| 1. It was difficult because you had to pinch the clothespin again and again, nonstop. You had to do it the same way, no cheating. That technique was harder than other ones. Just pressing again and again trying to get a good score. 2. Before the experiment, my fingers felt like they always do. Like fingers. But during, they were burning and they hurt so much, but I had to keep pressing. After, they felt on fire. I could barely move them. It's like I was getting a workout. On my fingers. 3. The pattern is that it sort of goes up and down, but I dropped the pin once on the lowest score. So if I did not drop it, it would have been closer to the other scores on the chart. But I would do well one round but not as well the next. Just the drive to get a better score than the last one. 4. I think they indicate that kids have some things that are repetitive, not the same. We do different things almost every time even if it seems the same. If you are brushing your teeth, you probably squirted your toothpaste in a different line than the past times. 5. I feel that my results are reliable because there weren't too many constant variables. Most kids would probably have gotten around the same results for most of those too. Every kid is different, but they are a bit similar in ways too. 6. My hand strength increased by a bunch then, just pinching again and again. After a while, I could barely feel the finger. So the muscle was tearing, and it builds back up even more, so I built finger strength. 7. I think the muscles get the oxygen, nutrients, and water by the bloodstream. I know they need those, and the blood carries those to the body and muscles are part of the body. 8. I think that probably the only way to not make my muscles burn and get tired is to not do it. They would get more tired every time you pinch. So the only way they would not hurt is if you stop doing the intense workout. 9. I would get a drink of water and just stop doing it. The muscle will feel better because it's not doing an intense workout anyone. |
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I think that moving is very important, and after this lesson, I totally get now how the bones push and pull to create movement. They relax and contract. Pull and relax. Same thing. I also know now the parts of making your body move, the ligaments and tendons connecting the bones and muscles to what they need to be connected to. So I really learned a lot that lesson. I think that it's fun and it helps you understand movement more.
Questions:
-Which joint did you choose as our most important joint and why did you choose that joint and what things would be difficult to do without that joint? -What movement can be done without the use of joints? (Example: blinking your eyes) Answers: 1. I chose the jaw because imagine, you can't talk well, you can't really eat by yourself and you can't chew. So it is really hard to live without your jaw. It would be hard to eat, drink and talk. 2. You could swallow food down your assaphogas because you do not need joints to swallow. You also don't need joints to move your eyeballs. They just move. Questions:
1. What three basic things do our bodies need in order survive? 2. If we exert ourselves, what are three (or more) signs that our bodies are in distress? (see, hear, and feel) 3. What can we do to make these signs go away? Answers: 1. You need food, water, and sleep in order to live and survive. 2. Our heart beat faster: It is pumping blood to the parts of our body faster then it usually does. We were panting and our chests were heaving: Our lungs were trying to get more oxygen into our body because we needed it. My ankles were burning: The muscles were tired from moving so much. My partner had her arms on her knees supporting her upper body: They needed to keep their balance better after exerting themself. My partner had red cheeks: The blood was rushing to their head faster and like, really fast so you sort of see the blood. 3. We can rest and not work our body anymore so it doesn't have to work as hard to make my body work. Overview: Our bodies do these things because they have some way to tell our brain that we are exerting ourselves.
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1. We do not have similar cells to the aliens because they all come together to create VERY different things on our bodies. We have both adapted to our own planet and if we swapped planets right now, all humans would die there and all of those creatures would die here. 2. One example is that the cells come together to make the brain. It alerts us when we are hurting, tells us what to do, and controls our thoughts. It is part of the nervous system. Another example is our heart. The cells make a thing that pumps blood to all parts of our body. It is part of the blood system. My last example is the lungs. They are good because they take in air and let out waste. They are part of the air system. Notes:
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1. I was able to do that because I knew that I was observing it and really looking for all those things that I don't see otherwise. 2. Observation and description is important in science because if you are doing an experiment and you need to record things, it is a good way to record it and what you saw, heard, felt, etc. 3. -Sight -Touch -Smell -Sound -Taste (which I didn't and couldn't use.) Questions: What was the hardest part of this activity? Which organs do you think you put in the right places? Which organs do you think are probably in the wrong place? Answers: 1. The hardest part of this activity was putting the body pats in the right place. We might know what it is, but it was hard to get the part in the right spot. We might have thought it would go in one place but it actually went in another and we could not look up where it was. 2. I think that we put the brain, eyes, lungs, heart, stomach, and small and large intestines in the right place, but they are some of the most obvious places in the body. 3. I think that we got all the rest of them wrong because a big reason is, we didn't know much about them so we pretty much had a small idea of where it went if we even had an idea at all. Questions:
1. What are the rules of a personal narrative? For example, "All personal narratives must have ______." 2. What skill in writing do you feel you are very good at and can help others? 3. What skill in writing do you feel that you should improve in? Answers: 1. All the personal narratives that we write actually have to happen or be witnessed by us. They have to have good focus, showing, description and grammar. 2. I feel that I am really good at showing a moment and I could tell people how to have good showing and describe their moments and the right moments well. 3. I feel I should improve in repeating words. I feel like I tend to overuse words alot and I feel my stories and narratives would be better if a didn't overuse certain words. Reflection Questions
Reflection 1. It is a good one because you get to really know an important person in history. You make a poster on him and it helps you learn about what people did in the late 1700's.
2. He was a big person that grew things at his plantations, not just a guy who gives some speeches. 3. I think that would have been a good idea when we did the historical reenactment blog. We would have used the tags on multiple pictures on the blog and explain them each a bit, what it was, what they would do with it, etc. It would have been a good use of class time because it really helps you remember and understand what we learned at the historical reenactment. Question: Why did we win the Revolutionary War when we were outgunned, out-trained, and out-experienced. Our troops were not trained the way the British troops were. They trained every day until they were needed. They are way more accurate than our troops. Our troops did not get any training at all, they were just men with hunting guns. Plus, the British army had at least 3× as many troops as us. Plus, their generals were way more experienced having fought in many battles. So they were the way bigger superpower.
After Tug of War: Blue Team: The blue team were the weak Americans who looked like they had no chance to win. They were basically the big underdogs of this. Red Team: The red team is the British army and their soldiers that were expected to win by a landslide. They had more troops, the troops were better trained, and their guns were easier to handle. White Team: The white team are the people who came in to help a side. An example for America is France, Indians, and Spain. An example for Britain are the German Hessians. Prizes: ( for winning the war ) Britain: There was no prize for Britain at all because they already owned the Americas and the were just stopping the Americans from taking Independence. America: Their prize was being free from Britain and not being controlled by them. But that was what they were fighting for. They won the war because they were brave and bold against Britain, and they fought decent. Plus, they had all these countries helping them like France, Indians, Slaves, and Spain. Here are some pictures from the tug of war: |
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