Science Blog 11/8/2020

This week we got back from the break and we missed school on Monday due to a power outage then Wednesday we study for the test we started on Thursday and we are finishing it tomorrow. So since we didn’t do very much I watched a TED-ED about how stress can make you sick.

Stress is not just an emotion it’s also a hard-wired physical response throughout your entire body. In the short term, stress can be advantageous but in long term, it overwhelms your body and damages certain organs.your adrenal gland releases your stress hormones cortisol, epinephrine, and Norpinehrine and they travel through your bloodstream they easily reach your blood vessels and heart (they are also known as adrenaline) and adrenaline causes your heart to beat faster and raises your blood pressure over time causing hypertension. It increases so many diseases and causes a lot of problems in your body. If you want a longer life you have to cure the cause of your chronic stress.

 

Blog 10/4/2020

This week we started the human body unit. we had an assignment about vocabulary and I learned that dermis is a layer of skin and it’s made up of fibrous and elastic tissue to provide the strength and flexibility of the skin. Also that skin makes up 16% percent of your weight and if you are layed out flat your skin can cover 1.7 meters. Also that there are three layers of skin AND we have pressure sensitive mercul cells, in your fingertips alone there are 750 mercul cells. We also watched a few videos about muscles and how they react to things.

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science-of-skin-emma-bryce

  •  I thought this TedEd was really interesting

When dry skin comes off what does that mean?
How many skin cells do we have?

Do we all have the same amount of skin and it just stretches out?

9/26/2020 BLOG

This week in science we started the week by finishing up our bug projects and pinning any bugs that we had left. then for the next few days we worked on our chairs at the beach and I cut mine and screwed in the boards, and I left of by painting the base color, I haven’t figured out what i’m going to paint thought but i’m pretty sure i’m going to paint Patrick my old rooster. We also started cutting out our skeletons.

How many total chairs have been made since Pathfinder started making chairs?

What are we doing with our skeletons?

how long do we have to work on our chairs?

 

Blog 9/20/2020

I’M A STICK BUG, and I am camouflaged so that my predators think i’m a stick and they wont eat me, in my breed the females are larger than the males and females can also reproduce without the presence of a male. We are a favorite meals fr most animals, we can also change colors to the things around us, we can also regenerate limbs, say a bird or other animal has a hold of my limb I can easily break it off at a weak joint and we can force ourselves to molt in order to regrow that limb. Our eggs resemble seeds so that predators wont be as interested. We aren’t defenseless when we feel threatened we bleed an oozing foul smelling hemolymph from joints in our body.Walking Sticks

How many are there in the world?

Where do they live?

Do they hibernate or migrate?

9/13/2020

Hi i’m a praying mantis, I am super cool looking and I eat murder hornets. they try to sting me but I slowly eat there heads off while they’re still alive I am bigger than male praying mantis’s and once I mate with them I eat there heads off. My eyes can see 180 degrees around me, and I also only eat my pray alive. I have three stages of life egg, nymph, and adult. My arms are kind of like pinchers. The little black dot in both of my eyes are an optical illusion called a pseudopupil and they occur as a result of light being absorbed and reflected in the eye. Praying mantis

Blog post 9/6/2020

Hi i’m called an asian giant hornet also known as murder hornets, the reason i’m called a murder hornet is if me and my family stings you about five times we can kill you. I also really like to eat bee larvae and the only way we can get to they bee larvae is if we attack the hive and kill all the the bees, know some bees we can’t kill are the ones that have adapted to us  what they do is if there is just one of us coming to mark the territory for our family, s the signal each other by shaking there abdomens and then they swarm and after that they get as hot as they possibly can  and they roast us alive because we cant move or stand the heat. Another thing is we can kill 40 bees a minuet, and in an hour we can kill 30,000 bees an hour.

FILE - This Dec. 30, 2019 photo provided by the Washington State Department of Agriculture shows a dead Asian giant hornet in a lab in Olympia, Wash. It is the world's largest hornet, a 2-inch long killer with an appetite for honey bees. Dubbed the "Murder Hornet" by some, the insect has a sting that could be fatal to some humans. (Quinlyn Baine/Washington State Department of Agriculture via AP)

5/31 Blog

The coronavirus also known as COVID-19 made a change in my life, it showed me how crazy the world was and how people act during orders that they are given that the don’t want to follow. I was not very afraid of the coronavirus only in the beginning when I thought I was going to get and die, but as it went on it wasn’t as much as I thought it was and I didn’t think it was a very big deal, at the time I didn’t mind staying home but I just wanted the option to go out without a face mask or to hug my family and friends and just see them in general. I never new I could have had it at some point because it can be inside of you but not do anything or, it could kill you. I think that scientists were trying really hard to make a vaccine and it took them a very long time to figure it out, things never went back to the way they were but know you can go places without a mask a lot pf people were saying that mother nature was striking back and I agree because we had way to many people on earth I am not saying that they deserved to die but there were and are to many babies and not enough people dying. Virtual school was hard because you had to do everything at home and it was very easy to get distracted, I did learn a lot though when i made slideshows or long stories. I also hated having to where a mack everywhere even at school we had to. It was not a fun time. at the begging when corana started we were only going to have one week off of school then the government shut the schools down and we couldn’t go back to school that whole year.

Climate Change 5/17/2020

This week our topic was water and global issues, there were a lot of choices for topics, for our projects and I chose to do Climate change, which effects the water. People think that the oceans are immune to climate change but its actually the opposite and it affects coral reefs because the sea level changes, changes to the intensity and frequency to tropical storms and altered ocean circulation patterns.

Light pollution 4/26

Last week we did a light pollution project and I was partners with Lucy and it was really fun and interesting, it was hard at first but then I found a good website and I really learned a lot. I also didn’t know that dark sky parks existed and I didn’t know what a light ordinance was, it was nice to have someone to work with on this project and I learned a lot from it.

Light Pollution

 

 

How many light ordinances are there in the whole world?

How many can there be or is there no limit in a city?

How effective can light ordinances be?