Core Competencies
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Name: Workout Pong
Rules: 6 cups with water are placed on two opposite sides of the table. There are two players in this game who are playing against each other. They take turns of throwing a ball to the opposite cups. There are instructions of different types of exercises on the sticky notes that are placed under the cups. Where the ball is landed on is what exercise the other person must complete. The person who has done all the exercises under all his or her cups loses.
Number of players: 2 Players
Equipment: Table, 12 cups filled with water (6 cups on opposite sides), 1 ball, 12 pieces of sticky notes or paper.
Short Story – Graphic Novel
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My graphic novel is based on the short story ‘On the Sidewalk Bleeding.’ The exposition of the graphic novel introduces a dangerous man running away after he had stabbed Andy because of being affiliated with the ‘Royals’. As such, Andy did not see this coming and it had eradicated his voice to communicate with others while he was on the ground. In the initiating incident, he had encountered a drunken man that is completely oblivious to Andy’s harsh wound, and the drunkard had told Andy he would be right back. Next, the first rising action would be that when he came back, he mistakenly believed that Andy was also drunk and had offered the young lad a drink. Andy could not reply which would have the drunkard drink the pint bottle that he had offered, and let Andy lay on the ground as a mercy to not call the cops on him as Andy was far too young to drink alcohol. The second rising action would present a loving couple who noticed Andy who was trying to crawl towards them. For a moment, the couple did not know what course of action to take, as they realize that Andy was a ‘Royal’ from his jacket that could endanger them by being mixed with the ‘Guardians’. Unfortunately for Andy, the couple decided to flee away and let him bleed through the rain.
Already midway into the graphic novel, the final rising action would be when Andy would see a grandma scavenging the garbage cans in the alleyway. However, Andy could not gain her attention since the old lady was slightly deaf and the rain was pounding the cans to create a relentless sound. The climax in this short story is that he would conclude that he wanted to be Andy. To explain, the world around him did not acknowledge Andy’s existence lying on the ground bleeding to death and he could ultimately pass away at the age of 16 since no one is aiding him. But, the falling action of the short story would have Andy immediately try to take his purple ‘Royal’ jacket off because he did not want to die having other people to know that he was just a ‘Royal’. However, in the conclusion of the graphic novel, it would have the police officer referring the dead Andy as a ‘Royal’ and Andy’s former lover saying his name is Andy. Overall, this an in-depth explanation of the graphic novel I created.
The Sea Devil Questions
on - Why does the man fish by night? How does this lead to the conflict with the ray? What is significant about the fact that he does not fish for a living?
The man fishes by night because it was a hobby that he enjoyed the effort and loneliness from it. This leads to the conflict with the ray because at night he encounters it by paddling through the water and throwing his net but instead he found a horned creature jump out of the water. It’s significant about the fact the fact he does not fish for a living because he mentions that he tends to use his head to think in his job other than labor.
- Identify 3 examples of foreshadowing.
- When a school of sardines were scared away by something which suggests that there would be a nearby danger coming soon.
- A foreshadowing occurred when the narrator had told us that the protagonist quote “he looked closely to make sure no stingray was hidden in the mesh.”
- It was when he was able to convince the captain to let the baby porpoise go, and this suggests to the reader that he will likely be rewarded for his good cause in the book.
- Identify the following parts of the story’s plot: the complicating incident, a single crisis, the climax, the resolution, and the ending what kind?).
Complicating incident: The only time he was going to throw his net was when he would see two or more mullets.
A single crisis: It was when he encountered the Sea Devil.
Climax: It was when he was drowning underwater due to being out of breath, however luckily, he cut the rope and saved himself.
Resolution: He swore that we would never go out fishing by himself
Ending: The ending is a happy ending because even though that he got hurt throughout the story, he learned his lesson.
- One of the conflicts is between the civilized and primitive world (define these two words first).
What is the purpose of the references made to the plane, the causeway, and the man’s wife at home?
Civilized would mean something to be advanced and accustomed to the world around it.
While primitive would mean something that is new and needs more time before being civilized.
The purpose of the references made to the plane was to compare the calmness and pleasing aspect of it to of ‘man’s proud mastery over nature’, which is also to use the mullets as an example but instead they don’t always have control of nature. The reference of the man’s wife at home waiting patiently at home was to tell us that man is beginning to be grateful of even the seemingly small things in life that we don’t always do. The causeway was referenced to the connection of two things.
- What does the man learn at the end of the story? Why does he release the mullet?
