proportional reasoning review

PART 1

in this unit the area I tend to struggle with is word problems. I struggle with understanding what to do and how to draw out the equation from word problems. one that I had most difficulty with was the first one below. the mistake I made was placements of the numbers, I used all the correct numbers just in the incorrect spot causing the answer to be wrong.

  1. two cities are 575 km apart on a map 1 cm represents 120 km how far apart are the cities on the map.

575/120 = 1/x          x= 0.20

the correct answer for this equation is…

1/120 = x/575        x=  4.79

the second equation in this unit I struggled with as well was another word equation

2. a driving distance is 650 km, the distance shown on a map is 4 cm, what is the scale factor?

650/1  = 4/ x   SF= 0.61

the correct answer for this equation is…

SF= 4/650000000, = 1/162500000

 

PART 2

A YouTube video that I found helpful was the one posted below…

lit circle individual project

this is my electronic representation on my news article written from the story “The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian”. I had written the article based on the main character “Junior”, and his best friend “Rowdy”. the article talks about their friendship and the time their friendship was put to the test by a bold decision made by junior.

first peoples principles of learning

The two principles of learning I have chosen to discuss about where learning involves patients and time. This related to our experiment because it takes time and patients to learn, we wont be able to have completed the assignment and learned everything in one day, we need to take time and learn to our full understanding. and secondly I chose to do is learning involves recognition that some knowledge is sacred and only shared with permission and/or in certain situations. This means that not all information we have is ours to tell and its someone else’s to share if they would like to. The firsts nations people feel connected to the environment and have a strong relationship with earth i feel like this video states that I chose a video from an iconic Disney movie to help relate it to something some people might have already seen. Earth is considered their sacred land and it lets them respectfully connect with their elders.

mutation story

Part one

Hello my name is Sydney and I am a cell. I live with my host named Amanda, she is very kind and tells the puniest jokes ever, one time we were at the mall and she said “what was the biologist wearing on his date with a girl?” … “designer genes!”. I laughed so hard I almost lost my GALT gene. Amanda is my best friend, but we get bullied a lot because Amanda has stickler syndrome. It all started on the day we were born, there was a mutation in the COL2A1 gene on chromosome 12 in region 12q13.11-q13.2. which is type i and symbolizes STL1. I was scared and didn’t know what was happening. There had appeared to be a mutation caused by connective tissue that is distributed throughout the body and a group of disorders through connective tissue. Amanda’s body does not make collage properly. The hardest problem to face is Tessa. Tessa is a girl in Amanda’s class who finds it amusing to bully Amanda. Stickler syndrome makes it so Amanda is nearsighted, has hearing loss and small eyes and ears. everyday we go to school and then Tessa and her entourage come over and say “you have small ears” or “you look different” this hurt Amanda’s feelings but she knew she was different and she liked that, she liked being different than everybody else and liked being special. Amanda’s best friends name was Lexi. Lexi has been Amanda’s friend since they were young and Lexi always has Amanda’s back. Years later Amanda had decided to go to college and unfortunately Amanda and Lexi had to part ways. They still stayed in contact but it was different then being together. Amanda zoomed through college like a pro and one thing led to another and she fell in love. Amanda worked in a small coffee shop on the corner of the street everyday a man would order the same drink at the same time for the next two months. Eventually the man had asked Amanda out. 5 years after that Amanda had gotten married and had a baby girl who had stickler syndrome also (stickler syndrome has a 50% chance of passing down to children) and that’s when my best friend sally the cell was born.

Part two

Overall I had really enjoyed this project and found that it helped my understanding on stickler syndrome by creating a story about it. Some questions that I had to research were “what is stickler syndrome” and also “what effects does stickler syndrome have?” after a bit of researching I had found out that stickler syndrome effects your eyesight, ears, nose and hearing. I found some great websites and sources of information on the following websites: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/stickler-syndrome/home/ovc-20261037, and http://www.seattlechildrens.org/medical-conditions/chromosomal-genetic-conditions/stickler/. I enjoyed writing this story and liked the idea of incorporating science into it. While writing this story I had tried to use the four E’s and grammar tools as well. I had found out lots of information about stickler syndrome that I wasn’t aware about before and next time I think ill work on the plot of my story a bit longer.