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Players in an Ecosystem

5/29/2018

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A Food Chain

My Longest Food Chain

Reflect & Synthesize:

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?

Answers:

Well I will choose my longest food chain. And first it starts with leaves. After that a caterpillar eats that leaf and gets nutrients from that. That caterpillar then gets eaten by a hedgehog. Then finally that hedgehog gets eaten by an owl.
It can because a food web is part of many different ecosystems. So it could be called a food web system.
Well if a plant or animal disappears from a food web then that will cause a slow reaction where each animal that eats that animal or plant will start to die off one after another and a lot of species would get endangered.
A worm would eat the apple for nutrients, the bird would eat the worm for nutrients, and finally the cat would eat the bird for nutrients.
They eat one another and from that they get enough energy and matter for body warmth and motion.
The matter that is not used will be kept in the body like fat for example so when another animal eats that animal it will get the matter and energy that was not used by the other animal.

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KinderPals Reflection

5/22/2018

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

The KinderPals program is an amazing company that lets 5th graders teach kindergartners about different and important topics that are very important in somebody's life. For example we are currently teaching our kindergartners about honesty and that's a big thing in life to have honesty and not lie to people, friends, and family.
The KinderPals program benefits the kindergartners by teaching the kindergartners life lessons that they'll need to use and know later in life. The program also has a lot of the words in a kindergarten language for the kindergartners.
The KinderPals program benefits us on how to teach little kids. If any 5th graders want to be teachers it lets us experience us how it is to be a teacher.
Well sometimes the kid would zone out while we were reading and it was hard to calm them down after we did some activities. Our kid would also sometimes just try and guessing things so they wouldn't always learn the full lesson. There was very few typos, probably one or two, but it was very good written.
Whenever we read a book there should be some kind of excitement but then something dramatic. There should also be some kind of instructions for what the main thing that we're trying to learn them in the instructions, but not instructions exactly what and how to teach them but just so we get the main idea of how we can/should teach.
The kindergartners looked like they enjoyed the book, but sometimes they would zone out or start doing something else. I'm pretty sure that they did like it because they really looked into and they did seem to follow along as me and my partner read the book. At first when we first started reading the books to him he would be really quiet, but as the year went on he started talking more and we think that he started to learn more.

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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.)

Dependent Variables

Measure the height of each plant at certain checkpoints.
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Evidence

We can record our data using measurements (in cm).
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Reflection/Synthesis:

Name your Control Variables (What will stay the same for each of the three cups)?
Name the Independent Variable (What is it that is different for each of the three cups)?
Name your Dependent Variable (What is it that you are testing & recording data on?)
What data are you collecting to serve as Evidence to show how plants grow in organic material versus inorganic planting material?
Why is everyone starting with the same three cups? Why do we need to test so many plants?
What sprouts first in a seed: the stem or the root?
How do you know? How do the pictures below help explain your answer for #6?
Why do you think it goes in that order?

They are all popcorn kernels in the sun being watered every other day.
Each plant seed is in different kinds of soil (e.g. potting soil, prelite, sand, etc.).
We can record our data using measurements (in cm.). (I didn't see my plant when I tried to find it.)

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Plants as Producers

5/3/2018

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Reflection/Synthesize

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?

Plants get make their own food and that's how they get their own energy. The soil is an important step of the process to get their own nutrients. The sun and water is also a big part. For about 30 days their fine without carbon dioxide, but after they must find carbon dioxide to live.
The plants get their matter from the water, sun, and carbon dioxide. These plants make their own energy and that's where they get all their matter from.
They make their own food, they do not search for food.
They are called producers because plants are the only thing in the ecosystem that makes its own food. It's also because it's the first thing in the food chain and it starts from there.
The plants would die and not be able to live if they didn't have a way to get energy.
They wouldn't be able to live and every animal would slowly die starting with herbivores.
Well a plant first needs water, after that it needs to find sun by growing up. The soil also help the plant by giving it nutrients so it can grow on its own.
The soil, sun, and the water helps the plant get its nutrients so it can grow on it's own without the seed.
The water is first, it helps the plant start growing. After that comes the sun, the sun is for most of the plant's nutrients. The soil acts as a very big part of giving the plant nutrients.
Carbon dioxide is token in by plants and oxygen is released by plants.

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Food - Matter & Energy

4/16/2018

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Questions:

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.

Questions:

Answers:

Pet food has lots of more ingredients that us humans wouldn't want to eat and its ideal for pets but not ideal for humans. While in human food it's very direct for humans, so it's ideal for humans but not ideal at all for pets.
It's tomato soup, but there is no food that comes from animals in that soup.
There is tomato puree, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, soybean oil, carrot fiber, spices,
The pet food definitely has more foods from plants and different animals that humans wouldn't wanna eat. The human food is clean so humans can eat it. But both foods have edible things you can eat and you wouldn't die from.

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?

