Cricket Behavior Investigation

Background Research: Crickets are a type of insect, but a very odd insect. Crickets need plenty of things in order to live. They need a good supply of water to live on. They live under rocks, logs in pastures, meadows and along the side roads. They eat tropical fish, vegetable like lettuce, meats, potatoes, tomatoes and fruits. They need to have nutrient so that they can live.

Question: Do crickets prefer fruits or vegetables?

Hypothesis: If I give the cricket the choices of fruits or vegetables then I think they will prefer vegetables because it provides more nutrient for the cricket, and the more nutrient the more better for the cricket.

This week in science #5

    This week in science we worked on finishing our rocket conclusions and fixing anything that needed to be worked on in our investigation. I worked on the procedure for gathering data, I fixed and added more steps on how I made the rockets. I learned to write up all the steps with detail so it can be very clear to the reader of how we created the rocket and what we did. I had a little hard time typing up the steps in a understanding way for the reader. This week in science we also focused on our new unit and our first lession for this unit which animals. We started with animal behavior and watched some videos of animal behavior and how they reacted to somethings. This video that I chose is about a deer who was confused about the deer who was plastic, he was horny and started to try to mate with the plastic deer until he noticed that it wasn't a real deer so he just stopped. This shows that animals sometimes really want to mate with one another just like humans.
   It really interested me when I seen a few videos on different types of animals. I am looking forward to this unit on animal behavior because it can be really funny at some of the things the animals do. And it can also be very werid and surprising with the actions of the animals. I found very crazy how the owl attacked the mans head and tried to mate by screaming and flapping his wings quickly in the video that David had shown us in class. I never knew or imagined how a owl would mate, I wonder what he saw in that mans head that made him want to mate on top of his head.

This week in science #4

What I did :
 This week in science we did group work, my group was Destiny, Samuel, Jose and I. We did the plant investigation write up #2. We worked together to write up investigation. I worked on the hypothesis, procedure, question, title and the names. The hypothesis went from If I changed the amount of sunlight how will it affect the growth of Brassica rapa, but then I worked on it to make it better to..
If I change the amount of the sunlight for cup A and C and put them in the dark (how will you change the sunlight?)

then the cup A and C will grow and look and have different height from cup B(what do you expect to observe?)
because (reason) all plants need sunlight in order to grow it’s natural way.

What I learned : 

This week in science I learned that the amount of sunlight effects Brassica rapa's growth because it needs sunlight it lives off sunlight. Thats why cup A and C didn't grow properly and died fast unlike cup B that had its natural color and growth.

This week in science #3

 This week in science we worked on our plant investigation #2. We setup our experiment , we used three cups ( cup A , cup B, and cup C ). We put the same amount of soil in each cup and put Brassica rapa seeds in side and then poured 50 ML. drops of water. Our testable question that Destiny, samuel and I came up with is : How does the amount sunlight affect Brassica Rapa's height? We put cup B into the sunlight and cup A and C in the dark. On October 17, 2011 our plants grew. Cup B grew, it had leafs and it was green. The other two cups had purple stems and yellow tiny leafs. Our hypothesis was : If I changed the amount of sunlight how will it affect the growth of Brassica rapa ? And so far our outcome is that the cups that didn't get any sunlight don't have its natural color and the cup that got its sunlight which is what all plants need has its color.
   This week I learned that plants that don't get the sunlight they need they change to it's unnatural colors and they grow a certain direction trying to find light. The plants that didn't get any sunlight are tilling over and only have four tiny leafs on the top. I learned that photosynthesis is what makes plants green because it needs the sunlight in order to get its color and in order to grow. That's the reason why cup A and C didn't turn green.

This week in science #2

  This week in science we did plant investigation #2 background information and plant investigation #2 experiment setup. For plant investigation #2 background information we researched facts on  Brassica rapa. We also made wonderings and questions we have on Brassica rapa. I learned that Brassica rapa is a type of crucifer. A crucifer is another word for cruciferous which is a use of brassicaceae as food. Crucifer is a type of vegetable family. In the vegetable family there is cauliflower, cabbage, cress, bok choy, broccoli and similar green leaf vegetables like brassica rapa. Another fact I learned is that Brassica rapa's kingdom is Plantae.
         For plant investigation #2 experiment setup we worked with our group and put down any questions we gave that are independent variables and dependent variables. My questions were :

1. How does changing the amount of water affect Brassica rapa's time of growth ?
2. How does changing the amount of soil affect Brassica rapa's height ?
3. How does changing the number of seeds affect Brassica rapa's amount of period they grown ?

The question my group and I ( Monsters Inc. ) : How does the amount of sunlight affect Brassica rapa's height ? 
When we did our plant investigation we put two cups onto the plant row and one cup at the window to test out how much different does the plants grow with the amount of sunlight.