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Blog Post #2 Plants Post

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Blog Post #2 Plants Post

 

Our plants have grown so much over the weeks.  We have been doing this for 14 days. The tallest controlled plant is 16 cm, It is green and the size is still pretty small. But definitely not super small. It is cell 3 controlled. The smallest is 9 cm from this week is is green too and it has no buds. Yesterday the tallest controlled was 15 cm. The day before the tallest controlled plant was 14 cm. A week before the tallest was 13 cm. The smallest last week was 4 cm. It was small. But not as small as the first week where the shortest controlled 1 cm.  

 

The tallest manipulated is 15 ½  cm from June 5th. The tallest from the day before was 15 ½ cm. It hadn’t grown at all. The tallest from the day before that was 14 cm. The smallest from June 5th was 8 cm and just a few buds like 4 of them. Most of our manipulated and controlled are growing buds or flowers. But one thing is bad news : They are dying!! The flowers are all flopping down. I couldn’t believe it when I saw what happened the other day. Also we actually pollinated our plants! All we did was touch our fingers on the flower to get pollen on it and touched it on the other one for both manipulated and controlled.

 

I think that the flowers started to flop down because we only added 1 drop of water to each cell. It was kind of like my hypothesis. My hypothesis was If we only add 1 drop of water to our manipulated plant it won’t be as tall because we only added one drop of water. But I said it wouldn’t be as tall and not the flowers would flop down. Maybe it happened also because there wasn’t enough lamp light?

Camp Kippewa

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My mom kissed me goodbye and so did my Sara, I was sad I was leaving them and dad. But I was happy I was going to go to camp with Alice. I got on the bus and saved a seat for Alice we chatted and the bus finally started moving. There was a girl that had a bunch of candy I definitely was in for it. I was hyper that bus ride, and we started watching the movies they played. I got interested so for 3/4 of the bus ride I was just watching the movies. We had to make a stop and then I made a new friend Emerson, she let me call her Em because I couldn’t remember her full name later I did but we had finally got to camp and I hoped and hoped that Emerson and I would be in the same bunk or Alice and I. When we finally made a stop at the camp, I saw signs and they said “HideAway, Angel’s Roost, Drop Inn, Pineknol, Tepee, Cabbage Patch.” I was confused about what the signs were for. I got off the bus and a person told me that I was in HideAway. I was sad because Alice was in Pineknol, and Emerson was in Drop Inn. I followed my counselors, Emily, Meghan, and Kedesha to my bunk.

Blog Post #4 For Plants Post

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This is plant post #4. The plants grew tremendously through all the weeks. Basically 20 days! Seed pods are seeds inside a pod. Seed pods are kind of moon shaped but thinner. They have little bumps on them and that means there are seeds inside the seed pods.

 

The life cycle is first you need pollinate them with the flowers pollen. Then the seed pods starts to grow. You have to wait about a week for them to grow not big but not small. After the pod starts to grow it gets bigger and bigger.

 

Here is the process to grow seed pods with Wisconsin Fast Plants:

  1. Plant the Wisconsin Fast plant seed.
  2. Put it under sunlight or a lamp for the sunlight.
  3. Water it everyday to make it grow taller.
  4. Record the data (Optional)
  5. Manipulate (Optional)
  6. When there are flowers pollinate them.
  7. Pick off the seed pods.
  8. Open them.
  9. Repeat the process over again.

 

Yesterday we took the seed pods off our plants. Then we put them under a lamp to dry them out. The next day we opened our seed pods and we had a pretty big one that had 3-4 seeds!  Then we taped them onto index cards and we get to plant them again, if we want to.

Here are our plants.

CU Blog Post Comic Book – Australia

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We went to the library for our topic Australia. We also went to the Heathcote library database page. We mostly used Fact Site (Fact Site123) and WorldBook. We took 2 -3 days of researching. We had found a lot of information from the databases and books. Some information we knew already. The 5 Cultural Universals are Politics, Social Aspects, Economics, Beliefs, and Cultural Arts. Plus one that isn’t really a Cultural Universals, Basic facts. The name of our book is “All of Australia”. We thought of that name and we thought it was creative. My favorite part of the project was making our characters. I think doing that was really fun. I used tips and tricks to make my character. I really liked the bows in my hairs. I also didn’t add parts of me but I still think I am cute. I found challenging finding the Rugby and Cricket information. Also for me it was hard researching. I also thought what was challenging is finding twice as much information as some other people that worked solo, because my partner and I both had to have information in our speech bubble.

Blog Post #1 Plants Post

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Blog Post #1 Plants Post

 

We started a plant unit a few weeks ago… When we started we had to put the wicks in the styrofoam quads to make sure that our plants don’t die during the weekend.  First, then we put in a quarter of soil in each cell, after we put in the fertilizer which helps it grow and then covered it with soil and put in the seeds and covered those with soil again. We manipulated the water into 1 drop only. My question is what if we only use 1 drop of water on our manipulated plant?  My hypothesis is If I only use a drop of water on my manipulated plant then the plant won’t be as tall because it won’t have enough water.

