What's going on in Mr. Solarz' Class?

Nature's Waste Matter

5/24/2017

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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?

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I think the items came from a tree, plant, or from sticks, just something that grew and fell.
No because it should have gotten bigger because it is older, also it gotten less green or more green and it got more dirty.
It had rotted and maybe have got more dirty and it had grown and got hard and bigger.
No because it will get more tall and got more older and might rotted.
They are all nature's waste and they all grow and sometimes at different rates but they grow commonly.
They all have a lot of things in common like they fall eventually when the plant or living product gives up it's energy on the leaf or part of it but can grow another one.
Like a leaf, it is on a tree and you see some leaves on the ground, that means the plant gave up on the leaf or extra part of the living product. Also like twigs or branches and the tree doesn't need the branch or twig and it can grow more.
It's like storage, when you don't have space in your storage or safe keeper, you take things out and replace it with different things like new and improved or a new version but the same product and the product is replaced because it is broken or destroyed.
It might disappear because it will rot and it might turn brown because it doesn't have it's product and it can't get good nutrients.

Was the matter in the waste stable, or did it change over time?
Specifically, how did the matter change during the investigation?
What is your evidence of each of those changes?
Specifically, what made your organic item change?
So, does matter from living things stay exactly the same over time?
What evidence do you have from your investigation to support your answer?
What would you change in this investigation if you were to do it again?

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The matter in the waste was not stable because it isn't changed by size, texture, and nutrients.
The matter changed by getting less nice looking and it turned brown and changed texture and how the matter and waste changes.
My evidence is that the waste of nature turned brown and it was getting more of a worst form.
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Food - Matter and Energy

5/22/2017

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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.

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Some foods are not healthy and some are, some foods are edible by some types of species and some can't.
In the pet food label, The ingredients from the animals would be salmon.
In the human food label had tomatoes like tomato soup and the tomatoes come from tomato trees and it grow on the trees.
Pet food label has different ingredients and human food labels have more of those ingredients like tomatoes and fruits whole pet food labels have more meats.
Ants because it eats human food crumbs, it also eats leaves and maybe other insects.

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?

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Food provides nutrients to animals and humans which gets energy to last throughout a period of time. Some foods don't help with getting nutrients or getting energy.

Kind of because the different species eat different types of foods and it will give same amount but some foods are different because the calories are different and the amount of protein is different.
A higher calorie count is bad because it would give more health but if you control it, you can stay healthy but if you over fill yourself then you can die.
Calcium, it helps restore or make our bones grow if your not fully grown.
It would be carbs, it helps with us to stay warm.
It is 11 grams (4%).
It would be fat because it gives more to your body which gives more.

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Changemakers Thinglink

5/22/2017

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What did you learn while reading this book?
How did the person change the world? / What affect did this person have on other people?
How can this inspire YOU to help others?

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I got inspired to do anything you want and achieve your passion.
She inspired people to do what you want and achieve your passion and it's possible to travel the U.S.
Help others achieve goals, help everyone, not just yourself.

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Student Led Conference

5/22/2017

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Modeling Earth's Rotation (And Rotation).

5/22/2017

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Sunlight on the menu

5/22/2017

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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?

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Avocado's grow from avocado tree's and in tropical or sub tropical areas and can survive minor damage to leaves. Avocado's grow larger and fall like fruits because it is a fruit.
Plants get sunlight from the sun and the plant collects enough nutrients to grow food like avocado's.
Like meat, cows get vitamins from the sun and the meat is eaten by humans and gets nutrients from the meat.
Like plants that grow tomatoes grow on tomato plants and the plant gets energy to produce to the fruit or veggie growing on the plants.
Like cow meat, the cow gets nutrients from the sun and the nutrients is in the meat stored and the nutrients will go to the eater and will be extra nutrients.

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Plants As Producers

5/17/2017

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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?

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Plants get energy and matter from both the sun and soil, sometimes the plants get water from the soil because when it rains and the plant's roots gather the water and takes it in.
Plants get matter from soil's nutrients and get matter from rain sometimes.
Plants get there food from soil and the sun because the sun gives rays which help the plant grow and soil has nutrients.
They give off energy to other animals that eat the plant, which gives off when it gathers and produces to others.
Then animals or other species will have to find other producers.
Some would die and the ecosystem would fall apart.
There is soil, sun, and carbon dioxide which helps the plant live and when it breathes in carbon dioxide, oxygen is let out.
There is soil, sun, carbon dioxide, are in the plant for non living.
Carbon dioxide goes into the plants which the plant releases oxygen, soil is around the plant and the roots soak in the nutrients.
Carbon dioxide goes in the plant and the plant breathes it in and once it is grown, the plant releases oxygen.

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Players in an ecosystem

5/10/2017

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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?

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The grass is eaten buy the cow, the cow would chew it over and over because it has 3 stomachs. Then it would throw up the grass to their mouth and digest in another mouth.
Yes because consumers eat each other sometimes and we would eat stuff over and over. It is the same species.
Then all of a sudden, all the species would disappear and every species would disappear.
The sun would give the apple plant the warmth and nutrients, then it creates apple, the apple drops. The worm eats the apple but slowly, Then the bird would by eaten by the cat.
They get sunlight to apple and they all depend on each other, if one disappears then all do.
It will be gone by decomposers that would take it away and it wouldn't rot.

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Our Mars Constution

5/5/2017

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docs.google.com/document/d/1zVpzifPfiQtMiWC15UkmqfK76Up7Ykh_xpelMgxwKxo/pub

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What Is a Ecosystem?

5/5/2017

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Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Ducks eat plants and bugs.
Ducks are interacting with other ducks.
Duck drinks water from lake.

Between living & non-living things

Ducks breathe air (oxygen).
Ducks swim in water(Lake)
Plants are growing in water which taking nutrients from water.
Sun light is shining on plants and absorbing to plants and photosynthesis happens.