Category Archives: Grade 9
Athlete/Artiste- Absolument Admirable
Will Smith
Will Smith est un acteur. Will Smith est très drôle est beau. Il est grand. Will Smith est très célèbre. Il a un fille nommée Willow est il a deux fils appelés Trey et Jaden. Will Smith a une femme nommée Jada. Will Smith est très riche. Will Smith est mon acteur préféré. Will Smith a remporté de nombreux prix.
Roberts Syndrome
Part 1:
Hi I’m Roberts’s syndrome! I am a genetic disorder characterized by limb and facial abnormalities. I am a very rare disorder, only 150 individuals have been recorded to have me. You can inherit me if both your parents carry one copy of my mutated gene. When you have me you may grow slowly before and after you’re born! Half of all people that have me have mild to severe learning disorders. Children born with me can have some abnormalities in all four limbs. They can have shortened arm and leg bones and sometimes they are so short that the hands and feet are located very close to the body. People that have me may have missing fingers and toes. They can also have joint deformities. Arms are usually more affected then legs though. People that have me may have several facial abnormalities like a cleft lip or a cleft palate. They may also have a small chin, interesting ear shapes, wide set eyes, small nostrils and a beaked nose. Infants with a severe case of me often are often stillborn or die shortly after birth.
Part 2:
How was the mutation caused? Substitution? Insertion? Deletion? You can inherit this syndrome if both of your parents carry one copy of the mutated gene.
How did it affect the body? Did it affect the AA sequence? People that have Roberts Syndrome may have several facial abnormalities like a cleft lip or a cleft palate. They may also have a small chin, interesting ear shapes, wide set eyes, small nostrils and a beaked nose.
What are the symptoms of these genes? Growing slowly, mild to severe learning disorders, and shortened limbs
What sort of treatment is there for this mutation? At this moment in scientific history there is no treatment due to how little people have this syndrome
What is the normal life expectancy? Most individuals live well into adult hood, but others die shortly after birth
Are there any set backs like learning disabilities? Yes, over half of all individuals have mild to severe learning disabilities. Also they may have cleft lip/ palette which sets them back on eating, talking, and drinking
Digital Tools
Started with what I knew from the beginning (that was very minimal information). From there I simply researched the name of my syndrome. I made sure to choose the websites that were easy to follow. I also made sure to make sure my information was correct by seeing if I could the same information on another site. Then I took the information from the different sites to create a mutation story.
Verifying and citing
What I like to do in order to verify my information is to cross reference it. If I find a piece of information from one source I want to see if it’s been provided from another. This way I have more sources behind my information. I made sure to check usage rights on the website to see make sure I was allowed to use the information.
Final Thoughts
I found this project quite fun to do, it is a very good way to test your creative ability. I definitely learned a lot more about the syndrome I chose. I found writing a story in a first person point of view to be very creative and also easy to do since we typically talk in first person on a 24/7 bases.
DNA word de-coding lab
In class we were to pick a word and then use the froot loops to make a bracelet. The word I chose was clumsy and this is how the bracelet turned out.
Marshmallow DNA strand Lab
In class we were given a sheet of paper telling us what each strand of DNA should be. Then we had to put it on and twist it so it looked like a double helix. This is how it turned out.
Cheek Cell Lab
In class we were working with microscopes. We had to take a tooth pick and rub inside our mouths on our cheeks. Then we were to put the saliva on to a slide and dye it with blue dye. Once we did that we were to look at the cells we collected on low, medium, and high power. This is what my cells looked like on high power.
Taming of the Shrew Stop Motion Induction Scene Project
In the play “Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare a man named Christopher sly goes to a bar and orders a drink, then another one, and another he drinks until he gets drunk. He then passes out on the floor of the bar. A lord and his huntsman walk into the bar where sly passed out and the pick him up and carry him back to the lords castle. The huntsman and the lord come in and pick sly up to pull a prank on him. They bring him back to the castle. The lord plans a prank to trick sly into thinking he is the lord. They also hire a boy to dress up as a lady and pretend to be sly’s wife. When he wakes up he believes he is the lord. Then sly tells all the men to leave. The travelling play performers come to the door and ask to stay over, the play people come and get Page. They ask if they can perform for them. Then the people start to preform there play, “Taming of the Shrew”. In the play a father tries to find a wife his eldest daughter but she’s a shrew. All the men in the town want to wed the youngest daughter, Bianca. But since no one likes the eldest daughter, the father declares that the youngest can’t get married until the oldest does. The rest of the play continues the story.
We (Anna and Kaitland, Rylee) learned that stop motion is pretty difficult and a little frustrating because you have to move the little pieces and balance them. We also learned that you should mark where your pieces are each time you move. And the faster the video is the better the finished project looks.
Propaganda Poster
My poster uses 4 different types of propaganda, the first one is scape goat because it is showing who the enemy is. It also says on the poster “Humans are the enemy” The next one is plain folk because I am making this poster in the pigs perspective and the pigs are trying to make them selfs seem the same as the other animals. They are trying to show that they have the animals best interest in mind and not just their own. The third one is plain folk because i am showing bad pictures of the enemy which makes them seem much worse then they are. And lastely it is Fear because i am showing that all the animals may get whipped or hunted if they continue being under the humans power. I am trying to create fear so that all the animals decide to rebel.
Science App Review
Science App Review
Periodic Table
When you first open the app it has very brief instructions on how to use the app. Then you click the periodic table icon and it shows you all the elements. Once you are at the elements you can click on whatever one you want to. If you click an element it will show you all the information you need to know about the element. Below the periodic table there is a whole bunch of different things to click that shows you the states at certain points.
Questions:
Is the app easy to use? Yes the app is very easy to use
Can the app be understood quickly? Yes, as soon as the app is opened the first thing you see are brief instructions explaining how to use the app
Can the app be used to teach high school students? Yes the app teaches you the main facts about each element
Can the app be used as a learning tool rather than a game? Yes there are no games in the app, it is simply a periodic table telling you about each element
Is the app able to teach you? Yes the app has a very good amount of information
Is the app intriguing and easy to pay attention to? Or do you get bored while using it? The app does not make you bored while you are using it
Science 9 honours- Bag of Change
Chemical A (Sodium bicarbonate) : (left)
Chemical B (chemical Chloride: (right)
Chemical C (Bromothymol blue): Chemical C looked like blue food colouring
Mix them together:
Observations: The mixture turned yellow/orange. It also started to heat up and caused the plastic bag to inflate.
