Friday, May 25, 2007

Humanities

I think that we deserve a B on the humanities part. Some of the reason why are 1. We made huts that are from Africa, and on time. Another reason, is that we put soil down underneath it, but it was darker than the soil in Africa, because the soil in Africa is much lighter. We also put a backround of the huts, and a map of Africa behind our tank. I think that I did 40% of the work on this, because we made the clay here, but she brought them home, and finished the roof, so she gets more credit than I do for that.

Life Science

I think that we deserve an A for the science part of this project. One reason is that we have our organism, and we have a swampy enviroment in our terrarium. Another reason is that we have a light in our terrarium, and it is the right type of light. The third reason is that we use non mineral water and soil, so that out organism does not die. We also keep our terrarium moist, so that it is very humid inside. I think I did 50% of the work, because we both helped eachother.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

May 22

Today I finished my poster for the extra assignment. I did it on the carnivorous plants, and how biodiversity affects humans. My partner and I also painted our wooden board that goes in between the water, and the dry part.

Monday, May 21, 2007

May 21

Today I worked on my computer generated poster, and I have basically finished it and I just have to do some finishing touches so that it can look good. I plan on doing some of the finishing touches today and some tommorow.

Friday, May 18, 2007

May 18

Today, we got graded on our interpretive panels, and we also started building our models for our terrariums. We are going to be making huts for our terrarium. We are going to put a board in between the water and the dry side, so no water goes on the dry side.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

How my Plant Eats

My plant eats fruit flies, because it needs nutrients from the bugs, because the soil that they grow in has very low minerals and nutrition. The reason that the plants grow there is because there are not plants there to get in the way of the sunlight, because if they were to grow anywhere else, they wouldn't get any sunlight. The way that I feed my plant is by putting the fruit fly in or near the pot, then the fly is attracted to the sweet scent of the plant. After that the plant gets stuck to the plant, and over time the plant sucks the nutrients out of the bug.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

May 9

Today, Carli and I presented our lesson plan to the whole class. It went pretty well. We did our presentation on how Africa connects to our world. A lot of it was by religion, and architecture, such as gods and pyramids. They also made the first paper. We did an activity that was, Are You Smarter Than Mr. Davis. It went pretty smoothly. Today, we also went to the Zoo, and saw lots of very cool animals, such as Monkeys and elephants. We also saw some carnivorous plants there. Today was a lot of fun!

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

May 8

Today, we watched presentations about different regions of the world. I did not present today, because I am in the plant group, and we are going tomorrow or Thursday. I learned a lot about different places, and all the religion and the architecture, geography, and many more things.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

May 3

Today my partner and I worked on our crossword puzzle that we are making for our lesson plan. We are almost done with it, and we are probably going to finish it on Friday. That is all we basically did today, and I think that we could have gotten a little bit more work done today, if we had been focused the entire time.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

May 2

Today I finished the power point on connection to our world. We also started on our crossword puzzle that we are making for our activity in the lesson plan. I think that we got a lot of work done today, and tomorrow we will just need to finish our activity, then we will be done with our lesson plan.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

May 1

Today I added some things about architecture and language on my power point, and my partner and I came up with an idea to make a crossword puzzle for our activity. Once they find the words, they would match them with the right definitions, and the first person to do it gets candy. I also worked on my blog today, and changed the template and some other things.