JEOPARDY

plant vs. animal cells, 216

http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm

https://owlcation.com/stem/Plant-Cells-vs-Animal-Cells-With-Diagrams

Thursday, June 8th, 2017: All Classes Assignment

Hi,

Here is your assignment for all classes.

Here is a link to the article or it is copied below. Answer all 11 questions in notebook.

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/blog/eureka-lab/test-pill-coatings-try-stomach-flask

Marquez

A teen investigates which type of pill dissolves fastest in the gut

Tablets (in white) may dissolve in the stomach fastest, while compressed caplets (in orange, blue and pink) may last longer, a teen found.

PHATTANA/ISTOCKPHOTO

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Pills come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Some are coated, and some are not. Roshni Sen, 17, wondered if a pill’s coating can affect how long it takes for the pill to break down in the body. To investigate, this senior at the Academy of Science and Technology at The Woodlands College Park in Texas created a “stomach” in a flask. She showed that different types of pills dissolve in different spots in the digestive tract. And that might affect which bottle you would want to reach for when you’ve got aches and pains.

Roshni presented her results at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Created by Society for Science & the Public and sponsored by Intel, the yearly fair brings high school students from all over the world together to share their research projects. (SSP also publishes Science News for Students and this blog.)

The teen became curious about how quickly pills dissolve after reading about a new type of pill that was supposed to release medicine inside the body at a constant rate. “I found this paper online talking about this new kind of pill that biomedical engineers made that has a porous outer coating,” Roshni says. It could make a pill’s effects last longer and be more consistent. Realizing how important a coating could be, she soon decided to do an experiment to find out how quickly the different types of pills now for sale dissolved in the stomach and small intestine.

Those pills now on the market come in many shapes and sizes, and with different coatings. Some are liquid inside a gel, or powder inside a gel caplet. Others are tablets or compressed caplets with shiny coatings. This can affect how quickly the medicine inside makes its way into someone's bloodstream.

The teen worked with a drug that's used to treat fever and pain. It's available at any pharmacy and best known by the brand name Tylenol. (Its generic name is acetaminophen and paracetamol, depending on what country you are in.)  Most importantly, Roshni explains, “it comes with all the different kinds of coatings I needed.”

She wanted to examine four common pill coatings. A tablet is the most basic. “It essentially has no coating other than the one that just holds it together,” Roshni says. Compressed caplets have a hard, shiny coating. Gel caplets have a gel coating around a powder, and soft gels are made with a gel coating around a liquid.

Roshni Sen presents her project at Intel ISEF.

B. Brookshire/SSP

To test how fast the pills dissolved, Roshni had to come up with a stand-in for the human digestive system. So she created models — simulations — of the stomach and small intestine with acidic solutions in flasks.

The stomach breaks food down so its nutrients can be absorbed by the body. Because of this, the stomach is full of enzymes and acid. The stomach has a pH of around 2. That’s about as acidic as lemon juice or vinegar. The small intestine, where most of the nutrients in food get absorbed, uses mostly enzymes, not acid, to finish digesting the food from the stomach. It is a strong base, with a pH of about 8. That’s about as basic as baking soda. To mimic these environments, Roshni prepared three beakers. One beaker matched the pH of the stomach. Another matched the pH of the small intestine. The third, her ­control, was pure water, which has a pH of 7.

To mimic the body’s temperature, she heated the beakers to 37° Celsius (98.6° Fahrenheit). She added a small stir-bar in each to keep the mixtures moving. This would stand in for the movement in the stomach and small intestine that mixes food and keeps it moving along.

Working in her school’s chemistry lab, Roshni placed a pill in each beaker. She then waited to see how long it took for the pill to completely dissolve. She repeated the experiment five times for each pill type in each beaker.

In water, all of the pills took more than an hour to dissolve. But there were differences in the acidic “stomach.” The tablets, which didn’t have much of a coating, dissolved the fastest, in about 12 to 13 minutes. The soft gels lasted a little longer, taking 15 to 16 minutes to dissolve, while the gel caplets took 18 to 20 minutes. Compressed caplets proved most hardy. They took 24 to 25 minutes to dissolve.

But Roshni got a surprise when she tried to dissolve her pills in her “intestine” flask. The tablets, soft gels and gel caplets took much longer to dissolve in the basic solution, between 28 and 36 minutes. But the compressed caplets, which withstood the strong acid of the stomach, dissolved quickly in the “small intestine,” in 13 to 15 minutes.

Compressed caplets are covered in an extra coating. It protects the pill from the stomach acid. “The main purpose is to elongate the process,” Roshni explains, making sure the pill does not dissolves until it reaches the small intestine. Why? If a pill dissolves in the stomach, the acid there might also break down some of the drug before it can be absorbed. That would make the pill less effective. Waiting to dissolve in the small intestine may ensure that more of the drug makes it into the bloodstream.

