This Week In Science # 15

My Partners Working

             This week in science we did the marshmallow challenge for the third time but this time we could not talk. Then we also had to make a video for our future science teacher telling Him/her about our selves what our favorite subjects are and other things. We also had to make up work that we didn't finish so we could have a better grade for our report cards. I think that I could work a lot better in a group because I know the people in my group a lot better and we all know each other in the class. We did worse the last time then the first but it was because we could not talk to each other. We did worse but our group can work together a lot better.

Me and my partner working

              This week in science I learned how to communicate with people with out talking I had to nod my head, shake my head, shrug my shoulders we could also write on a piece of paper if we could not give body language. I also learned a bit more about building things like structures and architecture. I learned that lighting is a big part of a good video that is why in t.v. shows they have lighting managers and other people to work with the lights that is why we had to be on the roof so it can give us the best lighting in the whole school because it does not have a ceiling so light can come in. I also learned how to upload video to google documents.  I also learned a little more about the 10th grade teacher that I might have so I will just have to learned a bit more if I get her as my new science teacher and if I don't I won't.

Our Group Was The Architects

This Year In Science

This Week In Science #12

This week we got to feed our spiders and watch them grow a little. We, as a class, did a packet with food webs and food chains. We also did a work sheet that had nutritional and symbiotic relationships. We also made a Spider Investigation Log that we use to write what we see the spiders do.

This week I learned is that cellar spiders can eat and kill smaller bugs quickly. I also learned that the cellar spider can spin a web very fast to subdue the other animal. I aslo learned what the difference between food chains and food webs. We learned about Commensalism, mutualism and parasitism.1

This week in science #11

      This week in science we stared to make a ecosystem for our spider that we might get on wednesday. We also went to the park to take picture of the ecosystem in the park and show why the thing in the picture is important to the ecosystem. We also wrote a diagram of the way we want our ecosystem to look. We also made energy pyramids and food chains.We had to make a mystery food chain about marine life. I had one that the mystery animal was a orca whale. When we made the mystery food chain I had trouble but i Just found the food chin with the biggest animal at the end so it can be a big mystery

Picture of Orca Whale

We learned about symbiotic relationships food pyramids and food chains. I learned how the energy of animals goes from a small animal to a bigger one and a bigger one and so on. I also learned a little more about cellar spiders. We also learned about the way the plant animals and other organisms work together to stay strong in a environment

Marine Digital Food Chain

              Phytoplankton

                           Sardine

                    Salmon

                     ???

This month in science #10

This month we were visited by The Human Impact Institute. We are doing a project for 4 different subjects Water, Waste, energy, and Transportation. We first, listed anything that came to mind when we heared those words. We then made up a couple of questios and out of those few we chose 3 to put on a survey to ask people around our school. After we intervied a couple of people we graphed all of our data. Then we did something else with our group, me and my group were on waste, we had to make a design to show people not to make a lot more waste. so we did a few drafts to chose one for our design, but first we had to make a slogan to go with our topic so we chose to make it "Put Waste In Its Place" Then the next week we got help with our design from a person from The Human Impact Institute. Now you can understand our message a little better.

This month in science I learned, from listing all those things, that there are a lot of things to do with each topic. something else is that i never actualy thought of most of those things. Something else is that I did not know that there are so many modes of Transportation. From interviewing people I learned how people can be so rude. I realized not all people next to here speak all english, more because we are close to china town. when we graphed data it sometimes gets confusing. Whaen we made a slogen it was hard to make a good one that you could understand. Also that they can rhyme sometimes. When we drew a design I learned that you don't have to put some much detail. You also can put 2 together to make 1. When we got help for our design I learned how to improve it. Also they helped me so you can understand the message better like the slogen.

cricket investigation data and conclusion

Do crickets prefer fruits or vegetables. i think they would prefer the fruit because fruit is mainly found in wild life not vegetables. vegetables are grown

Mer and my experiment

This week in science #8

           This week in science we had to dissect a crayfish and a large grasshopper. I labeled the cephalothorax on both the dorsal view and the side view I did not have time to take a picture of the ventral view but i will put one up. Dorsal I'm pretty sure it means top or back and ventral means front or stomach view.

SIDE VIEW

DORSAL VIEW

Human Impact Ad campaign

At first I drew my examples or drafts which are on the right and then I started with my second draft of my best drawing and made it bigger and better. The one on the bottom.

This week in science #9

This week in science I had to dissect the perch and label the parts of the perch on the Picture on the side of this paragraph. I noticed that the inside of the make and the female insides are different. I we also used specific tools to cut and dissect the perch, skate, mouse, or frog. I cut the Perch myself but its skin (scales) were hard to cut through. When i finally did cut the scales of the fish it was easy to take it off the body It was nasty when i did all the juices inside came out.  

