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How do Our Bones move?

12/9/2014

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Have you ever injured a joint? (Sprained ankle, dislocated shoulder, tennis elbow, etc.) How did it feel? What things were difficult to do after the injury?

2.Which of their moveable joints would be the hardest to live without?

3.What things would be difficult to do without that joint? Why?

4.If you had to choose one of your moveable joints to live without, which one would it be? Why?

5.Is there any movement they could do without joints? (I can think of at least one.)

1.I have never injured a joint. I think it would feel painful. I think I would be restricted after the injury.
2.I think the jaw would be the hardest to live without. We wouldn't be able to open our mouth.
3.We wouldn't be able to communicate with others. We wouldn't be able to eat or sleep, we would die without being able to move our job. We wouldn't get the nutrients we need from food and then die.
4.I would choose to not have my neck. I would choose that because I could still move my body to look at different things.
5.I could fall down due to gravity. I could move my tongue inside my mouth.

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Signs of Exertion

12/8/2014

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What five basic things do humans need in order survive?
If we exert ourselves, what are three (or more) signs that our bodies are in distress? Explain why our body does that (research it if you need to).
What can we do to make these signs go away?

We need food, water, sleep, shelter, and oxygen. We need them in order to survive. We need food and water because our body needs nutrients. We need oxygen to breathe. We need sleep otherwise we will die. We need shelter to stay out of the rain and bad weather. We need shelter to keep us warm.
We breathe heavily, we sweat, and we feel warmer. We breathe heavily because we need more air. We sweat because we are trying to cool our body down.
We can rest our bodies. Resting our bodies will help us by steadying our breathing, and by calming us.

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Describing a Character

12/5/2014

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I didn't have a photo of my card next to their drawings. Here is Nicky's card and drawing.

How hard was it to describe your creature?
What did you do well?
What do you wish you did better so your partner could have drawn it better?
How well did you do in drawing your partner's creature?
What do you wish they did better to have helped you draw the creature better?

1. It was sort of hard. In some parts I knew exactly how to describe it, and other times I thought I may have to invent a new word to describe it!
2.I did well at describing it's hair. I said it had a little tuft of hair, not just it had hair.
3.I wish I described it's legs better. My partners didn't draw it the way it really was.
4.I drew one of my partner's creature well. The other one I didn't draw very well.
5. Describe the head better. I couldn't draw it very well.

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Observing and Describing an Apple

12/5/2014

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Apple Notes

•My apple half is the shape of a butterfly.
•It’s skin is a rich red, and is smooth. It has lighter red specks. It has one patch that is a much lighter red.
• It is a sticky wet.
•It smells sweet.
•On the inside it is a yellow pale color.
• In the middle it has a oval shaped hole where the seeds are hiding.
•If you put pressure on the apple it makes a “crunch” sound.
•It has a diamond shaped line of green.
•It has a brown stem.
•It has a small brown spot. That may be a bruise.
•The apple is oxidizing so it’s flesh is turning brown.
•The bottom of the apple has dip that has shriveled brown leave-like things in it.
•When you squish the apple more juice comes out.
• I dug with my toothpick and a small brown seed popped out.
•If you take the shell off the seed it’s white on the inside.

Reflection

Why were you able to observe so many things about your apple today?
Why is observation and description so important in science?
Rank order the five senses in the order or your observations (i.e. which sense was used most, second most, etc

1. I was able to observe so many things due to good tools I had. I had a magnifying glass and a toothpick.
2.It is important because otherwise you could mess up the experiment. You could mess up the experiment because the detail you missed could be a very big detail that's the last piece to the puzzle, so you want to observe things.
3. I used sight the most. I used touch the second most. I used smell the third most. Hearing the fourth most. And taste was final because I didn't use taste at all.

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How Might Humans and Aliens be Different?

12/3/2014

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Humans

Humans adapt to Earth. They can breathe the oxygen in the area where they live in. They have feet for walking since they don't fly or swim all the time, we have gravity. We have hands so we can pick up things like food, that we need to eat. We get our nutrients from food so we have a mouth to eat from. Our ears hear so we can communicate with each other. Our eyes see because we need a way to know where we are going.

Aliens

The alien adapted to its planet. It has a nose with a sucker to suck up the nutrient-rich mud that it needs to survive. It has alligator-like feet to push through the mud and muck. It's eye helps it to see predators coming. It has adapted well to it's muddy planet.

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? Give at least three examples and be specific. (Example: Osteoclasts are cells that make up spongy bone inside of many of our bones. This is part of the skeletal system.)

•I think we have different cells from the aliens. I think so because we are so different, they don't have legs and we do. We have ears and they don't.
•My alien has cells that help by making up it's nose that sucks up the nutrient rich mud that it needs to survive. It also has cells that make the helpful alligator-like feet. It evolved with alligator-like feet because it needed a way to move easily through the muck. It also has cells that make the eye that can see clearly, which is helpful for spotting predators.

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Human Body Pre-Test

12/2/2014

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What was the hardest part of this activity?
Which organs do you think you put in the right places?
Which organs do you think are probably in the wrong place?

1. The hardest part was trying to do the parts of the human body I don't know about.
2. I think I put the brain and the heart in the right place. I think so because I know for a fact that the brain is in my head, so we put it in the head. The heart I knew is in our chest and the size of a fist.
3. I think we put the small intestine and the large intestine in the wrong place. I think so because I had no idea where either of those might go and what they were!

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Revolutionary War Hero Project

12/1/2014

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Who was your famous person and why were they famous?
Why is it important for children to study specific people's lives from a time period in history?
What was the hardest part about completing your Revolutionary War Hero Project? What made it hard?
How did it make you feel to complete your Revolutionary War Hero Project without much help from adults? Why?

1. My famous person was Nathan Hale. He was famous for being the first spy in America. He also said the famous line. "I only regret I have but one life to give for my country."
2. It is important because kids need to learn about history, to know where they came from. Also kids can learn from our past mistakes by learning history.
3. The hardest part was writing the summary. It was hard because Nathan Hale had a short life so I didn't have much to write about.

4. It felt good to complete the project without any help from adults. It felt good because I knew I was the one who made the project, not someone else.

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