This Week in Science #15 Milestone

This is Elyse and I trying to figure out how the pasta sticks is going to stay in.

 Well, this week we only had two classes but we accomplish many things. On Wednesday, we were asked to create a video introducing ourselves to our 10th grade teacher. We had to answer some questions that was on David's blog. Such as : how did you like your teacher? How did you improve in science from the beginning of the year to the end?Then ,we accomplish that task we went up to the roof and shot the video that introduces ourselves for our 10th grade teacher. After that, we came down and and upload it to our blogger and our Google docs and drag it to our science folder. On Thursday, we had had done a marshmallow challenge again.We have done it already for 2 times one in  September and November. But we had to do one in May to see how our group work skills have improved and how we comprehend and use what we have learned to make a free standing tower with just a marshmallow a brown bag and spaghetti sticks. In the picture above we had to build a free stand marshmallow but we could talk and we had t communicate by note pads. However this has change tremendously because the first 2 time that we could have talked and communicate with each other all you heard was screaming and you should do this or but maybe we should try it this way. So the third try gave us a opportunity to try to expand our mind and see how well we communicated with each other. It so happen that our group communicated  and we related  by using hand gestures which was very interesting. The graph shows the data about how we did for the 3 trials and how it affected us. We were the 'Quadruple Threats' a it is shown that our data went up on the second trial an on on the third trial it shows that we wasn't working together and mainly I  taking over but I let them put their ideas in which was kinda mean but someone has to take over some of the time.In the last picture it shows us working together as a team and showing that anything is possible with team work. 
                         Am you better at working in groups now? Worse? How? Why? Well,I mean I never liked working in group and I don't this it is my strongest suit but I have to say I am better at working in groups because I use to not listen to what someone has to say and just do my own thing because that is just a natural instinct. So therefore working in groups will help me in the real life when I have to work with collages.  Do you like working in groups? Why or why not? Personal I don't like working in group because if you are finish with one thing and the person is do I just don't have the time and patience to get it done  with you. I guess I am just an impatient child, and it is really hard for me to explain what I am thinking and write it in to words because I would make any sense and you would get confused so yea. I hate working in groups but if I have to I will.                        I have learned that their are going to be obstacles in the way.But you shouldn't distract yourself and you should focus on your goals in life. In Science I have also learned to "Never let the fear of striking keep you from playing the game", which is an inspirational quote that I admire because in science or any other subject just because you fail at test or did something wrong in your experiment you stop trying. You keep striving until you meet the goal and success you want to etc.                         

This is a graph of every ones data over the past  3 trials.

                                                               This is us working in to a group trying to be happy as we work            together.

This Year in Science - 10th Grade Intro Video

TWIS#11

         







         This week in science we were told that we was going to have a cellar spider and we had to make a stable environment in the tanks that was giving to us. In class a to watch a video on how cellar spiders capture its prey.But before that happen their were papers all around the classroom that had to do with the ecosystem such as plant cells, chloroplast, carbon cycle, producers, decompose rs,and many more.We were given post its and had to write a definition as to what we know about that word. After that we got our tank and a white piece of paper and was told to sketch a picture as to what we want the ecosystem to look like for our spider. After days passed we went to Seward park to collect abiotic and biotic thing for the tank. My group got dead plants, sticks, little insects, a center pied, and other biotic and abiotic things. Abiotic is a nonliving thing and boitic is living things.

    I have learned many facts about cellar spiders and how the ecosystem works. I learned that cellar spider are often compared to daddy long legs because of their thin long legs. I also learned that cellar spiders like very dark places they are commonly found in the United States in houses or basements. I know that cellar spiders could only live up to a year and when it is ready to capture its prey, the spiders legs move in a 360 motion very rapidly that you cannot see the wrapping of the web.

TWIS #12

This is my spider log book that I
created to keep information on my spider. 

              This week in science was a very interesting week because we had to learn about symbiotic relationships,energy pyramids, and food chains. A food chain shows each how each living thing gets its food. A energy pyramid is different levels that represents groups of organisms.A symbiotic relationship is mainly from the root symbiosis which is an interaction process between two or more biological species. However it is split up into different categories which is mutualism, parasitism and commensalism. Mutalism is the relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the associate. Commensalism is the living together of two organisms in a relationship that is beneficial to one and had no effect on the other. Parasitism is a symbiotic relationshipin which organism benefits and the other doesn't. We also watched brain pop videos about them and test our knowledge by doing worksheets. 

            This week in science I did a lot of things such as creating ,my spider log book and  writing down what I found interesting in the tank and what had change through out the ecosystem, the days I  wasn't able to check it.  We also played a game on David's blog about symbiotic relationship and how one organism could affect the  food chain and how  the ecosystem works.

     

Marine Chain

TWIS #13

Objective: If we were to add five more spiders to your spider habitat tank, what would happen? And why? Use these terms in your explanation: glucose, photosynthesis, energy, carbon dioxide, oxygen.




                    If you were to add five more spiders the habitat that we have provided for our spider(London) then the spider might live. I state this as my hypothesis  because in a ecosystem thier is a cycle. This cycle goes like this; the sun gives light to the damp soil that is filled with H2O which make producers (plants). They are autotroph in other words makes their own food. From there the producers goes into the next stage that produces glucose which is sugar. The glucose helps the seedling grow because it gives the seedling the extra carbon that is need. After that, the consumer which is meat eaters and also considered a heterotoph because it cannot make its own food and have to depend on other organisms to live. However it helps the cycle because it gives the autotrophs Co2(carbon dioxide) and the autotroph helps them by producing O2(oxgen) back. This is the cycle of photoosynthesis, which is green plants, algae and some bacteria use light energy from the sun to convert carbon dioxide and water into chemical energy in the form of glucose (sugar). In the process, oxygen is released into the atmosphere. Therefore the spider will live because of the elements hat is in the cycle. Therefore without one element it could throw the whole cycle of because they all depend on each others for the supply that is needed.