The man released the mullet because he learns the experience of being like other mullets and being the one that’s hunted. Therefore, he releases the mullet to show that he learned his lesson from the Sea Devil and felt bad for the mullet on board.
- Find 3 examples of descriptive language – this will lead into a discussion of figurative language.
Simile: “The night was black as a witch’s cat;” (P.34)
Personification – “the good, rough, honest wood” (P.41)
Metaphor – “The night was breathless;” (P.32)
1. sullen p.32 Bad-tempered and sulky
2. weltering ·p.33 Move in a turbulent way.
3. elemental p.33 Primary or basic.
4. sinewy p.33 Similar of consisting sinews
5. hoisted p.33 Raise something by ropes
6. phosphorescence p.34 Light emitted by substance.
7. cordage p.34 Ropes typically in ship’s rigging
8. exhilaration p.34 Feeling excitement or happiness.
9. atavistic p. 35 Relating to reversion to something ancient.
1o. centrifugal p. 35 Moving away from center
11. gauntly p. 35 Very thin and bony
12. impeding p. 37 Delay or prevent something by hindering
13. tenaciously p.37 Firm hold something closely
14. respite p. 38 Short time of relief from something unpleasant or difficulty.
15. equilibrium p. 38 State in which forces are balanced
16. imminent p. 39 About to happen.
Community Connection
on For myself, there were some people with unique jobs I could have talked to, but I decided to interview a Software developer named Ivan from the HSBC Bank in Toronto. He’s essentially responsible for knowing how to code in a certain language that most people in his company don’t know well and I chose this individual out of all the other opportunities because I hope to learn about Software Engineering and programming in the future. Furthermore, there were limited options to choose from, because most of my contacts did not reply back, so I saw him as the most viable opportunity. I was able to connect to this person through my father who suggested him to me to interview which I had gratefully accepted. He seemed really passionate about coding and I thought it would be significant and helpful to learn from him. I was able to get most of the answers from him by recording his voice through my phone, while I was able to interview him online on WhatsApp and seeing each others’ faces. Here were some questions that I asked him, and it was nice to have a well thought out responses from him, as I gave him time to prepare the day before of this interview.
- Why are you passionate about your job?
“Umm, well I thin
k I like to be a programmer. So, I enjoy coding, it’s a lot of fun to do coding so that’s why my job brings me to do this developing even though sometimes we do production support. We will be working a lot on debugging diagnostic, so then that would be the programming structure, it’s a lot of fun.”
2. What obstacles have you faced to get you where you are today?
“Right now on my job, HSBC, they don’t have too many people to do coding right. For me, it’s a lot of work to be one person to do coding, even though I have two or three members, they don’t know how to code in my language. So it’s only me to do that. So, whenever I got a project with minor changing, it would be a lot of time that relies on me. I worked a long time to complete my job.”
3. What advice would you pass on to someone interested in what you are doing?
“Well I think that programming is a 
really wide topic, so you got the most university or college students, they will be going to learn a lot of language even though they are not in the Computer Science programming, it could be possible they could get into business, or be a lawyer, or become an accountant. They are still learning the programming in the university or college because they need to understand the programming stuff and that will be helpful for that job. If someone wants to do computer programming, you may work on new technology language, like Java or C++, so you may not learn a lot, just knowing how to use the library, how to do the Graphics Gui, so it’s a nice language. But to understand the fundamental of the programming, you need to work more on low level languages. So, an example is if HSBC is going to hire a programmer, you need to spend a lot of time to get into that, so you need to understand what is the basic language and what’s the procedure of what to do. So, that way it will help you to building up more and more experience. What I will say is you need to work hard and also work on an area rather than to focus on one ‘pond’.”
4. Would yo
u be open to further contact from Riverside students and if so, how can someone contact you?
“Well, HSBC isn’t that open. I will say that if you go to your work of your parents, then you can go to your company to learn and getting more content of the people so you can understand what they are doing. That will be very important, so that will be a content pond for you to get it. If you do get to college or university, I’ll say most of them to program right now, they are co-op programming. So if you are co-op programming, you will be tied to be working on that company. In Hong Kong bank are open for students to cooperate in programming, so you could apply by reaching out, or asking your parents to get recognized to, or you can call me also. So that’s the only thing that I could think about.”
