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Watery Earth Lesson 5: How Use Water

4/10/2015

Zoologists use water in their job for feeding, grooming,and cleaning the animals. To be safe zoologists use water samples for operating. Zoologists also use water for the marine animals they take care since of marine animal habitats are usually mostly water. Besides the fact of studying marine life in their habitats they go scuba dividing in the marine habitats or on a boat at sea. Ichthyologists study sharks in fish in their habitat. Well Mammaoligst study dolphins and whales in their habitat.

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Watery Earth lesson 4: How Pigs use Water

4/9/2015

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A pig is a farm animal that is usually found in something called pig sties. Pig sties are a fenced in mud pit. Pigs our omnivores witch means they mostly eat meat, plants, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and grasses. Pigs like to snuggle with other pigs it makes them feel more comfortable. Also when they sleep they like to sleep nose to nose. Newborn piglets can learn how to run to their mother and know their name at a very young age. Pigs have a good sense of direction they can find their way home even in very big distances. Most pigs actually don't eat like pigs they eat slowly and savior their food.

How Humans and Pigs Use and Need Water

Humans

Humans use just water to cool off.
When Humans use water to clean they take a shower or bath instead of a hose.
When Humans are drinking water they drink it by sipping it from a cup.

Both

Both Humans and Pigs use water to drink.
Both Humans and Pigs use water to clean themselves up.
Both Humans and Pigs use water to swim.
Both Humans and Pigs use water for diets and other physical needs.

Pigs

Pigs use water to mix with dirt to make mud that helps cool them off.
When Pigs use water to get clean they usually are sprayed with a hose or piglets sometimes get cleaned with a rag.
When Pigs drink water they use their tongue and lick from a bowel like a dog or cat.

Reflection

Questions

1. Why is water considered a "Natural Resource?"
2. How is water essential (required) to our survival and the survival of all living things?

Answers

1. Because it is from the sea witch is in earth witch is natural.
2. Our bodies need water to survive otherwise we die. All living things need water everyday to be able survive in their area.

5th Grade Mentors

4/9/2015

Help them boost their self esteem.
Be empathetic.
Use the empathy finger trick to help the kids.
Don't get frustrated be calm.
Go slow to go fast.
Help them through it don't just tell them how to do it.
Bird in the egg ( afraid to stand up for themselves not so confident), bird in the nest ( Not so confident but a little bit confident), bird in the sky ( someone that's not afraid and believes in themselves).
Be kind.
Kindness is the real global warming.
Love is love.
Use pet therapy it helps.
Everyone is a superhero.
Play the that's me game.
Comparisons is the thief of joy.
Make a shield of what makes you happy to help them when their sad.
Voice level chart, 0 silent, 1 whisper, 2 partners, 3 groups, 4 presentation, 5 outside.

Who's your real-life superhero? Why?
Whose superhero are you? Why?
What's your superpower? Describe it.
How do you use that superpower for good?
What's your Kryptonite? {what weakens you?} Describe it.
How are you going to ensure that the student you work with leaves feeling better about themselves?

1. My family, friends, and teachers, because they help me learn and push me to the limit to help me out.
2. I am a super hero to my friends Janie and Lily because when they are sad or in trouble I try to help them out. Also as weird as this is I am my pets super hero's because they love me and follow my lead as they run to me every time I get home.
3. For me my super power is art. For me I love to do art just like my brother and my mother. I took over my basement at home with canvases and paint and sometimes I paint for hours when I have free time.
4. One thing I have not told my class yet is that I have made a painting for the class. Also sometimes I have made paintings for birthdays, mother days, and special occasions.
5. What weakens me is when I am trying to make something specific and I can't make it perfect but I always remember that you can't do any better then your best so when I am just being creative is good enough instead of perfect.
6. After I have worked with them I will ask them what they feel like in a fun positive way what I say will be, "Do you think you will be the bird in egg ( The bird who still feels sad and doesn't believe in themselves), the bird in the nest ( A little bit better but still does not feel so confident), or the bird in the sky ( The bird that is confident and is happy with who they are).

Watery Earth Lesson 3: Natural Resources

4/8/2015

Natural Resources

Sun

Plants

Air	Dirt Animals

Acorns

Man-Made Resources

Light Bulb

Ink

Makers

Tractor

Ruler

Iron

Write a definition for Man-Made Resources (in your own words) and Natural Resources.
Why is "water" considered a Natural Resource?
List three or more Natural Resources that you use daily.

1. Man-Made Resources are things we use that man made. Natural Resources is what is natural and not made by man that we use.
2. Because it is from the sea witch is in earth witch is natural.
3. Water, Air, Trees (For air an etc).

