TMIS #10

           This month in science David was absent for a week and Jaime taught us with another lady. Durning the week we had Jaime as a teacher we did group working testing different water from different laces. We tested for hardness and chlorine. We also worked on some work sheets. When David got back we started to do a human impact project and now we're working on a campaign for a t-shirt. Some people cam every friday to guide us through the project.

          I can't really remember much of what we did the whole month but i learned of water usage by taking a survey around our school. I learned that most people in the lower east side of manhattan dont recycle. People were not stoping to take our survey but we got like 3 people to take it. Also i learned how to test water for minerals, waste, and chlorine.

TWIS #9

            This week in science i dissected a mouse. its way different than dissecting a cricket because the cricket has a hard exoskeleton and not much organs. the mouse on the other hand, has soft skin and a lot more insides. also the mouse doesn't have bone it has cartilage that takes the place of that. thats an adaptation so it can go through tight spaces with ease and not break anything.                
            I learned that from all the jumping they do, frog's leg muscles r huge compared to the rest of there body. but deep inside all that muscle there leg bones are as thing as tooth picks. also its skin isn't so easy to cut. even though they looked slimy and squirmy they're actually rough. Also i learned that you can tell weather the frog is male or female by just looking at their thumbs. the aha moment i had was that i cute straight through the brain of a mouse without even realizing it.                                                      

TWIS #8

In this week in science we learned some vocabulary such as dorsal and ventral views which are the front and back view of the specimen. on this specimen its posterior is at the back end of it and its distal to the anterior which is the head of the specimen. This Crickets environment are grassy places. If my organism needed to adapt to a watery place it would need gills and webbed feet or fins because its small thin legs wont push it far in water.                                                                                          

This is a ventral view of a Cricket.

Also we learned about the parts or a cricket and dissection. Also the tools needed to dissect. While i was dissecting i didn't know the organism had an open circulatory system which means it doesn't have veins so when i cut it all its fluid leaked out. It was an aha and an ew moment.

This is the side view of a Cricket.

     

Human Impact Ad Campaign

In this image im showing our Water You Gonna Do When Its GONE? campaign. It signifies how over the years pass our water gets dirtier and drinking water can get dirtier too.

New York rulings could embolden towns to ban fracking

            In this article the author talks about how NY banning fracking encourages other small towns to do the same. They express all of this in boring law terms. The author writes " New Bans a MISTAKE" so I'm guessing he thinks the thought of fracking is good if he thinks that banning it is a mistake.The author had some statistics but didn't even have a graph or a picture so he pretty much wined. The author didn't state what side he was for but by some wordings i think he was against banning fracking.

            What i thought about this article is that it was expressed in really boring words. I barley understood what i read and it didn't attract my attention. I'm not sure weather i agree or disagree with the author because his point wasn't clear but what i do agree with is that fracking isn't good. I'm still wondering why the author didn't even include a picture or graph.