5. If you did not discover this job as your passion, what other career would you have pursued?
“Well, I think when you are doing the programming or the experience, I’ve been working for 30-40 years of programming. So, you will get into they are organizing people, you will do a lot of structure stuff. Like if I’m not doing programming, I would likely be going to looking for project management so that would be another area I can be looking on because project manager is looking into the basic of computers and to organize people. The reason for that is because when you program, you would have to be organized, like going in important steps, and the next step and the next step. You can’t just code that and come back to that one, so you have to have a linking of going to a ‘pond’ and then another ‘pond’. So being a project manager would have to be how would you organize the project, how you organize the people, and how you would arrange the jobs to the people. So, project manager would be a good opportunity instead of doing programming.”
6. When did you found out that you wanted to pursue this job?”
“My first job after university was working in a company with old technology like using the pager system. So that was my first job in Hong Kong. So in that time, I was allowed to leave that job and work in this environment or company.”
After discussing and interviewing Ivan about his job I learned a considerable amount of interesting info, not just about him but about coding itself. This has definitely had me more intrigued and what type of challenges could occur for me if I decided to pursue programming. Some of what I learned is the advice that he gave me to focus on the easier languages to focus and building up my experience to take on even more challenges. Moreover, I learned that working with other people in groups in programming is common, so I hope to strive to be collaborative in the future. In the end, it was a pleasure to interview him and it has given me a better insight of what it’s like to be a software developer.
Cited Sources:
Programming in Macbook with a cup. Digital Image. Pixabay. Sept. 5,2015. https://pixabay.com/photos/coding-programming-working-macbook-924920/.
Programming on a screen. Digital Image. Pixabay. Nov. 19, 2016. https://pixabay.com/photos/code-code-editor-coding-computer-1839406/.
Dahlström, Håkan. HSBC building in London, Flickr. August 12, 2015, www.flickr.com/photos/dahlstroms/20431761439/in/photostream/.
Dahlström, Håkan. HSBC building in London from an angle, Flickr. August 12,2015, www.flickr.com/photos/dahlstroms/20430506570/in/photostream/.
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TOKTW 2019
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What purification technique is better, the purification tablets or boiling?
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Our hypothesis in this question is that we believe that boiling is the better technique. The reason behind our hypothesis because boiling guarantees that it will kill pathogens, viruses and bacteria within the filtered water. Purification tablets take 30 minutes to purify filtered water while boiling only takes around 10-15 minutes. Purification tablets also does not kill cryptosporidium which can cause illnesses and diarrhea. While boiling is considered the best way of taking out cryptosporidium. That is why we believe that boiling is safer than purification tablets.
Here is our plan for an investigation on our experiment that should take us a day to complete. First, before purifying any water we’ll have to filter it because purifying does not eliminate the minerals and dirt within the liquid. To filter we will be using a 2-litre bottle and a glass container to put our half a litre filtered water in. We will be cutting off the bottom of the bottle and fill in two natural resources as our way to filter it. We will use a paper towel at the top of our bottle, half a cup of charcoal, then half a cup of sand, then half a cup of charcoal, then half a cup of sand, and a paper towel on all those ingredients.
Next, we place the 2-litre bottle upside down into the glass container and open the cap. Nothing is falling out because we have the paper towel to hold all of it in. Then, we simply pour the contaminated water from the Oxbow Pond into the bottle and let it filter everything. This process should take about 30-45 minutes according to our research. If we believe that the filtered water may have some similarities as before such as some minerals, then we will filter it again to make the water better.
After the entire filtering process has been finished, it is safe for us to purify the water. For boiling, we will pour the filtered water into a pot, and heat the pot through a stovetop until which the water should be bubbling and have steam. Once that has started, we wait for about 3 minutes before taking it off the oven and letting it cool. For purification tablets, we only need to place only one tablet as the instruction says, a tablet for 0.75 litres. Moving on, we had to stir it for approximately 10 minutes after we dropped the tablet in, and let it rest for 30 minutes. Therefore, that is essentially how we are going to perform this experiment all together.
We are going to use different equipment and tools to record and capture our data. Our prime source of data to see which purify technique is better is our water strips. These will explain the levels of chemicals within the water, such as Ph, Carbonate, Hardness, nitrite, and nitrate by the colour. We will compare the coloured boxes after it was used on the purified water to the different colours on the test strips container. We will record all our data on my phone and took pictures for our Edublog. In conclusion, that would be all the equipment we needed to record and capture our data.
(Test Strips; the top was boiling and the bottom was purification tablets)
We have covered all the procedures we need to conduct our experiment but next is our safety concerns. Some safety concerns that may be present is boiling. Boiling is dangerous because it requires high temperatures to kill off the pathogens and bacteria. It’s best to be with an adult helping you to ensure you don’t get hurt if you are young that wish to try this. An additional risk was extracting the contaminated water because there were thorns and branches on the ground near the Oxbow Pond which were dangerous of wounding me. Thus, that was the clear risks of performing this experiment.
