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Mutation Story

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Mutation:  mantel cell lymphomia Part 1:

I was gene #24,719 and minding my own business inside my host’s body going about my day as usual, telling the body how to make all its proteins and such. But one day, there was a dandrously large group of B-cells (lymphocytes) inside one place of the host. B-cells are a kind of blood cells that protects the body from infection and is part of our immune system.

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Later on, I found out that there was an injury to the DNA inside my cell. I just told myself that “oh, I’ll be fine, I’ll just sleep it off”. The next day, little did I know that each time my cell divided, this injury to my DNA would replicate with each cell division. I also noticed that the cell that was created after I divided, containing the injured DNA from me, had better survivability than the other cells.

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Eventually, there was so many messed up cells, that lymphoma started to develop. Lymphoma developed since the cell division and cell death were not balanced. All the abnormal cells started to mutate and form one tumor after another, mostly on my host’s lymph glands. Boy, what a disaster! All of this happened all because I divided with a defect in my DNA.paragraph 3

 

Host Point of View:

I cannot wait to go see the new movie coming out soon. Five weeks later, oh goodness me, the doctor says I have multiple tumors and possibly cancer caused by mantel cell lymphoma or whatever he said. I have no other choice except to go in to the hospital next month on January 5th. Otherwise, if I was to go any later, the tumours would get bigger and continue spreading. I cannot do it any earlier since the hospital had a fire and it will not be fixed any time soon. Too bad I have to go on the 5th because it’scancer cell my daughter’s wedding. Bummer.

 

Part 2:

  • What questions did you need to research in order to create your mutation story?
  1. How does a cell mutate and what actually happens?
  2. How does a tumour begin?

 

  • What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?

I used Google’s search engine on the Internet.

 

  • What was the process you used to investigate the topic?

I researched information about gene mutation on Google, and then I thought about it and wrote this story in my own words.

 

  • How did you verify and cite the information you found?

The sites I read seemed credible since I visited a Lymphoma website and I read information on Wikipedia that contained factual information.

SITES USED:

http://www.lymphomation.org/type-MCL.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-cell_lymphoma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_cell

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  • How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?

I think I did pretty well on the story part and I added pictures to make it more interesting. The researching went well although I think I could improve by adding more facts.

 

 

Pop Can Race Lab

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Pop Can Race

How can you make an empty pop can roll the greatest distance without touching it?

My hypothesis:

I would rub a balloon with cloth and do the same to the pop can, then put the balloon behind the pop can and hope that it would move.

I will test my hypothesis in the science classroom.

My observations:

The can only moves when you rub the balloon on your head or with cloth. The can gets attracted to the balloon somehow and slowly moves towards the charged balloon. It doesn’t move with anything but the balloon.

Conclusions:

The best combo was rubbing the balloon on your hair/wool and then putting it in front of the can.

What combinations worked best? Why do you think they were effective?

The combination that worked best was rubbing the balloon on your hair/wool in one place. This was effective because the statically charged balloon pulled the pop can towards it.

What combinations were the least effective? Why do you think this is?

The least effective combinations were rubbing the balloon with wood, plastic, metal, straw or glass. I thing that these materials did not work like the balloon and wool/hair combo because they couldn’t produce a great enough charge

 

SCIENCE POP CAN RACE 1 SCIENCE POP CAN RACE 2

Matter Matters

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Matter Matters

By Alex and Erik

  • Define the problem in your own words. Concider the following:
  1. Why these concepts might be hard to understand: these concepts might be hard to understand? because we have not learned this yet, and we might not understand the vocab

-How all these ideas fit under the heading of matter:

 

Because matter is everything and everywere.

2. How would one makes something engaging?

By making it user friendly and fun, like for example bill nye the science guy.

3) Dream possibilities of how to share/teach this information in an engaging way. List all the possibilities you brainstorm no matter how far fetcher they are on you blog.

Teaching information technology

  1. put sites to other sites
  2. link sites to gaming sites that have things to study from

(or have a school site name to fool the teachers)

 

III.     do some hands on work

  1. have links to videos to study from
  2. make a video on what you learned that so other classes can learn what u learned
  3. do projects for further generations

 

MIKND MAOP FOE SCIENCE

VII.     watch educational TV shows

4)Debrief the process asking questions such as: How did the process of completing this challenge go? What did you do well? What could you have done better?

-How did the process of completing this challenge go?

It was difficult since there was a bunch of words that we did not know and that reading it was really confusing.

-What did you do well on?

I think that we did good on the mind map since it looks pretty and displays the possibility’s of making it engaging.

-What could you have done better?

I think we could have done better answering the questions since we did not know what half the words meant.

 

 

 

 

 

Controlled Flame Experiment

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Controlled Flame Experement

We did an experiment where there was a flame in a beaker. We covered  the beaker with different materials to see if different materials would take different time to extinguish the flame.

Our question was if different materials would affect the time it would take to put out a candle by covering the material over the candle.

Our hypothesis was that all the objects would have different times.

We found out that the different materials did have different outputs. So our hypotheses was correct.

Here are the results:

Paper= 1 minutes and 32 out of two minuets

Paper with holes= 2 minutes out of two minutes

Card board= 37 seconds out of two minutes

Glass object= 45 seconds out of two minuets

If I was to change the experiment again, I would change the size of the beaker that we put the candle in, and the size of the candle or maybe even put in multiple candles

candle in a beaker