TWIS #15

This is when we had to communicate through posters.

This week in science I re-did the marshmallow challenge with my group. This time we was told not to talk so what we had to do was find a way  to communicate with each other so what we did was  was write our ideas on a post it. It was pretty hard to stay quiet the whole time but I  can say that we spoke a bit only because we couldn't write it down.

This is when we was trying to make the marshmallow tower 

My group and I putting together our tower

While doing this challenge I learned that working with your teammates helps a lot. Something else I learned was that communicating through posters kinda worked but then It didn't because there was to much to write. Another thing I learned as I was working with my group is that having a smaller group is better because we get to do things faster instead of having a lot of hands doing one thing

This Year in Science - 10th grade Intro

Hello my name is Kaitlyn, Something I’m very interested in is art and math. I was never good in science until I decided to  step up and do what I got to  do . This year I’ve grown in science because I do what  I’m told to do, and even if I’m having trouble with something I find a way to understand it.  At the beginning of the year I didn’t really like science but as the year was going by I enjoyed doing experiments and projects like dissecting animals. I didn’t really struggle with anything this year in science. Something I would want the teacher to know about me  is that I’m more of a quiet  person like I’ll sit in my little corner and participate when I feel like I should

 I think if we removed all plants what would happen is there wouldn't  oxygen inside the tank. Which means  the spiders and the fruit flies will die because they need oxygen in order to breathe. The only thing that  would be inside the tank is carbon dioxide  because of the spider and fruit flies is exhaling. So with out the help of the plants in the sealed tank all living things would die. 

TWIS #12

What I did was create a Spider Observation Log so I can keep track of things like any changes that happen in my environment, and in the spider observation log I gave a bit of information on the spider and like what it eats, where do they live or be , and also what they need to survive, something else I had to do was sketch my spiders environment in the spider observation log. Another thing I did was I found out the definitions of commensalism, parasitism, and mutalism. The last thing I did was feed the spider with my group.


What I learned was that commensalism is when one organism is benefited and the other isn't affected, parasitism is when one organism gets benefit and the other gets harmed and  mutalism is when both organisms benefits from each other. I also learned that learning these definitions was hard to remember. Something else I learned was when you feed the spider you can't give it to much food. I also learned that when spiders eat the wrap it with their web.

This image shows you m spiders environment.

TWIS #11

This week in science me and group drew how we wanted our spiders environment to look then the next day we went to a park down the block so that we can pick up a few items that we going to use to build our spiders environment and we was told to take pictures of things we thought was a part of the spiders ecosystem. We also was told to research some things and fill out the paper the teacher has given us and he also told us to make a annotated google doc so that we can upload the pictures we took on that document and give some information about what the pictures says. One thing Christopher did was dig in the dirt two things I learned from talking to Christopher was that you have to wear comfortable clothes to dig and it wasnt hard to find things in the dirt

This week I learned that you need the right tools in order to put together an  environment for a spider and making your spiders environment is kind of fun. Something else I Learned was its not always easy to come up with a question about a word that you was given. Another thing I learned was when you ask a question it  doesn't really matter how you ask it. The last thing I learned was working as a group makes it easier for you to complete something on time.

This picture shows what we thought was a part of the spiders environment 

TMIS #10

This month  in science David has been absent for a week and Jaime was our teacher for a week. That week that we spent with Jamie we was working with our groups on testing water from Brooklyn, fish tank water, and school water. We tested if the different kinds of water had chlorine and hardness. We also worked on some work sheet. Jaime wasn't here for a few weeks.  We had a substitute for like a day and we was given a survey. Human Impact Institute came to our class every Friday to guide us through our project. When david got back we walked around the school and asked people a couple questions about each topic, which is water, transportation, energy, and waste, we also  started working more on our projects, what we did was draw a couple image for our slogan, then we had to pick one image that was our best and post it on a piece of paper.


This month in science I really don't remember a lot of things I learned , but one thing I can say I learned was that the school water has chlorine. Another thing I learned was how to test water for minerals,waste, and chlorine. Something else I learned was that when you go out to ask people questions no everybody is going to stop and most of them have attitude, and they lie most the time about having time to stop and answer. Last thing I learned was that its not always easy to do group work because some people dont be wanting to do what they have to do.

Human Impact Ad Campaign

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In this image Im showing you our Water You Gonna Do When its gone campaign. It shows that the people on the boat  have done the opposite thing and threw garbage in the water.

