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1.  When the crumpled up paper hit the transparent sheet, I blinked and I'm pretty sure I smiled and laughed at how fun this experiment was! My body also flinched when the noise of the ball hit the sheet. It is so cool that so much can happen in a matter of seconds.
2.  The reflex would protect my eyes because it can keep things out of your eyes. If this reflex didn't exist, chemicals and bad substances might get into our eyes! The eyelashes help because they can feel things that are heading towards the eyes. 

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1. Can you feel it when your pupils dilate?
2. Do you have any control over your pupils when they dilate?
3. What do we call this when a reflex happens without our control?
4. Why do our pupils get bigger in the dark and smaller in the light?
5. How does this reflex protect our eyes?

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1.  No, I could not feel my pupils dilate, but since the light was off, I saw things in a darker manner. The eyes dilated, which means they got bigger, to take in more light.
2.  No you don't because when it gets dark, your eyes automatically dilate. The only way you can sort of control it is turning the lights off.
3.  A reflex that we can't control is called an involuntary reflex, like an involuntary muscle.
4.  They get bigger in the dark because we need to absorb more light to see in the dark, and in the light, we don't need as much light because it is already there.
5.  This reflex protects our eyes because if our pupils were really big in the light, we might go blind because we would have to much light in our eyes. If our eyes were small in the dark we, it would be the exact opposite. We wouldn't be able to see very well because it would be so dark. This reflex balances our eyes and helps us live!

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1.  NASA will probably send astronauts to Mars within the next century and they will also try to find life and precious minerals on Mars.
2. It would take about two and a half years including 18 months in the marsh on surface. It would take 102 days to be halfway to Mars.
3.  They would need space treadmills so they could work out, and they would need other exercise equipment so they can stay in shape. They will also need some food and water because those are needs that everybody must have. 
4. Some of the risks are that your bones would get weaker because there would be no gravity on the spaceship, you might not be used to Earths gravity unless you exercise every minute! And you have to be able to focus even with the G-force of the take off. 
5.  I would bring all the food and exercise equipment with me, but I would also bring a TV to maybe entertain myself when I'm down. I would also bring some extra water and fluid to keep me hydrated for sure. 

1. How are the two cups different, and why?
2. What process in the human body, is demonstrated by the liquid in the bottom of the cup?
3. What process in the human body is demonstrated, by the wet coffee filter?
4. How does this lab, help us understand digestion?

1. They are different because one is completely dry and has no water at the bottom, but one is completely wet and has liquid at the bottom.
2. The process is getting waste out of our body. For example, something our body doesn't need gets pooped or peed out.
3. The process of the substance that covers the stomach so acid doesn't break down the stomach.
4. It helps us understand digestion by making us see the waste get out of the coffee filter like waste getting out of the body, and we see that nutrients stays in the body.

1. Explain what surprised you about the statistics of the world? 
2. What upset you? What do you wish was different?
3. What made you want to do something to improve a situation? 
4. Can you do anything to help? If so, what?

The thing that surprised me the most was that some people live on less than two dollars a day! It is so hard to think that I have so much, and some have so little! The thing that most upset me was that some people don't have clean air or water! They drink dirty water that could possibly kill them! I wish that more people who had extra money would donate or try to help the less fortunate! I think that I will try to help some people in poorer countries have a better life because right now, they don't! Some people don't even have the money to get vaccinations! I want to help those people have better healthcare. If I could do anything to help, I would donate my time to try and make the less fortunate people's lives better!  

1. The red team.
2. I felt we were going to lose because we had less people on our team. 
3. Blue because they had more people to help tug on the rope and we hardly had any people compared to them! 
4. I got discouraged because even if we won, we wouldn't get the prize of not doing the blog post, but I still wanted to win to earn bragging rights.
5. They won because they were more confident and they had more people originally and when the white team joined them. 
6. When America won the war everybody was happy and had parties for weeks, but then every state split into its own little country. In America each state had different money and very state was pretty much split. It was important America won the war because Great Britain wasn't treating us fairly and we knew that we could run our own government. 
7. If America lost the war I think that Britain would've treated us worse and today the war would show that America can't defeat Britain and we will be under British control. 

1. Jumping jacks and sprinting increased my heart rate the most. But being stressed was after that.

2. Walking and laying down didn't really get my heart rate up at all. I'm was surprised that walking didn't get my heart rate up more though! 

3. They were not accurate because it thought jumping jacks would get my heart rate up the most but sprinting did! I thought that doing 50 jumping jacks would get my heart rate up more than sprinting, but I guess I was wrong. And being stressed had a higher heart rate than standing!

4. My heart rate became higher and much faster. I was also getting a little bit tired and to me my heart beat  got louder! 

5. Our body's cells need more energy when they are working faster and harder. So the heart pumps faster and produces more blood so the cells can keep working.
So when you are running the heart will beat faster than normal. But when you're sleeping the heart is pumping blood very slowly, for the cells aren't doing that much work.

Paragraph: This activity was very cool because it showed me how muscles will come through after pain! The clothespin was very resistant so when my muscles got tired I slowed down. I really wanted to switch hands but I fought through it! I liked this activity because I can rely on my muscles better.

1. I was very difficult because my hand got very tired but it helped to do the counting technique that Mr. Solarz gave us.
2. Before the experiment my hands felt fine but I was worried because Mr. Solarz was warning us that it would hurt. During the experiment my hand was tired because the clothespin was so resistant! But I fought through it! After the experiment my hand started to gain energy and it felt relieved.
3. At first my data was really high but then it started to drop as my hand got really tired, But I gained strength and then my data became higher.  
4. Losing count might have affected my results because then I would have to slow down my experiment. Also peers that were over reacting about pain distracted my and slowed me down.
5. My hand strength was perfect at the beginning and during the middle of the experiment my hand started to hurt and I wanted to stop the experiment. During the end of the experiment my hand felt tired but better during the middle of the experiment.  
6. I think that veins carry water, oxygen, and nutrients to the hands and I think that you can also get oxygen through the holes in your skin.  
7. I think I could have slowed down in the trials but that means that I wouldn't have given my full effort. I could have also go really fast in the beginning and take a break in the middle, and then go super fast. 
8. I will rest that muscle for about a minute or 30 seconds so the muscle could take a break and not hurt as much when I use that muscle. 

1.  My KinderPal experience has gone great so far! My KinderPals are so nice and they seemed like they wanted to have a nice time with me! I can't wait for another KinderPal session! My KinderPals are starting to become friends!

2. In the AM period my KinderPal was a mini artist and loved to talk with me and Charlotte, who was my partner for her KinderPal was sick! In the PM period my KinderPal was not so open about what she liked and what where her "superpowers". I really had to ask questions for me to up her self esteem.

3.  In the second KinderPal experience I had other ideas from other peers so my KinderPal would have a wide selection of things to do that I can compliment her on! And I felt more comfortable with my KinderPal.

4.  I let them draw their character on their superpower sheet and I told them how good their drawings were! They were amazing for a 5 year old! I also played tic tac toe with them and let them win every time! I also read a book to my PM KinderPal and see what she would notice about the book!

5. Other schools should do KinderPals because it will help the new kids at the school feel confident and ready for the higher grades! It would make the kindergartners feel like their worth something and this will help when their frustrated at their schoolwork! It is defiantly worth the time because it would make the older KinderPal feel good because their helping younger kids and the younger kids would be proud of themselves.