(The left bowl was purification tablets water and the right bowl was boiling water)
Some ethical, cultural and/or environmental issues are how are countries able to purify their water. Purification tablets ensures to kill bacteria and microorganisms in an easier but longer way. However, boiling also kills bacteria and microorganisms, but requires more equipment in a faster way. There are many people in the sub Saharan Africa that have trouble of finding clean and drinkable water because it is scarce for them. Finding which way is the best will save more lives and not let children and people die of dehydration.
As you can see in this bar graph, these are all the visible chemicals we discovered through the water strips and I’ll try to explain each chemical to the best of my ability and how do they affect the water quality. pH or potential hydrogen is primarily the measure of the acidity of the water quality which can be ranged from levels of 0 to 14. However, the range of pH water that you should drink is from 6.5 to 8.5 pH which you can see on the graph that they both land within that range. The lowest level of pH indicates being the most acidic and the highest level of pH indicates that it has the most alkaline. The hardness or general hardness of the water indicates the amount of calcium and magnesium salts. While carbonate, or carbonate hardness indicates the amount of bicarbonate and carbonate anions which they both also refer to the measure of the alkalinity. Having a decent alkalinity will mean that it can fundamentally neutralize acids so the pH may not become more acidic. It’s also important to be aware that alkalinity and alkaline are not the same and have different meanings.
The two differences are the pH and Hardness between the two purification techniques. The pH suggests that the purification tablet technique made the water the closest to being acidic and the boiled water technique is the closest to having the most alkaline. Then the general hardness of the purification tablets appeared to be greater than the boiled water. Since the general hardness was measured in mg/L or ppm if it is between 60-120 it means that it is moderately hard. The boiled water’s general hardness (60) was closer to being soft than the purification tablets hardness (120). Therefore, after researching and gathering the information about each chemical affecting the water, it’s safe to say that boiling is the better purification technique.
Conclusion
Through our data and research, we can state that boiling water is a better purifying technique than the purification tablets, therefore our hypothesis was correct. From our previous graph we could see that the boiled water had a greater Ph and still maintained being a moderately hard water which is safe to drink. The general hardness of the purification tablet may have been greater than the boiling, nonetheless, having a greater alkaline value is safer than having something close to being acidic because there are essential minerals that we need, and it brings benefits like a lesser chance of dying from cardiovascular disease. A mistake that happened to occur was that we purchased an inaccurate water tester that would show unreasonably different numbers of how clean it is. Such as when we used it on the purified tablet water, and it told us that it was extremely contaminated. So, we had to replace it with test strips which made the data seem more realistic. We could have improved our investigation even further by adding small chunks of pebbles into the filter, so that the water is filtered even more and let the purified water from the tablets rest even longer so we could test it again to see changes. The reason that we should have done that because there was some research shown that after one hour after the purification tablet was in the water, that made the even water safer to drink. Overall, boiling is indeed better and safer, but purification tablets can make your life easier of purifying water.
(Research)
https://www.healthline.com/health/ph-of-drinking-water
https://www.greenfacts.org/glossary/wxyz/water-hardness.htm
https://fishlab.com/aquarium-kh/
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/hardness-water?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
https://water-research.net/index.php/water-treatment/tools/the-ph-of-water
https://www.pelicanwater.com/blog/how-to-measure-water-hardness/
https://www.culligan.com/ca/home/solution-center/resources/soft-vs-hard-water
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Aquatic Field Studies
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Our class decided to go on a nature walk to explore both the Coquitlam River and the Oxbow Pond which were behind the school. Our objective for this assignment was not only to explore, but also compare them. We were all divided into separate groups that consisted of around 3-4 people to investigate. First, we had to send one person with a hip wader and life jacket to fill the vial with the sample of water and use the thermometer to check the temperature of the air and the water in different areas. This would ensure that he would be safer and not let his or her clothes become wet. While he or she was doing that, we would be writing down the data about the Coquitlam River and the Oxbow Pond.
During that same day we had to move into the second phase which is to find out how contaminated the water is. After our classmate filled the vial with water, we would proceed to use the test strips to accomplish that task. We simply held the test strip into the water for about 1 minute and let it rest at the top of the vile. Next, we had to match the coloured boxes on the test strip to the sheet on the container which would discover the levels of nitrite, nitrate, hardness, carbonate and pH. After when that was all complete, we head back and continue gathering data on the next day.
