This Week in Science (Carrying Capacity and Relationships)

 What i did this week in sicence was play a game on the rooftop of New Design call OH DEER! In this game we had our class split up into 2 groups. 1 group played as deers and the other were resourses. How we played was both groups were lined up on oppisite sides of the area we were in. we had to turn out backs to eachother and pick one of the 3 resorses which where food,water, and shelter. to symbolize food we had to place our hands on our bellys, to symbolize water we had to cover our mouths, and to symbolize shelter we had to form a hut shape with out arms. When the teachers said READY, we had to pick a resourse. when they said SET, we turned around to look for someone on the other side that had the matching resouse. When they said GO!! the Students that were deers had to run to the student resorce that matched the resouse they had picked and go back to the deer side. if there was not enough resorces then that student deer dies :(. they end up becoming a resource.

We also played a little card game where we had to find out where each animal relationship on the card lived and what relationship did they had like commensalism, mutualism, parasitism, or predator/ prey.

 I learned about these nasty things call bot flies. they are little parasites that are placed under your skin to hatch and grow by mosquito. i learned that animals can use each other to survive. Caterpillars use good ants for protection from the bad ants and the good ants also use the caterpillar for its sweet water bubbles. Cow attract flies and ducks use the cows for the flies they kick up so they could eat them off the cow.

My Fantasy Habitat

This week in science we had to pick a animal to research about. We had to find out what our animal of out choice, ate, what Biome it lives in, and what other plants and animals there too. I picked a jaguar. After we researched what we needed to know about our animal's biome, we had to draw a picture of it. We had to include all there other plants and animals that shared the habitat. After we drew our picture we were so post to add a caption saying what were the biotic and abiotic things in our illustration.

While searching up info for my animal, the jaguar, i learned lots of stuff. One thing i learned was that Jaguars eats small crocodiles! i never knew that, i thought that the sharp scales on their backs would make it very hard for an other animal to eat them. I also learned what the words biome, biotic, and abiotic mean. A biome is a huge habitat, biotic means anything in the biome that's living (ex. tall grass, trees deer), and Abiotic things are objects that are not living (ex. rocks, rivers, rich soil). 

First Impressions :)

 In my science class we were studying frogs, dissecting frogs and making blogs, like this one, all about frogs! I think David's going crazy! Well my fist impression of blogs is that i don't like them much because they annoy me. In my middle school, in computer class which is called tech cafe we had to always post things on our blog. we did fun stuff there like make funny pictures using Photoshop and making movies, but then we had to post what we did on blogs. Anyways I'm really excited that we are going to dissect frogs. I never dissected anything before in my life so this would be new. the frogs we are going to dissect are ugly so i don't feel very bad about them. i always liked frogs (well cute ones). while staying with my family in Florida for the summer i found a puddle with tadpoles in the neighbors driveway. i wanted to save some of them so i took a fish bowl filled with water and put as many tadpoles i could in the bowl. i left the bowl next to the back yard door. i watched the tadpoles grow into frogs. it was cool. i will enjoy this next project. i can't wait to get started.