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 Human Body Pre- and Post-Test

12/3/2014

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  1. What was the hardest part of this activity?
  2. Which organs do you think you put in the right places?
  3. Which organs do you think are probably in the wrong places?
The hardest part was putting the organs in place because we had no clue where they go.
The organs i know where in the right places was the brain, the eyes, and skin.
The rest was probably wrong.
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How Might Humans and Aliens Be Different?

12/3/2014

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We have gravity so we do not float in are sleep. It keeps us on the ground. We have eyes to see. We have platelets to create scabs. So we do not bleed to death. Are ears to hear and if you are blind the you rely need it. 
The Alien has hands to grab the jellyfish and to swim. The Alien mouth to eat the jellyfish and to breath. It tales to swim around and to knock the life out of it.  Eyes to see the jellyfish and to blend in more. It is blue to blend in to the water and the top of the eyes are green to blend in to seaweed.
  • Do we have cells similar to the aliens you created?  How or why not?
  • Humans (and probably aliens) have cells that have special functions.  What are some of these cells and what organs and systems are they a part of?
  • Similar cells are bone cells provably because it has arms and long eyes going up and the tail is made up with tissue. We have bone cells, brain cells, skin cells, white blood cells, and red blood cells,
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    Rube gold berg inventions.

    11/12/2014

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    1.What was the most surprising thing you learned about energy during this entire unit?  Why was it surprising?

    2. What was your favorite part of this energy unit?  Why was it your favorite?

    3. Where is energy found?

    4. How would you define energy?
    The most surprising was the rube gold berg. I thought it was surprising it was hard to make and get all of the pictures.
    2. My favret part was the Energy transfers. I liked it because we got to see how energy works.
    3. Energy is found every where. It is found in your house in you.
    4.Energy is what makes stuff work so theat is how I am typing this right now. Energy makes the mac work.
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    Historical Reenactment Reflection. 

    11/12/2014

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    Zeb is short for Zebadiah which means he is in trouble with his wife.
    Joseph O’Fallon I am a trapper and trade with the Indians.
    Christin Maclean Ones a inn and she spied so she would not get in trouble if she know and did not tell and the people found out she would get a fine.
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    Mikey Leaves

    11/11/2014

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    Revolutionary War Tug-of-Rope

    11/6/2014

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    2. Explain in several paragraphs, how the tug-of-war activity was a metaphor for the Revolutionary War.  In these paragraphs be sure to answer the following questions:
    • Who did the RED team represent?  Why were they the tallest & strongest children?
    • Who did the BLUE team represent?  Why were there fewer BLUE team members than RED team members?
    • Who did the WHITE team represent?  Why did they come in late?
    • Why did the BLUE team members get offered a prize if they won?
    • Why was there one student on the BLUE team who was not offered the prize?
    • Why did the WHITE team cheer for the BLUE team?
    • Why did part of the RED team join late?
    • Why did the RED team have to pull the tug-of-war rope passed the bag, while the WHITE team only had to prevent the RED team from doing so?
           The revolutionary war tug of rope was a metaphor because it showed how the war went by showing the red team blue team and white team and how it tock from time for people to get there . The RED represented Great  Britain  Blue represented the colonies and  WHITE represented the the alies. The blue team was offered a prize when they one because they had fever people. There was one person who was not offered a prize because they were a slave. The white team was cheering for blue because they got a prize too. Part of the red team joined late because they were in Britain. If the red team got it over the bag because then they would win and if it got over the blue teame would not get a prise.
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    3. Finally, answer the following reflection questions:
    1. Which team were you a member of?
    2. How did you feel at the beginning of the game?
    3. Who did you think would win the game at first (RED or BLUE)?  Why?
    4. How did you feel as the rules changed?  Did you get discouraged or more confident?  Why?
    5. What were the reasons why the BLUE team won?
    1. I was on the wight team. 
    2. I felt exited because I might get a pries.
    3. Red. They had the stronger people and the bigger people.
    4. I felt beter because they would have to pull farther then we would. I did fell a little discoureged at first because we had to pell it harder of else we would lose
    5. The blew team one even though it did not get pulled past the boundaries because we got to keep the land.
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    Insulated Bottles

    11/5/2014

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    I was absent.
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    Super volcanoes with Richard chapman

    10/28/2014

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    • Over 15 hundred active volcanoes in the world
    • Japan had one that just had a lava just shot out
    • Tectonic plates move and rise up and make a volcano or a mountain
    • mount saint helen and it was a volcano
    • magma chamber in yellow stone was bigger then they thought
    • it takes 4,000 years to bole water in the hot spot
    • the magma chamber can be in the crust and 
    • the pacific plates make a vortex
    • you move as far as your thumbnail a year
    • any time after it erupted
    • the pacifier tectonic plates can create beaches
    • the bubbles in the water near a volcano means it is boiling
    • pompom had 16 feet of ash
    • obsidian is made by cooling off fast
    • Indianans used obsidian to make arrow heads
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    Andy warthog 

    10/21/2014

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    propertys of a gqquadrangle

    10/15/2014

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    1. What did you learn about the angles of your two polygons?
    2. What did you learn about the sides of your two polygons?
    3. What resource was most valuable to you while completing this assignment? Why?
    1) What I learned is that the angles of all shapes are different. In one shape you might have all the same angle or all different angles.
    2)  I learned that they slant a different way to make a new angle. They can also be stretched a dffrent way.
    3)  The thing that was most valuable was my math book. So I can compare and contrast
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