Science 9 Honours

Stop Motion: Ecological Cycle

Group Members:
Katie C -Oxygen Cycle
Kennedy J -Water Cycle
Micole L -Nitrogen Cycle
Evelina B -Carbon Cycle
Aileen K -Phosphorus Cycle

a/What the heck is STOPMOTION?

A stop motion is a video that is made by taking many pictures of an image slowly changing and then when it’s done the pictures will play through one after another at a faster speed making it look like the image is moving. (Ex, The flip books that you flip through quickly and it looks like a video)

b/ Name what app & equipment your team will use?

My team is going to use a Stop Motion app on one of our phones. We also used paper, pencil crayons, pencils, flashlight and a stand to the phone. Then we used Micole’s Surface Tablet to edit it.

Sources

https://prezi.com/pd1l7docq8ly/life-on-mars/

 

http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Soil-Farming-and-Science/Science-Ideas-and-Concepts/The-phosphorus-cycle

 

Biomes Investigation

I think that this project with Katie and Evelina went well, we worked well together and we had all shared ideas and worked together. it was a good experience to work with people in a group and knowing that you had people with you to help you work when you were busy or wouldn’t be in class that day. I think the only problem we had was communication because when we were trying to get a hold of one another, we wouldn’t reply immediately and when we would reply it would be to late. I think that next time we should try to be more organized and now what we’re doing before we leave class so we won’t have these problems again.

Mutation Story- Colour Blindness

Part 1: Mutation Story

There once was a child named Skylar. Their life was different than others. Seeing the world in a way that not many others did. It was rare, to have the world before you be shades of red, bright blues and dark greens. Skylar didn’t understand what a rainbow would be. Skylar’s friends always talked about how they were so beautiful and colourful… But what she saw was something completely different. It was just a bunch of things that looked the same but had a handful of different names. Why would you call it red, orange and yellow when they all just looks like orange? The world felt limited as it there was something that was blocking her from being like everyone else.

She always felt off, like she was missing a chunk of life. Like she was different from all of her classmates and how she felt left out. But why was she like this? Here is how it all began…

Normal Vision compared to Tritanopia Vision

It was a gene mutation. I had inherited this from her dad. It was the dominant gene so even though her mom didn’t carry it, we ended up being affected by it. Now I can only send signals of red or green to the brain to see… What a disappointment, not being able to send signals of the right things so the child can see the right things. I felt ashamed. We started mixing blue with shades of green and yellow with violet like colours. It was really rare to get this mutation, we had a 0.01% of getting it. Also, being a girl didn’t change the results, even if we were a boy, we would still be affected. She could still see black and white shades fine and she could see reds and greens, but that was the limits, blue and yellow just wouldn’t show. And there was no cure to help the girl ever see like everyone else, yet….

 

Part 2: The Making of Mutation Stories

1)What questions did you need to research for your story?

Well, first I needed to learn a bit about the mutation itself so I started by looking up ‘Tritanopia’ and seeing what results I got. Not all of the websites I went to were helpful, but I did find one website that had good information and a Prezi that also explained pretty well. I searched questions like, “Why do people get Tritanopia?” “What are the effects of Tritanopia?” and “Is there a cure for Tritanopia?”

 

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

I used the google search engine for most of my project and I had tried to you CCSearch for pictures, but I didn’t find any good ones, so I just added the sources to the pictures down below. I tried Prezi for the first time though. I usually don’t go there but I decided that maybe I could give it a try and I ended up finding a good presentation explaining Tritanopia. I had also used Easybib to cite the websites I had used.

 

3)What was the process you used to investigate the topic?

I had done searches and went through a bunch of different websites at first to find one that had good information that was able to explain in detail and was easy to understand. Most websites didn’t have good information about the causes and why it effects people and how it effects people beside mixing up some colours.

 

4)How did you verify and cite the work you found?