(Oxbow Pond)
Finding invertebrates was the number one priority for us the next day. To make that possible, we had to send one brave subject to perform that task. That would involve using a net to scoop up leaves or other objects that organisms would be lurking on. Then placing them into a bucket filled with water so they can be in captive for the time being and taking photos of those invertebrates to gain evidence. Once we had done this for the Coquitlam River, we would do the exact same procedure for the Oxbow Pond all over again. Therefore, I summarized all the procedures we had to do when were participating in this assignment.
Now, I will explain what was the weather and water were like from our perspectives. When we reached to the Oxbow Pond, the weather had no rain, light breeze in the air, and partly cloudy. However, the odor of the water smelled like rotten eggs, the colour was gray or brownish, and the clarity of the water was turbid. The canopy cover was seemingly open and clear because there were not that many trees towering over the pond. For our expedition on the Coquitlam River, there were no rain, light breeze in the air, and a clear sky. The water had no odor apparent, was greenish, and the clarity of the water was slightly turbid.
Here was how the Coquitlam River was like from our location near Riverside. The riparian zone was essentially composed of pathways, trails, and trees. The land use for the Coquitlam River would be for Riverside, fishing, and possibly swimming. When we were there the bank stability and erosion was straight, steady, and moving smoothly. For the stream channel, branches and logs were visible on the Coquitlam River. The substrate or Water body bottom of the Coquitlam River were leaves, mud, rocks, and gravel. In conclusion, that was how the Coquitlam River looked like from when first saw it.
This was what the Oxbow Pond was like from our location near Riverside. For the land use, I don’t think there’s a lot for it because of how contaminated the Oxbow Pond is. The riparian zone was composed of trails and trees. What was interesting was that for the bank stability and erosion, the grass was falling apart as if they were drowning in the water. The substrate was mostly leafs, branches, and mud. When we filled the Oxbow Pond water into the vial, we could see minerals and particles within it, compared to the Coquitlam River’s vial which seem to have clear water. In the end, the Oxbow Pond was murkier and more contaminated than the Coquitlam River.
Chemicals within the water
The Coquitlam River had an average air temperature of 13.5 Degrees Celsius and an average water temperature of 10 Degrees Celsius. The Oxbow pond had an average air temperature of 13.5 Degrees Celsius as well and an average water temperature of 12.5 Degrees Celsius. The Coquitlam River had an average pH level of 6.5, a nitrate level of 0, a nitrite level of 0.5, a hardness level of 30, and a carbonate level of 30 as well. The Oxbow Pond had an average level of 6.5, a nitrate level of 20, a nitrite level of 0.5, a hardness level of 45, and an average carbonate level of 60. Thus, that was the chemical analysis of both the Coquitlam River and Oxbow Pond.
The invertebrates/organisms we found
Here are all the invertebrates and organisms we have found in both water environments in the entire class. In the Coquitlam River we discovered a lot of water striders, two unidentified bug with wings, and unidentified fishes. Unfortunately, we were not able to find any noticeable salmon in the Coquitlam River because they were currently in the open ocean. In the Oxbow Pond we were able to discover more organisms than before. We found a Dragonfly nymph, a riffle beetle, a damsel fly, a leech, and a rainbow trout. Overall, we were able to find a greater variety of organisms in the Oxbow Pond than the Coquitlam River.
(Unidentified bug with wings)
(Coquitlam River)
(Unidentified bug with two arms)
(Oxbow Pond)
(Water strider)
(Coquitlam River)
(Unidentified green bug with wings)
(Oxbow pond)
To summarize, I believe that this was a fun and great way to learn about our local watershed and water quality. This was an interesting assignment to do because it requires you to be outside and be active so you could contribute of what you can do in groups. As opposed to being inside our classroom and just finding the invertebrates on a piece of paper. We explored the different water qualities of both the Coquitlam River and Oxbow Pond by using the test strips and thermometers. As well seeing new invertebrates and organisms with my very own eyes that I learned that exists near Riverside. The nature walks were exciting which made me more engaged to learn and find out that the Oxbow Pond was much more polluted, also contaminated than the Coquitlam River. Through this entire adventure, this was an awesome assignment to do, and I hope to do something just as fun like this in the future.
Solomon’s Wonder Project
on Will any species evolve to be superior than humans?