Watery Earth Lesson 2: How We Use Water

4/7/2015

Drinking and eating
Keeping clean
Keeping our cars clean
Taking care of animals
Playing and enjoyment
Plumbing
Heating
Plants, trees, fruits, vegetables
Comfort
Cleaning the house
Storms
Snow
Electricity
Rain/crops
Home of wild animals

What seem to be the most commons uses of water (list at least three)?
What are the most unusual uses of water (list at least three)?

1. Drinking and eating, Plumbing, Caring for pets, bathing, Plants.

2. Rainbows, Vomiting, Wetting your pants.

Out Mars Simulation

4/6/2015

1. Write at least one paragraph that describes what happened start to finish in our Mars Simulation.
1a. My name is Wu Chen. I am a cook and baker from Taipei in Taiwan. During my preparation for mars I had a blast trying to figure what utensils I need to bring in order to cook good food. In the middle of mars simulation we fixed all the problems that needed to be fixed. As we took of for mars we had claimed our part of mars and named it The United Kingdom of Coconuttia. We made money, a national theme song, a modo, and many other things for our kingdom. As we kept going we got into what was our Constitution. After that we were working our own preamble. But as we were working on our Bill of Rights we got into an argument of what we should do, bring guns, or not. When we decided to bring guns a gun shocked and a fire started luckily every one somehow got sucked into our transporter and we went back home. But not exactly. Mars ended and we were in the Oregon Trail. Same people but different time and place.

Watery Earth Lesson 1: My Water Story

4/2/2015

Attack of the Brothers

One summer afternoon I went outside to swing. On my way to the swing I saw my brother peeking behind my dad’s car. I ignored my brother and skipped my way to the swing. Once I sat down and started to swing my brother started to approach me.
    “What do you want?”
    “Not what I want, what you want.”
    “What do you mean?”
     Right as I said that my eye caught something behind my brothers back, it was dripping water and right away I knew what it was.
    “Ahh,” I screamed.
    I ran inside and right as I closed the glass door Griffin sprayed it with a water gun. I ran back out the front door thinking I could outsmart him, but there he was standing in front of me.         “Let the games begin, I thought.”
    Right as I started to sprint he shot me with the water gun over and over again until I was out of sight. As I hid inside the garage I saw something inside a basket. In there were three other water guns. I knew only one of them worked so I grabbed the working water gun and sneaked outside. I very carefully turned on the water and filled up the water gun. Once I turned around my brother had caught my tracks. He sprayed me for who knows how long until I remembered what was in my hand. Behind my back I pumped the water gun and as my brother was laughing, I squirted him right in the face. He screamed my name in anger as I darted for the door. I ran as quick as my legs could take me, right as I was just about to get into the deck my brother squirted me about twenty times in a row. So I ran. He followed me through the garden, between the house, even behind the garage. Then, as he wasn’t looking, I quietly opened the garage door and closed it as quietly as I could. I found the light switch and turned it on. I tiptoed over to my scooter and dragged it over to a bucket of chalk. There, soaking wet, I sat on my scooter well drawing on the garage floor with chalk, but it didn’t last long. After about five minutes of drawing, my brother had found me. The garage could no longer be a hiding place now that it was revealed. I ran past his squirting ray of death and was able to find a new hiding place. Right as I went to hide in the ferns, my brother spotted my neighbor Silas. He ran to the garage and gave Silas a water gun to fill up. Once Silas’ water gun was filled up both of them started looking for me. Silas found me but before he started to shout. I told him to please not tell my brother. But of course he didn’t listen and yelled my brother’s name. I glared at Silas and gave him the evil eye. As I started to see my brother, I ran to find a new spot. As I looked around the front and back yard I had found no new hiding spots. I darted towards the door but my brother had thought fast. I took one small step towards the door but as I did my brother aimed the water gun near my face. I tried to dodge my brother’s wrath of water, but he moved to fast. I was squirted for the last time that day for my mom had gotten into the action. So for the next fifteen minutes I was drying off.

Human Body Research Paper

3/20/2015

1. What writing skills did you improve while working on your Human Body Research Paper? Explain.
2. What are some concepts that you learned about the human body during this unit that you think are important (not just interesting)?
3. What was the most challenging part of writing your Human Body Research Paper? Why?
4. What aspect of the Human Body Research Paper are you most proud of? Why?

1. It helped with being able to space things right. It also helped me learn how to organize my writing into paragraph.
2. That the nervous system helps us react and either to fight or flight. Also that you can see the inside of your eye through your pupil.
3. Getting through it all. For me a lot of times I hit writers block well doing the paper and just could not focus. But when I got in the roll of it, I could just go through with no problem.
4. I am most proud of when I finish my system in a certain part. It makes me feel like I have completed something very big and I don't feel so stressed anymore.

What i'm Brining to Mars

3/3/2015

My Voki

2/27/2015