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Models of the sun and Shadows

5/25/2017

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Change Makers Thinglink

5/25/2017

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I was Not Hear that day

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Star patterns

5/25/2017

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21 Century Collaboration Challenge

5/25/2017

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  1. What was hard about the game? Explain in detail!
  2. Was the game a valuable use of class time? If so, why? If not, why not?
  3. Regardless of your answer to #2 above, if you were marketing this game to teachers, what would you claim this game is good for in the classroom? What skills do students learn from this game?
  1. The thing that was hard was trying to ​find out like what to press
  2. It was because it was teaching us how to collaborate with other people to solve problems
  3. They learn how to collaborate with others so they they could fix problems they need to do for school 

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Lesson 7: Nature's Waste Matter

5/24/2017

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Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.
  1. Where do you think the items came from originally?
  2. Do you think the items look the same today as they did a month ago?
  3. What happened to the matter in each item over the past month?
  4. Do you think the items will be the same forever? Why or why not?
  5. What do all of the items in the bag have in common?
  6. Do you notice any relationships between the items in the bags? They all...
  7. What evidence do you have that the items were all once part of a living thing?
  8. 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?
  9. 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?
  10. What would eventually happen to the waste MATTER in each type of organic remain?
  11. Why isn't the earth just piled up with all the matter from nature's waste?
  12. Why could all of the items in the mystery bags be classified as nature's waste?
  13. Do you think that all living things generate waste? What makes you think that?
Answers:
  1. a maple tree and the grownd
  2. no it might of been smaller
  3. it got a lot more squoshie
  4. No i do not think it will like the leaf will get brown
  5. they all are things that had to grow
  6. they all had to grow
  7. They all look like they are starting to die
  8. Sticks leafs acorns
  9. it might look better then it would in the inside
  10. It would evenualy die
  11. Because Earths waste will Decompose and decinagrate

  12. Because they all fell of of living things
  13. Because they all need to have new things to grow on them so they are not just giving water to old plants.
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Sun light on the menu

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.
  1. Explain how the matter in each ingredient can be traced back to plants.
  2. Explain how these ingredients can be traced back to the sun.
  3. What MATTER in the food originally came from producers?
  4. What ENERGY in the food originally came from the sun?
  5. How is energy transferred from the sun to ingredients in your favorite foods?
Answers:
  1. The Meat can Be traced back to Pigs Witch eat vegetables which are from plants.
  2. They all come from plants and the plants get there energy to grow from the sun
  3. What ever plant the animal eats and then the animal is the hot dog ​
  4. ​Solar energy
  5. Photosynthesis
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Our Mars Constitution

5/21/2017

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Players in An Ecosystem

5/21/2017

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                                                         Producer                                  Consumer                        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.
  1. Choose one of your Food Chains that you created and explain how it works.
  2. Can a Food Web be considered a "system"? Why or why not?
  3. What happens if a plant or animal all of a sudden disappears from the food web?
  4. 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?
  5. Using the same food chain in #4, How do organisms in that food chain get the energy they need for body warmth and motion?
  6. 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:
  1. Well the sun makes the grass grow then the bunny eats the grass then the Eagle eats the bunny
  2. Yes because diffrent things make foods grow
  3. It is Exstinked
  4. Eating the things below them
  5. They get there energy and warmth from the sun
  6. It Goes to the animal that eats it

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Food Matter and Energy

5/21/2017

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Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.
  1. What does food provide to animals, including humans?
  2. Do the pet food and human food have the same nutrients? In what ways are they different?
  3. Does a higher calorie count mean a food is better for pets to eat? What makes pet owners think that?
  4. What is it in food that helps us repair our bodies and grow?
  5. What in food helps us move and stay warm?
  6. In what way does energy transfer when animals eat food?
  7. Look at the nutrition label below for milk. How much energy is in the food?
  8. What matter is in the food?
Answers:
  1. Energy and protein 
  2. Pet food has a lot of different kinds of food then human food

  3. It means it is worst then you but you still want enough Calories
  4. Protein
  5. Calories and energy
  6. When an animal eats a nother animal it gets some of that animals energy
  7. 160 calories pur surving
  8. The Fat and protein
Answer the following questions while analyzing the Nutrition Labels:
  1. As a result of looking at food labels, what did you learn about food?
  2. Look at the ingredients of one human food label. Write down the food name. What ingredients came from animals?
  3. What ingredients in the above food label came from plants?
  4. What similarities and differences did you notice between the human food and pet food labels you looked at?
  5. Choose an animal/insect from the ecosystem walk. What do you think it eats? Explain what you think it gets from its food.
Answers:
  1. That food has a lot of different types of ingredients in them

  2. None of the food came from an animal
  3. Tomatoes, Corn
  4. The human and pet labels have a lot of diffrnt things in them
  5. Squirrel I think It eats nuts and seeds
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Plants as Producers

5/17/2017

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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.
  1. Plants need energy and matter to grow. Where do plants get their ENERGY?
  2. Where do plants get their MATTER?
  3. Where do plants get their FOOD (be careful - this is a trick question)?
  4. Why are plants called Producers?
  5. What would happen if plants didn't have a way to get energy?
  6. What would happen to animals if there were no plants to eat?
  7. 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.)
  8. What are some of the NON-LIVING components of a plant "system"?
  9. In what ways do the components of the system interact?
  10. What matter is transported in and out of the plant system?
Answers:
  1. Plants get there Energy from the Sun
  2. Plants get there matter from the soil
  3. They get there food from the soil
  4. Because the produce oxygen for us
  5. They would not have the energy to grow then they would dye
  6. They would die
  7. sun,water,soil and Carbon Dioxide
  8. Soil
  9. The water interacts with the roots
  10. carbon dioxide and oxsegon
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