After careful research and many articles, it is indeed possible for other species to evolve being something equal or even surpass humans. The most probable way I believe for a species becoming equal or superior than humans is through genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is essentially the alteration of an animal’s genes. In our current generation we can alternate their gene for example by putting a stronger disease resistance from one animal to another. Genetic engineering was introduced to do things such as enhance an animal’s health, make food production better and as well furthering human health. Overall, genetic engineering could make animals have useful abilities we never seen before.
Another possible idea how genetic engineering can make animals superior is if we are able to bring back extinct animals. In 1999, the mountain goat called the bucardo went extinct due to humans hunting for them. In 2003, scientists were able to take samples of the last bucardo and create a clone of it, which was a massive success. However, the mountain goat died just 10 minutes after it was born. This suggests that possibly in the future we can possibly clone other extinct animals such as a mammoth or passenger pigeon. Extinct animals could possess useful traits so we could move that trait to another animal. So, I think that in the future we will be able to revive extinct animals for genetic engineering.
Without genetically engineering an animal so it could evolve to possibly surpassing a human will seem a difficult challenge. We will have to wait since evolution can take very long to even before it starts to show changes. In this generation, environments have been slowly shifting to where there are animals that must change and adapt. For instance, global warming because it has becoming more noticeable over the years, and animals will have to adapt to the heat which then they must find solutions or die off. Nonetheless, there are also other problems for endangered animals like us decimating their habitats. Stephen Jay Gould, who was an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist says that evolution is impossible to predict due to mutation, recombination, migration, animals surviving and the chances of finding a mate. Whether or not this is true by Stephen Jay Gould, in this generation we can now start to comprehend how animals will try to adapt to their environments and see if we could learn more.
According to Michio Kaku who is a professor of theoretical physics, simply states that it is possible for us to teach an animal our knowledge. An excellent example by the professor could be a chimpanzee because humans are similar 98.5% genetically. It’s possible to teach them our vocabulary, create and use tools because we have the genes to make them intelligent. If this happens, then there could be a chance for chimpanzees to evolve and adapt environments just like we do however there is a problem. Sure, the chimpanzees can be knowledgeable as us, but there’s no reason to because we are just turning a chimpanzee more like a human. In conclusion, a chimpanzee could be taught to be as smart as a human.
Image by : Pixabay
- What questions did you need to research in order to research your topic?
One of the few questions that I needed to research for my topic, is ask are we able to bring back extinct animals and what is the limit to genetically engineering animals? So I could support those answers of how genetic engineering could be the best way of animals becoming superior than humans.
2. What new or familiar digital tools did you try to use as you worked through this project?
Image by : Public Domain Pictures
Digital tools that I have used throughout this project is through google and finding a trustworthy site from researching it, using an educational youtube video to add on my research, and using the Gale Power Search which has been verified by the school as an excellent search engine to find articles.
3. What was the process you used to investigate this topic?
The process I used after inventing my question, is taking all my notes from my wonder project research template and converting it into well thought out paragraphs. Next, I double checked and edited all of my paragraphs, after I cited my sources, posting a video, and a photo.
4. How did you verify and cite the information you found?
Well first, the search engine Gale Power Search was already verified by the school, making it a clear trust worthy website. Next is a youtube video which I found and has been focusing around the evolution of intelligence by a smart american physicist named Michio Kaku. The last site that I verified and cited the information I found was the bio.org site with an article answering asked questions about engineered animals. I was able to verify by going through the site slowly , seeing if anything was suspicious or had errors in the article. Then, I would go to a citation machine to cite the site for me, so I could simply copy and paste the citation or I would create my own citation if there is no author or date.
5. How did the process of completing this challenge go? What could you have done better?
In all honesty of this project, completing this challenge was definitely not easy and tough to find one direct answer to my question. Specifically the sites and articles that would be fit for my project. I could have easily done better if I had put more effort in and not being sidetracked.
Sources: Dunbar, R. (2003, June 14). Evolution: five big questions. New Scientist, 178(2399), 32+. Retrieved from https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A104080928/GPS?u=43riss&sid=GPS&xid=15d35aa7
Mark, J. (2013, Autumn). Back from the dead. Earth Island Journal, 28(3), 30+. Retrieved from https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A342874965/GPS?u=43riss&sid=GPS&xid=94f07ae6
bio.org Genetically Engineered Animals: Frequently Asked Questions Retrieved from https://www.bio.org/articles/genetically-engineered-animals-frequently-asked-questions
https://www.pexels.com/photo/animals-birds-dawn-giraffe-417142/
https://www.pexels.com/photo/animal-eyes-big-dangerous-87403/