 What I learned this week is the the inside of a perch of course is different I forgot about gender so I never thought of the body parts to be different. I Also learned that the skin of the Perch fish is strong I forgot about the scales. But one thing I learned is that the fins of the fish were sharp and very strong it might just be because its dead. From the skate i learned that its skin is very thick. I also learned that the skates mature late.

I was dissecting the Perch fish and my table was doing the skate since they wanted to do it so I let them do it with out me. The perch fish and the skate are 2 different organisms entirely but there are similarities to them. The fin on the fish is like the fin on the skate but the fins on the fish are a lot small and are not as big but the skates fins are flapped like a bird. The spines of both of them are similar but the one in the fish is stronger or not bendable like the skates is.The tail fins of the 2 of them are the same do the same thing but one is vertical and the other is horizontal.

This Month in science # 7

This week in science I did lots of things such as make a power point. I made 3 slides on the power point. We also did the screen cast to record us talking over the power point. We had to make about 50 takes to get the recording just right.we also watched all the other teams videos. and we also saw our own. we also drew our evolution to our fantasy animals.

I learned how to make a screen cast. I learned about the animal named the Thorny devil it has spikes all around its body. I also learned the vegetation in the desert about all the types of cactus there are in the desert. I also learned about the formation int the desert that most of the land forms are made by the wind

classification challenge

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Superclass:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Family:	Romaleidae
Genus:	Romalea
Species:	R. guttata

 Arthropoda- is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton)
 Hexapoda- Greek for six legs
insecta- Any insect
Orthoptera- an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, cricketsand locusts.
Romaleidea- The Romaleidae or lubber grasshoppers are a family of grasshoppers
Romalea- the same as Romaleidea

the lubber grasshoppers can reach nearly 3 in (76 mm) in size. Their wings are rarely 1½ the length of the abdomen, most of the time they are much smaller than that, and cannot be used for flight. Accordingly, they can only jump short distances, compared to how massive they can get. The grasshopper is widely known by the name "diablo", "black diablo", or Devil's Horse in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The insect is also colloquially known as a "graveyard grasshopper".

this week in science 6

This week in science we had to list thing we need to survive. We also had to list what we thought crickets needed to live and we looked up what they need to survive. The next day we also had to observe the cricket behavior in 3 different ways. one way we had to name a behavior and how many are doing that behavior. the other one we had to tell them where they were and what behavior they had. the last one was where they are every 30 seconds and the behavior and how much they move. we also had to do a mission challenge with 2 people absent so it was only me and someone else. we barley got it done but we managed to get it done before time ran out.


This week in science i learned that only the male crickets chirp. i also learned that crickets might be more active when they know there is people watching the and trapped in a tank.i also learned that they dont chirp if they are scared.

cricket chillin

This week in science 5

This week in science what I learn was that a rocket with wing in the bottom can fly the farthest its probably because it has  a better probability of having the most air to go through the wings. I think that the people in N.A.S.A had to do a lot of test to determine that the best place to place the wings on the bottom the had to put the wings every where to determine the perfect place to place the wings.

What we did this week was create a rocket with determining the best placement of the wings. There are a lot of things that use as a class had to figure out as and i think that the perfect rocket is the one with all of our data combined because if we put all of the class's data together than the rocket would have the wings on the bottom, the nose would be small will not weight a lot, there would be 3 wings and all the wings would be triangular. we also had to launch the rockets that we made on a big launcher.

This week in science #4

This week in science we had to record the data of growth and of the color of the plant. So we can put it in our document. We also had to o all of our assigned work i had to make the experimental set up (digital illustration, Someone also did the tittle etc.). But I still need to take a picture of the results.

Brassica Rapa 

This week I Learned that the brassica rapa is week when it does not have sunlight. I also learned that the plant without sunlight can grow more but it will not be healthy as the one in the sunlight. the one with no light will look dead and the one in the sunlight will be green(healthy).

This Week in Science #3

This week we collected data for the plant brassica rapa. We put one of the plants in sunlight (Window) One in some light and dark (Back Desk).  And the last one in complete darkness (Cabinet).And by accident Elizabeth killed one of the plants or hurt it bad because its bent to the side so now we can't measure it but she found a way to. It was like a freak accident.

This week I Learned that a plant can break or die with just a touch

This week in science #2

What I DID this week in science was plant the plant brassica rapa. Me and my group came up with a good question for the plant investigation. Our question was "How does the amount of sunlight affect the color of the plant." it was a good question because we can change the surroundings of the plant like one we put it net to the window so it could get a lot of sunlight, the other we put it in the cabinet, and the last one we put it in the middle like on the desk in the back so it could get some light and some darkness.


What I LEARNED this week is the Brassica rapa. I also learned you can eat the roots of the Brassica rapa. I never knew that you can eat any plants roots. I also learned that Some of the Brassica rapas are fast growing and go through their life cycle quickly.