This Year In Science - 10th grade intro video

This Week In Science #13

a) If we were to leave these spider habitat tanks sealed but removed all of the plants a few things would happen. The first thing would be that the spiders would die. The spider would die because they wouldn't have a source of oxygen and eventually all the carbon dioxide the spider is releasing would kill it because it wouldn't be able to breath.

This Week In Science #12

This week in science we learned and did many interesting things. We finally put our spider into our environment, we named ours Cudi. We made a little book where we put some definitions and we will be writing future observations about our spider and our spider's environment. It was really cool to feed the spider because we were able to see how he captured his pray.

We also learned things like what an energy pyramid is and the type of relationships animals have. We learned that at the bottom of an energy pyramid its always the sun and it is basically the opposite than a food chain because the arrow goes out from the thing that is being consumed showing that, that thing is giving energy to its consumer. We learned about the relationships some animals had with each other like, a mutualism relationship like a clownfish and an anemone, where they both benefit each other . A commensalism relationship like a barnacle's and a whales where one benefits and the other one doesn't get effected. And lastly a parasitism relationship like an alligator's and a leaches where one benefits and the other gets hurt from it.

This Week In Science #11

         This week in science we did a few things. We are beginning to prepare for getting a spider and observing how it does in the environment we built them. First David pot posters all over the room with different topics such as photosynthesis and plant cell, we had to tell what each thing was and place it on the poster. The next day after we did that but my group told me they went out and they collected things for the habitat and also took pictures. They also put all the things they collected into the tank we are going to put the spider in. We also collected information on cellar spiders, learning a lot of things about them.

Spider Habitat

           This week we learned a few things that are going to be useful in our spider habitat. We learned about cellar spiders, what they eat, where they like to leave , ect. We learned that cellar spiders are also called daddy long legs because of their long legs and even vibrating spiders because the way they vibrate when danger is near. When my team mates went out to collect things for the habitat they learned things like what animals used the plants. They also learned what things should be put inside and that plants wasn't a good idea because they would die.

This Month In Science #10

This month is science we did and learned many things, that mostly had to do with the impact we humans have on the world.We went out in the street and asked people questions about their daily habits, like how long the watched TV and how long they left their faucet running when brushing their teeth. Then, had people from the Human Impact Institute who helped us learn a lot about human impact. First we watched a couple of videos about human impact and things that had happened that effected the Earth. After that they showed us posters of human impact campaigns and we broke up into groups, which were transportation, water, energy and waste. We did an investigation where we found out how much energy things we used daily like cellphones used and how much we used in total.We came up with our slogan for the campaign we were going to work on and began drawing sketches of what our posters would look like. Lastly we started drawing our poster in poster size paper and making it pop would with Sharpe markets and we will soon make those designs into t shirts.

We learned a lot of things this month, and many things that will be good for us to know so we can help the environment. Going out and surveying strangers was a good experience because we learned alot of things, such as how Earth friendly people where and how they effected the Earth.We also did an investigation trying to see how much energy our cellphones used by multiplying the watts they used and the hours we used them and we found out that we used alot of energy and that was good to know. After that people from the Human Impact Institute came and showed us many videos and campaign posters about human impact and we learned alot from it. We saw a video about a guy that by becoming Earth friendly made his life better and another that showed a bunch of dirty water taking over the Hudson river and how fast it moved. We saw posters with pictures that encouraged people to be careful about the environment and we brainstormed ways we effected the environment and things that effected it. We broke up into groups such as energy, water, waste and transportation. I was in the transportation group and we had create a poster. We made a poster that showed how good carpooling was for the world, our logo was " Grab a ride, Save the world." We drew a picture of superman carrying a bus of carpoolers to show how by grabbing a ride you too could save the world. By doing that we learned how to draw good and neat drawings that were easy to understand and that caught peoples attention. We started drawing our poster and we learned from professional people what we should do to make the drawing better. I'm really looking forward to having our design in t-shirts.

Human Impact Ad campaign

our sketches 

This is a picture of superman and spiderman " grabbing a ride" and "saving the world(mother earth)"

We drew many pictures and even separated in different groups. My group and i ( jasmine, Anna and me) decided we wanted something that would catch peoples attention, and who wouldn't love a poster with their favorite superheroes. We though that since superheroes were always saving the world, we could make them actually save the world ( mother earth) by helping a group of carpoolers get out of a jam, you can see this in the second picture. I really loved this idea because superman and spiderman are my favorite super heroes, but there's a little twist to it. Instead of their original logo on the chest, superman has a earth logo and spiderman has a tree logo, that goes out a lot like his original spider logo. We really hope we can go on with this idea and encourage people to " grab a ride, and save the world" by carpooling. We started working on it since the beginning , thats why the first picture of our drafts ( 1st picture) isn't very good and detailed. I'm really enjoying this project because we are helping advertise  carpooling to save the world and drawing.

The Brooklyn Paper; Mean Streets.

The article Mean Streets is about how people who are anti bike lane are wasting money on lawsuits trying to take out the lane. The main point of the article was to say how the city has already spent more then 140,000 dollars to defend the Prospect Park bike lane. The article included interviews with people like Mitch Sonies a lawyer who thinks taking off the lane is " An Outrage," and Jim Walden who is against the bike lanes.

I think that the bike lanes should not be taken off. I believe the shouldn't be taken off because they are good for cyclist and keeps them out of danger from cars. I also disagree because the article says that the people who were fighting to take it off said it " turned the peaceful streets into a danger zone for pedestrians." I believe thats not right because its good for cyclist and they are pedestrians.