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Zoo Comes to Us

On Friday, May 14th we had the Philadelphia Zoo come to our school. This was only for our unit and our sister unit and it was very special. The lady that came talked to us about reptiles. She showed us lizards, a snake, and a turtle. The snake and lizards were cool but the turtle didn't really do anything. She also shoed us crocodile skin and a sheel of a sea turtle. During this assembly, I learned so much about reptiles. There are so many things that I didn't know about them. It was a real excitement to experience these reptiles so close up. I also would like to know more about these animals and their lifestyle. Thanks to my science teacher and my other teacher, I got to have a break to go see fascinating creatures.

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Class Response: Frog Dissection

In science class we finally dissected a frog. I've heard so many freaky stories about it being gross and coming back to life. I knew that it wasn't true and when the day came I was estatic! When my group got our frog we thought it was female because it was so big. Trey started cutting it on the ventral side of the from or the belly. When he opened it up, we noticed it was a male since it didn't have eggs in it. My group and I also couldn't find the ovaries so we automatically made the assumption that it was a male. After finding all the body parts we were suppose to find like the lungs, heart, stomach and liver, my groupmate and I measured the intestine which was about 23 centimeters. While we were doing that, My other two groupmates continued to study parts of the frog. I learned so much from this dissection like the liver has three lobes and the cloaca is where waste, urine, and eggs are exited. I also learned that dissecting a frog is not gross and the frogs do not come back to life.

How Math Relates to My Research Task

My research task is about child soldiers in Africa. Math relates to child soldiers in many ways. First, math relates to child soldiers in a way that there is numbers of how many children are in the military or other armed forces. the number is 300,000 children! Also, if children are in the military at a young age, they won't be able to learn math and go to a good school to get a good job. Many kids wish they could learn math for education but they are stuck fighting in a sick and cruel war. Math is all around these poor children. Twenty percent of the children in Africa die before the age of five in war. I personally think that is really extreme. That would mean that out of one hundred children under the age of five, twenty would die. There were also graphs that I had to read. Some were a little confusing but when I looked at them closely, it wasn't that hard to read. Some graphs were the death rates of children, how long they've been at war and how many other people, other than child soldiers, died during this nonsense war.

Pocket Heat App on iPod Touch or iPhone

When looking at Apple, you would never think they would go this far. The iPod has just invented a Pocket Heat app for iPhone's and iPod Touch's. This app cranks up the Central Processing Unit(CPU) on the iPod which means it makes the iPod work really hard and get hot. Hence, the heat warmer! For $0.99 that is pretty good. I don't know if I could trust the Pocket Heat app though because it loses battery way too easily and it might not work. This weird app can only be used in 32 to 95 degrees weather or something bad might happen to it. Problems that might caused by this app are lose of power and Wi-Fi problems. I personally think it is dangerous for your iPod/iPhone and it might break it. Also, I don't think it is healthy for anyone to be holding it because the power it gives off might be dangerous. I am really tempted to buy it this app to see how it works but many people say it just gives off a warming glow. I would much rather wear gloves a hat and a jacket.

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Flavor Chemist

My podcast is about flavor chemistry and I am presenting that in a talk show. My show is called Jobs in Chemistry an I am interviewing flavor chemist68. I am asking the questions that are on the planning sheet in an exciting way.

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Enormous Jellyfish Swarms in Warming Seas

In Kikonogi, Japan, a giant jellyfish known as the Nomura Jellyfish populates northwest Japan's Wakasa Bay. The jellyfish are dark orange and the size of a small refrigerator. Fisherman are terrified to even go near the water and the jellyfish are killing all the sea bass and mackerel they need as food. Scientists studied that because of the climate change on Earth over the years, 2,000 jellyfish species are spreading out to different seas that used to be cold but are changing. Taiichiro Hamano, 67 said, "Once considered a rarity occurring every 40 years, they are now an almost annual occurrences along several thousand miles of Japanese coast and far beyond Japan." Jellyfish keep getting caught in fishing nets and kill all the fish around them with their venomous stingers. This is bad because fishers need fish to make money and feed their families. A bigger problem is that the waters are warming. This is bad because jellyfish and other warm water predators are coming to (used to be) cold waters. What we need to do is help the waters that need to be cold, stay cold is to recycle, never throw any garbage in the ocean, and always be aware that we are killing the earth every time we leave the water running or a light on. This way, we can keep jellyfish where they need to be and not over-populated. I believe that these jellyfish are really dangerous and it would be scary to find them in our ocean. I also want to help those fisherman that need to get mackerel and sea bass for money and food. PLease help our world and be aware of our world at risk. We shouldn't have to kill these jellyfish but we can help them stay where they need to be.

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