Adv Science

Summary: During this week, our teacher introduced our Superhero project where we have to base a character off of an animal. Then we took notes on genetics, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), traits, and chromosomes. When we took notes, I learned that heredity was the passing of traits from the parent to the child. I also learned that each parent contributes 23 chromosomes which all in all adds up to 46 chromosomes that the baby has. Another thing that I learned while taking notes is that an allele is a set of genetic information.   S&EP1: Asking questions and defining problems :  I formulated testable questions when I was doing research for my superhero - how did swiftlets use echolocation? How were sharks able to have excellent night vision as well as electroreception? Image Link:  Old Tour of Basic Genetics  

Summary: During this week, my team and I worked on our Charity Fair IGNITE presentation. What I learned through the making of our IGNITE presentation was that we needed to have pictures and minimal text. One other thing that I learned through the making of our IGNITE presentation was that Flint, MI is being used as a target practice for the army to test their bombs and that the bombing takes place in a small region called "Ghost Town". Another thing that I learned was that General Motors and the government were being given clean water to drink while the people of Flint were given poisoned water that was filled with lead and other toxins. Backward-Looking: In what ways have you gotten better at this kind of work? I have gotten better at this kind of work because I have had to make many presentations in the past along with the fact that in my Advanced Elective (engineering) class, we were told to make an IGNITE presentation for our Sound Amplification project, which

Summary: During this week,   my team and I worked on our Human Body REDESIGN presentation and script for the Immune System. What I learned about the immune system while working on this project was that the tonsils and adenoids were part of the immune system. I also learned that 'Peyer's patches' existed, which I didn't know until my team put a picture of the immune system on one of the slides of our presentation.  SP1 - Asking questions and defining problems: I asked scientific questions while working on this project when wondering how it would be scientifically possible to enlarge the spleen (our team's redesign for the immune system - enlarge the spleen to hold and contain a certain amount of phagocytes. Messages would be sent from the brain and the endocrine system, which is told to have some control over the immune system). I also asked a scientific question on how we could make it so that the detrusor muscle (a muscular wall around the bladder that a

Summary: During this week, my team and I worked on our design brief and finished it. Then we created our Google Slides presentation as well as our script for when we may have to present to the class about our Human Body Redesign. While doing the design brief, I learned that the endocrine system actually controls a little bit of the immune system.  SP6 - Constructing explanations and designing solutions: Yes, I explained something through my work when I put in my redesign for the immune system in the Human Body 2.0 Design Brief . I explained how the redesign would work by saying how it would act a little like the bladder - expand to fill with more phagocytes and when there was a breach in the human body's defenses, then those phagocytes would be released. Image Link:  Human Body 2.0 Design Brief (Immune System REDESIGN)