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COCKroachs results -- 06-11-12

2012-06-11T13:26:39-05:00

We did an experiment this last week on whether cockroaches preferred a rocky surface over a grass surface. 3/4 trials we did, the cockroach preferred a rocky environment over a grass surface. Though most of the time it just sat there and cleaned it's antennas.

MHC Facts -- 06-06-12

2012-06-06T13:09:52-05:00

This week were learning about COCKroaches! The Madagascar Hissing Cockroach is one of the largest species of cockroach, reaching 5-7.5cm at maturity. You can usually find them in rotting logs, and unlike other cockroaches they are wingless. They are excellent climbers and can scale smooth glass.

COCKroaches! -- 05-30-12

2012-05-30T13:05:06-05:00

I know that cockroaches can withstand a nuclear holocaust and there really tough to kill. I would like to know what there diet consists of, and if they can swim at all.

Odyssey -- 05-29-12

2012-05-29T13:26:34-05:00

I thought Odyssey was a really good experience for myself and the rest of the 8th grade. To be out door's and breath in the air of beautiful Lake Crescent and to go everywhere we went, it was amazing. One of the things I learned is that the Hoh Rain Forest gets an annual precipitation amount of 137 inches of rain a year. The Hot Springs were awesome, it smelled really bad! and the Ozette hike was grueling(really hard). But all in all it was a fantastic experience.

Snail conclusion -- 05-09-12

2012-05-09T13:26:41-05:00

We did are expirement on whether the snail would prefer hand lotion over hand sanitizer and are snail preferred hand lotion over hand sanitizer 3 out of 4.

Snail experiments -- 05-09-12

2012-05-09T13:16:14-05:00

We did an experiment with snails and hand sanitizer and hand lotion. We tested whether the snail prefers hand sanitizer or hand lotion the results is that the snail went to the lotion 3 out of the 4 times we tested it.

-- 05-02-12

2012-05-02T12:54:05-05:00

Plant Expirments -- 04-24-12

2012-04-24T13:02:30-05:00

This week my team and I had a Plant Project on carnations and food coloring, where we put the carnations in veil's then watered them with food coloring. My claim was that 50% or less of the stem would turn blue and/or red. My evidence was that our results came out to be that the plants died at the end with little color on the stems, and the tips of the flower, all of our predictions were wrong. My research was, vascular plants have plant tissues, which circulate resources through the plant. This feature allows vascular plants to evolve to a larger size then non-vascular plants, which lack these specialized conducting tissues and are therefore restricted to relatively small sizes.

Wright, Jacob J. "Do Flowering Plants Have Vascular Tissue?" EHow. Demand Media, 30 Jan. 2011. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. http://www.ehow.com/facts_7870000_do-flowering-plants-vascular-tissue.html

Bacteria in our school -- 02-08-12

2012-02-08T12:38:44-05:00

My team and I did an experiment with bacteria in our school we tested computer keyboards, door handles, a lunchroom table,and a bathroom seat. One of my questions was, what has the most bacteria?,I predicted that the door handle would have more bacteria, we swabbed it and over time it grew more than anything else so it was the door handle! We had a medium amount of bacteria between the others, amazingly the lunchroom table had more bacteria than the bathroom seat. From what I have seen it seems as if, the more that different organisms touch something the more bacteria grows on it.

Mitosis -- 02-01-12

2012-02-01T13:44:41-05:00

Meiosis and mitosis are kind of alike ways they are alike is both of them create cells, but the difference is that mitosis makes two cells and meiosis only make four cells. Both of them pass on DNA to the cells they have made. The meiosis cells have different DNA but the mitosis made cells have the same DNA. That is differences of the two.

