Innovation Project

 Julia, Kasey, and Kylee #personalawareness The collaboration is better when your in a group because your group members would describe the project differently than you would and it might end up getting a better mark. Its also better to have another person to throw around ideas with so you can all discuss what idea you all liked the best. I liked how we were able to get creative and be in a group where we could come up with an innovation that hasn’t been invented yet.…

Life of a Mutated Cancer Gene

Part 1: In my hosts body I was a normal gene in one of her cells. One day I started to mutate into a weird looking gene along with two other genes. I didn’t know what was happening so I ignored it. Later more of the genes started to mutate. I looked around and saw that on the outside of my hosts body, skin-like bumps formed over top of us and were spreading all around us. My host noticed this and went to the doctor.…

DNA Model

Questions: 1. Genes are found on DNA and DNA strands form chromosomes 2. Licorice represents the sugar/phosphate backbone. The marshmallows represent the different bases: green is Guanine, Pink is Cytosine, Yellow is Adenine, Orange is Thymine. The toothpicks represent the bonds between bases and backbone. 3. Certain bases on the DNA strands have bonds with other particular bases.

Lab: Observing Cells

By Julia Dunlop Questions: 1a. Animal cells look like circular blobs without much shape. The cell wall. 1b. they look like rectangular round shaped tubes. The cell wall 2. Plant cells have a more rectangular shape than an animal cell while the animal cell is more circular. 3. The animal cell is more translucent than the plant cell so without the methylene blue, we wouldn’t be able to see the animal cells. we didn’t use it on the plant cells because they were more visible…

Solution Fluency: Holographic Watch

By Julia, Kasey, Kylee DEFINE: Problem: Convenience, most people like to think that phones are really convenient, when really they could be a whole lot more convenient then they actually are, and a holographic watch solves that problem. The holographic watch solves this problem because for one, it’s smaller than a phone and you don’t have to remember to bring your phone places all the time since its on your wrist. It’s also less likely to break, because a phone you should have a case…

Static Electricity

What I have learned from static electricity is that atoms are found in many objects, you can shock other people if you walk across a carpet with socks, and even though plastic is an insulator, it can still help build a strong charge when using an electroscope and a balloon. static electricity is vital to humans because our lives would be different and we would have to do things a lot differently. when you rub two objects together, they will either repel, attract, or they…