the required things were on my poster, but the one thing was that bad was the everything was all rolled up and some of the parts that I needed to explain were very brief not as long and understanding.And my poster was very wrinkled because it was rolled up and put in my bag, but what can I say that's how my bag is; an eternal death hole.

Presentations 2/5/17

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Summary: For a presentation you can't have just your item and nothing behind it. You have to have some sort of poster, trifold, or something so that the people you are presenting to can read more in depth about your work.  For some items people may use a thing called a QR code which is used to scan things and then see what you need to see from the mobile device. The QR code is kind of like a link but in a square of pixels that your mobile device can scan. You can make your own by getting the link. Then you go to Goo.gl  which is a URL shortener. Once you shorten your URL you go and make a new tab paste the shortened URL into the search link and add " .qr " to the end. Press enter and the a picture of QR code for your URL should pop up.


S&EP: SP2: Developing and using models: For my Superhero project display I am doing a poster using poster paper. In that  poster i have to feature all of the work I did the past month. For my 2 story about how my superhero met their mate and how my superhero came to be I have 2 QR codes which people can scan and read on their own time. I also like that people can actually spend time to read the stories I wrote because if i just printed out the story all they would do is glimpse at it and wander off. But if they scan the code they can actually read it on their own.
XCC:Cause And Effect : I used my cause and effect in my epigenetic and my superhero and villains rivalry. For the epigenetics whatever bad choice my superhero did affected the offspring and whatever good choice my superhero made affected the offspring in a positive way. Such as the superhero eats to much junk food and does not exercise the outcome would be a offspring with obesity.

Villian Organ System Changes 1/29/17

Summary:
 Many people believe that superhero are fake and childish. I believe that it is possible to create a real life super hero. To do this you need the knowledge of science, genetics, and the different body systems. Its possible that if you change your body systems up you could possible get "superpowers". Such as making your lungs bigger so that you can run faster. Or increasing the size of your pupils making you see better in the dark. Increasing muscle size can make you stronger and give you much much much more strength. There is a possibility to have "superpowers" you just need to use science.

S&EP:SP 2 Developing And Using Models: I drew a Super Villain and I changed up 4 of my villains organ systems. There are 2 modes for each of the changed organs. Normal And Nefarious. I changed the eyes,muscular system, skeletal system, and ears. For the eyes I enlarged the pupil for night vision. The muscles in the muscular system got bigger so that my super villain can hold up heavy objects. For The skeletal system changed because I gave my superhero elastic like bones so that she could stretch her bones out almost 5 miles! Last but not least the ear. I enlarged the small hearing hole to make her hear very well. and I also gave her pointy ears.

XCC: Structure And Function: Every change you do to a persons body system affects them. Like I said before if you enlarge the pupil in a humans eye then the human will see better in the dark. If you increase muscle size you make the human much more stronger.If you made your lungs bigger you would be able to hold more air and do things better such as running and jogging without running out of breath. Or another example would be your bladder. If you increase the size of that then you will be able to hold more urine allowing yourself more time away from the bathroom.