The steps of dividing/multipling are:
Interphase: They DNA copies each other then the cell splits
Prophase:The nucleolus starts to fades. The nucleolus then starts to meet into chromosomes.
Prometaphase: This stage is where the nucleolus envelopes break down. This stage is when the proteins are being put together and where the two daughter cells are located.
Metaphase: Tension to the spindle fibers aligns all the chromosomes in one place at the middle of the cell.
Anaphase: The spindles fibers have been shorten and the two daughter cells are being ripped apart. They later travel to the cell pole.
Telophase: The daughter get to the cell pole and the spindle fibers that ripped the daughter cells apart are gone.
Cytokinesis: The spindle fibers start to break down. Contactile ring sticks the cell in two daughter cells. Next the newly made cytoskeleton is being recognized while the microtubules will return to the interphase stage later in the cell cycle.

Animal vs. PlantCell -- 01-03-12

2012-01-03T14:25:06-05:00

Animal cells do not have rigid cell walls,this allows Animal cells to form and adopt various shapes. Many types of plant cells there is an absence of flagellae and Centrioles that are found in animal cells. The plant cell has a cell wall and the animal cell doesn't. Unlike the animal cell the plant cell has a chloroplasts.

Paramecium -- 12-07-11

2011-12-07T14:17:31-05:00

Microscopes -- 12-01-11

2011-12-01T14:26:04-05:00

This week my team and I worked on microrganisms and how to use microscopes we first looked at some feather's under microscopes we zoomed in so far we could see the individual strands on the feather it was cool. The farthest you can go on one is 40x zoom and there are two knobs that you can turn to adjust the bigger one on the top is for when you move stage up and down and to adjust the object so you can see it better.

Expirements -- 11-08-11

2011-11-08T14:27:58-05:00

My team and I did expirements with brine shrimp in different environments. The first environment was soda and a smartie dissolved into water we put the brine shrimp in and most of them died and fell to the bottom. The second vile had an egg and salt and water, the brine shrimp died. The third vile was salt and water the brine shrimp lived!, amazing. The fourth was pepper, smartie, and water they died tremendously. The fith was water and chocolate we thought there was a large chance they would survive but they died! The last was smashed up smartie and water, surprisingly they lived.

Environments -- 10-25-11

2011-10-25T14:26:45-05:00

Environments can change alot about a species. It can die because its not right for it or it can evolve and overcome it. In class we had five different substances, that were red sand, yeast, polyacrylate crystals, seeds, brine shrimp. The things that appeared living was the seeds and brine shrimp. The things that seemed not living were the crystals, yeast, and red sand.

What is living? -- 10-25-11

2011-10-25T14:08:10-05:00

What really is living? Living things have to be able to breath, eat, sleep, grow, die, and reproduce like humans and every other animals.

G5 Biomes Movie -- 10-03-11

2011-10-03T14:02:51-05:00

this movie is about the Alaskan tundra biome

Newtons Laws -- 05-20-10

2010-05-20T10:28:39-05:00

Elastic Force -- 05-05-10

2010-05-05T10:17:32-05:00

Elastic force is when the force of a rubber band and other stretchy object stretches or expands at short or long distance. You can very the amount of force by the amount you expand the object. An example of elastic force is a sling shot. When you load it with a rock you would have to pull the rubberband lines back long enough so it will go a great distance. Then the force of the lines would sling it a certain direction. I learned that rubber bands are very stretchy and have a lot of force.

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Batteries -- 04-26-10

2010-04-26T10:07:00-05:00

Energy changes from one form to another by transferring through things. When it is still in the battery it is called stored chemical energy. When it transfers through to something it is called electrical energy. When my teams rechargeable battery was dead, we charged it. So that we would not get electrocuted, we unplugged it before we put the two battery's in. After we charged our battery for three minutes we put the two battery's in the flashlight and the light stayed lit for six minutes and five seconds.

Glog -- 03-25-10

2010-03-25T09:58:47-05:00

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The awesome WIki -- 03-17-10

2010-03-17T10:28:42-05:00

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Weed pulling -- 12-15-09

2009-12-15T22:07:33-05:00

One day my 6th grade class and I went weed pulling at the Chimacum grange. We split up into two groups and my group went to go weed pulling 1st. We were pulling out weeds like crazy then I came upon a large root about 9 inches across and 11 inches tall it was quiet a struggle trying to pull it out. After that we went to the creek and we saw how big it was getting - it was huge! Overall, I had a good time with my class that day and helped clean up the community at the same time.

