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KinderPals Reflections

5/22/2018

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Question

  1. What is the KinderPals Program?
  2. In what ways do you think the program benefits the kindergartners? Try to explain several with support.
  3. Why is the KinderPals program beneficial to 5th graders? Believe it or not, you should be getting something out of the program as well!
  4. What challenges did you experience in KinderPals this year?
  5. What improvements could be made to the program for next year?
  6. Do you think the kindergartners enjoyed the stories from Peekapak? Why do you think that? Do you have any evidence to support your answer?

answers

1. the KinderPal program is based on a 5 grade kids teaching kindergartners how to use different types of concept to teach the little kids.  Also the program is that to help learn the other people that they need to learn different types of things 

2. We as fifth graders get to teach other kids how to use different types of language. We also get to teach a kindergartner how to be patient. Another thing that we teach our kinder partners how to read the one book that we get to read to our buddy.
3. We are learning how to treat and be kind to kindergartner. also we learn to become a teacher in a kid way.
4.I had some challenging thing because at first I did not know to a kindergartner would act like with a fifth grader. Also it was hard too control his temper from the lesson.
5.That they could do something that might be something fun and difficult for them.
​6. I think that the kindergartner liked peekapak because he seemed very exicted.
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Student-led confrence

5/21/2018

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Money island and vault reflection

5/21/2018

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Testing Plant Growth

5/14/2018

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​Independent Variable

  • Plant seeds in different kinds of soil (e.g. potting soil, perlite, sand, etc.)
Independent Variable is when you chance one thing

Dependent Variables

  • Measure the height of each plant at certain checkpoints.
  • ________________________

Evidence

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  • We can record our data using measurements (in cm).
  • ________________________
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. Name your Control Variables (What will stay the same for each of the three cups)?
  2. Name the Independent Variable (What is it that is different for each of the three cups)?
  3. Name your Dependent Variable (What is it that you are testing & recording data on?)
  4. What data are you collecting to serve as Evidence to show how plants grow in organic material versus inorganic planting material?
  5. Why is everyone starting with the same three cups? Why do we need to test so many plants?
  6. What sprouts first in a seed: the stem or the root?
  7. How do you know? How do the pictures below help explain your answer for #6?
  8. Why do you think it goes in that order?
Answers:
  1. .  The three of the cups is going to germinate the same as all the other plants. When it germinates it will grow root and then the sprout
  2. .Something different from each of the cups is that they all grow at different times and that one grow faster and one grows slower. It was because some of the plants were in different types of soil and some where in another different soil
  3. .We were getting data on how the length and height were on the plants some were big and some were small
  4. . We had  a chart of the inorganic and the Organic things. Well the chart shows you that the organic has more length then the inorganic because of the nutritions.
  5. . It is because then some plants won't get there nutritions that they need. Then some of the energy and nutritions and the other plants will just die out.
  6. . the root pop out first 
  7. .The root pops out first because they are in such need of water. It is because they  Don't have any more nutritions. Then the stem shot out.
  8. I think it goes in order because that the seed need to have water just like the human body. Then it need the sun to make photosynthesis.
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Plants as producers

5/3/2018

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  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. . They get there matter and energy from the sun rays. that turns into the plant food.
  2. .They get there matter when they Carbon Dioxide from the air. It goes into the leaf that turns into the leaf that makes  photosynthesis.
  3. .Plants get there food from the leaf that called chlorophyll, which makes the leaf all green. The Chlorophyll makes the food. That wil be called photosysthesis 
  4. .they are called  producers because they make there own food from the sun. They make it by doing photosynthesis. 
  5. If plants did not have a source of energy they would die and we would not have any air to breath.
    6.If there where no plant for a animal to eat then the animals would die. Then the food chain or web would  disipear.
    7. Something that a plant need in it system is Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, water, and soil for the roots. IT produces oxygen for use to breath.
    8. The non living components of a plant is the soil because it is not living.
    9. THE component that interact with the plant  when the plant get eaten by a animal. It is because the animal get it and when it eat the animal they interact with the system interacting
   10. Matter is transported out but what else is getting transported? Well Carbon dioxide get transported in and Oxygen get transported out. It is because carbon dioxide helps make photosynthesis.. Then it gives out Oxygen saw we can breath it in and out.


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Players in an Ecosystem

4/23/2018

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  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?
  1. A food chain works when one animal eat another animal and it keeps going.  My goes that grass get eaten by the Rabbit than the rabbit get eaten by the eagle.
  2. A food web is considered a system because it has an system of exchange. It is that they have a link to each other.
  3. If one animal dies then the whole web dies. It is because that the animal that needs that animal does't get any nutritions that makes it die.
  4. They get there food and matter from the animal and plants that they get from the sun ray. It is because the sun goes to the plant and the plant uses most of the energy. Then the  animal that eat the plant get some of that energy and goes on eating other things.
  5. They get the energy from the food that they eat and then the get the warmth they need and also there motion.
  6. That they storage there energy in there body for other things.
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Food - Matter and Energy

4/16/2018

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Questions 

​​On the human food label:
  1. How do we find the energy (calories) per serving
  2. How do we find the matter (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals)?
  3. Where can we locate the list of ingredients?

On the pet food label:
  1. Where can we locate the list of ingredients?
  2. How do we find the percentage of different types of matter in the food?

Answers

On the human food label
1.Right below the Nutritions Facts. Their would be a Amount per serving and under would have calories.

2. The fat, protein, vitamins, mineral, and carbohydrates are right under where the calories are.

3. you can find the ingredient at the bottom of the the Nutrition facts. It is at the bottom because it has what is in it and everything else in important.

1. You can find the Ingredient at the bottom in the Nutrition fact label.

2.You can find the percentage of any Nutrition at the right side of the fat, saturated  fat, cholesterol, Sodium and many more.
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  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.
1. I learned that food has a lot of different thing in it like Potassium and Tran fat. It is really cool that all the food you can see a label in any kind of food

2. I looked at a Bacon  Nutrition label and I found that some stuff comes from animals. The one animal it comes from is a pig. They use the pig to make the bacon and cut him to get the meat.

3. Some thing that came from a plant are the Corn syrup. Which the corn syrup comes from starches of corn. Another thing is that soybean oil comes from a soybean. Then a Carrot fiber is from a Carrot that make the ingredients.

4.I knew that some different thing in the human food label has how much fat and how many calorie there are. But in the pet label it just describe what ingredients are in the pet food

5. A squirrel. One squirrel will eat nuts and bares the nut to store for food after winter. They get the energy and matter they need from a nut that they need to survive.
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What is an Ecosystem

4/10/2018

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Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things
  • Ducks eat plants and bugs.
  • Bugs eat insects and plants
  • insects eat plants and Bugs
  • fish eat worms and shrimp 
Between living & non-living things
  • Ducks breathe air (oxygen).
  • fish eat fake worm
  • Bug eat dead worms
  • Ducks drink water
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​Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things
  • Fish eat Crustacean 
  • Fish eat other little fish
  • ​Fish eat  the plants ​
  • Leafs absorb the suns rays 

Between living & non-living things
  • The Cockroaches eat the dead animals
  • fish eat dead worms
  • Bug eat dead worms


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Skills 21 superhero Rehabilitation Program

4/9/2018

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#WorldPoetryDay

3/21/2018

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