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Muscle Fatigue Experiment

12/21/2012

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Today in science class we did an experiment in our muscles. We had to count every time we opened and closed a clothespin. A muscle fatigue is when your muscles get sore and tired.

    In my data there was no pattern while I was recording it. The data was kinda all over the place.
    My partners data did not have any pattern whatsoever. I mean some of our separate data were close together. It also depends on how much you were actually trying to press on the clothespin.
    There was a small pattern which was that it kept going up and down randomly.
    I think that my results are pretty reliable because if I compare it to my fellow 5th grade classmates they are probably in the same range of dat

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December 20th, 2012

12/20/2012

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These are some pictures for our colonial social studies unit. the one on the left is of well, first I should tell you my job which is a milliner. So anyway the picture on the left is of my bosses house in the 1770's. Then the one on the right is of the milliners shop.
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Mussel Reaction

12/20/2012

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Today me and my partner did a experiment for science. We used only three senses including touch, hearing and sight to drop a ruler and then catch it in mid air! We made two videos, the one on the left is my partner Marty testing me which is the first video we made together. Then the one on the right is the one were I tested my partner and for the three tests we could open our eyes only for one which was sight. We had to close our eyes for touch and hearing.
  
     One of the hardest senses was touch while you had to close your eyes because you couldn't tell when they were going to drop the ruler at any time. Plus they had to tap your shoulder and right when your partner taps your shoulder they drop the ruler too!

    I could use only one of the senses at a time to catch the ruler. The easiest one to do was the sight because, you could open your eyes to see when they point at you and drop the ruler into either your hand or the floor!

    My mussels help me to do this experiment by remembering they way on how to do the same reflexes over and over again. It is  just like when you are old and you didn't ride a bike for 10-20 years but right once you get back on a bike your mussels remember how to do the same position to ride a bike;
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Sample Size

12/18/2012

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Today in math we made these pie charts on this really cool create a graph website. Yesterday in our math journals we recorded the amount of each colored candies out of 10. The colors where blue, pink, red, green, and purple for the candies we had.
    The pie on the left was just using 10 chips. Then the one on the right was using 100 colored chips.
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December 18th, 2012

12/18/2012

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I got to pick my very own job for this very exciting social studies unit! I picked a milliner, a milliner is someone who makes clothes or bacicaly anything out of cloth. There is a list on this picture (left) of what a milliner makes! I love this job I picked for this unit and I

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Causes of the Revolutionary War

12/14/2012

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The Proclamation of 1763 was a law Great Britain passed that banded the colonists from moving went of the  Appellation Mountains because England was worried that the colonists would be attacked by the Indians. 
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The Quartering

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The British government kept thousands of soldiers in North America after the French and Indian War. Great Britain wanted to protect its colonies and also keep them under closer control.

Great Britain wanted the colonists to help pay for the protection provided by its troops. In 1765, the British Parliament passed a new law called the Quartering Act. It ordered the colonists to provide quarters, or places to live, for British troops. Colonists also had to give the soldiers food, fuel, and transportation.

The Quartering Act angered the colonists. They did not want to pay for British troops in the colonies. Therefore, many colonists treated the soldiers badly.


Stamp Act

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After fighting the French and Indian War, Great Britain needed money to pay its debts. It also had to pay for the army in the colonies. In 1765, to raise money, Parliament passed a new tax law called the Stamp Act. Great Britain did not let the colonists buy anything but the goods they needed only from Britain.


The Boston Massacre

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 In 1770, the colonists stayed angry that British soldiers that were living in their houses and cities. They thought that the soldiers were rowdy and rude. It was also upsetting to the colonists when soldiers took jobs away from them.

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Boston Tea Party

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The largest British tea company, lost a lot of money. To save the company, Parliament passed the Tea Act in 1773. It said that only this company could sell tea to the colonies. The colonists were mad and dumped the tea in the harbor.


The Intolerable Acts

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After the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed several laws called the Coercive Acts. The British wanted to coerce, or force, the colonies to obey Great Britain. Many colonists said that they could not tolerate, or accept, these harsh laws. The colonists called these laws the Intolerable Acts.
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Hydropower

12/13/2012

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This year I learned a lot about Hydropower.
    Hydropower is clean, and reliable and renewable. Hydropower is one of the cleanest energy sources. Water will never run out a long as we live! It relies on the water cycle which will also never run out. We don't kill animals or people. It is very cheap once you have the dam built, you don't have to pay anything. No green house gases or fossil fuels burned! Hydropower works any time of day.

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12/12/12

12/13/2012

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What to do with $12,000,000?

   1. A red Dodge Ram pick-up truck because my dad had one that I loved and I still do!
   2. A perfect dog for my family  because we want to get a dog but they are expensive.
   3. A huge beach house in Florida
   4. Red 1960's Mustang because I love the  old cars, my older brother and me went to car shows all the time
   5. Black Mustang because
   6. A huge Mansion over looking the beach because, my family owns a condo over looking the beach and I want one too!
   7. Chicago Bears tickets for life because I love the Bears!
    8. Sketchers black +3 wedges shoes because I love shoes!
    9. Sketchers orange +3 wedges shoes because I love shoes!
    10. To get JB tickets because I like his singing
    11. To meet any band I want because I like many bands
    12. My own log cabin in Hayward because I love cabins.

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Stamp Act Getting Repealed

12/6/2012

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Today Mr.Solarz picked a topic for us to research about the 1700's. I did the Stamp Act Getting Repealed.
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Designer Microbes

12/5/2012

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Today Me and my partner read a story about plan B energy sources  we were assigned to read about Designer Microbes.
    Genetic engineers think they can create scientific lifeforms that will let us grow energy as easily as we do food!
    The reality factor is a 4 out of 5. 5 being we either are using it now or we are slowly making progress and 1 is probably not able to do it and we are figuring it out.
    "We think this field has a tremendous potential to replace the petrochemical industry, possibly with-in a decade!" said J. Craig Venter.
   These are microbes that capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks of a power plant.

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