This Week in Science #14

This week in Science was very fun. We didn't do much because we are reaching the ending of the year. Since we are reaching the end of the year David gave the whole cohort5 the oppertunity to make up work we didn't do or have to boost our grades up. I am trying to stay in the range of an A but it gets hard toward the end or the year.



What I learned this week in science is about the HIPPO dilemma. HIPPO dilemma is basically about how keeping the enviornment green. It was teaching us on how to save energy because we are running out of natural resources. On the bottom is a picture of how to keep the enviornment green.

TWIS # 15 Milestone

This week in Science I did something that I didn't think I would have to do again. What my class mates and I  did was the marshmellow challenge with the same people we did the challenge with back in November. YES ! November! And we are in June! The people who were in my group for the challenge was NayQuan,Christin,Zaria,and I. Doing the marshmellow challenge again for the second time around was fun. It was fun because we did it timed the first time, and we had to make the marshmellow stand straight and tall with out falling.We did this with spagetti sticks,tape and a paper brown bag(if you wanted to use the bag). My team and I only got the marshmellow to hold up for like 1 minute. When we did the challenge back in November my group's cenemiter of holding it straight and tall was 79. When we did it this time in June, it was 67. I think it was 67 because if the time limit we had this time. Then, we did the challenge again, but we didn't messure it because we was just doing it for fun.

What I learned about working with the same group I worked with in November was that people can change. Back in November, my whole entire group was cool with eachother.You know, every one in our group was talking, bonding and what not. When we did the marshmellow challenge again, every one in my group wasn't as cool. I mean nothing happend, no body disrespected anybody. But we didn't connect as we did back in November. BUT, when it came to putting our marshmellow in a way in can stay steady with out falling, my group was on point. We bonded like old times in November, even twice as better. We bonded twice as better because we knew we wanted our marshmellow tower to not only look better than everyone else's, but to stand so it wouldn't fall. What I learned also was that, my group and I realized,we shouldn't have the marshmellow stand up the way we had it standing last time in November.So what we did was come up with a way we can learn to hold up the marshmellow without it falling. I learned if we would of did what we did fir the challenge in November, in November our marshmellow would have stood up straight by itself. But, now we learned in June how to keep it steady with out falling. What we did differently from June to Novembers tower was.. we taped our spagetti sticks down to the desk, so they can stay with out breaking, taped sticks on top of sticks tightly. We then put our marshmellow and it stood! This marshmellow challange was better than last times marshmellow challenge.

In this picture we couldn't talk so we was writing on post-its to show what we wanted to do to make our marshmellow stand straight.

In this picture it shows ME trying to keep the marshmellow from falling :-) 

In this picture right here, this is my favorite one and I choose it last so it can show how focused my whole group was in trying to make our marshmellow tower not collapse.

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This Year in Science- 10 grade intro video

This Week in Science #12

This week in Science we did a lot of working. On Monday, we watched a video of how spiders trap their food before they eat it. On Tuesday, David showed us how to make a log book. The book is called "Spider Observation". The book log is something that we write in every day about a new word that can connect to our spider,and we draw a picture on how to explain that word.Spider Observation will also help us understand our new words we been stuyding because we get to write about the words on our OWN words. We will be working on the book for the rest f the week. On Wednesday, we fed our spiders fruit-flies, so it can have something to eat. On Thursday we don't have science. On Friday we didn't do anything because it was Jamies last day:( BOOOOOOO !!!! So instead, david ordered some papa Johns, and we just kicked back and enjoyed our moments with Jamie.






What I learned was how a spider can have energy in many ways. For example: Gluecose is a certain plant that has oxygen in it, so it allows the spider to have oxygen. I also learned making your book can be a lot of hard work,because you need to have the right picture to match  your word. We really didn'y do much this week, but I know we will continue to keep learning because its only the beginging that we started studying about pur spiders.

This Week In Science #13

I choose question B(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.)

