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Astronomy Wonder Project

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What if the moon were a larger size, what possible effects may it have on Earth’s environment and life’s evolution? 

Gravitational Impacts:

Based on all of the evidence, my interpretation is the moon’s size will greatly affect the Earth as a whole due to a greater gravity pull which results in higher sea levels. A larger moon could have greater shifts in the gravitational pull that it experiences with various parts of the Earth, which would mean higher and stronger tides. Coastal regions may be significantly impacted by this, with an increase in the severity and frequency of erosion, flooding, and storms.

Characteristics of the Moon:

The Moon is the fifth largest moon in the solar system. 3,474 km is the circumference measured side to side. This equals to almost 25% of the diameter of the Earth. This indicates four moons could orbit the earth side by side. The Moon and Earth are separated by 384,400 kilometres. Thirty Earth planets could fit between us and the Moon. The Moon has less gravity than Earth. Its force is around 0.6 times stronger than Earth’s gravity. This is as a result of the Moon’s reduced mass in relation to Earth. The pull of the moon slows down Earth’s rotation, this process is known as tide braking, nonetheless, if the moon were a greater mass, that refers to extended days since the moon would orbit more slowly expanding our day by 2.3 milliseconds per century.

The theory of Moon effects:

Over billions of years, the gravitational pull of the moon caused the planet’s axis of tilt decrease, creating an environment that was relatively stable that was beneficial for the growth of life. This might have had a significant role in allowing Earth to become a livable planet. Furthermore, theses consequences can lead to how people live on a daily basis since the probability of tides and waves would increase which changes the way of life for coastal areas. The greatest impact would be the tides becoming more frequent and taller.

Overall, this theory presents many proof and evidence revealing the potential possibilities of this outcome regards to the Moon and Earth. The reproductive cycle of marine life is also impacted by the moon’s tides. For instance, the tides control when turtle eggs are laid and hatch. Their periods of reproduction usually connect with different phases of the lunar cycle. However, the life’s evolution may shift how animals act as will developing unique variety of behaviours and adaptations resulting into different forms of life. Even some plants that grow under the moon can blossom at different times or in various cycles.

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References

Choi, C. Q. (2021, December 13). The moon: Everything you need to know about Earth’s companion. Space.com. https://www.space.com/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html#

Widiyanto, R. (2023, November 20). How a larger Moon would change life on Earth. Medium. https://medium.com/predict/how-a-larger-moon-would-change-life-on-earth-e67f6770f03a#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20most%20noticeable,tides%20higher%20and%20more%20powerful.

The Schools’ Observatory. Earth’s Moon | The Schools’ Observatory. (n.d.). https://www.schoolsobservatory.org/learn/astro/solsys/moons/earthmoon#:~:text=It%20is%203%2C474%20km%20from,by%20side%20across%20the%20Earth.

How has the moon transformed our evolution?. Down To Earth. (n.d.). https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/science-technology/how-has-the-moon-transformed-our-evolution–90634#:~:text=Billions%20of%20years%20ago%2C%20when,for%20life%20to%20evolve%20quickly.

 

 

 

Double exposure poem

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The poem written by Amy Lowell is about a woman’s neighbour who loves playing music with his flute. During the day the author describes him eating with one hand and copying music with the other. She doesn’t like looking at him because is he bald and fat but, she loves listening to the sound of his flute during the night. Examples of figurative language in the poem is when she said “the flute-notes push against my ears and lips” and “the round notes flutter and tap about the room.” These examples represent personification because she is describing flute-notes pushing against her ears and tap about the room even though it does not literally. This image represents the poem because while she is in her bed, she admires her neighbours flute even though he is bald and fat. I think the main message of this overall poem was accepting others for who they are since she does not like his appearance but enjoys his sound of his flute.

 

The two images used in the image:

English-9-Poem-comic-assignment

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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.

 

Solution Proposal post – Tanzania Proposal Post

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                                        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.

Irony graphic novel assignment

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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)