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Natures Waste Matter

5/24/2017

Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

Where do you think the items came from originally?
Do you think the items look the same today as they did a month ago?
What happened to the matter in each item over the past month?
Do you think the items will be the same forever? Why or why not?
What do all of the items in the bag have in common?
Do you notice any relationships between the items in the bags? They all...
What evidence do you have that the items were all once part of a living thing?
Another name for "nature's waste" is "organic remains." These are all organisms that are no longer living, or parts of organisms that are discarded, excreted, or no longer needed. What other examples of organic remains can you think of?
What would happen to each item from your bag if it were left outside? What might it look like in 6 months? What would cause it to change?
What would eventually happen to the waste MATTER in each type of organic remain?
Why isn't the earth just piled up with all the matter from nature's waste?
Why could all of the items in the mystery bags be classified as nature's waste?
Do you think that all living things generate waste? What makes you think that?

Answer:

The pinecone came from a pine tree, a maple leaf came from a maple tree, helicopter came from a maple tree, grass came from the mud/dirt, the twigs came from different trees, wood chips came from a tree and finally a flower cam from a plant.
No because some have decayed already and loosing some of its leaves or parts. Some parts are dying as well.
The matter started to get older and started to decay while it also even got browner or a darker color.
I don't think so because of the process of decaying and mulching into the ground, also because the material can break down into smaller mulching.
They all come from a plant and they all were living pieces because if they were living they are still considered an organism.
They all come from a plant and they all are going to decay.
For example the grass was growing from the dirt/mud in the ground. And the flower grew from the soil in the ground.
Feces from animals or insects that could have decayed.
The plant would start to decay and after six month it would be in the dirt. Maybe the plant would start to rot or mulch into the ground.
The waste would turn into soil or dirt. This is because the organism would break down and decay to start getting into the ground.
It isn't piled up because it decays and breaks down into the dirt/mud. It could decompose or people could start composting the things as well.
They all could be because they all are an organism and were living. They had contact with another living thing they grew.
I think yes because they all provide a purpose to do something and that can affect the ground. Things can rot or decay from other living organism's.

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My teacher, Mr. Solarz, was fortunate enough to travel to Dubai last week for an education conference and to meet former Top 50 Global Teacher Prize candidates for the Varkey GEMS Global Teacher Prize. He shared his unbelievable experience with us, and here are some things that I learned from our discussion:

I learned that people from all over the world are more similiar than different, and share stories that can connect and relate to each other.
I also learned that Dubai is like two seperate cities but are connected with a block of different house's.
I finally learned that the owner of Dubai has a lot of money, but he donates most of that money to others in need, and he cares more about others needs than his needs.

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Our Mars Constitution

5/23/2017

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Food - Matter and Energy

5/22/2017

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Answer the following questions while analyzing the Nutrition Labels:

As a result of looking at food labels, what did you learn about food?
Look at the ingredients of one human food label. Write down the food name. What ingredients came from animals?
What ingredients in the above food label came from plants?
What similarities and differences did you notice between the human food and pet food labels you looked at?
Choose an animal/insect from the ecosystem walk. What do you think it eats? Explain what you think it gets from its food.

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

What does food provide to animals, including humans?
Do the pet food and human food have the same nutrients? In what ways are they different?
Does a higher calorie count mean a food is better for pets to eat? What makes pet owners think that?
What is it in food that helps us repair our bodies and grow?
What in food helps us move and stay warm?
In what way does energy transfer when animals eat food?
Look at the nutrition label below for milk. How much energy is in the food?
What matter is in the food?

Answers:

I learned many foods have more calories but have more nutrition, this means that it is healthy but it will gain weight. They serving sizes also trick me because it depends on the amount the can or other food serves.
Peanut butter has no parts or ingredients from animals.
Tomato puree and soybean oil.
Some similarities is that they both are given what nutrients and proteins you are given in the serving or in the whole package/food. Another one is they both have carrots. Unlike the pet food the human food has less ingredients and unlike the human food the pet food has way more meats. The human food has a more precise finish then the pet food in my opinion.
Rolly pollie's eat leaves that get their energy from the sunlight to grow. That gives the rolly pollie its energy too!

