This is a Bento Box project on Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, which I created on Thinglink. We used objects to symbolically represent characters and themes in the book, and wrote about them as well, which you can see when you click on the info-dots.
Emotionless is a podcast that discusses Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt. My partner, Kyra, and I go in depth and analyze the themes and issues that arise in this short story, and make connections to the world and the characters in The Veldt.
recorded on: iPhone XR
edited with: CapCut/VideoStar
podcast cover: Canva, ProCreate Pocket
For my community connection interview, I chose to interview Brent, who is a registered nurse; specifically a PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) nurse. I’m interested in working in the medical field, possibly as a nurse, surgeon, or doctor, so interviewing a PACU nurse was a good choice for me since they are treating patients after surgery.
A typical PACU nurse’s responsibilities are to make sure that a patient is safe after being under anesthesia and that they get adequate care after waking up from a surgery. The nurses must make sure that the patient becomes conscious and has stable health before being discharged from the hospital. They are an important part of helping patients recover, and PACU nurses are especially needed during the COVID-19 pandemic, where their specialty training is essential to treating patients with COVID-19.
As a leader in the PACU unit, Brent is in charge of assisting the direct care nurses to make the patients’ stay in the hospital better, and make sure they have the best care possible after receiving their surgeries and anesthesia.
My job lets me help people and makes a positive impact on their lives, and the lives of their loved ones. As a PACU leader, I help elevate the care given to patients after surgery by supporting the direct care nurses.
Finishing my Nursing degree and then my Speciality Nursing degree were my first hurdles to get where I am today. A few other hurdles that I’ve had to go through was becoming a strong PACU nurse at the bedside. After becoming a strong bedside nurse, the next hurdle was learning the hospital dynamics, flow, available resources, and recognizing challenges. A current hurdle is managing and leading nursing staff through staffing shortages, inadequate in-patient beds, the COVID pandemic, and scarce health care funding.
Nursing can be very difficult. One rewarding part of the job is knowing you’re making a difference in someone’s life and a difference in their families lives. Don’t forget to step back during all the chaos and think about how you’re making your patient feel and let that guide your attitude in your job.
Communication. It’s important to be able to ask for help, and offer help when needed. Communicating to others when you need help is very important. Nursing is a team effort, and no one can work and succeed alone.
Yes, there are many times I’ve doubted my career path as a nurse but the beauty of nursing is that there are so many paths nursing can take you. Working in a hospital is not the only nursing pathway. Nursing is diverse; nurses can work in the community, in offices, at schools, and there are many opportunities for travel.
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From this interview, I learned that working in the medical field can be a very challenging job, with stressful situations and difficult times, but working through it and developing your skills will make your job worthwhile and enjoyable. It helped me realize that being a nurse or surgeon is a fitting career path for me because my passions lie within this job, such as science, learning new things, and helping people. The roles that PACU nurses play are crucial to our lives, so this is definitely a potential career path for me!
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Which fruit will create the most electric voltage?
The fruit that will create the most electrical voltage is the lemon or orange.
I believe that the lemon/orange will create the most electrical voltage is the lemon/orange because of the acidity, which will conduct electricity better than the other fruits which are less acidic.
Most of the fruits gave us a charge of 0.4V, except for the apple and cantaloupe, and the larger pieces of fruits were the ones giving us the largest charges, so that may have been a factor in the results. I also observed that when the wires were moved, the voltage would change slightly on the voltmeter. When we were trying to light the led light, it wasn’t working out, until we tried a different method of connecting the copper strips and the nails in an alternating pattern.
In conclusion, the most important finding was that the acidic fruits and the potato, which is high in sodium, gave off a larger charge than the non-acidic and low sodium fruits/vegetables did. However, the cantaloupe, which was the largest fruit, gave off the largest charge.
My hypothesis was supported because I predicted that the acidic fruits would create the most electrical voltage, and they did create more voltage than the non-acidic fruits, however, I didn’t mention the sodium part in my hypothesis.
Some questions I have are: how long would the fruits be able to create electrical voltage? Would it be enough to light/power any electronics? Will the size of the fruits affect the amount of voltage the fruits create?
The nail is coated in zinc, which loses some electrons, those electrons move through the wire, to the voltmeter, then the copper strip. The electrons flow from the negative (the nail), to the positive (the copper strip).
independent: the different fruits that were used
dependent: the amount of electrical voltage that the fruits produced
controlled: the same equipment was used for all the fruits (nail, copper strip, wires, voltmeter)
We can modify it by increasing the amount of times you test each fruit, if you test them at least 3 times and average the results, you will get more accurate results.
A source of error in this experiment would be if the wires weren’t connected to the voltmeter properly, or if the size of the fruits were different, which could affect the results.
You can use this in your everyday life by using circuits to power things with voltage, since you need to know that electrons flow, and they must flow in a circuit. You can also apply the knowledge of acidic fruits being the best conductors of electrical voltage if you’re planning to power different electronics.
