Finalizing Our Superhero Project: Weekly Blog #13

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Summary

This week in science, I worked on finally finishing up our superhero projects. I compiled all of the documents, drawings, and files that we worked on for the past few months, and taped them onto a poster to be submitted. I learned about several things during this project, I learned about GMO, Mutations, Genes, DNA, Heredity, Epigenetics, engineering, and so much more. A GMO is a essentially what it stands for, a genetically modified organism. This can be anything that is a organism, but can also apply to genetically modified foods. A mutation is when there is either a change in

My Superhero Meets His Villan! - Weekly Blog #12

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Summary

This week in science, I learned more about the structures of each body system, as well as how there can be affects on the body systems. We learned this topic by making our superheros villain, and having affects on their body systems to make them more powerful. Essentially, we changed how there body systems function when they transformed into their nefarious state. This helped us create a totally different body system for a villain and give him powers depending on how we changed it. I also learned what a cam, and a cam follower are when creating our automata.

S&EP - SP4: Analyzing and interpreting data

I used data collected from my research about body systems from the past few months,] to create a villain for my superhero. I made this drawing based on different affects that were from the changed body system. The body systems I choose to be affected were the eyes/nervous system, skin, and muscular, and made a drawing reflecting the changes in the body systems. This is how I analyzed and interpreted data through a drawing.

XCC - Cause and Affect

There is a strong cause and affect in my body system drawings in my villain. In the skin of my villain because its in its nefarious state, it causes it heats up. The affect would be there being damage and blisters to the skin cells. This serves as a downfall in battle, because the blistering skin causes exposure of the muscular system. There is also a cause and affect relationship in the eyes. The cause would be the superhero being in his nefarious state, and the affect on the eyes would be them to to roll back. To go even further, this would cause there to be little, to no vision. This would benefit my superhero because it makes him to be in even more of an unconscious state.

How My Superhero Got His Superpowers! - Weekly blog #11

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Summary

This week in science, we learned about genetically modified organisms (GMO) as well as mutations. We had to incorporate what we learned about this into our superhero origin story. I based mine off of a mutation. I learned that a mutation is a change in genetic material. This change is found in a DNA sequence. This can be due to either an external, or internal factor. A mutation results in changes of proteins, and the result could be bad, neutral, or good. The reaction on a body that is mutated is either a substitution, insertion, or deletion of genes. 

S&EP - Constructing explanations and designing solution

I evaluated information regarding mutation to explain how my superhero got his superpowers and form my hypotheses. I formed a hypotheses on how the potion would act on the the genes, through the basic rules of mutation. With the information I learned this week, I was able to create a story on how my superhero got his superpowers. That is how I constructed an explanation this week in science.

XCC - Cause and Effect 

There is a lot of cause and effect when it comes to mutation. The cause being the insertion, deletion, or substitution of alleles, and the effect being a negative neutral or positive affect on the body. This can be tied in with my origin story by the cause being the potion, and the affect being a mutation. This is how I used a cross cutting concept this week.

My Superhero Has a Child! - Weekly Blog #10

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Summary

This week in science, we worked on our superheros as well as we learned about epigenetics. We drew our superheros children based on the outcomes of our punnet squares. I learned more about homozygous and heterozygous traits. A homozygous trait is when there is 2 dominant alleles, this can also be known as a purebred. A heterozygous is when there is one dominant allele and one recessive, also known as a hybrid. We labeled traits by using these terms, and found out what traits would be passed down from the mates.

S&EP - Analyzing Data

I used the data that we got from our punnet squares to analyze how our super hero child would turn out to look like or what powers they would have. We also had to calculate the chances of our child receiving those traits through the help of punnet squares. We also had to look at the possible diseases or medical conditions depending on whether or not the mother did certain actions.

XCC - Cause and Affect

If the mother decided to go on a whole grain diet, than the affect was a healthy baby with normal organs. If the mother decided to eat junk food, than the baby will end up obese and with diabetes. If the mother had low stress and didnt have to worry about money, than it was shown to have a healthy baby. If the mother had high stress, than the affect on the baby would be undeveloped/abnormal organs. As you can tell, there is a great cause and affect factor that we have been studying this week.

