Science- Organisms Under A Microscope

In Science, we worked with microscopes to see microscopic organisms. Above is a video of the Tubifex worm under a microscope. I see how they have a transparent outside, and red on the inside.

Above is a video of Turtle Water. I notice mainly green blotches and small tiny green moving organisms. 

Global Water Crisis:
The Global Water Crisis is a crisis about how so many people lack water, and get water related diseases. According to the World Bank and World Health Organization, 2 billion people lack access to clean water, and 1 billion do not have enough water to meet their daily needs. Organizations are trying to help with this by doing things like building wells in countries that face the water crisis.
Water is extremely important for humans; first of all our bodies are 60% water; and we use water for things like cooking, cleaning, etc.
Today, people waste water a lot. We waste water when we don't drink it, but more consequentially, we waste a lot of it on produce. The average hamburger takes 2,400 liters or 630 gallons of water to make.
Dirty water can also cause various diseases. Every minute, one child dies from a water related disease, and 1 out of every 5 child deaths is from a water related disease.

photo credits: http://becausewater.org/global-water-crisis/what-is-the-water-crisis-2/

Art Photography Assignment

Recently in art we have been working on photography. We had 5 categories of types of photos that we had to take photos for. They were Shadows with Repetition, Reflection, Rule of Thirds, Atypical Angle, and Texture.
Here is how I set up the photo I submitted for Shadows with Repetition.

When I wanted to take my photo for Shadows, I was at home, which meant I didn't have any bright lights to set up my shadows with like we do in the art studio. So I noticed it was very sunny out which is perfect to get a shadow from. One thing I learned from this project, is that most good photos need to be set up. You can't always just find something and take the photo. So I grabbed some glasses from the kitchen and set them up like shown. I would've had just one glass, but I chose multiple glasses to show repetition/pattern in my shadows. I chose glasses because glass is transparent, so I knew they would make an interesting shadow.

Reflection Questions

This photo fits into more than one category. I submitted it for Rule of Thirds, because the nail is to the left in the photo. But I think this fits into Texture as well because the nail and the area next to the nail is very sharp. Also, I had to crop this photo to make it a Rule of Thirds photo. So I was about to not submit it at all, but it was a really cool photo, so I wanted to submit it for something. In the end, I chose Rule of Thirds because it wasn't extremely sharp, but it exhibited Rule of Thirds pretty well.





If I could do this assignment again, I would probably upload photos more often because I lost photos twice, and only retrieved half of the ones I lost. I would also want to start taking photos at home earlier because I found that the photos I took at home were taken at the last minute, so I feel that if I started earlier I would've had more photos to choose from and better photos. But I was proud of the photos I did get to take at home.

RLA Mythology 2.0 Project- Fakebook

In RLA, we have been learning about Greek Myths. We had a Mythology 2.0 Project, where we had to show how characters from a certain Greek myth would use social media. Based on what conversation the characters were having and what myth we chose, we had to choose a social media website. Our choices were Fakebook, FakeTweetBuilder, Google Story Builder, and iPhone Text Messages . I chose Fakebook because I wanted my character to have different posts, and have characters reply to them. The myth I chose was Endymion & Selene, and my main character in the project is Endymion.
RR:
Endymion doesn't have character traits in this story because he is asleep throughout the story, but in this project, I tried to focus on how he would react. I demonstrated this by having Endymion post about what he thinks of Selene. Selene really loves Endymion, so her voice didn't go against Endymion in this project. I also tried to have Selene still wanting Endymion. This is important because the main action in this story (Selene asking Zeus to give Endymion immortal sleep) happened because of Selene's character trait. This relates to 21st century genre because I used more casual language, which is a modern trait, and Fakebook has features of various social media. Also, I drew in characters from related myths by using comments, where anyone can add their thoughts.

I chose this myth because I thought that there was a lot that could be said after the story, like the character's reactions. Also, there were a lot of other myths that had similar parts, so I could involve other characters.
After doing this project, I learned that creativity can take some time, and requires planning. I think this because I had to be really creative with this project, and it took me a long time to think of everything. If I was given this project again, I would spend more time on planning it all out.

If you haven't read the myth, click here for an online summary of the story.

Here is the link to my Fakebook for Endymion: http://www.classtools.net/FB/1807-cDNfae

Tracking the Disease- Science

In science, we conducted an experiment to show how diseases spread. Each student had a beaker of lab made saliva. We went to a part of the room of our choice, and added a bit of our saliva to someone else's. They did the same to us. We went back to our table after 3 rotations, and added a disease indicator to our saliva. If it turned purple, it meant we had been infected on that day. I got infected on Day 2.
On Day 0, four people were infected, which was approximately 19% of the class. On Day 1, 11 people were infected, around 52%. 17 people were infected on Day 2, which was about 81%, and on Day 3 21 people or 100% of the class was infected. The graph above shows the number of people infected on each day in blue. It shows the percentage of people infected with the red line. Here are some questions we had to answer.
1. If you were trying to avoid catching a disease, what could you do?
I would wear a mask or other disease protection, because I know that in reality we don't share saliva with people, but we touch them. Using this protection can stop these diseases from spreading from person to person.
2. Imagine you are the health director of a health department in the town where the disease is spreading. It is your job to prevent people from getting sick. Explain what you would recommend to try to prevent people from getting infected.
I would recommend that people wear disease protection, and stay clean by washing their hands often. This is because soap can disinfect our skin when it is dirty/infected.

To see more of my graph, and another graph I made, click this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nVj1HWWDXNtGstZJJLfB0RMx43mOuxApzKY_OneFugw/pubhtml

Stress Buster Tool Kit

In Health, we've been learning about stress and how to deal with it. So, our class made a presentation called the Stress Buster Tool Kit. Everyone had their own slide where they described what they did to get rid of stress. My slide is Slide 7, and my stress buster is doing my hobbies.