By Kedrick Li Pak U
In this story I’m an adult scientist when a science team and we are studying the rare and elusive money tree. The money tree is a small tree that is about the size of a squirrel but can create a random money bill each day depending on the weather, if its weather is warm then the money could create 100 dollars at best. If the weather is cold, then the money tree won’t grow any money because the tree is a small tree, it has to conserve all of its energy in order to keep its self-alive and not die. Me and my science team have been studying the money tree by collecting the leaves it drops, the soil and the water that it gets from rain and performing experiments on the samples we collected.
The leaves of the money tree are poisonous meaning herbivores or insects can’t eat them however some insects are immune to the poison so they can eat the leaves, but the money tree has another defense mechanism it can ooze out the poison it makes out of its leaves and bark and cause harm to whatever is trying to eat it. The poison this tree produces is so strong that’s strong enough to kill a whale. That’s why we had to put danger signs around it, so that other people would dare to touch. It’s also why every time we pick up a leaf we always have to pick up with a forceps. Also like all tree the money tree is flammable which is why we had to put these signs everywhere in the lab.
The soil that the money tree was found in apparently has the essences of a money bill that had slowly disintegrated in the soil many years ago. We found this out by putting the dirt in a scoopula, then looking at the dirt through a microscope. We also used a Spatula to take small samples of the dirt. We also used a dropper and pipet to extract water from the dirt but the water is just like regular water nothing special.
But now we have a dilemma because on one hand the money tree is the only one of its kind, meaning it is the only money tree in the world and if it was revealed to everybody then people would try to take the money tree for themselves, but on the other hand we can’t keep the money tree from being in its natural environment.
Thanks for your fictional safety story. You communicated some understanding of safety issues in the Science class and included a few pieces of scientific equipment. Don’t forget that a Science ethical dilemma could be around sharing the true results of an experiment or a debatable scientific practice.