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.