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Human Body- Lesson 6- Which Joints Are Most Important?

12/9/2015

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  1. Which joint did you choose as our most important joint?
  2. Why did you choose that joint?
  3. What things would be difficult to do without that joint?
  4. What movement can be done without the use of joints? (Example: blinking your eyes)
  1. I chose the jaw as my most important joint because you would have to eat once and a while and if you did not have a jaw joint your moth could not open.
  2. I chose this joint because you would not be able to eat and to be able to get the nutrients that you need you have to live.
  3. One thing that would be difficult is you couldn't eat,chew,or even talk. This would be a horrible life to live in because of the things that you could not do.
  4. A movement that does not need a joint to move it is your eye brows.
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Human Body- lesson 5- How do We Move?

12/7/2015

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heavy breathing

because he was doing it for a while and you only have so much energy to use.

face turning red

because He was doing it for a while and his body was working hard and building up heat. When your face turns that means you are working hard.

Ankle pain

because my ankle was hurting when my foot would touch the ground because my body was not used to have that hard of a push on the ground. Also because when you start to run for a while your ankle starts to react to the new feeling on it.

Getting tired

I was getting very tired after a couple of minutes into the jumping jacks because you only have so much energy. When I was running I did not get as tired as I did from the jumping jacks.

panting

because you get rid of a lot of oxygen and don't get it back until you start to pant. When you pant it is normal.

Coughing

Because when you start to run your body can't take some of the things in the air and you start to cough. This happens A lot when you run in the cold.

Arms pumping

 Because when you pump your arms it makes you run faster and you get more steady. Also when you pump your arms you have a 

heart beating

Because when you exercise you produce more things in your body and your heart reacts to what is being produced so it beats even faster than normal. 

Knees bending

Because when you bend your knees when you run you have to  bend them to be able to move. If you did not bend your knees you would not move fast.   

hair is flying

Because when you jump up or run you kind of have a bounce in your step and the hair bounces more than usual because of that bounce in your step.   

Getting hot

because When you exercise our body produces sweat which eventually lets out the heat in your body.

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  1. What three basic things do our bodies need in order survive?
  2. 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).
  3. What can we do to make these signs go away?
  1. They are air, water,and food. We need these in order to survive any where.
  2. We sweat which means that our body is trying to cool down. We slow down when we do something for a while because our body is getting tired of doing the same thing over and over again. We start to breath hard and pant because you get rid of a lot of oxygen and don't get it back until you start to pant.
  3. We can exercise more and get into be better shape for doing these sorts of activities. When you get into shape you will have less panting and will not slow down either.   

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WEXPN4 - Word Choice

12/3/2015

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Skill Drill

Before:
  1. Jimmy is a really good artist.
  2. We brought lots of things with us on the trip.
  3. I think Cindy did a great job on her research paper!
  4. The ball was passed to Bobby by Luke.
  5. The baby cried very loudly!
After:
  1. Jimmy is a good artist.
  2. We brought clothes and water on the trip.
  3. Cindy did a great job on her research paper.
  4. Bobby passed the ball to Luke.
  5. The baby cried loud.

The amazing qualities of the people in my writing circle!

     In my reading circle there is a girl named Regan. She is a talented defender in soccer and funny too. When I am playing with her she always cracks some jokes in the middle. For example, she always tells me  stories about her old friends and how they had funny moments of their own.

    One other person in reading circles with Reagan and I is Russel. We are on the same swim team and we have been in the same class for 5 years basically. When we swim we always make memories in the pool.

    Ben is also in my group he is also an amazing soccer player. Ben and I are on the same soccer club. When I play soccer with him at recess I always try to stop him and he always gets around me some how.

    Mason is in the group too, and he and I go to the same Before school program. When we get to go in the gym he always gets me out when I am not looking. Even when I am looking he sometimes gets me out.     

