This week in science #15

 This week in science we went over on what we did through out the year in science class. We did the marshmallow challenge again for the third time to see how much we've grown and how we would work in groups this time. The first time we did the marshmallow challenge this week, the rules was that you weren't allowed to talk to any of your partners. Then we tried it again with being able to talk and it was successfull both times because it didn't fall. We also made a 10th grade into video, that was about what we had acomplished during the 9th grade and somethings that were challenging and successful, we also talked about how much we have grown during the year.
  I learned that I've grown in a way of using team work to solve things and working together to get what we have to do acomplished. I think the 9th grade science was easy because I did the samethings in 8th grade, I feel like we could've learned much more but my class was stuburn. I feel like I could've done better and that is my goal for the 9th grade. I also learned that out of all groups, my team "The Powerangers " did really good for each marshmallow challenge, because what we had built hadn't fell in all 3 challenges. We were the only team in september that had a tower that managed to stay up.

This Year in Science - 10th Grade Intro Video

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 This week in science we did several different things. We made our own video Marine food chains, we had to build our own Marine digital food chain using videos and post it on to our blog. We used youtube and looked up videos of different consumers, producers and decomposers. We also worked on making up work to help our grade. I worked on week 2, block 2 packet, I went over it and finally understood it.
    This week in science I learned that food chains are actually easy, because its like a pattern and what eats what, and how things grow or become. I also learned that Primary succession is the settlement of vegetation in an area previously uncolonized by organisms. Organism that is first colonize an area known as pioneer organisms.

Marine Digital Food Chain

                                       MARINE DIGITAL FOOD CHAIN

            1.   _THE SUN_







        2.   _ PHYTOPLANKTON _




  3. _ ZOOPLANKTON _


    4._ SADINE _




   5._SALMON_




  6._ORCA _

this week in science #13

    
If we were to leave the spider habitat tanks sealed but removed all of the plants then their would be no oxygen inside of the tank. The plants give oxygen to the spider, Nothing would grow in the tank because there would be no sun or water for anything to grow. The spider needs plants for oxygen to live inside of the tank, the plants gives the spider energy and  food in order for it to live.

this week in science #12

 This week in science we learned about symbiotic relationships, energy pyramids , and food chains. We read about symbiotic relationships between different insects and animals, we were given packets that taught how different  energy pyramids and food chains work. It was difficult because I couldn't focus, there was a lot of new words that I haven't heard of before and I was giving up on doing my work. I learned that food chains is a series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one. 
    I learned that the food web and food chains are different. They are different because a food chain is a single line of organisms that preceded by something that it consumes and followed is by something that consumes it. The food web which is a food cycle depicts feeding connections which is what eats. The food web goes out every direction pointing to every organism. I also learned that all producers are only plants, and that decomposers could eat both producers and consumers.

this week in science #11

 This week in science we did several things that all connected to how make a spiders ecosystem. We visited the park and collected things that we would need for our tanks. We took a rock, two branches, two sticks, a few leafs, an open nut, 3 warms and a couple ants. At the park we took pictures of the most important parts of the ecosystem. I took pictures of the trees,sun,leafs, a water fountain and warms . And after we finished designing our tanks I drew the side view of the tank.

   I learned that the several things that we collect to design an ecosystem for the spider and very much similar to ours. I also learned that our tank needs a few leafs for oxygen just like we need trees for oxygen. When I drew the side view of the tank I seen a warm and it was moving around, I was interested by that because it was far down into the dirt and it was moving around. When I took pictures I learned that the park is very important to our ecosystem because of the living things in it and the plants and trees that make up our environment. I didn't think that the park was important to take care, but I learned that it does because it also helps our ecosystem and how we should take care of it.