New York Rulings Could Embolden Towns to ban fracking

This article is about New York trying to get people in different towns to stop fracking because it involves blasting millions of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals. The gas industry was threaten years ago that they were going to lose in court so dont bother going to court.The main point of this article is making a decision of whether and where should they allow fracking. They didnt really use anything evidence(no graphs or pictures). The author argued that fracking should stop.

I agree with this article because fracking is a bad thing to me and other towns should stop it from happening to. I didnt like this article because it didnt include any pictures or graphs. A question I have is how many people argeed that fracking is a bad or good thing?

TWIS #8

This week in science we was given a animal. Our animal was a frog and we was told to take a  picture of it from different views. The different views we took of the frog was Dorsal View, Ventral View, and Side View.








This week I learned what was a Dorsal and Ventral View. Dorsal View is the animals back where its spin is and Ventral View is underneath its body ( its stomach).  A aha moment was when one of my group members was cutting the frogs mouth and she got scared and jumped back.

Kingdom  

Animalia-

(means its an animal)

Phylum 

Chordata (means it has a backbone)

Class 

Mammalia- (warm blooded)

Order 

Rodentia- (Small gnawing animals)

Family 

Muridae- ( Dont have cheek pouches)

Genus 

Rattus- ( house rat)

Species-
Feliceus-(

marked by happiness or good fortune)

Cricket Investigation

Question: Do crickets prefer wet or dry environment?

Hypothesis: If I make one side of the crickets cage wet and the other side dry then the crickets would rather prefer the dry side because they dont like wet environment.

Backround Reasearch: Inorder for a cricket to survive it needs warmth, food, water, and a good place to lay its eggs. Most crickets are omnivores. They eat nutrient rich food, dry corn,and tropical fish. They also eat decaying plant matter, fungi and small plants. The water is suppose to be changed. 

Digital illustration:

Data Table ( Picture):

 What I did was I  put napkins inside the cage and wet half of the napkins and left the other half dry to see which side it like more.  Then I watched the cricket as it moved and I drew each step the cricket move. After that I marked where it started and where it ended

"Mini" Conclusion: As I was watching the cricket and drawing each step it made I learned that the cricket rather prefer a dry environment. As you can see my data shows that the cricket rather prefer a dry environment because it shows how many moves it made  in the area it liked. 

This week in science #6.

This week in science we had to make a list of things crickets need in order to survive then we had to make testable questions. For example; Hot or Cold ,Which would a cricket prefer a hot or cold environment? Another thing we did this week was we had to pick a method that would help us record which side  the crickets like more dry or wet and we also given jelly beans and we  had to do a dichotomous key.

We had to create a dichotomous key that looks like the photo above for the Jelly Belly we was given.

This week in science I learned how to use different methods to record wether the crickets like a wet place or a dry place. Another thing I learned this week was how to make two different dichotomous keys and which works out better for me. The two different ways was doing it the flow chart style and the list style. The one that worked out for me more was the flow chart style.

This week in science #5

This week in science we was looking at videos of animal behaviors meaning how they was acting towards someone or something. We had to jot down a couple of ways the animal(s) was acting in the video. This (below) is one video we had watched and had  to write down how the animals was acting or what they did. Another thing we did this week was that we was given a case that had a cricket, an apple, and a piece of crumple paper and we had to watch the cricket and write down its behavior.

This week in science I learned that the behavior of animals are different depending on what kind of animal it is. Something I'm confused about is why do  animals behave differently. As the class was watching different videos I noticed that most the animals were violent. A aha moment I had was when we watched a video of a guy taking pictures of a parrot and after he stopped the parrot climbed onto his back and started smacking the guy with his wings since he only has legs.

This week in science #3

This week in science we planted our plants well we got to see how much our plant grew.I missed a day so I dont really know what we did that day.

This week in science I didnt really learn anything. I just looked at my plant to see how much each plant grew

This week in Science#2

This is the poppers

This is Brassica rapa

This week in Science what we did was play with these poppers that David gave us. And we had to do some work on how we could change the affect of the popper and how can we make it jump higher. We also planted our brassica rapa seeds but before for that we had to make a question before planting them.






This week in Science I learned about Brassica rapa. I learned that the plant grows fast, brassica rapa is a dicot is a annual herd thats not active to california, and I learned that the elevation is between 0-5000 ft. We also learned about testable questions and how we can answer the questions we had when we was playing with the poppers. A question that I had about the brassica rapa is What would happen if I broke the seed in half before planting it?.