 

The color of most of our plants are green. We have many buds for the last 2 weeks. On May 17th the tallest plant was 3 cm. The smallest plant was 1 cm. At first ours was the tallest out of our class, I was really proud about that. Today, June 4th our tallest was cell 1 manipulated, 15 ½ cm!! It grew so much over the weeks. The smallest was cell 2 controlled, 7 ½ cm. It grew a lot too. Cell 1 manipulated grew 13 ½ cm over the weeks altogether!! Cell 1 controlled grew 8 cm altogether! I think that over the time that we measured the plants they grew so much! I am so happy we did this science project.

This is our group observing our plants.

Maglev Post #3 (The Final One)

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Our first track design was the track used 11 magnets, 3 strip. 8 rings. For our vehicle we used 7 Magnets altogether. 2 strip magnets and 5 ring magnets. 2 on the edges and the 5 ring magnets in between.

This is our first group design.

 

One of our problems was our vehicle keep on tilting to both sides, back and forth. So we had to align our magnets to one centimeter away from the edge of the paper. So we did that a centimeter away form the edge of the paper for the track and vehicle so it would be equal and not tilt. Another problem was that the disk magnets did not work at all. We tried and it didn’t levitate as high as the final and second one.

 

Our final design was simple it had 2 magnets on each edge. On the vehicle it had 1 magnet on both edges like the track. But only with 2 strip magnets altogether on the vehicle. Altogether strip magnets on the track was 4. So in all we had 6 strip magnets for our final design.

This is our train, the 2 strip magnets on each edge.

This is our final track design. We had to fix this the most.

Our thoughts and feelings were basic. We were sad/mad when I tried putting ring magnets on top of the vehicle, I thought it would levitate higher. We were happy when it all aligned right. It was surprising for me because I thought the second time we did the maglev train (Maglev Post #2) was kind of better than this time to be honest.

This is a birds eye view, google drawing for our maglev train.

Technology Is…

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Technology isn’t just electronic devices. Technology is something that solves a problem or helps people in their life instead of doing… or something invented to something new in our lives. My object is a glue stick it is neat because you can twist the top up so you don’t waste any glue. There’s still more on the bottom you can twist up when you finish the top of the glue stick. It spreads nicely and doesn’t make a mess that’s why we use it in school. Something that solves a problem that is not nature is technology. My object is technology because it solves many problems in our lives and it was invented by someone not nature. My technology solves that you don’t have to squeeze Elmer’s glue and make your hands hurt. You can use a glue stick and spread it on instead and keep your hands from hurting. It made life better by not having your hands hurt when you squeeze Elmer’s glue. My object is made of plastic. It’s light, hard, rigid, colored and rounded.

Maglev Post #2

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We did a lot of things that worked including we only used strip magnets because the discs didn’t work as well.  We put 1 magnet on each side like a normal train track, but no magnets in the middle. We had to keep on putting more magnets on top of each other. On the train we only put 1 magnet on each side and not 2 or 3 on each side because it would be to heavy.

 

We didn’t fail a lot, yesterday we didn’t have anything good so we restarted. Then first try we thought of something good. We learned that we needed more magnets to make it be more stable.The changes that we made was that we should put more magnets on the track since we had all together on the track, 2 magnets. So we upgraded to have 3 stip magnets on each side of the track.

 

Our goal is to move into the improve phase by putting more passengers in the cup and if it falls then we will upgrade the track again, until we have about 20 – 30 rocks that stay on. 

 

This my group and I doing the 1 strip magnets on each side altogether 2 strip magnets.

 

We were very hard working. We were very proud after this worked.

 

Maglev Train Post #1

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A Maglev train is a magnetic levitating train, it is levitating from magnets on the train and track. That’s why it’s called a Maglev train. On the train bottom of our design, there are 2 strips on the top and bottom of the bottom of the train, there are 5 magnets in the middle too. On the track there are 3 strips on on the middle on on top and one on the bottom. There 8 ring magnets altogether. 4 magnets in between each strip magnet.

 

Nothing worked, and part of our track failed. The train magnets would attract to the track magnets and tip over and attract to the side of the magnet. Also we had to keep taking the tape off and keep putting it on. It was pretty confusing.

 

The experience wasn’t very good, though we got inspired by other groups that had a success. We tried and tried, It wasn’t successful still. It was really challenging there were tape scraps everywhere. Before we had started we taped down the track, so our arms were crunched in the box when we all tried to work on the track taping down the magnets. The The experience with my group was fine, it was kinda hard because there were only 2 jobs, track and train. But we helped each other so it was fine.

This is our group design, but we changed it so it would work.

 

My Expert Book – Becoming an Expert on Slime

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This book is about slime. I thought about slime because I know a lot a about it and that is useful for expert books. I have lots of slime, I play with it all the time and that got me into slime. I always want to make and buy slime so slime was a perfect thought. I researched a little at home too, I learned a lot in the process of this slime book. You probably will learn a lot in this book. There so many facts, you’ll probably want to make slime after you read this or you’ll want to buy slime. Many people make homemade slime, but some slime ingredients are dangerous. I learned a lot while writing this with all the writing techniques and the lessons I learned but I went baby steps, and it lead me to this finished book. Which to me looks perfect! I went very slow when we started the unit, but when I started seeing that barely anything was typed down I thought Wow! I need to start typing more. So I caught up with some work at home and school, I worked for an hour on this once! I finished way before I thought I would because I was behind. I enjoyed making this and hopefully you will enjoy reading this book!