Meiosis in Minecraft
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English-9-Poem-comic-assignment
Introduction: The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin.
Inciting incident:
“One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize to-night,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light;
Rising Action:
A red-coat troop came marching—
Marching—marching—
King George’s men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
Climax:
But they gagged his daughter, and bound her, to the foot of her narrow bed.
Falling Action:
Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?
The highwayman came riding—
Riding—riding—
Conclusion:
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him—with her death.
When they shot him down on the highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the highway, with a bunch of lace at his throat.
HCE-English-9-Assignment
Podcast Novel Project
Modelling Mitosis
Interphase:
Description of the photo: This phase is the longest cell cycle stage. It has chromatin in the nucleus and carries out normal functions. The cell membrane, the nucleus and nucleolus are intact.
Late stage of Interphase:
Description of photo: This is the stage where The DNA is copied during the interphase. This image demonstrates the replicated DNA molecules joining together to form sister chromatids.
Early Prophase:
Description of the photo: This is the stage where spindle fibres begin forming and the nucleolus begins to disappear to allow the nucleus to start dividing. This is preparing for the division of chromosomes.
Late Prophase:
Description of photo: This is the stage where spindle fibres begin to attach to centromeres of chromosomes in preparation of organizing them. Chromosomes also become more condensed at this stage, and the nucleolus completely disappears.
Metaphase:
Description of photo: This is the stage where the chromatids attach to the spindle fibres at the centromere and line up in the center of the cell to be ready to divide the cell. One half of the cell and the other half has 46 chromosomes.
Anaphase:
Description of the photo: This is the stage where the spindle fibres are pulling apart the sister chromatids. The end of this phase, this stage is where we have 46 daughter chromosomes on each side of the cell.
Telophase:
Description of photo: The is the stage where the cell pinches off in the center, forming two daughter cells.
Cytokenesis:
Description of the photo: This is the stage where the Nuclear membrane and nucleolus reappear in each new cell and the chromosomes fades into chromatin.
Edible DNA
What DNA is?
DNA is a abbreviation which stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA looks like a twisted ladder (two strands wrap around each other in a spiral shape.
What DNA does?
DNA is the molecule that has the master set of instructions for how cells function, what they will produce, and when they will die.
How it copies itself?
The replication of DNA occurs in 3 ways, the opening of the double helix and departure of the DNA strands, the preparation of the template strand, and the assembly of the new DNA segment.
Sources:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/cells-can-replicate-their-dna-precisely-6524830/
Solution Proposal post – Tanzania Proposal Post
Braedon’s Connection Based Learning
Define:
On September 9th 2022, we had a chat with Saul Mwame, who is a beekeeper from Tanzania and we were talking about how we can help to protect the bees. After the chat we talked about what we learned from the connection. I found it very interesting to learn about the bees. After discussing with our groups we created a sway about bees and picked a wonder question to talk about. My wonder question that I chose was “what would the world look like without bees.” I learned a lot about bees after researching about it and hearing it from Saul. I learned about the importance of bees how they contribute to the environment and the ecosystem. On November 7th 2022, we had another connection with Saul Mwame and this time we learned about the predators who are harming the bee hives such as Honey Badgers and ants.
Discover:
After discussing with Saul, my group had a great idea to help protect the bees. We are going to be trying to create a motion sensor to alarm the beekeeper when there are predators near by and to scare them away. We will be 3d printing and using a microbit to create this motion detector. Many predators have been threatening the bee hives and have impacted the bees. To accomplish this goal we need to be able to 3d print, code a microbit and have good patient as a group. Each person in our group will have task to complete this project. We will be looking up a tutorial to try to make a motion sensor with a microbit and alligator clips. My task is to help code the microbit in order to make the sensor. Once sensor is done we will print and build the circuit and shell.
Dream:
Since the talk with Saul, I have brainstormed interesting ideas with my group and are willing to help protect bees. Some ideas we talked about are making motion sensors with a hidden protective shell with a lighting system and ant repellent. We talked about sending a notification to the beekeeper when there is a predator near by. Malcolm had an idea of when a honey badger is near, we could shine a bright light at the honey badger. We all agreed and decided to choose to make motion sensors which we will be focusing on for this project. Before making the design we can ask Saul for feedback to help us make it.
Debrief:
The solution fluency was good but the school didn’t have certain objects that we needed. We couldn’t find motion detector in the school but we instead used ultrasonic distance sensor thanks to Ms. York. The process of our post went very well. I could have improved on my dreaming because I think we did not brainstorm enough ideas which we could have done if we took more time to brainstorm. We also did not use our time wisely than we should’ve but otherwise it went well.
Sources:
https://makecode.microbit.org/
https://bc-robotics.com/tutorials/getting-started-ultrasonicbit-bbc-microbit/
Thank you to my group members, Cole coding the microbit, Malcolm designing and 3d printing.
Theme Statement Infographic
The Boy in The Striped Pajamas Infographic
Irony graphic novel assignment
Verbal Irony
Verbal Irony means that when someone says something and means the opposite. One example of verbal irony is that Bruno calls his father “stupid” even though he did feel ashamed of himself after saying that. (Page 59)
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic Irony is when the audience knows something that the character does not. One example of dramatic irony is that Bruno keeps calling it out-with, but we know it is called Auschwitz, he doesn’t know that there are prisoners on the other side of the fence, he thinks it is a friendly place, but we know it’s not. (Page 24-25) In this image Bruno says “Out-With? What’s an Out-With?” which Gretel responds by saying “it’s not a Out-With, Bruno. It’s just Out-With.”
Situational Irony
Situational Irony is when some thing is unexpected. One example of situational irony is when Bruno’s grandmother dislikes Bruno’s father’s new uniform. This is unexpecting how the grandmother reacts because she is the only one that is not supporting her son. (Page 90)
Currents from the Kitchen
Purpose: Which fruit will produce the most electric voltage?
Hypothesis: When I put zinc and nail in the orange, it will produce the most electric voltage
Materials: Fruit, Voltmeter, 2 wires, 1 nail, 1 copper strip, and at least 3 fruits/vegetables
Procedure:
- Observe the demonstration on how to build the battery cell.
- Set up your experiment space in groups of 3
- Perform your experiments with several fruits/ vegetables
- Document your results and experiment set-up with cameras
- Consider an explanation for your observations and results
- Post your images and explanation on your Edublog account
Explanation: The orange will produce the most electric voltage because it is sweet and has the most juice.
Results:
Apple = 0,2
Orange = 0,2
Banana = 0,2
Pickle = 0,6
Observations:
- The Voltmeter sometimes changed when you move the wire
- The pickle gave the most electric voltage at of all of the fruits we did.
- It was kind of hard to get the accurate number of the fruit because the scale sometimes kept moving
The most important finding:
The pickle had the most electric voltage out all the fruits we had.
Questions:
1.When we put the zinc and nail in the fruit, the electrons start to flow from the fruit to the nail. All fruits have Citric acid which allows a chemical reaction that make electrons flow.
2. The independent variable is the voltage of different type of fruits. The dependent variable is all the fruits that we used which they all had a voltage flow. The controlled variable is the type fruit and the amount of fruits.
3. Instead of using copper in the experiment you can use silver because it’s a better conductor.
4. The voltage going through the fruit could be inaccurate.
5. I can temporary provide a source of energy around your house