Answers:

Food provides energy and nutrients as well as calories fro humans and animals. This helps humans and animals stay healthy to live a proper and healthy life. They also get matter too!
They have some similarities like how they both have calcium and the Vitamin A but they have differences too. For example the pet food contains a lot of ingredients and the main ingredient is meat unlike the human food which doesn't contain meat.
I think it is good to have those calories as long as the pet burns some of those calories off. I think this because then their pet will have a lot of energy to still keep them active and burn the calories off.
Protein is what helps our bodies repair.
Calories help use stay active and have energy fro the day.
The energy is in the animal once that animal eats another to get that energy but at one point the producer had the most energy out of all of the other consumers or primary consumers.
160 Calories Per Serving even though some calories need to be burned off so they are not just stored as fat in your body. When calories are stored as fat it is not the best thing for our body, but some fat is fine.
Fat and protein add weight to our bodies or even that weight can be gained muscle's.

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Plants as Producers

5/22/2017

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Reflection Questions:

Plants need energy and matter to grow. Where do plants get their ENERGY?
Where do plants get their MATTER?
Where do plants get their FOOD (be careful - this is a trick question)?
Why are plants called Producers?
What would happen if plants didn't have a way to get energy?
What would happen to animals if there were no plants to eat?
What are some of the LIVING components of a plant "system"? (A plant "system" is everything that a plant needs to survive and everything it produces.)
What are some of the NON-LIVING components of a plant "system"?
In what ways do the components of the system interact?
What matter is transported in and out of the plant system?

Answers:

Plants get their energy from the sun to absorb what they need as food. They also need carbon dioxide to take in and produce the oxygen out. They need soil that is moist from rain or watering so they can keep alive and the soil help it grow. These all basically come naturally to the plant(s).
Plants get their matter from the water and from the soil. That helps the plants consume into their roots, the roots try to spread firmly around as much space as possible.
Plants get their food from vitamins and soil too, this is because it can take in that much nutrients to keep it alive. They also need water.
Plants are called producers because they absorb energy and sunlight from the sun to give energy to the consumers. They produce energy for the consumers.
If the plant has had no energy they would use up all their leftover energy and use that all up. Once they use that up they grow weak and soon die.
The whole food chain of the animals cycle would die because then the herbavors would die leaving the carnavors no food.
A plant needs the sun to gain light and nutrients and even warmth, since the plants make sugar that gives its energy too, carbon dioxide to breathe, and photosynthesis is food. Chlorophyll makes food from the carbon dioxide that the plant breathes in. That all ties up to living components.
Soil, air, and water. The plant only keeps the plant moist, the air just gives it its carbon dioxide and releases oxygen for us to breathe and the soil helps the plant stay firm and lets its roots spread as wide as possible.
They interact by using each other to make a cycle like a food chain. The plants used all of these things to grow and live so they all interact in some way.
The matter that is transported in and out is carbon dioxide and oxygen. This is because the plant need the carbon dioxide to breathe in for it's leaves and releases oxygen to help us breathe.

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Sunlight on the Menu - Ecosystems Lesson 6

5/22/2017

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Reflection/Synthesis:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

Explain how the matter in each ingredient can be traced back to plants.
Explain how these ingredients can be traced back to the sun.
What MATTER in the food originally came from producers?
What ENERGY in the food originally came from the sun?
How is energy transferred from the sun to ingredients in your favorite foods?

Answers:

Everything gets there nutrients from the sun and absorbs that sunlight. When the producer or even the consumer absorbs sunlight and we eat either one of them we get sunlight in our bodies.

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Players in An Ecosystem

5/10/2017

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Source for everything

Producer

Secondary Consumer

Primary Consumer

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

Choose one of your Food Chains that you created and explain how it works.
Can a Food Web be considered a "system"? Why or why not?
What happens if a plant or animal all of a sudden disappears from the food web?
Using this food chain, "sunlight to apple to worm to bird to cat," How do organisms in this food chain get the matter they need for body repair and growth?
Using the same food chain in #4, How do organisms in that food chain get the energy they need for body warmth and motion?
What do you think happens to the matter that is NOT used by the organisms in a food chain or food web? Is it wasted or does something else happen?

