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First People’s Principles of Learning

The first people’s principles of learning contain lots of topics including two that I have decided to talk about. The first topic I would like to talk about is that learning involves understanding the consequences of your actions. First people want their children to understand that every single thing that you do can have some type of consequence whether it be positive, neutral or negative. This principle highlights that each person must take responsibility for their actions. Being aware that we are all related we must understand that our actions can affect others or the environment. Understanding this principle in education means that teachers can help students understand that by not doing their work their consequence would be a bad grade, but by doing their work they would be rewarded by a good grade and if teachers give students some more choices in their learning they can find that the students will start to find out the way they learn best.  This relates to our current unit because when we learned about Ecosystem we can see that if we were to have something missing in a certain Ecosystem the whole system would be affected (a negative consequence). We also connect to this with our experiment because every ground has a living aspect and by doing this project we could kill an animal or plant. In our unit, we are learning how everything we do can have a consequence.

The second topic I have chosen is that learning involves generational roles and responsibilities. this principle reflects the understanding that teaching and learning is a responsibility of all members of a community. As you develop your skills and knowledge it is expected that you will then teach others. This principle is a responsibility that will end up strengthening communities. It is a learners responsibility to figure out and understand what they’re supposed to learn. This process lets learners develop understandings that apply to them personally, this promotes personal responsibility for learning. Understanding this principle in education means that teachers would understand that every child learns differently, the students job is to be responsible for their learning and the projects they do in school. This relates to our current unit because in our project we are responsible for taking care and making sure that we do well in the data collecting stage so that when it is time to share our information we understand fully what we learned. Because we all have a stronger connection to our projects we should have a deeper understanding

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Mutation Story

I was just 1 gene with a dream, a dream to make a baby boy that would have no life problems. Of course, I was passed down to the son by his father who was colour blind so unfortunately, this child will end up with the same fate as his father. I am an OPN1MW gene who got mutated when I was created. Because I was mutated when I start to make opsin pigments in the S cones for the eye for my host to see, they all turned out to be defective. Those S cones contain the genes that produce photopigments that are needed to make my host able to see colours but since they were defective that means that my host is red/green colour blind. My host has they type of red/green colour blindness called Protanopia which like all colour vision defects is on the X chromosome. if you’re wondering how I became mutated it’s honestly quite simple, during DNA replication i went through a process called Point mutation. Point mutation is a random mutation that happens on one nucleotide. Now you may think that being colour blind is no big deal but really it affects the host quite a bit. My host’s eyesight will be altered because they will have troubles distinguishing certain colours. Since my host is red/green colour blind he will loose the ability to see green, red, orange, pink and purple coloured tones which can make it hard for him to do things such as driving. Being colour blind has no physical effects to your body so you could be walking on the street and walk past 20 colour blind people and you would never know.

The Making of a Mutation Story

1)What did you need to research in order to create your mutation story? I had to research lots of stuff about colour blindness, like what it is like to be colour blind and how you become colour blind.

2)What new or familiar digital devices did you try to use ad you worked through this project? I used my laptop and iPad to do this project.

3)What was the process you used to investigate the topic? I researched each question and made sure I had all the information i needed to make this story. Then  wrote the story and did these questions.

4)How did you verify and cite the information you found? I wrote down everything I used to create this story and I wrote down all the websites that I used. www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov www.prezi.com/wiadrqexsmd/mutations-colour-blindness/ www.colourblindawareness.com

5)How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better? The actual process of doing this project was fine but I think that I should’ve done this more spaced out so I didn’t do it all at once so that i wouldn’t have been so stressed about it.

Electric eel 3D model reflection

In this project we made sure that we dived the work equally, Julia did 2 of the questions and I did 2 questions and then we worked together to create the 3D model. I think our model turned out quite well but I think we could have made it a bit more accurate. Julia and I worked well together on this assignment, we have done lots of projects together before so we already know that we work well together. The thing I would have fixed about this would be to work a little faster so we didn’t stress as much.

Science App Review

DEFINE: I need to find a fun app to help understand atoms. How they look, that their atomic number and atomic mass are and what each element is.

DREAM: make your own periodic table showing how each atom looks.

APP: Nova Elements

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DELIVER: The app Nova Elements is quite helpful when you are trying to learn about atoms and how they look. Unfortunately, the app had no instructions on how to use it but I was able to figure it out after a little bit of exploration. I liked that this app lets you do different things. you can go to the element table and click each element and it will show you everything about each individual element, or you can play a game and create atoms and then put all those atoms together and make things like calcium and water.

DEBRIEF: I wish i spent a little more time going through the periodic table part of the app instead of doing the game most of the time.