This week in science #13

This is my spiders habitat. You can see what goes into the flower and what goes out.

This week in science #12

       This week in science we did many things. For example, we created an environment for our cellar spider. We also made a booklet for our spider and words dealing with relationships between animals.
Another thing we did was take a regents quiz for the information we learned. One thing Mathew did was draw our spider habitat in his booklet.

       This week in science we learned a lot of things. For example, I learned about biotic and a biotic factors. I also learned about heterotrophs and mutalism. One last thing we learned was about food chains and pyramids. One thing Mathew learned is what cellar spiders eat.

This week in science #11

            This week in science I wrote questions to posters I saw in class. I drew pictures and wrote what we thought of the posters. I also went to the park to collect supplies for my spiders environment. The next day I drew everything inside of my tank. This week in science Zayra and Corine did research about the cellar spider.
             This week in science I noticed that most posters used pictures more than words. I also noticed that the water cycle had the most pictures. The carbon cycle also had the least posters. When I went to the park I notice you had to dig deep in the dirt ti find the earthworms. I also noticed the pebbles in my tank blended into the rocks. Zayra learned that the cellar spider eats its own babies. Corine learned about NewYork's ecosystem.

This month in science #10

       This month in science we did many things. For example, we were assigned to human impacts groups. My group was the energy team. We went out in our community and surveyed people, questions that had to do with our assigned impact group. After that we met some people from the Human Impacts Group. They helped us develop pictures and slogans for our human impacts group. My group came up with the slogan "WATT'S the problem?" We also made a picture that went along with the message we were trying to get across. After that we did a final draft of the picture and now were going to make them into T-Shirts. We also tested electronics like, blow dryers and phones.

        This month in science I've learned a lot of things. For example, when we did the survey I learned that most peoples transportation is trains. This is good because we use less energy because it's mass transit. I also found out from the survey that men watch less TV than women. This means women use more energy when it comes to entertainment. I also learned that there are three types of human impacts images. The first is to set awareness, the second is to set action and the last could be both. We also learned that when you leave plugs in when your not using them it waste electricity. This is what I learned this month in science.                                                       

Human Impact Ad Campaign

I drew this to show that people are using to much energy to the point that we won't have enough in the future.

CSX Transportation and New York State Reveal Low Emissions Locomotive

The main point of the article was to let people know that the CSX and EPA teamed up to lower the Genset emissions locomotive in selkirk, NewYork. They want to tell people that their reducing the harmful emissions in that area. The Genset locomotive has three small engines and one large engine. The large engine can be turned on and off and is capable of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 80%. It can also reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25%. The author argues that the new Genset is the next generation of sustainable energy.
I thought that the article was interesting and information giving. I actually agreed with the article because it's trying to help the environment. I am wondering why this is not being used in other areas. They should try to help the environment every where not just in one area.

This week in science #8

   This week in science we did some interesting things. For example, I took a picture of a cricket in a dorsal view as shown in this picture. I've also did a dissection. We had to place our animals in ventral view, dorsal view, anterior view, and posterior view. We also had to examine the animals features closely. The animal I dissected had certain parts on it that it got from adaption. These parts such as wings helped it do better in it environment.                                                                                  
   This week in science I've learned some interesting things. For example I learned that the cricket doesn't have veins so the blood and other liquids in its body just float around. I also learned that distal describes the location of a part.