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Zinc Oxide: The Most Rad Compound
Zinc Oxide: The Most Rad Compound
ZnO.
Zinc Oxide has long been used for skin care, burns, and minor scaring. It was discovered by… many people. It was used by the Greeks to make brass in the 1st Century AD, it was been used by the Indians, then the Europeans and Chinese. However, from what we know Andreas Marggraf and Antoine Lavoisier have been the main contributors to the popularization of Zinc. Zinc Oxide is a compound made up of Oxygen and Zinc. Zinc is a transition metal and oxygen is a Chalcogen.
https://www.webelements.com/oxygen/
https://sites.google.com/site/zincoxidetco/project-definition
http://www.thedermreview.com/zinc-oxide/
Zinc: The Raddest Element On Earth.
By: Hugo Garcia
Pride and Upskirt Prejudice: Sam The Athlete Persuasive Paragraph
Hugo Garcia, 17/9/2015
Pride and Up-skirt prejudice
If the best way to describe someone’s attempts at doing well can be summed up by “ trying so hard, and […] failing— miserably,” you’d want to change wouldn’t you? The story “Sam The Athlete” by Stuart McLean faces the topic of social norms, insecurities and the struggle of a boy to fit into school and sports teams. When Sam was given the opportunity to fit in and finally be his own hero it didn’t matter to him that he had to wear a skirt, he just wanted to play. Sam’s decision to wear a skirt and play on a girls team wasn’t one out of vanity or mischievousness, it was one out of ecstasy (the good kind). Sam had always wanted to be great at something, to literally have an A-1 game, wearing a skirt just happened to be one of the things he needed to use to be happy. As the author said “Sam’s skirt was making him happy,” and it was because the skirt wasn’t on his mind as much as the sport was, the sport was his focus and the skirt was a tool. If trying to be happy in an active way is a bad thing just because you’re worried about norms, then why is it that people have only ever moved forward by pushing the limits and striving for more? In short Sam made the right decision by wearing a skirt, as it was his way to be active and happy.
Projet de Francais
Slivers of Silver
When we added (AgNO3) to a strand of copper, silver solidified on the copper. It looked like branches. After a while we could we the liquid turn blue because the chemicals where sharing electrons, causing a chemical change. I liked this activity because we could see this silver branches expand and expand. It really helped me understand howbmetals can look and change.
No, alchemy is not real, you can’t make something out of nothing. Alchemists were just lying to their bosses. May be they did things like this experiment to trick their bosses.
Mutant Bees Project
I think A bees mutation is a positive mutation because the extra antennae make the bee more sensitive. Meaning that it can feel more things.
I think B bees mutation is negative because it doesn’t have any wings. Given the fact that bees need to fly to live, I drew the conclusion that it’s a negative mutation.
I think C bees mutation is neutral because a bee dies once it stings someone. So the size of the stinger doesn’t matter. It’ll die any ways.
I think this activity was OK it demonstrated how mutations work, but it wasn’t really clear. It was fun though .
DNA Bracelet
DNA leads to protein like this: DNA is in the nucleus, inside the nucleus it is copied by mRNA. The mRNA seeps out through the pores of the nuclear membrane. Then the mRNA is grabbed by a Ribosome, the Ribosome reads the codons of the RNA. Codons are made up of three letters; each codon can consist on A, C, T, and/or G. Each codon (triplet) is an instruction for amino acids. When codons are read a specific amino acid is added to each of the letters. Amino Acids then make proteins.
This activity models codons and amino acids by giving us a visual representation of how they are ready by the ribosomes and how each letter co-relates with each other.
I think this activity is helpful because if you don’t understand how proteins and amino acids work you can use this as a visual guode. Furthermore, this activity is fairly easy to do and is fun. Which helps you remember the steps better. Plus, froot-loops are pretty delicious.
RE: Can we auto-correct humanity?
I do not agree with him. He’s saying that iPhones and iMacs along with iPads are destroying our social life. But, maybe this is an iFad. Maybe he’s not seeing this for what it is. Because we’re not spending less time with friends. We’re spending more time with them. Is a conversation less significant because you can’t look at someone’s eyes when you’re telling them “It’s okay”? Yeah, technology has its bad parts. Doesn’t everything? Humanity has been spattered with good people and bad people since the beginning. We now have e-bullies, but isn’t that better than a black eye? Maybe we need more face to face, but isn’t face time the same? Maybe it’s the 21st spoiled mind looking at this from a different angle, or maybe the 20th century parents can’t change. Texting doesn’t erase talking, it ads to the conversation. We can’t rip apart technology, because we’re scared. Rock music, books, and education have been ripped apart the same way.
My first blog went a little like this: Blog, and twist.
This is my first edublog (as if that wasn’t made explicit enough by my title). I hope I get more inspiration to write something later, but for now this is my post.