Science Night

When Ms. Moreno told us that we had to think of an experiment that kids would love, I pitched the idea of making slime to my group. When in the process of making the poster, my group was stressing over how the poster needed to look in order to attract attention. Esly was able to finish the poster the day of when we needed to go to LME. When we got there I saw some groups setting up their experiment and I still had to conduct the experiment. The reason why was when I was trying to do it school, the experiment was not coming out as we hoped. Therefore, when I got there I quickly began to do the experiment, just as I was expecting the experiment worked! Esly, Mel and I started to set up our station and when we were done I could feel myself begin to worry. I was worried that the experiment was not going to work or that the kids would think that it was boring. When the kids saturated to arrive, the experiment was working and by the end of the day, I felt a huge relief that the experiment worked.

When the doors were opened the kids went directly for the food. Then they eased their way to the different stations around the room. When the kids came to our station, they were shy at first, but when we began to guide them through the experiment, they began to get comfortable. My group was also a bit shy at the beginning because we did not know what tho expect. When we helped a couple of kids with he experiment we also got comfortable making the experiment flow with ease. When we began to get the handpg of the experiment, we had two people helping kids, and one was doing refills of the solutions. That was a very important part of the experiment to succeed because we needed a constant flow of supplies and communication within the group. In conclusion, the more kids we helped and the later the day got, the more comfortable the kids and my group was.

When we were in the process of helping the kids, I was able to see that there was a deeper meaning to this experiment and what in mean to the kids. After every bag of slime we were able to help the kids make, they left with big smiles on their faces. During the experiment, the kids were very focused, following every step I told them to do. Sure they got to make slime with my group and enjoyed it, they were able to see that there are many things that in the world that are yet to be discovered. This small experiment can be the reason why one of them can be the next Einstein. The memories that they have made in this experiment may help trigger something that may help them in the father when they are in need of assistance. Therefore, small experiments like these may be something important that may help the newer generations become successful.

Through this experiment and helping younger kids, it made me realize that there are many kids who are eager to learn what they like. They saw my group as teachers because they wanted to absorb as much as they could. What I realized is that everyone should be like this. Kids are curious and that tends to fade when they get older. What is important is that should not happen because it limits to what a person can learn and do. If everyone keeps being curious, then that can lead to people making better things like invention. Therefore, this would help me when I am in school and need to things of ways that something has happen, or learn something new.

H-Weezy

H-Weezy

Problem:

Population: 1000

q2= .47 (Given)

q=?

p2=?

p=?

2pq=?

Steps:

1. The given was .47 which goes into the q2 value.

2. You then square root .47 to get q by itself, which results is .69

3. After you find q, you can find p. The way to do that is by finding out what number can be added to .69 to find 1. (p+q=1) Therefore it will be .31+.69=1

4. Once you figure out what p (.31) is, you need to find p2. To do that, you need to square the p variable which will result to .10.
5. To figure out 2pq, you need to substitute the p(.31) and the q(.69) and multiply 2(.31)(.69)=.43

Problem Solved:

Population: 1000

q2: .47 (homozygous recessive individual)

q: .69 (recessive allele frequency)

p2: .10 (homozygous dominant individual)

p: .31 (dominant allele frequency)

2pq: .43 (heterozygous individual)

Details:

To figure out the number of people for each variable, you need to multiply the variable x 1000. The first one is going to be .47(q2) x 1000=470. This represents that there are 470 individuals in the population that are homozygous recessive individuals. The next one is going to be .10(p2) x 1000= 100. That means that there are 100 homozygous dominant individuals in the population. The final one is to find the heterozygous individuals. To do that, .43(2pq) x 1000=430, which means there are 430 heterozygous individuals in the population.

   

Worm Lab

In the lab that we did during this past week had some interesting things,  especially when we had to figure out which worms pulse rate per minute were affected by stimulates, depressants, or it was neutral. To figure out which worms were affected by those three things, which were in containers labeled A, B, and C, I looked at my groups data table and the other groups data tables. I compared my groups data to the others and looked for common numbers. I then looked at the data tables and crossed out numbers that were too high or too low. When I did that I noticed that two of the of the three containers data were similar while one of the containers were a little different.  In the container labeled A, I noticed the data for it was in between both of the data for the containers like around 19 pulses per minute , so I assume that container A is neutral. Then in the data for table B, I noticed that it was the lowest pulse rate averaging to about 18 pulses per minute, so container B has depressants. Then for the final container, which is C, I realized that the data says that the pulse rate was the highest, which was about 30 pulses per minute. That means that container C is a stimulant. That is how I assumed which containers had the substances that I was looking for.

• In this picture it shows how I cancelled the numbers that were too high or too low.

Ecology Selfies

                                                          Bamboo

The first object that I took a picture with was a bamboo that my mom bought around a year ago. The reason I took a picture with the bamboo was because of how it looks. The leaves are very soft and the stems are smooth.

Feather

The second picture I took was with a feather. It took me a long time to find a feather to take a picture with and i was surprised that i found this one because it was so small. The feather is soft and is fun to make people sneeze with it.

 

Peach

The fruit that I took a picture with was a peach. Where I got the peach was at my house because I have two peach trees at my house. They are good and very sweet. Who knew that to do my homework I could just go in my front yard and pick out a fruit.