Tablets and soft gels could begin to treat pain and fever faster because they dissolve more quickly, Roshni concludes. But they also might be less effective, because some of their medicine will be lost in the stomach. So in some cases, the compressed caplets may prove more effective, she says.

Drug companies design medicines with different coatings for different purposes. Tablets and soft gels may be useful for quick relief. Compressed caplets, in contrast, may bring longer relief.

In the end, what kind of pill you take probably depends on what your needs are. “A lot of people just take a pill and hope it works and kind of forget about it,” the teen says. She hopes that her experiment will help spread knowledge about why different pill coatings exist and what they can do.

And when she’s in need, Roshni prefers speed. “I told my mom I won’t take gel caps or compressed caplets anymore,” she says. “I’m going to take soft gels.”

Questions:

All questions answered inside your notebook.

Will be grading tomorrow for 11x5=55 points

Have a good day!

1. What was Roshni’s testable question she wanted to study?
2. To launch her investigation, what did she create?
3. Draw her experimental set up.
4. Roshni became interested in this experiment after reading about a new type of pill that was unique. What was unique about it?
5. What are the three different types of the above pill currently sold in stores?
6. What two things are found inside the stomach?
7. What is the pH of the stomach?
8. How many trials did Roshni’s experiment have?
9. What did she realize the problem was with the pill dissolving in the stomach and not reaching the small intestine?
10. What pills did she conclude could be used for quick relief? What pills for long-lasting relief?
11. What are 2 follow-up questions Roshni could study in a subsequent experiment?

06.05.17

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/6/1/mits-autonomous-3d-printing-platform-could-be-key-for-building-a-mars-colony

1. Why does housing need to be addressed before we colonize Mars?
2. What has been the issue with previous 3D construction robots?
3. Describe the  "rover-like DCP" from science robotics.
4. What are some future characteristics of Future DCP models?
5. How many hours id it take to print the original DCP?

5th grade:  1 survey, when done go to www.code.org/learn

6th grade: 2 surveys, the one i asked you to take when you walked into class and the one below:

log onto naviance

click "see more options"

do END OF YEAR GOAL AND REFLECTION

http://cps.edu/Pages/naviance.aspx

6.2.17

Click here for mandatory survey!

214 Hexadecimals

https://www.mathsisfun.com/hexadecimal-decimal-colors.html

GENETICS JEOPARDY

Genetics Jeopardy. Rules: Refresh the page when I say go to complete the problem.

Mrs. Marquez husband's first and last name.

217

http://cps.edu/Pages/naviance.aspx

215 Radiowaves

Click here for Radiowave Simulation

Take 15 minutes to answer the questions below inside your notebooks.

During the Interactive

• What kind of information can scientists get from radio light?
• What reasons can you think of to explain why radio waves would be weaker by the time they reach Earth telescopes?
• How do the radio telescope images differ from the optical images?

After the Interactive

• How do radio waves provide information that visible light waves cannot?
• How is your FM radio similar to a radio telescope? How is it different?

5.25.17 (218)

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/5/25/can-these-plastic-eating-wax-worms-help-reduce-our-trash

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/5/23/japans-spectacular-train-suite-shiki-shima-is-like-none-other

Pick one article and write a one page article, at least 12 sentences summarizing the key points of the article.

214, 218 Assignment for 5.24.17

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/5/15/germany-unveils-the-worlds-largest-artificial-sun

1. 1.    Why is it difficult for scientists to find new ways to harness the sun’s energy?
2. 2.    What have the scientists and engineers at the German Space Center (DLR) built to help researchers overcome the problem?
3. 3.    How do solar panels work?
4. 4.    Describe Synlight in 3-5 sentences.
5. 5.    What is a xenon lamp?
6. 6.    What is solar radiation?
7. 7.    What is electrolysis?

Hexadecimal Pixelation

https://www.mathsisfun.com/hexadecimal-decimal-colors.html

Punett square practice

Punnet Square

1			One cat carries heterozygous, long-haired traits (Ss), and its mate carries homozygous short-haired traits (ss). Use a Punnett square to determine the probability of one of their offspring having long hair.
			A)	100%
			B)	25%
			C)	75%
			D)	50%
2			One cat carries heterozygous, long-haired traits (Ss), and its mate carries homozygous short-haired traits (ss). Use a Punnett square to determine the probability of one of their offspring having short hair.
			A)	25%
			B)	50%
			C)	75%
			D)	100%
3			One flower is heterozygous red (Rr) and it is crossed with a homozygous white (rr) plant. Use a Punnett square to determine the probability of one of their offspring having a red color.
			A)	75%
			B)	25%
			C)	50%
			D)	100%
4			One flower is heterozygous red (Rr) and it is crossed with a homozygous white (rr) plant. Use a Punnett square to determine the probability of one of their offspring having a white color.
			A)	100%
			B)	25%
			C)	75%
			D)	50%

5.18.17 Thursday

Today's Assignments:


1. Read article and answer questions inside notebook.

2. When finished, your options are:

www.code.org/learn

Pixelation Drawings (see links below)

Click me FIRST!


https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/139193539/

https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/webdev/pixel-art/

ARTICLE:

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/5/16/california-based-perfect-day-makes-cow-milk-without-the-cow

Questions: Please make sure you answer in full sentences. You need to copy the question down as well.