One day, in our Science 9 class, our teacher, Mr. Miller, told us we were going to do a lab involving bleach. He gave us instructions on how to do the experiment, which are as follows:
Materials needed:
This lab seemed extremely simple and fun, and I was looking forward to doing it the next day, but little did I know what was going to happen that day.
When it was time for science class, we all arrived on time, eager to do the lab, but a few minutes into the class, the fire alarm suddenly went off, and the air started smelling like smoke. Mr. Miller instructed us to stay calm and to line up at the door, but one of the students started to panic and opened the window to try and jump out, however we were able to calm him down and the class lined up at the door and walked outside in an orderly fashion, using the directed route and as calmly as possible. Everyone was able to get out of the school safely, and no serious damage happened to the school, a small fire happened in the oven in the Foods classroom.
At this point, school was almost over, so our teacher dismissed us and told us we would do the lab tomorrow. We were disappointed, but at least we were going home!
The next day, nothing out of the ordinary happened, so we were able to set the lab up. The bleach had an HHPS symbol on it, which looked like this:
Mr. Miller told us that this symbol meant that the bleach is dangerous, which is indicated by the octagon, and corrosive (which is shown by the hand), which means it can destroy your skin or other materials it comes into contact to, and we should be cautious while using it.
Right before we started the experiment, a student from the Foods class asked if we had any oven cleaner, since their oven was burnt yesterday. I handed it to her, and I noticed it had a similar symbol on it:
Mr. Miller told me that this symbol means that the product is explosive, and we should use caution while using it. Once I gave her the oven cleaner, we were ready to start the experiment. We filled the beaker with water and added the food colouring, then slowly added the bleach with the eye dropper. The water began to lose the colour when we added the bleach, so we wrote down our findings and finished the lab. However, our group finished early and wanted to do a bit more, so someone suggested that we use a hot plate (which is used to heat things up) to heat up the beaker, just to see what happens.
Mr. Miller was out of the room, so I said we should wait to get his permission to do it, but my group had already went ahead and did it. I tried to stop them, but they had found gasoline and started to pour it in with a funnel (which is used to pour in liquids into small openings). I saw two WHMIS symbols on the can:
I recognized this one as flammable, which means it is easily set on fire.
This one means that it can cause death or serious injury with a small amount of exposure.
I went over and knocked the can out of their hands, but the gasoline made it onto the hot plate and it set on fire. We called for Mr. Miller, and we followed the same procedure that we did yesterday, and I pulled the fire alarm on the way out. Once we had gotten out of the school and the fire department arrived, Mr. Miller confronted our class and asked who messed with the gasoline and hot plates when he was out of the classroom.
I was conflicted between telling him the truth because I didn’t want to take the blame for this and get in trouble… but I spoke up and told him what our group did. He was disappointed and spoke to us, telling us about the consequences of our actions. We got suspended for 1 week, and our group wasn’t allowed to participate in labs from then on, so we learned our lesson from that.
Asexual and sexual reproduction are two very different ways to reproduce, each with their own advantages and disadvantages, but which one is more beneficial in the long run? Asexual reproduction only needs one parent cell to reproduce, and that reduces the time and energy needed to find a mate for sexual reproduction. However, the offspring from asexual reproduction has no diversity, and if the parent has any disease, genetic mutation, etc. the offspring will inherit it. Another con of asexual reproduction is that one virus could eliminate the whole population due to the lack of genetic diversity, while sexually reproduced offspring has a greater chance of surviving that due to more diversity in the offspring. However, increasing population is quicker and easier through asexual reproduction, as a result of only needing one parent cell and less time needed to create offspring. Weighing both sides’ pros and cons, I believe that the better method of reproduction depends on the circumstance, because the advantages of both methods can be seen in different ways depending on the variables (habitat, increasing the population quickly, genetic diversity, etc.)
The model of my superhero is based off of binary fission, so the hero is bacteria shaped, since bacteria are an example of organisms that use binary fission to reproduce. They’re small, but they can multiply easily and quickly to overpower the enemy, so they have many clones around them.
All the clones created by the hero are identical, so if something goes wrong with the cloning, the rest of the cells would be affected by that. Another limitation is that there is no variation within the organisms as well, so all of the cells have the same abilities.
Interphase – In this stage, the cell is preparing itself for division, so the DNA is being copied, and the cell is growing as well.
Prophase – In prophase, the nucleus disappears, and centrosomes start to advance towards the opposite poles. Spindle fibres also appear in this stage, and start to form the mitotic spindle.
Metaphase – The spindle fibres form the mitotic spindle in the centre of the cell, and centrosomes appear at the opposite poles of the cell. Sister chromatids are attached to a spindle fibre on the opposite poles as well.
Anaphase – In anaphase, the chromosomes are attracted to the opposite poles and the poles are moving farther apart.
Telophase – Lastly, the chromosomes reach the opposite poles and the mitotic spindle is broken up. The cell goes through cytokinesis in this stage as well, and the daughter cells become two separate cells.