Answers:

The way my food chain works is by the sun giving nutrition and sunlight to the grass, the bunny eats the grass and the eagle eats the bunny.
Yes, because the parts of a system rely on the other parts of system for things. In a food web it's kind of the same, the animals rely on each other for food. Yes, because all parts of that food chain or system rely on each other to survive. In a food web all the occurs the same, all producers and consumers work with each other to stay a live.
Then that food web's consumers would die of no food and the producers would be gone as well. The food web would soon over time end as a whole because they all live off each other.
The apple get sunlight and energy from the sun and the worm eats the apples matter and energy then the bird eats the worms matter and energy and finally the cat eats all the matter and energy from the bird.
When they eat the animal, they get nutrition and warmth because they ate the matter and or energy of that.
That will go into the earth and the deconposers will brake it down.

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What Is An Ecosystem?

5/5/2017

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Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a System of living things

Ducks are interacting with other ducks
Ducks eat plants and bugs
Plants release oxygen for the ducks to breathe

Between Living and non - Living things

The duck is swimming in the lake
Ducks breathe air
The duck drinks the lake water
Plants are growing in the lake, taking up nutrients from the water
Sunlight is absorbing nutrients from the plants converting it into food

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Living to Living

Fish is swimming through bugs
Fish eat smaller fish

Living to non - Living

Fish swims through water
Plants get nutrients from the sunlight and water

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

What do living things get from their ecosystems?
What evidence do you have to support your answer to Question 1?
What does the term ecosystem mean, based on your experience in this lesson? (Don't use the definition from the BIG IDEA here. Put it into your own words.)
Brainstorm at least one question you have about Ecosystems that you hope you learn from this unit.
Look at the image below that shows a portion of a forest ecosystem. Name at least five components (living or non-living things) of the ecosystem that you can either observe directly or infer.
What are three (or more) interactions that might occur in this portion of the forest ecosystem?

Answers

Normally the basics are getting soil natural sunlight, food and sometimes water depending on what type of habitat you live in.
Well if you are an organism, you get most of these things unless you are a plant or bug you don;'t get as much soil. This all depends on the habitat the living organism is living in. The sunlight gives energy to the plants and the soil gives the plants nutrition too.
An ecosystem is a living habitat with living and non - living organisms.
What are some of the adaptions that make different animals live in there ecosystems?
Water, grass, rocks, deer, flowers and trees
The deer could interact with the others bushes to eat berries or other foods on it and the deer can interact with others deer too! Finally, the deer can drink the water from the stream.

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How To Write A Book About Your Job

5/4/2017

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Here are some tips:

Use others ideas and use that inspiration to make a book
Have different questions on the book your making
Brainstorm different ideas, that could be suggestions too
Take criticism as a chance to put more effort into it
Take life events into your story
Start sloppy, but then get neater further you get closer to finishing your book
Organize your writing and or ideas, you can use notes
Start writing then get into the process of typing
Writing a lot is better than a little because when you write a lot most of it can be saved or more accurate
Break down some of your chapters or topics
The reader wants to learn about the beginning of the book
If you hit writers block, take a break or move onto the next topic
You can print out to see how your progress is going and fix some things
Try your best to find mistakes in your writing
Share thoughts and opinions on your book
Take advantage of help, but don't abuse it
Stay collaborative with different editors

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My First Week In Space

5/3/2017

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The moon(s)
Earth itself
Jupiter
The Sun
Astriods
Constellations
Rocket parts fall off

What we did

We worked out
We talked to eachother
We drew
We ate space desserts and food
We floated in the spacecraft