Human Impact Ad Campaign

In science class we have a logo that is "To much car Transportation; Should be an Allegation; Lets Save The Nation'. In the pictures I have on my blogger shows how the earth is cracking because of all the earth pollution. Everyday a car gives pollution it brings out carbon dioxide and the earth is crumbling in small pieces everyday. 

The Brooklyn Paper

         This Brooklyn paper is about the government spending over 140,000 dollars on legal fees to defend the Prospect Park bike lane. Basically it is about the government getting over raged at the fact that they are having to pay money on the bikers lane however the lawsuit , which last year earned international headlines ,and argued that th bike lane turned the peaceful bike lane into a harzdous bike lane for perdestarins.

 


           I think that they should have more bike lanes and less cars or use healthier gasolines to for the envrinmonet. I say this as my opinion because if we use heathier gasoline or reduce cars then we be a healthier planet and not have to live in global warming like we are today. I always wondered if people know that they are destroying the planet and how are they trying to change the way we live now? Do you think we could have healthier gasolines runing through the air because we are dying bit by bit everyday and it iis bad for the environment and also bad for us too.

This Week in Science #9

  
         This week in science I have dissected a specific fish named a perch. I was a life changing experience for how I would act towards Science. In science class the task of the week was dissection and identifying  parts such as the dorsal,the ventral the side vie and the mouth parts. They had 4 selections of animals that e could have picked. In this dissection me and my partner had picked a perch and we had to find out the sex of it. Turns out it was a male because it only have one fin on the ventral( the bottom). Also we had ti draw a illustration of the dorsal of the ventral view and label.
        This week in scince we leard alot of sceintific details about dissection. This week in scince was a very fun and excited week for me because I had to dissect a organism and lable the parts. It was very weird because we had to use scientific language because our teacher didn't want us to be calling parts of animals  he butt or underneath it the bottom part; But the proper wrod for that  would be the ventral view where the anus is located. This weekin science I have learned alot and I would wanna keep learning more about it because it gets weird and I like weird. 
         We had a task to compare and contrast the forms and functions of our and our table mates' organisms. The organism that my pair and I had was a Perch which is  a type of fish that lives in fresh water. Their skin tend to be rough to cut through cut through and at the skate was really heard to cut through as well.  Both animals were marine animals meaning that they liverd in water. Therfore they had tails and fins that helps them breath underwater. The differences was that the skate body was much bigger than the perch's body and the skate eyes were internal with the ventral view and the perch eye was out side  nearthe dorsal view. 
 

This Week In Science #8

        

             A couple of  days ago I had to dissect  a crayfish.It was a mouth watering experience however during this procedure we has to find different part of the cray fish (which is a arthropod) such as the dorsal view which is is the back of the crayfish, the ventral view which is the front of the crayfish, the mouth parts and the side view. In this dissection we had to find the posterior or anterior  for our arthropod. We had to label and proximal (which is to describe the location of a part.) During this project we had to cut open the crayfish on the ventral view. Inside of the cray fish I spotted many features such as the heart and all of it's organs. But in order for a cray fish adaptation it had to have different features of its body. In these pictures above you see the side view and the mouth parts. As can you see in the pictures I labeled the antenna because that is a big feature of a crayfish because with out they antenna's they love the sense which is also one of their organs  to locate. The following picture above shows the crayfish on the side view  it shows the cheliped and the cheliped is important as well because with out a cheliped how would the crayfish ever eat and catch its prey.

            During this project I have learned how to use a scalpel which is a special dissecting knife to cut through flesh.(Yes!It does work.) I learned that when you use a scalpel you have to be care full before you cut through the organs of and animal. In the beginning of this project I was very disgusted  with the smell and the way the arthropod looks but I have learned to go in to depths with this animal and just look at all the interesting parts and different locations of this arthropod. I was always puzzled with questions such as; Do arthropod have white blood cells that fight bacteria just like we do? Do all arthropods have four legs and is an ex-so skeleton? All these amazing questions cant wait to see what what is the answer to my question.

This week in Science #7

        This month in science I have been working on a very intense project. It was a lot of stress but
I put my all in to it. We learned about biomes. A biome is different parts of the earth that consists of climate, location,vegetation and landforms. Through out this process my group and I had to create a presentation where we picked one biome. Our biome was a tropical island named Chirstmas Island.  However we had gotten a letter 100,000 years to the future stating that our biome has changed to a winter island. Therefore we had to create a mythical creature of our own that could live in a type of environment. After that we had to create a screen shot which is narrating about the slides as to what we did. Finally my group  had to grade our classmate presentation and give feed back as to what you liked and what we  think that they should fix.
          As I was doing this project I have learned many things. I have learned how to make a screen cast and and narrating my voice. I have also learned how to make a presentation that suits the rubric that was given to us through out David's and Jamie's mini lessons. Through out this experience I had a lot of fun with my group there was no miss understandings but the only problem we what was that we need tot have another screen casting to make our presentation worthwhile. All of us put all our effort and we work together as a team.