Answers:

It includes life. It includes everything. Without food means no plants and no plants means no oxygen and lots of carbon dioxide.
They do not, human food is a lot more healthier for humans and dog food is not very healthy for humans.
higher calorie count means that the animal has more energy and that they'll have to feed their pet less of that food.
Calcium, vitamin C.
The calories help us move and stay warm including with all the vitamins and nutrients in the food.
The calorie count decreases in each animal by 10%. The animal the eats that animal does not get the same calorie count of how much that animal ate.
There are 160 calories in 1 cup or 8fl.oz. of this milk.
In the Tomato soup, there is Tomato Puree (water, tomato paste), water, lesson than 2%of high fructose corn syrup, salt, corn syrup, soybean oil, carrot fiber, sugar, spices, citric acid, and natural flavors.

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Skills21 - Superhero Rehabilitation Program

4/10/2018

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Money Island and Vault Reflection

4/10/2018

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Money Island

Money Island And Vault Reflection Video

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What is an Ecosystem?

4/4/2018

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I was absent for the video.

Lake Ecosystem Interactions

Within a system of living things

Duck eat plants and bugs.
Ducks eat small fish and small sea animals.
Ducks breath air (oxygen).
Plants are absorbing the water to survive.

Between living & non-living things

Ducks float on the water.
Duck starts lifting off from the water.
Ducks communicate by a type of quack sound.

Lake Ecosystem Interactions

Within a system of living things

Plant(s) drinking water to survive.
Fish is surviving from the air by breathing trough the water by getting air trough it's gills.
Fish eats plants and smaller sea creatures.
Algae is eating smaller bacteria and starts to cover the rocks.

Between living & non-living things

Fish is swimming in water.
Plant(s) are floating in the water.
Rocks(s) are starting to get covered in algae.
Plant(s) move in the water.

Reflect & Synthesize:

What kinds of living things (organisms) do you see in both pictures?
What other living things might be here, even if you can't see them in the photos?
Why might living things in these photos interact with each other?
Read the BIG IDEA below. How do these pictures depict an ecosystem?

Ducks, fish, fungi, plants, trees.
Bacteria.
So they can survive, for example the fish absorbs the water so it can survive. The ducks also survive by eating plants and small sea creatures.
The ducks are interacting with the fish by eating it. The algae is eating other bacteria and spreading and its interacting with other bacteria.

Reflect & Synthesize:

What do living things get from their ecosystems?
What evidence do you have to support your answer to Question 1?
What does the term ecosystem mean, based on your experience in this lesson? (Don't use the definition from the BIG IDEA here. Put it into your own words.)
Brainstorm at least one question you have about Ecosystems that you hope you learn from this unit.
Look at the image below that shows a portion of a forest ecosystem. Name at least five components (living or non-living things) of the ecosystem that you can either observe directly or infer.
What are three (or more) interactions that might occur in this portion of the forest ecosystem?

Answers:

Food, they help each other get food, get stuff done, and do other things like that. They would help each other for bigger tings.
One example is that when we found the little ant hill they were pushing all the dirt to the top. This was probably because they were building a home. To make this home faster all these ants helped each other build it.
An ecosystem is a system where organisms interact with each other. These organisms may be living but they also may be non-living organisms of their environment.
Does every different chain of organisms have a different chain of the food chain?
Deer, trees, grass, rocks, water
Deer eat grass, trees move in the wind, a bird fly's above the deer.

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#WorldPoetryDay

3/21/2018

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Attached is a short BALLAD that I wrote for #WorldPoetryDay!

By: Martin V.#LeapLap #CelebrateGrowLead #d25Learns pic.twitter.com/eVToepXqCC
— Mr. Solarz' Class (@MrSolarz) March 21, 2018

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The Constitution of The Kingdom of Dustania

3/21/2018

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Whole Document

Reflection Questions

What was the hardest part of writing your preamble? Explain how you overcame that challenge.
What is your favorite part of your preamble? Why is that part powerful and important?
What is the purpose of a preamble in a constitution? What does it do?

Well we needed to pick different and good parts from different preambles of the world. Most everything was a challenge though. I overcame this challenge by taking my time on it and not rushing to write the preamble.
Where it says "A government of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace.". The reason why I think this part is powerful and important because it describes the main synonyms of our country. This gives are country in a few words.
The purpose of a preamble is for people to know what the country is about. If you don't have a constitution people wouldn't know that well about what your country is about. It acts there to tell how people act in this country that they are in. In the kingdom of Dustania our people have truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace.

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A Food Chain

My Longest Food Chain

Reflect & Synthesize:

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KinderPals Reflection

Testing Plant Growth

Independent Variable

Dependent Variables

Evidence

Reflection/Synthesis:

Plants as Producers

Reflection/Synthesize

Food - Matter & Energy

Questions:

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Skills21 - Superhero Rehabilitation Program

Money Island and Vault Reflection

Money Island

Money Island And Vault Reflection Video

What is an Ecosystem?

Lake Ecosystem Interactions

Within a system of living things

Between living & non-living things

Lake Ecosystem Interactions

Within a system of living things

Between living & non-living things

Reflect & Synthesize:

#WorldPoetryDay

The Constitution of The Kingdom of Dustania

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