This is a thing we were showed how to do on a cite called wordle. It's meant to discribe ourselves! 

My Roadkill Graph

This graph shows weather most roadkill in the last couple of years has been nocturnal or diurnal. At first I thought that there would be more nocturnal but due to the amount of squirrels and other diurnal animals that are about this time of year, as this graph shows for seven weeks over the last few years.

In science class we have been doing a project on roadkill in which we had to choose subject such as moon phase, speed limit etc. and how it is related to the numbers of road kill and research it. After we had done this we had to create a graph showing what we had found out. I chose to study whether most roadkill is diurnal or nocturnal. I chose this because animals interest me and I thought I could learn more about nocturnal and diurnal animals this way. I predicted that there would be a lot more nocturnal roadkill because obviously they’re out and about at night. This is when most commuters are coming home from work and they might be tired and not see the animal. Also, it is harder to see an animal crossing the road in the dark.

        I wrote my hypothesis based on this and began my research. Doing this research consisted of looking at numbers of roadkill over the years and creating spreadsheet on the information I found. After we had finished we had to create a graph on the data we had found to illustrate the result.

        I thought there would be a lot of squirrels but never as much as there turned out to be, almost half of the roadkill was gray squirrels! After I finished my research and took a look at it I realized I had been wrong, more of the roadkill was diurnal, my hypothesis was wrong. Looking back I think this is because most animals are diurnal and the huge amounts of gray squirrels were diurnal, this added up to the end result of diurnal animals being the most amount of roadkill.

      Next year I predict round about the same results as this year, seeing as gray squirrels aren’t going down in their numbers! Next time I think I will take a better look at the numbers of what I am researching before I begin my hypothesis.

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After the end of about an hour of browsing stocks decided on three stocks Nike, Dell and SunTrust Banks. I was certain about Nike because I love their running shoe and their store was always busy so I thought it would be popular meaning that it would do well in the stock market. I chose Dell because on ‘historical prices’ it looked like the stocks were stable as they stayed about the same price and also I wanted one of their laptops! I was less sure about SunTrust because I found it when I was browsing through random ticker symbols, it seemed to have the perfect price, high enough to do well but affordable at the same time. At the end of math class that day I felt pretty comfortable about my stock choices.

             It turned out that my stocks didn’t actually do too well so if I had to invest in the stock market again I would do a couple of things differently. As far as the choice for my stocks  went I think I would have picked more well known stocks, I found out that the lesser known ones (especially SunTrust) were unstable, they obviously had never been heard of because nobody invested in them !

              If I could have had the stock market project to do over again I would have picked better known stocks so that more people would have invested in them, they were very unstable. I would have also pulled out of the market sooner because at one point early on in the project my chosen stocks were actually doing well and gaining money.

            If you ever decide to invest in the stock market here is some advice .Make sure you chose a stable well known stocks so that people invest in them and they do well. I would have followed my chosen stocks for a couple weeks before investing as to see how well they do and finally you should probably start out with only a couple different stocks, if they seem to be doing well you can invest in  some more.

               All in all although I lost a lot of money, investing in the stock market was a great idea as now, if I ever want to invest in the real stock market I will have some experience to base important decisions on.

In art class we have been doing mixed media weather projects.Our teacher gave a presentation of differant weather to inspire us and help us chose what type of weather we would like to portray in our mixed media presentations.

I chose to do lightning because it was bold and it really impressed me. It also looked simple and easy to do. For my backround I used a mix of black and purple paint to create a stormy, angry sky. I wanted a simple thing which stood out so I used white paint and glittter to make the bolt.Finally using modge podge (something that makes the picture shiny) I pasted a picture from the internet on my board and made yellow lightenting bolts to border the picture.

                                                                                   Your mood is not like a stratus cloud !                             I would brave a low, tropical deppresion, tropical storm and a hurrine for you !                                                                                  

When our science teacher told us to go down stairs to the life skills room we had no idea what to expect but what I didn’t expect was to be amazed for four days about abusing drugs and alcohol.  

              Joe Flood didn’t look like the kind of person who used to take drugs and was an ex alcoholic but as we learned later addiction can happen to anybody, especially if you’ve had alcohol before you are an adult, if you have a family history of alcoholism, being at a vulnerable age and if you’re in surroundings with alcoholics.  I guess none of us knew that so we were very surprised when we heard what this man was here to talk to us about but he sure had our attention! Over the four days Joe was here, I had probably learned more than I had learned in a week for a long time. For example did you know that you’re brain has six sections. When you are asleep two of those sections are off. When you are dead all of the lights are turned out. Alcohol slowly turns off more and more of your lights!

             At the end of the days I was really sad to see Joe leave, I think everyone was. I have learned so many cool facts from Joe and I wish that everybody could have that same experience, there might be a lot less drug addicts and alcoholics in the world.

This photo was taken by Ms. Ellwood. For more photo's go to http://www.polartrec.org/lake-ecosystems-in-antarctica/journals/robin-ellwood 

The team had to lay down the foundations, add metal rods and then pull a gigantic blanket over the enire building.I couldn't have done this and next time I will think of Ms. Ellwood when I complain about winter weather!