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 do living things get from their ecosystems?
2. What evidence do you have to support your answer to Question 1?
3. 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.)
4. Brainstorm at least one question you have about Ecosystems that you hope you learn from this unit.
5. 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. 
6. What are three (or more) interactions that might occur in this portion of the forest ecosystem?

Poem 1:
​The poem is about the boy and how he is excited about the way he can do anything he wants on his skate board. It also shows how the boy feels free on his skate board. 

Poem 2:
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Poem 1:
​The poem is in a teardrop shape because I think she wanted us to think it is a drop of sweat dropping to the ground because when you skate board you probably sweat. I also see that the poem has a certain amount of words in one line and it makes it look like the poem is moving. The poem also looks like a head and the poem kind of talks about a person on the skate board. The poem also shows the swerving and curving from the boy because he goes in and out.

 Poem 2:
The poem is a certain shape because I think the author wanted us to pause at a certain time to make the poem sound correctly. I think this is a good way to write the poem because the rhythm would not work out if it were like that. I also see the poem as the shape of the deck that they sit at at night.      

List potential problems as you read about them in your book. Also be thinking about other problems not mentioned that we should be considering.
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Write a journal entry about what you learned from the perspective of your persona.  Be "in character" while writing and express some of your concerns & worries in your writing.

Include some of the other personas in your writing to make it feel more real.  Publish live and then comment on others' writing.

Problems: 

• ​We might get board of the time for the year because we might have to stay here for a year and it will be a long time
• We might miss mars when we blast off
• Mars has really low gravity, You would not have as much balance we could fly off of mars because of the low gravity
• Mars has no oceans of sea's so it is all land. If we ran out of water we would die.The whole mars is all of earths lands combined
• Mars has giant volcano's, canyons,ancient dried up rivers, and a lot of dune fields. If we went there we could not know what we are doing and fall into the giant volcano or any of the things I listed.
• Mars has water under the ground, and liquid vapor in the air. WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO GET WATER
• The dust storms could cover up all of the equipment that we bring  and we will not have any thing to survive with.
• Mars has suffocating air is atmosphere  is made up of carbon dioxide. There is no oxygen on mars! We would die because of mars
• Mars has SUPER LOW AIR PRESSURE. The air there is every thin and if we
• The red planet is very cold and can reach -225ºF
• The dust there is made out of rust and if you breath it in you would choke to death.
• The sun brings high radiation and can cause you cancer or death because your cells will explode.

Paragraph: 
            I learned that in space anything could go wrong and that we have to be prepared for everything. I can't believe I got myself into this big mess! I should of looked at the sign up sheet before I signed it! If my job does not go well we could be in big danger! Habiba Chisisi our water expert will be able to make enough water for all of our plants to grow to.  I hope everything works out with Emily our chef. I am also scared that one of our doctors will get sick and die and when that doctor passes the other doctor will get to overwhelmed and crack under pressure.

1. I chose my phone and the picture of my family because if I did not have my phone I would probably get bored of all of the other things I have and the picture of my family is so that I would always remember them.Paragraph: 

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            I plan to use all of my work supplies by, the seeds I will plant to grow all of the veggies and fruits I need, the shovel so it will be easy to dig to put the seeds in the ground,  the root things to help the roots of the plant spread out more, and I also need the chemicals that go in the water of the plants because they will help the plants grow and get strong.

Answer these questions in your blog entry:​

1. How did your body respond when the ball of paper was thrown at you?
2. How would this reflex protect your eyes if the transparency had not been there?

Answers:

1. My  body made me blink, jerk my head back, flinch, and I scrunched my face up. When the ball was thrown at me I was scared so I did all of those things.  
   
2. This reflex would have protected my eyes because I closed them and nothing would have gone through my eyes, and when I jerked my head back it helped because if the ball of paper was not thrown hard enough it would not of hit my head.   
   

Answers:

1. No, I can not feel my pupils dilate when it goes from light to dark. I can see the big difference though.
2. No, unless you purposely go in and out of the dark and the light, but otherwise you can not control over the dilation of your eyes. 
   
3. When a reflex happens without us controlling I think it is called an Involuntary reflex. When you  are playing a game where you want the other person to blink when they clap or snap you automatically blink because your eyes want to protect them selves from not getting something stuck in your eye.
   
4.   Your pupils get bigger in the dark because they need more light, and your eyes get smaller in the light because they do not need any more light that what they have right now.
   
5. This reflex protects your eyes by not letting to much light go into your eyes and if to much light were to go into your eyes they could burn. So your eyes get smaller and bigger instead of just being small or big.          

Answers:

1. I think it was more hard to do touch than sight because when your eyes are open you know exactly what is happening around you so your body can focus on the one thing, but when you are closing your eyes you have no idea what is happening around you so you want to focus on everything that is going on around you. 
2. You could only use the sense of smell to catch the ruler by, when you spray something and your partner smells it you could drop the ruler and they could try to catch it. 
3. You could only use the sense of taste by, when your partner puts something in your mouth and when the partner starts chewing the food you could drop the ruler. If we had to do this it would of probably been really hard.
   
4. My senses, nerves, brain, and muscles helped me catch the ruler by, when my partner made a weird face my eyes saw it and my optic nerve then sent my brain a signal to send a signal to my arm and hand muscles to catch the ruler.  
   
5. Yes, I do think that my nervous system did work in the same way for both of the experiments by, when the ball or the signal was shown to us our optical nerves saw it and then it went to our brain and our brain sent a signal to our arm to grab the ruler and then the brain sent a signal back to the eye to blink.    

Answers: 

1. NASA's plans to visit mars are very interesting. For example, they want the space craft to use all of its fuel from the bottom half to launch out of earth's orbit. Then, they want to launch another rocket ship into space to go to mars. That rocket ship will not have any fuel when it get to mars so the astronauts will have to  make the fuel so they will have enough fuel to travel back to mars. 
2. The trip to Mars will take 2 and 1/2 years and maybe  even 18 months more than that. For me this is a really long time to be in a confined space.
3. Some supplies and equipment the astronouts need to bring to mars are exercise machines because they need to stay fit and healthy so they do not get sick and have to go back top earth. 
4. The risk of traveling a very very long distance is the solar flares because They last for weeks or even months and when those happen you cant go into that room until it is over. If you where to go in that room with the solar flare you would most likely get cancer.  
5. I would bring a lot of extra clothes, space suits, food, and something that I can go into solar flares without getting cancer.