Fresh water pollution -- 10-28-09

2009-10-28T10:29:29-05:00

What is fresh water pollution??

Water pollution occurs when waste products or other substance dramatically change the physical, thermal, chemical or biological chareristics of water which affects the living things in the water! Some sources are sewage, chemicals, and heat. We wont have any fresh water to drink if everyone keeps polluting our water supply. Fresh water needs to stop being polluted by everyone! We would have no fresh water animals.

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We can try and stop people from throwing trash in the lakes and rivers; we can also help clean out all the garbage from them. We can tell people to carpool or ride the busses and not take your cars everywhere and putting a whole bunch of gas pollution in the air. By doing that everyone will stop polluting the air and affecting everyone around us. We can help by trying to pick up a lot of the garbage on sidewalks and everywhere around us. We can try and get the word out about what would happen if everyone not just one person, littered.

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andnbsp;How do they get in our water supply??

Nitrates are a chemical that is good for animals and plants but unhealthy for humans. They simply would make a grown man incredibly sick within hours. They help plants and animals to get nourishment. They get in our water supply by fertilizers because when it rains the fertilizer slides down hills and into our rivers. Rivers are most of our water supply.

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What effects do high levels of nitrates

It could cause illnesses or death with four months olds. It could cause blue baby syndrome. High levels of nitrates can be harmful to humans and animals health. The highest amount of nitrates drinking water is 10mg/L. Nitrates in the water supply can hurt you by giving you illness and the possible chance of death!

What are point and non-point sources of pollution and

andnbsp;What are the differences between the two??

Point sources are a specific source of pollution. Also point sources can be identified. Itandrsquo;s a source when you know where the pollution is coming from. A non-point is when you donandrsquo;t know where itandrsquo;s coming from! The difference is point can be found and non-point is too hard to find and non-point is more than one source! Non-point and point are similar because they are kinds of pollution.

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Volcanoes and lava -- 10-15-09

2009-10-15T00:00:00-05:00

I will start out with volcanoes then lava. First an example of a composite volcano is Mt. Saint Helens! Our volcano! These volcanoes are many miles wide and several thousand feet high. They consist of layers of solid lava flows mixed with layers of sand- or gravel-like volcanic rock called cinders or volcanic ash.

A cinder cone volcano these volcanoes consist mostly of loose grainy cinders and no lava. They are smaller than the usual composite volcano. A shield volcano is what makes up the islands of Hawaii. The lava is frozen and big craters at the top.

Now onto lava! Low water/low silica is a type of lava that is really runny not like water but more like hot wax or warm honey. When these types of lavas erupt they can flow for long distances before solidifying.

Low water/high silica lava is very "pasty" like soft clay and hardly flow at all ending up with a tall, narrow pile of lava. This type of lava is high in silica, or quartz, and tends to stick together.

High water/low silica lava has low viscosity and bubbles and froths a great deal right at the surface. It produces tiny cinders and larger "bombs" of lava that quickly cool and fall back to the ground. This type of eruption creates a spectacular "fire fountain" at the top. The remaining lava quietly flows away.

The last type of lava is high water/high silica this type of lava is inside the mountain known as Mt. Saint Helens! As the lava oozes to the surface, the gases quickly form bubbles that turn the lava into a red-hot froth that explodes out of the ground. A hot grayish cloud of superheated steam and tiny particles called ash is what makes up the explosion.

cispus trip -- 10-04-09

2009-10-04T20:21:19-05:00

Cispus was very fun. I really enjoyed going on the hike with my friends to Mt. St. Helens and the other group activities. My favorite part was archery lessons and lunch. The food was great!

My new random facts -- 10-04-09

2009-10-04T20:12:11-05:00

1. I love sports
2. I have two dogs
3. I like food
4. I don't have braces
5. Im a boss!
6. I hate Clowns
7. And I have seen every single movie ever made