Blast Off

Emotions
Rocket rumbling
Rocket parts fall off

We took off in space about a week ago. Our take off was awesome but frightening at the same time! We were so happy to go to Mars and to space! We all were in the spacecraft ready to go on this mission to mars. Then suddenly, the rocket starts to shake as we all are excited to blast off into space! The pilot is ready for take off and so is the rest of the crew. I was nervous myself and so was everyone else, but we all were ready to go to space. Mia and I both had our legs trembling, while Sophia and Nicole started to try their best to relax. Finally at that second the rocket gave a booming loud roar and everyone was shaking while we starting to zoom off into the air. We took off and were safe! We all were emotional and started to cry a little, but we held our own as responsible adults. We were still in the blue sky, looking at the clouds. And when we all looked down, we saw people waving us goodbye with flags in the air. Léa was jumping in the air and that second she jumps we are in space! The rocket has a sense to slow down once we hit into no gravity and we all float around. Some people swam in the air and others jumped off walls but it was a fun experience. Once more there was a rumble and some rocket pieces fell off into space. Now we are experiencing the life of space and different things you saw seemed almost unbelievable.I saw Earth with its clouds and continents all around, it was also covered with a dark or light shade of blue on it. As we were drifting away from Earth I saw the moon with brushes of dust coming off of it while it shined very bright. The moon wasn’t just the sight we could see but as we didn’t even notice yet were the stars surrounding us! I saw a billions of them and they all had one difference, but the coolest one I experienced was this huge star with a smaller star rotating all around it. As the crew was gazing at the stars, Nicole and I were heading toward the back of the ship where we saw the biggest star of them all, the sun! It shined so bright and brought out so much steam, we even had to leave because Nicole and I were gaining too much heat! Then all of us were at one window looking at the stars but then blam! A huge asteroid appears to fly close right past us and we all seem in shock for a while but as we have a little time to relax we all start to crack up laughing. I looked back at it and it was getting hotter at the minute and I see a burst of flames coming off of it. Now I look near the front of the ship with Lèa and we see Jupiter, a massive huge planet that out rules most of the rest of the other planets. Our mouths are wide open a little because of how it came to be so big and then once we left the front of the spacecraft everyone decides to go to the front of the ship too! After a while we all got bored of the sights because we experienced all of it, well almost everything that was in sight. So I tried to entertain some people and it was very funny but it didn’t really entertain everyone. So I thought and planned with Mia, and then it hit me, I thought we could talk about our different experiences. I heard some stories that made me laugh, cry, shiver and yell a little. Everyone shared a story that reminds us of the life we have back at home. I was a little unhappy and Sophia could see that so she came to me and tried to comfort me with some stories. I was happier now because I forgot about my worries. I learned the different cultures about each and individual person, and I thought it is really awesome! It was thrilling to hare my fun vacations and school days, and learning about everyone was a fun thing to do. Everyone had gone around telling one or two stories on your life and everyone got to share something. For a minute it was silent because we all finished our stories, but then Nicole says to everyone that we can all name off some of the constellations. We all got up and looked out the windows, and Nicole was the first one to name the first constellation then me and Mia and Sophia! We made it a game, but it wasn’t a competition we just tried to name off as many constellations in sight. I thought we named them all but we were missing one, a big one but I couldn’t put my finger on it, then Sophia says she found orion! We all gave a clap as she bowed down to congratulate herself. And right in time I had some coloring books on hand so I layed them out so others could color to relieve stress. Mia laid out some neon markers and crayons for everyone too. No one else thought of any activities but some exercised others floated around the spacecraft. In a matter of time it was time for dinner and everyone had a package of there own chicken, and then for dessert we all had either a cookies and cream sandwhich or neapolitan ice cream. The food was different it was dry ice that impacted the ice cream so it didn't melt, or float away. We were all full and colored some more, but it was getting late. We finished our activities and were ready to go to bed, so we all got in our pajamas. Everyone had their own separate sleeping bag that is velcroed to the wall so we didn’t float away. It was cool because I slept on the ceiling for the one night looking down on the ground, though the leverage had an effect on your blood pressure. We all had a dome shape covered over us for privacy, and the domes had a thermometer to cool down the air or heat up the air. I was impressed with delight and relaxed with joy! I talked to Léa and laughed with her a bit to talk about how are families are like. I learned everyone including me had a dream to visit Mars, and that dream was about to come true.

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Elizabeth Smith

I am Elizabeth Smith, a doctor from London, United Kingdom. It would be very important to have a doctor on the first manned mission to Mars because it would be safer and people can be covered with healthy lifestyles. I can save lives and help people become more healthy, suited and or ready for this mission. I am excited to go on this adventure because it is a great opportunity to learn life lessons and skills with the help of others. Learning more about other cultures and continuing to be a responsible person can be an adventure that I will take to Mars!

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Food - Matter and Energy

Plants as Producers

Sunlight on the Menu - Ecosystems Lesson 6

Players in An Ecosystem

What Is An Ecosystem?

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How To Write A Book About Your Job

My First Week In Space

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