This month in science

    This month science I worked with a group, and in the group was Ciarra, Carlos, Samuel, and Achantae. We studied energy and the reasons why our earth's energy is wasting. We worked on different ways of how we use energy daily. We also went around the neighborhood and interviewed people on human impact of energy. We did annotations on how to save the energy, how we could catch peoples eyes in making a different perspective on saving energy. We also spoke to students from NYU college and they helped us learn more things about conserving energy.
   I learned that when you charge your phone it takes up a lot of energy and when you over charge it kills a lot of energy too. We tested how much energy an alarm clock takes up and it takes up a lot of it, which is very suprising. I learned that the alarm clock takes up more energy than a curling iron, but I thought that the curling iron took up more energy than the alarm clock because it has a lot of heat and an alarm clock doesn't do anything but show the time and ring when you need it too. I also learned that all of the people my group and I interviewed cares about saving energy expect for one 20 year old asian lady.

human impact ad campaign

                      The image shows an iphone that is over charging, and the wire inside the charger says save energy. It also has a text message that says Steve Jobs is safe are we? Because using up energy is not good for the earth.The reason why I picked this picture is because it shows that people over charge their cellphones and that uses up alot of energy. 

High-Altitude Wind Machines Could Power New York City

 This article is about earth science, energy and the environment. It explains if wind machines would be placed thousands of feet above the city could theoretically could power up the city, because no matter how much wind blows through the streets of New York City it wouldn't be able to power up the city. It states that first rigorous worldwide study of high-altitude wind power estimates that there will be enough wind energy at altitudes of about 1,600 to 40,000 feet to meet the global electricity hundred times over.

I like that the article states interesting facts about the electricity we use daily. I found it very interesting to know that the wind power can be possiable to power up the whole city. Its also good to know because we use energy everyday and it relates on to us humans.

This week in science #9

This week in science we dissected a frog, before we dissected the frog we researched its background research. We had to find the background research for the skate, perch , mouse and frog. I chose to dissect the frog with Justin and Samuel, Elisabeth and Destiny dissected the skate.

 I learned that the perch are freshwater fish and that they usually spawn during the spring when the females lay eggs in covered areas near branches and underwater plants. When I dissected the frog I learned that its skin is really soft and easy to cut through and is very sensitive. The heart is very small was hard to spot because it was so small under a lot of muscle. I learned how to dissect the frog properly. We started cutting between the hind legs which is the frog's cloaca and cut along the center of the frog's body from the cloaca to the mouth. Then we peeled off the skin and found muscle. Then we cut around starting from both hind legs to the front legs cutting around its stomach. We found a lot of muscle and under all of the muscle was the liver, heart, large intestine, small intestine cloaca, pancreas, stomach, and the esophagus.


The skate was also dissected at my table by Destiny and Elisabeth. The organisms that appeared similar to the frog was the skate's eyes. The skate is a type of shark, the frog and the skate had no similar organisms or structures. The structures are very different because the skate is flat and swims with a tale. The frogs had four legs and no tail because its amphabian.

This month in Science #7

 This month in Science I did Zoology in the Future project, I worked with 3 other people, Jose Andujar, Shaquisha Miles and Zulfiya Karimova. We worked on the Rain Forest and its climate, landforms and animals, etc. We got a letter into the future from Jamie and David, they explained to us how the climate changed completely opposite into an Arctic like climate. I researched on the jaguar that lives in the Tropical Rain Forest, and transformed it into a imaginary animal that lives in the new Arctic like Rain Forest. My animal went from a jaguar into a snowguar, that adapted to the snow.
    This month in Science I learned that the jaguar is a predator, its a threat to every animal in the Tropical Rain Forest and its too fast and strong for others to try and attack it. I also that in the Tropical Rain Forest the giant bamboo plants can grow up to 9 inches a day. I learned that the Tropical Rain Forests are very warm with a lot of fog and humidity. The Rain Forest is always wet because it rains everyday. Tropical Rain Forests grow in a narrow zone near the equator. It was my first time learning about the Tropical Rain Forest and its climate, the animals, the landforms and where on the earth they are located. It was a fun experience with the other class mates because we all worked together and learned something new. I like how our project came out to be, we found a lot of information and I think it would be fun to do again.