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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

This Year in Science - 10th Grade Intro Video



My name is Sebastian, I'm in the 9th grade and in a few months i'll be in 10th. I have some personal interests such as sleeping, laying on my couch, eating and other fun things. Then theres my academic interests which consist of not failing. The only thing thats grown in science this year I'd say in my vocabulary and my lack of interest in plants because those things are just boring. I don't see when im going to be using some of the words i learned in science since im not planning to be a scientist or even a science teacher. I struggle in large written packets because reading isn't really fun to me unless im extremely interested in the subject. I don't know what i want to tell my science teacher for next year i guess they're just gonna have to find out more of me when the see me. 








Monday, May 14, 2012

TWIS #11

         This week in science we did a lot of things such as we went to the park to look for rocks and small twigs to put in our spider habitat tank that david gave to us. I also received worms and little bugs so the spider can eat them. We also made annotations on a google doc of what are the cons and pros of an environment. Also we used our prior knowledge on some words we learned a long time ago. Before we actually went we discussed in groups what should go in the tank and we made a drawing of it but, it didn't work out as we planned. We just got random things that we found.
         I learned that people dont like when random kids go to the park and dig up the dirt around the park even though we put it back. I think it was a fun experience since we got to go out of the class room. I also learned about little creepy green bigs that I found by just digging on the surface and then the big worms are deeper down.

Friday, May 11, 2012

TWIS # 13


 If we were to leave these spider habitat tanks sealed but removed all of the plants, then they would get no glucose, photosynthesis, or oxygen. Then the spiders would produce too much carbon dioxide and die from lack of oxygen and energy. 

Monday, May 7, 2012

TWIS #12

This week in science we got the spider in our tank. It was a cellar spider. Then we got flightless fruit flys that are genetically engineered to have really small wings that are not used for flying. Also we made a booklet to keep track of the spiders and we drew on it then wrote the definitions of mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Timothy and me put 6 more spiders in the tank after our first one died to see if they would fight to the death but they actually stay a little bit apart from each other.





This week in science I learned that the spiders aren't really fighters. Also I learned that the spiders like high places and they even though are in te same tank are somewhat territorial. By that i mean it likes to have some space to its self. If another spider tries to go there it looks like its going to attack it. Then i learned they dont really like water because we dumped some food in the water and not one spider went for it. Something i want to know is how the first spider died and why that spider didn't make webs at all.