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Seeing Stars From Earth

5/25/2017

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I was absent that day

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My Favorite Book So Far This Year

5/25/2017

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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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It came from the trees, grass, and flowers.
No because they weren't waste and were young and may not have existed yet.
It has been decaying and has been getting very old.
No because they will turn into soil but the matter will stay the same.
They all came from nature like trees and they are all waste.
They all came from the same area and they are all from nature.
The evidence I have is you can see a tree and those things will drop and trees are living things.
Bones, chicken egg, some food, shirts, clothes.
It would rot because there is no water. It will also smell or be eaten by animals.
The matter would stay as matter but change into something else like rotten leaves.
Because natures waste turns into soil.
Because they were once an organism and now they died.
Yes because if we kept building up more and more matter, there wouldn't be enough left.

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Changemakers Thinglink

5/24/2017

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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?

How 2 people got the rights for women to vote
They helped every women in the US vote.
It can't because every race and gender can vote.

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Food - Matter And Energy

5/24/2017

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Answer the following questions while analyzing the Nutrition Labels:

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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How to know how much is in each food
Tomato Soup, and there are no animals.
All of them are made from plants.
Both have ingredients, matter, energy, and calories.
The ant probably eats soil and maybe smaller ants. And it gets energy and matter and calories from it's food.

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

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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Energy, Matter, and calories.
Some of them are the same nutrients but others are different like Zinc isn't in the human food label.
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Calcium.
Energy.
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You measure it with calories.
All of it is matter.