TWIS #15 Milestone

            Myself and my group couldn't talk for this finial  marshmallow challenge. So we started to think about what we were going to do before the challenge started. we came up with a good and easy idea and it was to write down our thoughts. Not talking was the hardest part and wasting time was the easiest part. When we finish getting the spaghetti tall enough we put the marshmallow on top. And when we did that it was hard to keep it up standing straight. So we put long pieces of tap around it to keep it up. But at the end we mange to finish with the tallest sculpture and a marshmallow on top of it. 

the last marshmallow challenge.

            I learned a lot over these missions challenge it was also a good a good experience. My team name is team awesome and the first time we did really bad ending up as the losing team, the second time my team ended up with the tallest sculpture doing awesome, and then the last one we won but we did it a little less than the second time. As you can see the picture below this is the whole group working and thinking together trying to keep it up. I think that working with the same group members again was a little better only because we knew each other more. I feel that it depends on what kind of group work is being done in oder for me to say I like working in groups.      

team awesome working 

this is the results of all three mission challenge of all the groups in cohort 5.

This Year in Science - 10th Grade Intro Video

'Marine Digital Food Chain'

                             

                                   

this week in science #13

if we were to leave these spider habitat tanks sealed but removed all of the plants, what would happen? And why? 

If i was to leave the spider in the tank without any plants I think that the spider will die. Because the spiders don't have oxygen.

this week in science #12

     This week in science I different things. I did things like create a spider observation log. In the log am suppose to write down what I notice in the tank, like what is changing. I looked and read on symbiotic relationships. I drew an example of each relationship on different pages in the spider observation log. Before my group had one spider which is the biggest one and then we put in a little one. Both spiders in the tank were feed, they were feed fruit flies.

        This week in science I learned that the spider observation log is very helpful for many things. And one of the things is for writing this post. Also that by reading back on what you write in the spider observation log you can make some changes to the changing things. I learned the difference between symbiotic relationships. There's three relationships, Mutualism(+/+) is when both organisms benefit from the association, Commensalism(+/0) is when one is being benefited and the other is not affected, Parasitism(-/+) the parasitism benefits at the expense of the host. I learned that the spiders don't in front of us.

This week in science #11

    This week in science , I wrote on sticky posters about the ecosystem. I wrote about everything for each ecosystem. The group I'm in all drew on a piece of paper on how the spider tank is going to look like and how is going to be setup. My group and my self went outside to a park called Seward Park. One thing Kaitlin did is to create a annotated Google doc.

   

     This week in science I learned , that there's different parts to the ecosystem. The ecosystem is important to many things. We can see somethings going on and some are are not so visible. Is very hard to do something never done before. Is a lot to think about when setting up a tank when you don't nothing about the spider. You need the right tools to get what you need.

          

This Week In Science #10

      In these few past weeks I did things like researching, going out, asking questions, drawing, things like that. First we did things in class about all of our topics, Waste, Energy, Water, and Transportation. For Waste we did a compost as a class. For Water we tested different water from different places. For Energy we plugged in different things like blow dryers to see how much energy it takes up. Then did some research on a topic and my group topic is Waste. The Human Impact Institute was there and helped us to come up with ideas. My group and I gathered all the information and made some questions out of them. Also all the other groups did the same thing. So with all the questions in, my teacher David narrowed it down and put it on a piece. The class took that piece of paper and went out into the community and asked the different people the questions and recorded their answers. The next time The Human Impact Institute came we stared to draw, draw about the idea that the group picked together. And finally The Human Impact Institute came with others to also help to come up the best picture.

   
       I learned that the worms you need for a compost is red wrigglers. Red wrigglers are like vegans. You need a certain amount of soil, water, and food. My school water has chlorine added to it. Learned how to test water in different ways. And the fish tank in my science class has bacteria in it. We check how much energy things take up. Learned that watts measure energy. That's how we get our energy bills. I learned the difference between action and awareness campaigns. Going out to the community was fun. But there was people who didn't speak English so we couldn't ask them questions. Also people didn't have time to stop or they just kept walking.