This Week In Science # 15

This week in science we did the marshmallow challenge. In this challenge we got with same group of people  we were in, in the beginning of the year. You would think that our results would be the same or better, but our teacher changed the rules. Last time we stacked up the desk because we were allowed to, so this made the tower to be bigger, but now that was't allowed so all we measured but the height of the structure itself. We weren't also allowed to talk in this challenge or we were disqualified this even made it harder because the group and had so many ideas, but the lack of talking made it harder for one of us to understand what the other was doing. We also made a video dedicated to our future 10th grade. We wrote something like a script answering a few questions about ourselves and how we have grown over the year, then we video taped it and then posted it to our blog.

This week in science I learned that when doing a certain project with a group of people YOU NEED TO TALK. The challenge we did was even harder because we weren't speaking so all the ideas that each or us had we just trying to all be put in to the project causing both ideas to clash and not making it work. However, we were drawing out our ideas on a little note pad which in way helped out, but not completely. Also, because our teacher changed the rules we weren't able to use the table to make the tower bigger causing our structure to not be ass big as it was last time, but it was still the tallest on out of the class.

This Year In Science - 10 Grade intro

This Week In Science # 14

This week in science we did a Marine Food Chain explaining what eats what and how they get the energy they need by using videos. This was a bit difficult for me but after I started to think "outside the box" I found an easier way to find the videos and put them together. We also continued to do the Spider Observation Log and we did the over view of HIPPO which is not what it sound like. I will explain what it means in the next paragraph. We also kept feeding our spiders and writing down the changes that the tank has made during the time it has been watered and revealed to the sun.


This week in science we learned about Phytoplankton and how they are the first organisms in a Marine Food Chain. We also learned about the HIPPO. HIPPO stands for Habitat loss meaning when people cut down trees and other places that animals might live in, Introduced species meaning species of plants or animals travel with other things and land in new land and take over the place, Pollution meaning pollution kills the environment which doesn't allow plants and animals to live, Population growth meaning the more people there are the competition will get stronger over the natural resources, and finally Over-consumption sort of related to population growth which means people use more resources than other.

Marine Food Chain

This Week In Science # 13

If I was to add five more spiders the cycle of photosynthesis is increased. I say this because the spiders provide carbon dioxide so this will allow the tank to produce more photosynthesis. The plant will take the carbon dioxide that the spider makes then make glucose to create oxygen.

This Week In Science # 12

This week in science we made observation logs. We also put information in them like what our tank looks like. David also fed the spiders flightless fruit flies which was pretty cool because we saw the way that the spiders eats it. They wrap it around with their web and then they eat it.

This week in science we learned about three symbiotic relationships. They were: Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism. We learned that Mutualism is when both organism benefit ( +,-), Commensalism is when one organism benefits and the other organism is neither benefited or harmed (+,0), and Parasitism is when one organism live in another organism and harms the organism while its benefitting.

This week in Science # 11

 This week in science we were focusing on making a habitat for our cellar spider the purpose of this week was to learn about ecosystems. On Monday we had to write on a post-it note information that we know or want to know about an ecosystem, food chain, water cycle, producer, etc. On Tuesday we went outside to Seward Park to pick out the things we want to put in our tank. My group and I picked out insects, plants,nuts,big rocks and smaller rocks to put in it. I found and couple of small worms that reminded me of a rainbow because they were so colorful. On Thursday we did some research on the cellar spider. We also did a design on how the tank looks like from the top view and from the side. We did a google doc that included picture that Mayra (my classmate) took in the park, we put these pictures on the google doc and on the side we explained how that was important to have in that environment.

This week in science I learned that cellar spider mostly found in the basement of house. I also learned that the cellar spider live anywhere except Antarctica because its too cold for them.I learned they  eat host and eggs. I didnt know the body grew 2mm to 10mm in length, the legs may reach a size of 50mm in length until my partner researched it.