Genetics vocabulary test corrections

Summary: These are the questions on today's quiz about genetics that I got wrong and these are my correction

Letter C

Answer Before - Word: Allele | Definition: Phenotype observed in heterozygous organisms X
Correct Answer - Word: Allele | Definition: One of two or more alternative forms of a gene ✓

Letter F

Answer Before - Word: Dominant trait | Definition: Phenotype masked in heterozygous organisms, that can only be observed in homozygous organisms. X

Correct Answer - Word: Dominant trait  | Definition: Phenotype observed in heterozygous organisms ✓

Letter G

Answer Before - Word: Recessive trait | Definition: One of two or more alternative forms of a gene X

Correct Answer - Word: Recessive trait | Definition: Phenotype masked in heterozygous organisms, that can only be observed in homozygous organisms. ✓

Reflection 

Why did I get these questions wrong?

I got these questions wrong, not because I didn't know the correct terms, but simply because I took to much time on the first few definitions, and messed up the last few that we had to do. I also forgot quite a bit of the terms, so I had to consistently look at my notes.

What will I do next time to make sure this doesn't happen again

Next time I will take the time to deeply study the terms and vocabulary, so that next time when we have to match up everything in a short amount of time like we had to today, I will know the meanings at the top of my head. This will allow me to complete the quiz without screwing up any of the terms.

This Year Annual Charity Fair - Project Blog Post

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Summary

During this project, I learned a lot. One thing that definitely stuck out to me in this project is learning how to use a pastry bag. I needed to learn how to use this because without knowing how to we wouldn't be able to design the middle of our cookies. I also learned how to make the pudding thick enough so that we can put it in between the cookies without it getting all over the place. We did this by adding less milk to the mix (so that it was thicker) and than into the freezer. This is what I learned over the course of this project

Backwards Looking - What process did you go through to produce this piece?

To create our cookies, we went through a relatively simple process. To create our whole project is another story, so i'm just going to say how we made our cookies. First, we had to create the Jello. We did this by putting the mix in the mixing bowl, and than pouring in the milk. After this, we mashed up some bananas and mixed it in. That's how we did our pudding, after this we went two ways, one way was pouring our pudding into containers, to sell as is, or we took two Nilla wafers, and used a pastry bag to put the pudding in-between the wafers. Essentially, that all it took. After this we were done creating our product. 

Inwards Looking - How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work?

I feel as if our group did pretty well on this project. We produced a well done ignite presentation, as well as we were able to maintain clear ideas throughout the whole presentation. We also did pretty well on our products. However, some things that I thought we did OK on (not very good, or bad) is probably our  tri-fold. Our tri-fold looked overall a bit sloppy, and kind or messy in my opinion, but it wasn't overwhelmingly terrible. This what I enjoyed, and didn't enjoy about our project

Outward Looking - What grade would you give it? Why?

I would probably give this project an A-. I would say this because, for the most part, we did everything relatively well. Our presentation was pretty good. Our product was very tasty. And last but not least, our instructable was pretty good too. The only reason why I wouldn't give us an A is because, like I said before, our poster board had some faults. But they weren't overwhelming, as in they didn't distract you from the ideas our poster was conveying. This is the grade I would giver our project.

Forward Looking - As you look at this piece, what's one thing that you would like to try to improve upon?

I think that I could probably improve upon the tri-fold. As I mentioned before, the tri-fold was a bit sloppy, and overall could have probably improved. So next time I will know what I did wrong before, which was deciding to use tape instead of glue, as well as put un-dried photo paper onto the poster board,and improve upon it by not doing these things. I think that we also could have used a better background for our tri-fold, because in my opinion it was kinda gloomy for selling banana pudding as our product. These are the things I will improve upon for my next project.

Superhero Life Science: Making my own superhero! - Weekly Blog #9

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  This week in science, I learned about different types of DNA and how we can link ourselves to it. In this group of study, we were launched our superhero life science project.I based my superhero off of the chameleon and his name is Karmeleon. I learned a lot about the chameleon. I learned that its tongue can go as fast as 60 mph when attempting to catch a bug, otherwise, they are pretty slow animals. I also learned that the chameleon is pretty smart and uses its camouflage only when necessary. All of this led me to making my drawing and final concept, where I would interpret the strengths of the chameleon into superpowers for my superhero. This is what we did in science this week.