Post 8: This Week in Science (Fruit Flies Part 1)

This week in science we had to look at flies... they were disscusting. they were in these little tubes that had food and a spongey thing to scover the top and the flies wont come out but they could still get air. In the little tube thinggys there where like 30 flies liveing in each of them. There where flying around and leaving eggs aroung and little maggot things were moving around. We had to do this problem to see how many flies would there be in a habitat in 3 weeks if we started with only 3 flies

   I learned that adult female flies can drop more then 20 eggs a day. I learned that the growth of a fly is very fast. From being a egg to being able to lay eggs takes only 16 days. i learned that male flies back parts are very black so thats how you can tell if the fly is a male or female.

Post 7: This Week in Science (Ecosystems)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In these last two weeks in science we design habitats for our spiders that we are going two take care of and hope they survive in the habitats we make for them. We went to a garden that used to be a African Burial ground which was kinda creepy to me because i thought that if i went digging for things i would find a dead body or someones finger. We gathered materials for out spider habitats there like plants and bugs which were other spiders, slugs, worms, snails, rollipollies, and centapies. Lastly we made maps of our terrariums after we made our designs.

Paragraph 2: What did you LEARN these last 2 weeks in science? (6 points)

Paragraph 3: What are you still UNSURE of or CURIOUS about? (6 points)
Picture 1: A picture from the field trip! (3 points)

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.

This Week In Science :)

 When we firsts started  this blogging stuff we had to create a post about our 1st impressions of blogs and frogs.  i have done blogging in the past when i was in middle school. We had to customize our blogs how ever we wanted. i spent a lot of time trying to find something that i liked. After that day was the day we were doing part 1 dissection of the huge ugly frog. That day we were figuring out the sex of the frog and taking down notes about what we notice. After we discovered that our frog was a female,e we named her Susan. when we opened Susan's stomach we found out that she was very very pregnant. She had lots of greenish gushy stuff which was her eggs. On dissection day part 2 we got a worksheet explaining that we were to discover and cut out the organs and put them on their proper place on the sheet of paper. This was fun.

  After this exciting experience i learned that frog can jump up to 20 times there body length; i thought that was cool. i learned that we could tell if a frog was a girl or boy by the way there thumbs on there hands were big or small. i learned that frogs had very little tiny teeth. i also learned that if u skin a frog their meat looks like chicken. YUM!!!! i leaned that frogs have gross tentacle squishy things that are called fat bodies. fat bodies are these weird things that are on the lower torso but i really didnt learn what they do.

 These are some pictures of our experiment



This picture show Me, Stephaney and Nicole trying to open up the frogs
 mouth. It didn't want to open and it took the three of us to pry it open.
 I chose this picture because I thought it was so funny how none of us
could get it open. :)

 




This picture shows the surprise that my group found in our frog... She

 was pregnant an had a massive amount of eggs inside her. I chose this

 picture because i thought it was cool that the frog had eggs :)

 



This picture shows what the frog's intestines looked like after my group
and I removed all of her eggs. I chose this picture because i just wanted to
 show what the insides look like with out all the frog eggs in the way. :)

 




This picture shows us trying to take out the stomach. I chose this picture
 because I think the stomach looks like a shrimp. :)

 




this picture shows all of the frogs organs that we found and organized
of the sheet of paper. this part of the project was fun ( it was like a frog
 organ scavenger hunt) I chose this picture because i wanted to show all
 of the organs we found