What would happen is the spiders will die. I personally think the spiders will die because only one spider is living off of oxygen by itself, and if we put more spiders not all of them can live off one plant of oxygen. In this picture it shows how the Sun of Energy gives the spider energy to survive. It also shows how the gluecose gives oxygen because it is a plant.

TWIS #11

This week in Science we did a lot of things this week. On monday, it was our first day back from spring break. So David was just welcoming us back and explaining what we will be doing this week. On Monday we also asked questions on a post-it on ecosystem. David had a new vocabulary word on each poster. For ex: Ecosystem, Carbon cycle, Water cycle, Plant cell, Food chain, Producer, Photocynthesis. All these science vocabulary words, we had to ask questions on what we thought they ment. On Tuesday, we went to seward park. We went to seward park because we are getting spiders next week, and we wanted to put items in our tank for the spider,to see how we cn keep it alive with these certain items. My group and I put a log in, flowers,leaves and water. Our spider is going to live off these items in our tank. We also took pictures of things that what we think is part of an ecosystem. My group took pictures of grass,water,the slides in the park, and trees. All these things are apart of the ecosystem because it is apart of nature. On Wednsday, we put our pictures up on google docs, and wrote about how the picture was apart of ecosystem. We didn't have Science on Thrusday. And today is Friday, and we just got through our first week of being back from brea, writing about what we did :).

This is a picture I took in seward park. It represents ecosystem because it has nature.

We didn't really learn much this week, because we just got back from break.  I learned ecosystem has a lot to do with nature. Another idea  I  learned was that we  are going to be dealing with spiders which is cool, and we are going to see how long they can survive with our tank. I am still unsure about ecosystems. Even though I know it is apart of nature, I don't know what the word it self means  but I am positive these next few weeks will help me understand it more. I can't wait to deal with the spiders, and see how long it survives with the tank we got built up for it !!

This Month In Science # 10

What we did this Month in Science was, we been studying Human Impact. Human Impact Institute came to our class to help us discuss Human Transportation. We then went out side our school to have people do some surveys on transportation, water, energy and waste. Not a lot of people had the time to answer our surveys. My group is Water. We tested water, to see how much chlorine it had in it. The school water, had chlorine in it, and so did the fish in our classes water.Martinique, Sebastian, Kaitlyn, Tiffany, Anna, Shayna, and I are in my group. We been making a poster to represent our selected topic, which is water. We came up with a slogan.. which is Water you gonna do when its gone? Which means what will you do, when the water is gone, if you keep on polluting in the water. It's most likely to look black and unhealthy to drink or use for anything. We made a design to match our slogan, which the design will be on cups, cups tipping over, and the cups will have dirty water as it tips over in each example. Cool shirt right? I can't wait to wear it !!

This is a picture of an example for our t-shirt design, its not what we choose, but its a example step, that made us choose the example we choose for final.It shows water being polluted, because garbage is in the water

What I learned this week in science is that, the water in the ocean is being polluted. Since it is being polluted we are drinking water with chlorine. Chlorine is being put in the water, but is that honestly making it clean? If we have to drink water with chlorine in it, I think it makes the water just as unhealthy, because of the simple fact that we are putting contaminated water into our systems. So the water is just as dirty. I told you how we went out and asked people to answer our surveys right? Okay, so NO ONE , I mean NO ONE wanted to answer our groups survey. It seemed as if people in the lower east side don't have time to answer questions. But the people who did, they said they turned the water on about 5-7 times, wasting water, which they did not know if the water has chlorine it. Working with the Human Impact Institute, was fun. They was really cool. Their names are Adam, Melanie, and Tara. Melanie was my favorite. She really helped my group have the design we have now, and it is awesome. And she was fun talking to. It was a fun experience to have people like the Human Impact Institute come to our class, because got to meet people we don't know.

