Category: Science 9

Innovation project – Regenerative circuit

1. During the innovation project I was constantly thinking about how we could collaborate better within our group to make our project better. When I thought that we would have a problem proceeding with our project I would share it with my group so we could work around it or get rid of it. I was also always willing to try out new ideas.

2. I think our collaboration went very well because we were always willing to listen to each other when we had an idea about how to make our project better and if we were having trouble.

3. I enjoyed how everyone could get to have time to look up information about something that they wanted to. I would change how you present it, by maybe doing it in front of less people. I learned how to collaborate better with people I had never talked to before

 

Cancer story – stomach cancer

I awoke as as my host had once again spent the morning running between her bed and the bathroom so she wouldn’t get sick on the floor of her room. She was diagnosed with stomach cancer after having multiple blood tests and an Endoscopy. I started out as a tiny tumor that was barely detectable on the innermost layer of her stomach called the mucosa. I have now tripled in size and am roughly the size of a large orange. I was created when one of of my host’s cells started to grow and multiply too rapidly.

My host was diagnosed with stage 3 stomach cancer at the age of 15. She started showing signs of having cancer after having abdominal pain, weight loss, a change in skin colour on her stomach, feeling nauseous and vomiting up blood. She was also showing signs of jaundice, which is a yellowish discolouration of the skin. My host has been going to chemotherapy for about 2 years now and has taken part in a clinical trial.

Next month my host is going in for a Gastrectomy, which is a surgery where you get either a portion of or your entire stomach removed. After her surgery she will have to make all sorts of diet changes such as eating smaller meals throughout the day, avoiding foods with high fibre, eating foods rich in calcium, iron, and vitamins C and D, and possibly even taking vitamin supplements.

Part 2:

1)

What are the symptoms?
What cures have been created?
What are the risks?
What changes will have to be made after surgery?
How does cancer start?

2) I used the internet and  Microsoft word.

3) I first started by research the big idea which was stomach cancer, then I broke it down into multiple separate ideas and researched each of those.

4) I used multiple different websites to make sure that they information all had the same basic idea to make sure that it was accurate.

5) The process went well and successful. I think to make it have gone better I could of had a better idea on what I wanted the final project to look like.

Sources:

http://www.healthline.com/health/gastrectomy#followup7

http://www.medicinenet.com/jaundice_in_adults/article.htm

http://www.webmd.com/cancer/stomach-gastric-cancer#1

http://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/stomach/treatment/?region=bc

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/whoami/findoutmore/yourbody/whatiscancer/howdoescancerbegin

DNA model

  1.  chromosomes, DNA, and genes are all something that get passed down genetically as well as all three manipulate the organism’s characteristics, visibly and non-visibly.
  2. a) in our model the licorice represents the sugar/phosphate backbone
  3. b) the marshmallows represent the bases. Green = guanine (G), Pink = cytosine (C), Yellow = adenine (A), Orange = thymine (T)
  4. This activity helped me understand the structure of DNA because we had to make a model and it was a hands-on activity. It also helped me understand the structure of DNA because we had clear instructions on how to create the model.

Observing cells

1. a) Under the microscope animal cells look like squiggly lines. Very few cell structures are visible from what Clare and I observed. We could only manage to make out three of the cell structures.

b) Under the microscope plant cells look like reptile scales. Even fewer cell structures were visible only the Vacuole was visible from what Clare and I managed to see. It was easier to find plant cells then animal cells due to the fact that we were using a red onion.

2. You can tell plant and animal cells apart by the fact that animal cells look more germy and plant cells look more scale-y. Also animal cells will be more blue  do to the mathylene we use.

3. The reason that we used methylene  on the plant cell is because it’s less visible then the plant cell. We didn’t use it on the plant cell was because it is easier to find and more visible.

4. Reflection:

I learned the proper way to use a microscope, what animal and plant cells look like, also how difficult it can be to find the cell structures. I also learned so much that i didn’t know such as what cells look like under a microscope, how to use a microscope, and how to prepare a slide. I had never learned about cells before that lab  learned about cells before

Some questions I had were: what would it look like if we had a stronger microscope?, How different do all cells look ?, what do my cells look like?

I am curious about how everyone’s cells look, how strong the microscope has to be to see everything, and how different everyone’s cells are.

 

Final Solution Fluency Proposal

Our final proposal for our solution project is a device that will regenerate and heal someone. The person could be regenerated or healed through a plug of some kind located somewhere on the body such as the neck. All healing facilities would have the device that regenerates or heals the person ready to use at all times. It would not be able to heal people that have passed from old age, only diseases, internal injuries and infections.

We believe that this project could give people another chance at living the life the wanted, learn what they haven’t yet learned and another chance.

Although our proposal would require lots of special technology to be created and implanted into people we believe that it could really help in out in the world and impact the future of the human race. It may even be able to help out people that suffer from common disorders such as sleeping or eating disorders that can result in death.

Our proposal will help better the human race!

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/03/big-idea/organ-regeneration-text

static electricity discovery

I think that the 3 most important things that we have learned about static electricity is how we generate static electricity and by what materials, the different types of charges that static electricity has and what effects static electricity can have on us. The lab that i found most helpful was the lab with the Van de Graaff machine because it was an important piece of science equipment that we use, we were all interacting with it and each other at some point and we also could try different things with it. One last Way that it was helpful is that we could observe what happened with the static electricity when other people went to up to get involved and you weren’t, but you weren’t doing nothing we were also making predictions and observations.