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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 where you teach kids, in our case kindergarteners. about character traits like Honesty, Empathy, and more! We use the program to teach our kindergarten buddies about these character traits using peekapak. We get together once every month to teach them about the character traits. but we have to make sure our buddies are having fun almost the whole time.
It benefits them a lot. It makes my day better, and I bet that it makes their day. It also helps them learn about these important skills that they need in life, while having fun.
It's beneficial to us because it helps us build relationships with some younger kids. It also benefits us because it helps us learn how to teach other kids about important things in life. Which if you want to be a teacher, you need those skills.
I only faced one big challenge of getting by buddy to be in a good relationship with Colin and I. but after 2 periods we built a relationship with him and he would talk to us.
I don't know of any.
Yes, because during the stories my partner looked like they were having fun and enjoying the stories. My evidence is tat during the period he would usually be smiling and having fun.

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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?

Answers:

They all will be grown in the same place.
nothing, because all of our plants didn't grow, or died.
Whether plants will grow in organic and inorganic materials.
We are measuring the plants growth in centimeters as evidence.
because if we had different cups, we wouldn't know if the different types of cups affected the plant growth in a good or bad way.
The root.
Because if the seed is underground, then its needs the root first to help get the water and nutrients from the soil. they help me because in the first one the root comes out, but then in the last one it starts to grow the leaves. The leaves grow from the stem, so the root comes before the stem (more proof).
because the seed needs the root first to help get the water and nutrients from the soil, in order to grow, the plant needs water from the soil. Which is why the root is first.

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Plants as Producers

5/3/2018

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

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?

Answers:

Plants get their energy from the sun.
The water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and light energy.
from their leaves which take the carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. Then makes it into food.
because they produce the glucose for the ecosystem, and they don't eat anything.
Then they wouldn't be able to grow.
Then they would start dying because they didn't have enough producers.
The soil, and the plant itself.
The water, sunlight, carbon dioxide, and oxygen.
They come together in the plant and create oxygen through photosyntheses.
Carbon dioxide, water, and light energy go in. Then oxygen comes out.

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Players in an Ecosystem

4/23/2018

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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?

My food chain works like this: A Robin eats a Web-spider which eats a honeybee which eats a veggie garden.
Yes, because by definition because a system is something that circles around, and my food web circles and cycles around.
Then everything in the whole food web gets effected.
by eating the other animals and getting their nutreince.
The same way.
I think that eventually it will be eaten and if it doesn't, then it will go on to live its life in the food web.

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Food - Matter & Energy

4/16/2018

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On the human food label:

How do we find the energy (calories) per serving?
How do we find the matter (carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals)?
Where can we locate the list of ingredients?

On the pet food label:

Where can we locate the list of ingredients?
How do we find the percentage of different types of matter in the food?

On the Human food label :

Look at the top below nutrition facts.
By looking in the middle of the food label
The very bottom of the food label

On the pet food label:

At the top of the label.
In the guaranteed analysis category and to the right.

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.

I learned that food is how our body (knew already partly) uses our calories to give off energy and if we don't have enough calories, our body burns off our reserved fat.
Tomato Soup, None
Corn syrup, Tomato puree, and Soybean oil.
The pet food label had only two sections while the human food label had three. the pet and human food label both have daily values next to the ingredients.
Ant, I think it eats the food that we leave on the ground outside, then they carry it back to the ant hill to share it with its family. I think the ant gets everything it needs to survive from its food, like its nutrience, energy, etc..

Reflect & Synthesize:

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?

Food provides Energy and the matter we need to grow.
They have lots of different types of nutrients. They are different because pets need different types of nutrients than we do.
No, because then they think it makes their pet grow bigger, when it makes their pet just gain more weight.
Matter.
Nutrients.
Through glucose. The Glucose starts from the plant, then the animal who eats the plants gets its glucose. Then the animal that eats the animal that eats the plant gets a fraction of the glucose from the animal that ate the plants fraction of glucose. etc.
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Calcium, Vitamin A, and C.

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Reflection/Syntheses Questions:

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?

Living things get everything they need in order to survive in their ecosystems. Like their shelter, food, etc..
as humans, if we are camping in the forest, we would get our shelter (tents), our food (Fruit), and everything else we need in the forest.
From my experience in this lesson, an ecosystem is a place where living things interact with the living and non living things to survive. Like how we saw an ant colony creating their ant hill.
The food chain for different ecosystems, how animals survive as prey, and how some animals get their shelter.
Deer, tree, water, rocks, and grass.
A deer drinking water from the lake, A hunter shooting a deer, and a bird eating leaves off of a tree.

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Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Duck reproducing
Feeding baby chicks
Duck working together to build nest
Ducks eat small fish

Between living & non-living things

Ducks swimming in the water
Ducks carrying twigs to make their nest
Ducks sitting on eggs
Ducks drinking the water

Lake Ecosystem INTERACTIONS

Within a system of living things

Fish eating algae
Fish eating plants
A fishermen catches a fish
Fish eat seaweed

Between living & non-living things

Fish swim in the water
Water passes trough fishes gills
small fish get eaten by ducks
plants absorb the water

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

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?

Answers:

I see plants, and living animals in both pictures.
Other fish, and more plants.
because they need to work together in order to survive.
Because there are animals interacting with the living and non living things.

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Skills21 - Superhero Rehabilitation Program

4/9/2018

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Student-Led Conference - Spring, 2018

4/3/2018

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Create a BALLAD POEM:
The ballad stanza is also one of the most popular forms of poetry for children. A ballad stanza is a group of four lines. That group is called a stanza. The ballad stanza has a rhyme at the end of line number two and line number four. Here are three poems that have ballad stanzas. The first poem has three ballad stanzas. The last two poems have two. The first two poems are from Tickle Day, the last poem is from Halloween Night.

My Despicable Sister

Always in my face.
My sister is as annoying as heck
That pain thats always there
Is my sister being a pain in my neck.

When she annoys me when she’s bored
I wish she was not there
everyone that sees her
Is so adored.

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KinderPals Reflection

Testing Plant Growth

Independent Variable

Dependent Variables

Evidence

Reflection/Synthesis:

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Plants as Producers

Players in an Ecosystem

Food - Matter & Energy

Reflect & Synthesize:

What is an Ecosystem?

Reflection/Syntheses Questions:

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

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Skills21 - Superhero Rehabilitation Program

Student-Led Conference - Spring, 2018

#WorldPoetryDay

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