Monthly Archives: January 2018
Solution Fluency Project – Kits for Kids
Define: All around the world, children, adults and families live in poverty. Approximately 1.3 billion people live in conditions of extreme poverty today. This is a big problem in our society. Many people around the world do not have access to the amenities and objects that we take for granted. It’s sad to think that there are children in our world that do not have access to a tooth brush or even a trusty pair of socks. Yes, there are organizations out there, already working on helping people who live in poverty, but the thing that makes us unique, is that we are children taking a stand and making it our mission to help other kids living in poverty. They say that children are the future, let’s help make the future bright an help the children of our world.
Dream: Our plan is to make a package, full of necessities like canned food, small clothing items, toiletries, etc. We are going to start off by creating one packages for one child and send it to a girl in Columbia. Once we know that our package was successfully created and sent, we will start to take our idea further and hopefully create many more packages for children in need, around the world.
Deliver: We are planning on placing all the items that we collected for the package and place them in a box to keep the items safe and unharmed. Then, we are hoping that the package will get hand-delivered to the child that we are giving the package to. We will not be there to deliver it, but we will be there in spirit and we will hope that she will like the package!
Debrief: We are proud that we have been able to think of an idea of how we could help our planet and actually create it! From the beginning, we wanted to fundraise to raise money for the packages and create several packages to give to several kids. Yet, due to our lack of time to fundraise and the amount of money that it would cost to create several packages without being able to fundraise, we decided to start with one package and go from there. I believe that all of us would’ve liked to send more packages then to just one, but we know that if we keep our dream alive and work hard to reach our goal, it will be some day possible. This project has really inspired all of us in our group to help others in our world. No matter how old or how far away you are, there is nothing stopping you from helping others.
Core Competencies Self Assessment – Podcast Project
Modeling Mitosis
1. Prophase. In this step, the nuclear membrane has dissolved and spindle fibres have begun to attach to the chromosomes and pull the fibres. The fibres attach onto the centromere, which acts like a belt that holds the two chromatids together.
2. Metaphase. In this phase, the spindle fibres have brought the chromosomes into the middle of the cell to for a straight line right down the center of the cell.
3. Anaphase. In this step, the spindle fibres have pulled the chromatids appart from each other and have dragged them to opposite sides of the cell. The cell begins to stretch and split.
4. Telophase. In this phase, the cell has split into two new cells and two new nucleuses have formed in each new cell. The chromatids that were split appart are now inside the new nucleuses.
Mutation Story
Websites that I used: www.healthline.com
www.childrenshospital.org
Core Competencies – Self Reflections – Math 9
Edible DNA Model
What is DNA & What is it’s Function?
DNA is a molecule that is stored inside the nucleus in your cells. Inside the nucleus, there are 46 chromosomes (23 pairs) and inside each chromosome, lives your genes and DNA. Your genes are what make you yourself. If you have red hair and green eyes, that is all thanks to your genes. If you were to look at a DNA strand, it would be a long spiralled ladder. A real human strand would stretch up to the length of 6 feet! DNA is a strand of molecules made up of nucleotides. There are four types of nucleotides, A,T,C,G (Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine). DNA’s function is to code sequences into messages to make sure that all the organs in your body are running properly. DNA changes into RNA which is a copy of only half the original sequence. Then, the RNA is transformed into proteins which help our bodies function.
For this project, we created edible DNA models using licorice, mini marshmallows and toothpicks. We had to compose a strand of DNA that followed a simple DNA sequence using RNA (TAC GTA TGA AAC) and it’s opposing nucleotide (A-T C-G). The different coloured marshmallows were used for the different nucleotides ( A: Yellow T: Orange G: Green C: Pink).
Currents In The Kitchen Lab
Process
We started off our “Currents In The Kitchen Lab” experiment by taking two wires and connecting them to a Voltmeter. We also connected the wires to two different types of metal. In this lab, we used copper and zinc for our two metals. Then, we inserted the metal pieces into the fruits and vegetables that we provided for the experiment to see the amount of electric voltage that they gave off.
The Fruit/Vegetables that we experimented with were Lemons, Limes, Potatoes and Oranges.
We also used a small lightbulb to test which food product gave off the most electricity. The testing with the lightbulb turn out to be unsuccessful because none of the products carried enough electricity to light the bulb. We were still able to pick our winner, using the information we collected from the Voltmeter.
To our surprise, the potato possessed the most electric charge!
Observations
One of the main question that we had as a group was “Can we form a greater charge by using multiple food products at the same thing?” We split our potato into two pieces and connected the pieces separately onto the Voltmeter but we ended up having the same charge as before. We also tried connecting all of our products my creating a circuit with multiple wires and connecting it to the Voltmeter, but it was not a greater charge then having the products connected on their own. Our observation was that we couldn’t create a greater voltage by adding more of the independent variable.
Our second observation was that in my hypothesis, I stated that I believed that the lemon would have a greater charge due to the citric juices on the inside. Even though the potato had the highest charge, it was true that the acid in the lemons and limes did help create the voltage. The juice helped make a naturel path for the electrons to flow through.
Our last observation was we got the best accuracy by using the lowest setting in the Voltmeter. We used 3V setting so we could most accurately collect the information we needed.
Information
- Potato: Had a charge of 0.2V on the setting of 3V
- Lemon: Had a charge of 0.155V on the setting of 3V
- Lime: Had a charge of 0.15V on the setting of 3V
- Several pieces of potato: Had the charge of 0.1V on the setting of 3V
In the future, we’d love to again try to light a lightbulb using fruit. Since our first try turned out to be unsuccessful, we wonder in it is truly possible. This was an experience to remember and we as a group loved working together and working to not only experiment with electricity in fruit but also figure out how to light a lightbulb with our independent variables.
