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Muscular System

9/28/2016

Muscles always work in pairs or else our body couldn't function the way it would right now
Muscles will only pull (not pull), like curling a weight in a workout
Muscles will relax while the other muscle is contracting, also like curling a weight in a workout

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What was hard for you during this activity?
What was fun?
Explain how your biceps and triceps work to bend your arm at the elbow. Use the following words in your answer:
1. biceps & triceps
2. contract & relax
3. cartilage
4. ligaments
5. tendons
6. humerus & ulna/radius

1. The fact that you had to make a working elbow with the given supplies.
2. Showing how it worked in the video.
3. Your muscles contract and relax. For an example, biceps and triceps are connected to tendons which are connected to the humerus, ulan, and radius bone. The tendons allow the muscles to contract and relax. Cartilage allows the bones to never rub together. Ligaments hold the bones together with the joint. This allows movements like bending your arm at the elbow.

Debate 1

9/22/2016

Debate video 2

9/22/2016

Where do Bones Move?

9/14/2016

What do bones do?

ribs and skull protect our organs (heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, stomach, eyes, esophagus , pancreas, intestines etc...)
help us stand up
allows our muscles to move

What are joints?

connects your bones
where two or more bones meet so we can move/bend
fixed joints don't allow you move
hinge joints can do one movement (up and down)
top two knuckles on your fingers on hinge joint
ball on socket joints the ball will turn in the socket (shoulder, hips)
gliding joints (allows you to swing your arms and legs in most directions) and pivot joints (allows your arms and legs to rotate from side to side) (neck, ankles, wrist)

Fun Facts

kids/babies have more bones than adults
cartilage is in between bones to prevent them from rubbing together and it's also found in the nose
the Bone Marrow is a "nursery" for our cells being created
bones aren't completely solid but are still very very very strong
more than 200 bones in your body

How do We Move?

9/9/2016

What are three basic things do our body need in order to survive?
If we exert ourselves, what are three (or more) signs that our bodies are in distress? Explain why our body does that (research if you need to).
What can we do to make these signs go away?

1. Heart, Brain, and Lungs.
2. Feeling light headed, weak, and breathing heavily
3. Stay calm, drink water, rest/lay down.

Schoolwide Reading - Launch Lesson 3

9/9/2016

Jessie lives with her grandma and is very poor.
Jessie's parents died.
Jessie tries to teach Grandma read and write and Grandma tries to teach Jessie sew.
Jessie goes to see the rabai.
The rabai chose Jessie to go to America to sew so Grandma's teaching was a coincidence because Jessie said, "Why do I need to know this?"
Jessie and Grandma are going to heart broken because they are going to separate.
Jessie is going to travel alone to America when only 13!
Jessie has lace for sewing because thats why she's going to America.
Jessie wasn't sleeping and was very ill, plus she was sad because she isn't with her Grandma so she also felt alone on the book.
After the storms stopped (it was going on for 3 days) everyone was socializing .
Jessie was sewing for people for people on the boat .
A Contrast and Contradiction is that Jessie didn't want to sew but now she enjoys it.
The time in the book is after 1885
Everyone was amazed when they saw the Statue of Liberty and then they shouted AMERICA!
Jessie is disappointed that Grandma isn't there with her.
Jessie lives in Manhattan now.
Jessie is starting to make lots of money from sewing.
Jessie likes to write letters about America to her Grandma.
Jessie and Lu found each other again and again and again.
Jessie is going to marry Lu.
Jessie is going to not marry yet because she has to get her Grandma.
Jessie finally got to see Grandma again!
Grandma is going to give Jessie her mom's wedding ring.
She gave the ring to Grandma so she bring her with the ring

What did you think of this book? What did you like and what did you dislike?
This was historical fiction. What do you like about historical fiction and what don't you like?
When the book ended, what were you thinking about? What are you still wondering or wish you'd know more about? Why do you want to know?

1. 1. It had a very good storyline and was really good illustrated. There were at least two "Ohhhhhh..." s.
I didn't dislike anything about the book.
2. I like historical fiction because it tells me what life was like back then and I have always have enjoyed that. But what I don't like about historak fiction is when it talks to me about something that doens't exist anymore. It kind of gets confusing but I would eventually figure what they are trying to say.
3. I was thinking that I want to know what happened to the village while Jessie and Grandma were gone. I also wnat to know what happened to Lu and Jessie when they married.

KWH questions

9/8/2016

K. I know that his father was killed, he is known as the best basketball player ever, he is in Space Jam, He didn't make his basketball team for high school, he has kids, and he played baseball also.
W. I want to know his childhood, his basketball stats, and schocking facts I might've never known before.
H. Websites (biography.com,wiki) and books in lmc.
By: Daniel S.

Observing and Describing an Apple

9/8/2016

Why were you able to observe so many things about your apple today?
Why is observation and description so important in science?
Rank order the five senses in the order or your observations (i.e. which sense was used most, second most, etc.).

1. The materials we used helped us and us really focusing on the details on the apple.
2. Because if you don't, then people will think a kindergarten wrote it and sometimes they wouldn't be able to visualize what you saw.
3. Sight was most used, touch was second, third was smell and the others weren't involved.

the are seeds in the middle

there are strings coming out from the bottom
part of the inside is brown and also yellow
from the stem to the seeds there is a green line going vertical
if you split in in half (vertically) again the two halves look like wings or maybe even lungs
if you feel it it's wet
the outside is very smooth
the outside has yellow spots
the seeds is white inside
the seeds are inside a green outlined heart
it smells like a dentist office
there is white powder where the stem is
the bottom is bumpy
it looks like a tooth if you look at it far away
the seed is moist
the top of the seed is pointy
the seed is like a small almond
the outside of the seed looks like wood
the seeds outside has lots and lots and lots of lines
there are dents in the apple
the seed holder has little hairs on it
the core is very strong
the outside is very glossy unlike the inside
the outside has lots of scrapes on it
the inside is more mushy than the outside
a puddle will form if you poke a toothpick through the inside

Before and After

How is Our Human Body Organized?

9/7/2016

Our bodies are made up of cells, which can group together to make tissue. Several types of tissues make organs, which all of the organs make up the organ system which then make up the human body!! :-)

Adaptations are features that help you survive, like if you have gills you won't be able to survive on land. They are also things that you get used to so you can survive also like we got used to the weather but if we go to Antarctica we will probably die because we aren't used to the weather.

Schoolwide Reading - Launch Lesson 2

9/7/2016

Henry has a very "bad" house but still likes it so he makes the best of things.
Henry never gets offended because people make fun of his house and he doesn't care.
Henry is not lazy even though he doesn't clean up his house.
Henry is a little jerk because he shouted no to the people.
Henry got sick of the people telling him to clean so he went to Dakota.
The people asked themselves, maybe we were wrong for making Henry clean.
The people got worried about Henry if he is ever coming back.
Contrast and contraction about both people and henry.
Connection between wonder
People and Henry want to see each other again.
Prediction: I think henry is going to change when he sees the people again and they will be different like what Henry was like before and it will go on again

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