TWIS #15

This week in science my group The Monsters did the Marshmallow challenge for the third time this school year.  This time it was a bit different.  Our materials were 20 dry spaghetti straws, a paper bag,  a roll of tape, one marshmallow and post its. We used the post its to communicate with each other. The challenge was to not communicate verbally. At first it was kind of exciting but I thought it would have been difficult. The second day this week in science we went to the rooftop of our school to record our This year in science video. The video was to inform our 10th grade teacher about our selfs and what we learned this year in science.

This is a graph of our class progress. my group and I were The Monsters.

This is my groups tower

 this is a picture of us working on the tower

This week in science I  learned how to communicate non verbally with my group members. In the beginning of the school year our teams spaghetti structure fell. We didn't work well together since we just met each other. We were all shy so we lacked in communication skills. The second time we did much better. Yesterday we did even better than both times( as you can see in the diagram above) although we couldn't speak to each other we write on the post its to each other on how it would be better to hold up the tower. I like working in groups with people I know are determine as I am in getting a good grade. In the beginning of the year it was a bit difficult working in groups because we just met. We taped about five spaghetti straws together and folded the paper bag , we insert the taped spaghetti in the center of the folder paper bag and  placed it in-between our desk to hold it up. We worked very well together this third time.

This Year in Science - 10th Grade Intro Video

TWIS #14

This week in science we read an article about habitat loss.  We had to search on youtube a marine life chain videos and order them.  My class and I read about the HIPPO dilema and yesterday May 23, We made posters about wind.

the poster above is what my group and i created yesterday on wind base's

This week in science learned that HIPPO stands for Habitat loss; when people destroy animals habitat Introduced Species; a new species moving into someone else's home.  Pollution; oil spills kill animals, acid rain destroy forest, when human impact on mother nature. The last P stans for Pollution growth: their are more people being born than dying and O represents Over-consumption; one american uses as much energy as 422 people in ethiopia.  I also learned that wind is an renewable engery source

Marine Food Chain

 THE MARINE FOOD CHAINNNNN

TWIS 13

If we were to leave the spider's habitat tanks sealed but removed all of the plants the spider would not serve they wouldnt get enough oxygen because plants give the spiders oxygen but take in carbon dioxide. The plants need the process of photosynthesis for their glucose. 

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This week in science my classmates and I made a cellar spider booklet to keep some information n there. We also watched a Brainpop video and then took a quiz after it. through out the week we also worked on worksheets on the 7 kingdoms, food chains and roles on the ecosystem. We also finally got our cellar spider on monday we had to do even more research on them to put the information on the booklets.

 This week in science i learned that cellar spiders live in quiet and dark places such as garages, caves and houses. Cellar spiders have harmful venmon in them but if they bite you, it wouldnt be a danger to you because there mouths are to weak to inject throw the human skin. What i learned from the brainpop video was that all living and nonlivng things are all connected together because they live in the same ecosystem. I also learned that abiotic means non living and biotic means living. I learned that Saprophytes is just a fancy word for decompsers. Another interesting thing I learned was about the symbiotic relationships and that symbiotic means living together. One more thing I learned this week in science was that just one disapearance in the food chain is extremly affective to the entire food chain.

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  This week in science we got new seats. When we walked in to class on Monday there were large chart paper with scientific words hung up all around the room. David and Angela went around passing out post its to us and our assignment was to write down on the post its what we think the words mean then stick them to the large chart paper in the proper word. Then on Wednesday we went out to Seward park to gather things such as soil leaves and other things. We wanted to make an ecosystem for our spirders to live in. We also took pictures of things we saw at the park and on Thursday we downloaded the pictures to the mac computers and we had to annotate and explain how did the image in the photo important in the ecosystems in Seward park. We also did back round research on the cellar spiders and drew on a blank paper ho our tank/ecosystem looks like.


  I learned that if you put pebbles on the bottom of the spirders tank and soil on top it will provent the spiders feces from sticking to the bottom of the tank. Doing backround research we learned that cellars spiders are also called daddy long leg, they vibrate when they are being attacked so that you wont see them and cellar spiders cant bite humans because there fangs are to short.  I also learned the definition of photosynthesis it is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.