Human Impact Ad Campaign

This Picture shows Water being half way black.. If people keep poluting and putting junk, it will be fully black. Right now it's half way black.

Wastewater a key issue in NY'S fracking debate

The main point to this article is that fracking is a problem. Not sure of how to handle millions of gallons of contaminated water. There are 3 options for waste disposal in The Department of Environmental Conservations. These 3 options are..
— Truck the millions of gallons of wastewater produced per well to a treatment facility and either discharge the treated water into a river or reuse it for another drilling project;
— Ship it out of state for deep-well injection disposal; or
— Recycle it on-site for drilling multiple wells. The authors arguement is that we are left with solid landfilling. This author didn't use graphs or pictures, a lot of text was used.



I agree with this article because even if we use left over water we are left with landfilling solid water. But then again I don't agree with some parts to this article because a lot of money is being wasted to make the water better, but then once again it's only making the water better by putting in treatments even though it is expensive. 1.3 billion to 1.7 billion is being used for treatment.

This Week In Science #9

This Week In Science we did an experiment on cutting animals open. We also cut them open to see what's inside them. My partner and I, Tiffany worked on a perch. The first day, we just observed the perches mouth, and to see what was in the mouth. That was on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday we dissected the perch! It was sooooo nasty, because the perches skin was SOOOO dry, so it took even longer to cut it open, because it was dry.

This is the Perch I dissected.My partner Tiffany and I cut it open from the side, were you see its Gills

What I learned this week in science was that, if a fish has 3 holes on its body, it is a female. If it has one hole, it is a boy. This perch happens to be a boy. I also learned that fish make kids weirdly. The guy spits his semen out, and the girl perch spits her eggs out. After this, the semen hits the eggs, and then the babies form. Weird right? At first I found it nasty. I honestly wouldn't want to do this project again because the dead animals stink. Especially the perch!

This Week In Science#8

This week in Science Tiffany and I dissected  PERCH. We turned it on the Ventral view because we thought it would be easier than to cut through the perch than on the Dorsal view. We dissected it from its Anterior , which is its head, and from there we opened its mouth. An Anterior is different from a Posterior . An Anterior is a head and a Posterior is oppisite of a head, which can be a tail, but in a perches case is is the fin. This is the perch we dissected.

What I learned this week in science is that a perch female, you can tell if is a female if it has 3 holes, if its a male it only has one. This perch that i dissected is a male, he only has one hole. So you know its a male. I was so excited to dissect, but these dead animals really smell gross!! And I also learned I am scared of anything dead! lol. I had an ahaha moment when I couldn't open the perches mouth and I had someone help me ! Dissecting was a fun yet weird expierence.

This Week In Science #7

This week in Science I finished my Biome project. What I did in my project was I talked about how my fantasy animal would live on the desert, and how it would survive on the desert. My fantasy animal was a shark. I made him so he could have the following: A nose like a dog to smell when its preditors are coming, arms and legs so he could grab his preditors, and the legs are so he can run really fast. What I did in my project was talk about the temperature under the deep sea, and did the voice and speaker notes.I also did a Shark before , and I talked about what it eats.

What I learned was how animals survive under water, and how fun it could be working with people you don't normally work with. I also learned how to use my imagintion for science and make up my own animal.

Classification Challange

This is the animal I choose. One of my group members choose a pig. This chicken is called a Gallus Domesticus.It's developed by different groups. Each group is, Kingdom,Phylum,Class,Order,and Family.

Kingdom means Animalia. Animalia means the body eventually becomes fixed as the chicken developes. Phylum means Chordata. Chordata are animals which are verbrates. Verbrates are the largest group of chordatas. Class means Aves, Aves are birds that are developed with feathers, wings.. etc. Order means,its a heavy bodied feeding bird. Family, means,Phasianidae. Phasianidae is a family of birds who consist pheasants.