For verification, I had just compared it to several other websites and they all had the same information. And to cite my work, I had used Easybib.com. I have used this website before to cite my work for other projects to, so I am farely familiar with it.

 

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

I think that completing this project wasn’t that hard, as I had chosen a fairly easy mutation. I think that next time I could choose a more complex mutation that not many people know about so it could have been more interesting to write about and people could learn more about instead of learning of a different strain of mutation most people are more familiar with.

 

 

 

Sources:

Schweyer, Alex. “Tritanopia Color Blindness.” Prezi.com. Prezi, 09 Nov. 2012. Web. 11 Dec. 2016. <https://prezi.com/zewifkmscayd/tritanopia-color-blindness/>.
“What Is Tritanopia? Blue-Yellow Color Blindness.” Color Vision Correction. Colormax, n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2016. <http://colormax.org/tritanopia/>.

 

http://colorvisionawareness.com/images/pages/rainbow.png

http://www.color-blindness.com/wp-content/images/tritanopia-color-spectrum.jpg

Science App

Problem-

I think that a periodic table app will make finding elements easier and information on the easier to. You would be able to search up the element on your device and have the information for it pop up as well as an image that shows you what the element looks like. It makes searching for elements a lot easier and faster. Because not all the symbols for elements match the name of the element which means it will lead to more time looking for an element on the ‘simple’ table than doing the work about the element itself.

Brainstorm/Dream-

Some problems it could solve is it makes finding an element faster and without any stress (Hopefully). So if you’re new to the periodic table and you were trying to find an element like Potassium, you would be able to find it in a matter of seconds instead of looking all around the table for symbols with the letter P and only to find out fifteen minutes later that the symbol for Potassium was K. It would also make research on the element a lot faster and you can have almost all the information about the element in front of you instead have having to go to website after website and having to site all of them. It should have a search bar that lets you search up the elements so you’re not looking for the element on the screen when you are able to just type in the name or symbol and have it pop up.

Find-

App- Periodic Table by Revolution Software. (Windows)

Link- https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/store/p/periodic-table/9wzdncrfjb1f

Use-

periodic-table-app-homeThis is what the app looks like when you first open it. All the elements are colour coded to what type of element they are.

periodic-table-app-antimonyIf you click on one of the elements, a page like this shows up with information about the element.

periodic-table-app-searchIf you needed to search for a specific element, there is a search bar that allows you to search for the element you want. I had just searched the letter k and these were the results I had gotten.

Review/Debrief-

I think that this a pretty useful app. It give lots of information and can be very helpful. It includes a Bohr Model and images of what the element looks like. There are not any special facts about the elements and you can’t do anything with the app besides searching up an element and learning information about it. But at the same time, I find the search option very helpful, if I can’t remember where an element is or if I don’t know what the symbol or name for it is. Another downside to this app is that the app contains advertisements. I mean, it’s not big enough for it to bother you, but it would have been nice if it just was never there in the first place. There are not a verity of different images that show on the app. the three images I have above are the only different pages that show up; the home page, information on the element page and the search page.

This app also isn’t really an interactive app that helps you to learn the elements. I think that is was just created to help people find information on the elements with quick and easy access. I think if that was the main reason of the app, then the creators did a good job of it. But if they wanted it to be a bit more educational and interactive, there could have been other things they could have added like quizzes you can do and games you can do involving the elements. It’s just the straight out information on the elements and if you wanted to do anything like studying them, you would have to use a secondary studying app or website like Quizlet. It also does not show any compounds nor any ions.

In the end, I think that this is a good app for people to use if they just need information on elements for a project or just information for them to do their homework. It can be helpful that it also shows images and how it works without internet connection so you can see images without having to search them up. I wasn’t expecting much more than a periodic table, hence the name. So I think that this was a good app to use when studying elements in chemistry and you just need to know the basic information and a few more details on the element. I enjoy that the app works like any other windows default app and how it seems like it was part of the original system. I would probably continue using this app.

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