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4 - SBA 2: Observing & Describing an Apple

12/3/2015

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  • It has a lot of frost in the middle
  • It is indented in the middle 
  • When you push on the side it squashes 
  • Makes a squish when you push on it
  • When you flick it it sounds very hollow
  • There is a big Puncture in the side
  • After time the apple has turned a little brown
  • It smells like a very good pie
  • it has a very sticky substance on the back
  • There are dots on the back
  • The flesh on the inside feels like a mesh cover on the front
  • On the back it is very smooth
With Tool : 
  • When you poke the tooth pick into the front the juice fly's out
  • when you poke through the whole apple you can see the different layers
  • there is different color in the apple after ten minuets after the Puncture
  • There is some kind of frost in the core of the apple
  • When you scratch the front of the apple you can make apple sauce
  • When you scratch the back it is hard to go through back
  • When I poked through the brown part it went through it faster than normal
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Reflection Questions :
  1. Why were you able to observe so many things about your apple today?
  2. Why is observation and description so important in science?
  3. Rank order the five senses in the order or your observations (i.e. which sense was used most, second most, etc.).
Answers:
  1. I was able to find so many things about my apple because I was looking very closely and carefully. When I was looking I was trying to find so many things and I did. 
  2. I think it is so important because you have to be able to know what is going on with your experiment. When you experiment you have to be able to notice things or else you don't know what is happening.
  3. My first was defiantly sight,touch, smell, hear. We could not use taste.
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How Might Humans and Aliens Be Different?

12/2/2015

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Humans

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  • 2 legs allow us to walk to many places
  • 2 eyes let us see things around us
  • 2 ears let us hear everything around us
  • 2 arms let us move things around 
  • 2 hands let us fell things and touch them too
  • We have one moth to communicate to others 
  • you have one nose that you can breath and smell through
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The eyes are for seeing far away. The extra eye is for seeing up close like is the food is actually algae. The fin is for diving into the water to get the algae. The tu-tu looking thing is to stop the rain from hitting the feathers. The green thing is to stay on the ground because of the low gravity The ball eyes are for photosynthesis. the feathers are to fly to places. the beak is to eat. The large nose is to smell things that are  far away.         

     1. Compare and contrast your alien and a human. 
What similarities do they have and what differences do they have?  These should be related to the parts of their bodies that have a specific purpose (Example: Both have feet which help them both stand straight up.)  Try to be specific and explain things with detail.
  1. The alien has many more lims and added things that us humans do not have and could never get. Such as, they have 3 eyes, 2 noses, a special gravity puller.On the other hand humans have more important things that they have in and on there body. Such as, feet, organs, and bones. Humans have more realistic things than the aliens do, but they both have many things in common too. They both do have hands, eyes, and a nose. We both have hands which helps to touch things. Eyes to help both of us see. Nose helps us smell.    
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WEXPN3 - Focusing on Perspective

12/1/2015

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Skill drill:
The clip on the back
How many erasers I have
The gray mesh
When the gray meets the pink
Where the pocket is taring
The twelve pockets I have for my pencils
The white thread on the gray
The zipper hitting the gray fabric
 

            I was walking through a building when all of a sudden I ran into something that was big and tall . I think it is a mountain so I try climb it, but all of a sudden I fall to right where I was before. When I look back, I noticed that there was an opening in the mountain. When I got into the opening I was so scared because I knew that I was going to fall into whatever was in that dark space.  All of a sudden my feet were stuck in some rubbery tube. When the tube fell, my body flew into some big pocket with a pointy thing sticking out of it! Something hit me. It seemed like a big egg or something. In my head I knew eventually would run out of air and die in this big mountain, so I looked around for something I could use to get out of this mountain. I found a big rubber thing that seemed that it would be able to lift me up, so I hooked it on to a clip of some sort and went to go launch myself out of it.          




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Human Body- Lesson 1 pretest 

12/1/2015

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Questions:
  1. What was the hardest part of this activity?
  2. Which organs do you think you put in the right places?
  3. Which organs do you think are probably in the wrong place?


Answers:
  1. I think the hardest thing to do was defiantly  the explaining of what they do because we had know idea were half of them went.
  2. I think we put the heart,lungs, eyes,skin,and the brain. The others we had no idea were they went or what they did.
  3. I think that the Trachea, Pharynx,Larynx,Diaphragm,Large intestine,Small intestine,Kidneys,Liver,Pancreas,Spleen,Stomach,
         Esophagus,Gallbladder,and Bladder.
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