We then compared our animals to see if they had anything in common. What was in common was that they was dead. One person choose a pig, and the pig and my chicken had in common was that both was taken out of their moms

Cricket Investigation

Do Crickets prefer light or dark environments?


Hypothesis: If you provide crickets with a dark environment,I predict the crickets will like the dark because the crickets will have a secure environment.

Back round research:Cricket arms are similar to grasshopper arms.Female crickets don't chirp,only males do.

This is the cricket when we was timing it to see if it liked light or dark. It was on top of the tube because it liked the light. 

This is the Data. What we did was, each round,for 60 seconds we would see where the cricket would stay, and we learned that the cricket stood on top of the tube which meant the cricket liked light.

Conclusion: What I learned was not all crickets are the same, and they all don't like the same thing. My group had two crickets, and the first cricket liked the dark, and the second didn't. So I learned it depends on the cricket cause not all is the same.

This Week In Science #6

This week in science, we did our Cricket Investigation. We studied their behaviors. We wanted to know weather if the crickets like being on wet napkins, or dry napkins. The crickets my group had, actually liked being on the dry napkins. We also wrote down 5 things us as humans couldn't live without. I said, my boyfriend, niece, the shower, food. We then wrote down we thought what crickets needed.. which we said were, food and water. We then also did a chart for jelly beans. It was based on a question that had to do with Dichotomous key.







This week in Science I learned what an example of a Dichotomous key means. An example of a dichotomous key is .. for ex: Does it have spots on it? We did an dichotomous on our jelly beans. My groups was, how many is yellow?

This Week In Science #5

1. This Week In Science what we did was work on the Rocket Science conclusion. After I was in the milestone group cause I didn't meet the standards for my group work. Then on Wednesday the whole class watched animal and their behaviors. On Wednesday we also observed Crickets,on what we see on them, and on questions we had about the crickets we observed.


2. This Week In Science I learned how there is only 92 rare parrots in the WORLD. I also learned that crickets eat apples.



The Cricket we learned about.

This Week in Science #4

This Week in Science, we did our project. Our project was based Brassicarapa, and how would changing  the amount of soil affect the growth in height.The people in my group was Zaria, Nicole, Kaitlyn, and I. We each broke down the project into parts that each of us would be able to do. The part I did was, write about the Variables and the Results to how the Brassicarapa grew in each of our cups. Cup A didn't grow at all, Cup B grew 7 milimeters, and Cup C grew 10 milimeters.



What I learned This Week in Science is how to make your project better. The reason why I say this is because my groups work was poorly.  We then put work into it. It came out better, and we fixed our line Graphing, and everything is  in order. And I learned how changing the amount of grass can effect the growth in your grasses height.

This week in Science #3

This week in Science, we did a lot of things. We did a Do Now for like 15-20 mins every day this week. my group and I recorded how much our plants grew since this week. Cups A,and B didn't grow so much. But cup C just kept growing. Last time when we checked , plant C was 5 1/2 . Maybe it will grow more next time we check



This week in Science , I learned that you have to be really specific when your writing your procedure. You have to be specific because if you don't, some body could make a simple little mistake because we wasn't clear enough. Wensday we learned about how to write our hypothesis in complete sentences.

This week in Science #2

This week in Science, We played with some poppers, and saw thee measurements of how high the poppers went. That was on Tuesday. My group and I planted a new seed, called Brassicarapa. We talked about what would happen if we changed the soil, would it changed the affect the growth in height to Brassicarapa. My group and I saw a tough bug in the soil, and it was curling around our tip of the pencils!

This looks like the bug we saw in our saw yesterday. Its called a Larva of a Beetle or a Moth.

So this week was okay.It went  by too fast, and I don't feel a lot was done. So since we grew our Brassicarapa this week, what are we going to do with it? Are we going to keep track of how much it grows? Are we going to grow any other plant?. We should keep track of how much it grows, like the same thing we did with our plant investigation. Get in our groups and investigate like the last plant investigation. That'll be fun !!