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Mukda C.
We have three 6th grade Science classes and two 8th grade Science classes blogging here from the Pacific Northwest in Chimacum, WA! Sixth graders are learning a bit about Mt Saint Helens, environmental science through fresh water ecology, and physical science this year. Eighth graders are learning about life science this year. Please join us as we learn Science by exploring our world.
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Anthropomorphism
Article posted June 11, 2012 at 07:00 PM GMT •
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Anthropomorphism means Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. We anthropomorphism our cockroaches when the cockroach went to the dry soil 4/5 times and we are guessing that they like dry soil better, but we can't tell if they went there because they like dry soil or they were afraid of human and just wanted to get away.
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Article posted June 11, 2012 at 07:00 PM GMT •
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Cockroaches results
Article posted June 11, 2012 at 06:44 PM GMT •
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For our experiment we wanted to know if the cockroach prefer dry or moiste soil. I predicted that the cockroach would choose dry soil because in Washington there's no cockroaches because the climate is wet. We put dry and moist soil on the opposite side and see where the cockroach would go. The cockroach went to the dry soil 4/5 time and went to the moist soil 1/5 times. Our result was uncertain whether the cockroach prefer dry or moist soil because it was quite difficult to make the cockroach decide where to go. The cockroach just seems like they want to run and get away from human. However, when we did are experiment the cockroach went to the dry soil more than the moist soil. Though our conclusion is uncertain.
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Article posted June 11, 2012 at 06:44 PM GMT •
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Cockroaches facts
Article posted June 6, 2012 at 07:06 PM GMT •
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I learned that The madagascar cockroaches can live up to 5 years. They are known as hissing cockroaches because They are capable of breathing through their pores. There hiss comes in 3 forms. They have the disturbance hiss, the female-attracting hiss and the fighting hiss. Also, the hissing cockroaches are wingless. They can grow up to 5-7.5 inches long and they are ugly.
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Article posted June 6, 2012 at 07:06 PM GMT •
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Cockcroaches
Article posted June 1, 2012 at 06:51 PM GMT •
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I don't know much about cockroaches but I know that they are an insect and they have 2 long tentacles in front of them. The color of them are brown or dark brown. What I want to know about them are what type of food do they eat, what do they smell like, what do they use their 2 long tentacles for? I also what do know how long can they live and what kind of environment do they like?!?! Do they prefer the dark better than the light?
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Article posted June 1, 2012 at 06:51 PM GMT •
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Odyssey
Article posted May 29, 2012 at 06:49 PM GMT •
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What I like about odyssey was the salt creek. It was super fun to explore the sea life and got to walk around to find some little crabs. It was exciting how I got to touch some of the animals and plants as well. I love the 9 miles hike and I'm glad I did it, but the hike on the beach was extremely hard and difficult. That was the hardest part of hiking for me. I also love the hot springs and swimming. It was super relaxing and we got to rest for little bit with our friends. What I don't like about odyssey was the workbook that we had to fill out. I feel like I can truly have fun and relax without having to worry about filling out my workbook everyday. I couldn't have fun unless my workbook was completely finished for the day! I also wish we have more food=http://! And I think we should have more time to hang around the camp more often. We barely have time to hang out or walk around or play games! I suggest that we should have a day to hang out and do whatever we want instead of getting up early and go hiking every single day.
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Article posted May 29, 2012 at 06:49 PM GMT •
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Snail conclusion
Article posted May 11, 2012 at 07:26 PM GMT •
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Our hypothesis was that the snail is going to choose soil over grass because they like wet climate which snails usually come out when it is raining. Soil hold water better than grass!
For our experiment conclusion the snails ended up choosing the grass 2 out of 5 times and went to the soil 3 out of 5 times. So the snail prefer soil more than grass. We don't really know the real reason why snail would choose soil over grass because snail need food to survive. We think that maybe snail would feel like it's natural habitat because when they travel towards food they would be traveling on soil rather than grass.Our inaccuracy in this experiment is that we used different snails. The first day of our experiment we used a different snail which I chose to go towards the grass 2 times and then the next day we took another snail and it went toward the soil 3 times. So my thought is that maybe it really depends on the snails on whether or not they would prefer soil or grass.
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Article posted May 11, 2012 at 07:26 PM GMT •
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Snail experiment
Article posted May 9, 2012 at 07:06 PM GMT •
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Marissa, Ryley and I are experimenting on which environment snails prefer. We are goging to put grass and soil on the opposite side of each other on the container then put the snails in the middle to see which way they would go. Our hypothesis was that snails would go to the soil more than the grass because snails natural live in a soil environment. Also, snails like water and we think snails put prefer soil because soil hold water and moisture better than grass!
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Article posted May 9, 2012 at 07:06 PM GMT •
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Snails
Article posted May 1, 2012 at 07:08 PM GMT •
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What I know:
-they have shell
-they have lots of slimes
-they are slow
-they're gross
What I want to know:
-do they have eyes?
-so they have ears?
-how can they hear?
-why are they so slow?
-do they have bones in their body?
-how do they eat?
-how does slimes help them survive?
-what do they eat?
-do they sleep?
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Article posted May 1, 2012 at 07:08 PM GMT •
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Plant Experiment
Article posted April 18, 2012 at 07:25 PM GMT •
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In my plant researched and experiment. Marissa and I did our experiment project on miracle grow and regular soil. We planted flowers in each type of soil. As a result, the regular soil made the plants grow better, faster and healthier. The miracle grow took 5-6 days after the flowers had sprouted in regular soil. we think that the reason why our flowers grew better in the regular soil due to the soil that we got from the high shcool green house. We dont know what nutrients and what kind of soil it is. The greenhouse soil are for plants to grow healthy. So the soil from the greenhouse have a huge role to play in our experiment. We did some researched on our plants and flowe structures that we showed in our presentation. I learned that the reason why our flowers grew towards the light due to photosytheisis. Plant needs as much photosythesis as much as possible so therfore, they grow towards the sunlight. i learned about how seeds are a living organism. They have the embryo to create plants in the future and seeds have some stred energy in themself ready to be planted and sprout. We also researched about flowers structures such as, petal, ovule, ovary, stigma, carpel, etc.
Bibliograhy:
"Flowering Plants." Flowering Plants. Web. Mar.-Apr. 2012.
Jeffrey. "What Do Plants Need to Live?" Kid Scientist, 3 Nov. 2007. Web. 07 Apr. 2012.
Pettebone, David. "What Does A Plant Need To Grow." Catalogs.com. Catalogs.com, 2007. Web. 19 Apr. 2012.
Carter, J. Stein Stein. "Photosynthesis." Photosynthesis. 1996. Web. 10 Apr. 2012.
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Article posted April 18, 2012 at 07:25 PM GMT •
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Food Miles
Article posted March 23, 2012 at 07:22 PM GMT •
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For my lunch I had Hershey's chocolate, hamburger, apple, bread, and water. The amount of miles that it took for 1 lunch is 18,461.8 miles! That is so far away just for 1 bag of lunch! The total carbon that had been put into the atmosphere for my lunch is 68,308.66 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air!!! Thats as huge as 6 elephants all together=http://! That's crazy!!!
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Article posted March 23, 2012 at 07:22 PM GMT •
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