Unit 10 Reflection

This unit focused upon the anatomy of the human body, and how they work together to maintain homeostasis. The main essential questions that are focused on are how homeostasis was maintained between and within systems, and the differences between the structure of the system to the function of it. Many parts of the body work together to maintain this, such as the respiratory, the circulatory, digestive, and many other organ systems. They work together to produce the energy the body needs, in order to keep us moving. The circulatory system, especially, is the essential system used to support nearly every system, and keeps us alive in the first place.

I think this year overall was great, but there were problems with my classmates and trying to stay with the vodcasts, which take a long time. I'm most proud of the projects that I did with my classmates, and all the other things in class. I think I grew to understand that I work better alone, and not under extreme pressure preferably. There were many things that I learned about myself in this class, but I won't list them all.

Bird Beak Lab
Hunger Games
Geographic Timeline

Pig Dissecton

Relate and Review:

The pig dissection was a fantastic way to study the function of a mammal. I believe that this experiment was all about studying how each organ system in the body worked together to continue homeostasis in mammals. Humans are also part mammal, and many of the systems in the pig are similar to that of a human's, making it a great way to study the anatomy of a person. This experiment heavily focused on the anatomy of the body, which this unit was also heavily focused upon. I really didn't like ripping apart a pig myself, but it was nice to see the anatomy of the mammal, other than the flesh and bones ripped here and there. It's an amazing sight for those who don't get to see this often, like me, and it's my first time doing this too! I think this experiment would be valuable for studying for the finals coming up, and having a hands on experience can really help people remember the organ system effectively.

Dissection:

20 Time Final Post

This is the final post for my 20 time project, and the results of all the work I have put into it

20 Time Individual Reflection

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20 Time Presentation:

Reflection:
I was never good at public speaking. I was quite literally sweating head to toe by the end of the presentation. I felt like I had caught the audience's attention with the things I said but there were many things that went quite wrong. I was making up my speech with the help of a few notecards to support me, and I was rushing myself way too much. I probably didn't score as well as I wanted to, but for a stressed out person like me, I feel it was something I probably deserved for being not confident. I probably should use a better script, or have my notecards somewhere I can read easily, rather than in my hands.

20 Time Individual Reflection

It all began that day when we started months ago. I was a bit hopeless in figuring out what to do in this sort of huge long-term project. I wanted an adventure that can be found in the project that I was doing but I had many concerns. At first, when I was brainstorming the idea, I had thought about making a game, that reflects the actions of the person. This makes each actions have more thought, consideration and more value as the game progresses. I had to scrap the idea after figuring out how long a sort of timeline I would have to make in order to build this complex game. I settled upon photography, and I decided that the topic would be awareness in nature. I was inspired by the beauty of nature, after going outdoors for so many times. It was also the same thing that helped me noticed the other side that was hurting nature. I decided to make a portfolio, or a collection of photos that would help show this side that we were doing. Essentially, I was trying to raise awareness about nature. I wanted to make this project be a fancy screen of good photos here and there, and showing what we can do to restore that feature. I thought It would be a good plan, take photos, get back, find more photos, and organize them into one place. There were a lot of problems that came on me, and every idea I had backfired instantly. Most programs can't handle the amount of photos I had, so I had to cut back on a few programs. There were also no photos of back then, so I was stuck there. I decided on trying to show deeper meaning in each photo I took, hoping to seek the same goal by a different way. I had also learned many things about myself as I went on, and it was mostly about the negative things. I had a dark side I hid with a fake smile, and one I tried to avoid in every way. This affected the choices I would make, and distanced me from others because of the possibilities that could happen. I thought I could hide it away, but I can't run from that buried past. If I could have done this project over, maybe I should have found someone to help me, and help me feel secure within myself. Maybe be able to find the right topic, or a good idea that would work between us. Whatever happens to this project, I believe that it is far from over, but in a planet that need to be saved, there are many things that could be improved. For now, until I improve myself, I guess I can shelf this project in my memories.

Unit 9 Reflection

Unit 9 Reflection
Ponifera and Sponges

My inner fish and reptile

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Summary
What we learned about was the many branches in life, all with a common ancestor that we share. One of the few main concepts was about each of the three kingdoms. The rest was about each of the species in each of them.

There is the animalia kingdom, the plantae and much more that we had focused on but mainly the two mentioned. The animalia kingdom includes many mammals, and many others. We had focused on the main features of them, such as having hair on their body, or reproducing without laying eggs.

The Plantae Kingdom talked about the evolution of plants, and how the early plants back then evolved into what we know today. These early plants made the fruiting plants and other functions we know today.

The other parts we had covered included Chordates and Invertebrates, each with their subsections and unique parts.

What on Earth Evolved?
When I was doing the presentation, I was practically improvising and thinking of how to improve the presentation. I was reading off the slides most of the time, but I threw in a bit of information that I din't include. I was even going to see if I should make last minute edits right during the 10 min. break before class. The stress wasn't as bad as I thought, since I worked pretty hard on this, than if I walked in to class, tried to remember what to say, and not freak out. I think a big part is that I wasn't focused on eye contact and just doing what I thought was needed. I'm usually much more stressed when doing it without something to read off.

My Inner Fish

In the two videos we watched about how we were related to early animals like fishes and how they later evolved over millions of years into us. In the unit we are learning, we talked about different types of animals, and how they were similar to each other, making easy to order them into different areas. One such types were the ones that were focused on in the videos: the Fish and the Reptiles. In past units, we talked about evolution and why it occurs. This is especially shown as Fish went onto land and reptiles evolved into mammals. One such part in the video was the discovery of the Hadrocodium, whose name means big brain. This early mammal had a brain bigger than that of their body mass! This was used to allow for better performance in dangerous , and allowed them to survive in a world where dinosaurs lived. Another thing in the video that interests me is unexplored area in North America. When they talked about it, I was surprised by the fact that this place was not explored for years, even in times where the conditions there were low enough to do work in. Even with high-tech gear, people didn't want to travel in Canada because of the cold snow, and chance of getting lost in blizzards, and high chance of death.

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4th Blog Post

Moving on over the second hurdle:

This week, I had decided that I would use an info-graphic with my portfolio, along with other information to amplify the meanings of the pictures, since there is very little pictures in the past, since cameras and others weren't invented back then ( Oops.....). The topic I'm trying to convey is not easy to convey with little photos. I may have done my best with each one, but I'm not a perfect photographer. I decided that I would research more about now and back then, and talk to a certain teacher that knows a lot about back then. For now, I moved my work onto easel.ly to continue the rest of my work. Recently, I have thought a lot about myself, and I believe that I am constantly doubting myself. I can't seem to stick to something without thinking of  a negative downside to come with it. I think having someone to ask, come to, or just talk to really helps with this problem and clears my mind up.