1.. What are plant-based milk alternatives?

2. What are 2 benefits and 2 drawbacks of plant-based milk alternatives?

3. What was the name of the yeast strain scientists extracted?

4. What was the purpose of the 3-D printer for? What did this allow the yeast to do?

5. Why are lab-grown products a benefit to us?

6. Why might we shift to lab-grown food and products in the future?

Pixel Art Maker

Click me FIRST!


https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/139193539/

https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/webdev/pixel-art/

Use these links to complete the worksheet for High schools:

https://hsbound.org/

http://cps.edu/Schools/High_schools/Pages/HighschoolsIndex.aspx?Type=1&Filter=CPSSchoolGrade=High%20school

Click this Link to complete your states of matter simulatio:



https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/states-of-matter/latest/states-of-matter_en.html

5.5.17

All classes,

Today you will be participating in LIVE, REAL-TIME RESEARCH.

Visit the following link:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects?status=live

Click the project that you are going to help conduct research under. At some point today, you will need to see me and tell me the 3 projects that you contributed LIVE RESEARCH to.

Mrs. Marquez

5.4.17

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/5/3/your-next-smartphone-may-have-a-self-healing-screen

What is the problem with current smartphone screens?

How will the new material help solve it?

What did scietists select for the self-healing material?

What is a polymer and how far can the polymer be stretched?

What is conductivity?

Why do we need to test the material's conductivity?

5.1.17

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/3/11/flying-cars-edge-closer-to-reality

Read this article. Questions will be up at 10:15 AM.


Who created the first flying car?
Why does the author believe flying cars may finally become a reality?
What is an aeronautical engineer?
What are the forces involved in a flying vehicle?
What is the Kitty-Hawk and why did it make headlines?
How fast does the hybrid plane-car go?

Do you believe flying cars will ever become as common as road vehicles?...

Article Analysis, 216, 218

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/4/18/ooho-edible-water-bubble-aims-to-eliminate-plastic-bottles

Write out definitions for all the words in blue.

1. Why are plastic bottles bad for the environment?

2. How many plastic bottles does the US cosume on a daily basis?

3. What are some other alteratives to plastic bottles?

4. What is the oohoo and how does it work?

5. How will this conserve us energy?

6. How will drinking water from a bubble affect humans?

DISCUSSION:

Summarize the results of your data table.

EXPLAIN the SCIENCE or ENGINEERING behind your project: WHY DOES IT WORK THE WAY IT DOES?

What were your constraints and criteria and how did this affect your project? (WHAT WERE YOU LIMITED BY?)

CONCLUSION:

• Summarize your science fair project results in a few sentences and use this summary to support your conclusion. Include key facts from your background research to help explain your results as needed.
• 
  
• State whether your results support or contradict your hypothesis. (Engineering & programming projects should state whether they met their design criteria.)
• 
  
• If appropriate, state the relationship between the independent and dependent variable
• .
• Summarize and evaluate your experimental procedure, making comments about its success and effectiveness.
• 
  
• Suggest changes in the experimental procedure (or design) and/or possibilities for further study.

Animal Research Project

1) San Diego Zoo for Kids: Great animal photos!! Easy to read facts.

2) National Geographic for Kids: There are no better pictures on the Internet. Lots of comprehensive facts too.

3) Ranger Rick: LOVE that this site is full of facts mixed in with PDF files from their magazine. Awesome.

4) Wild Kratts on PBS: Check out Creaturepedia!! Fun facts for kids.

5) Animal Fact Guide: The reading level is geared for older students; however, the text is comprehensive and printer-friendly too!

6) Soft Schools: A hidden treasure with straight-forward facts about tons of different critters.

7) Science Kids: A simple and straight-forward collection of animals and facts.

8) Enchanted Learning: Lots of animal printouts great for kids.

9) ESpecies Fact Sheets: Got an endangered species to research? Can't go wrong with this website.

4.6.17

all classes: required to earn at least 2 ribbons on study island science. Go to science, click your grade level, start working.

216

https://www.dogonews.com/2017/3/17/should-the-nearly-submerged-zealandia-be-classified-as-a-continent

216

Read this article:

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/fossils-offer-new-candidate-earliest-life

3.30

http://sciencenetlinks.com/esheets/what-happened-to-the-mammoths/

214, 217

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/father-and-son-harness-magnetic-fields-new-type-3-d-printing


Read article above.

Assignment:

Choose 1 thing that you think you would 3-d print that could change the world. Draw that "thing" and explain why 3-D printing it would be beneficial to the world.

How would it help people?

How would it be able to mass produced?

How much would it cost?

How fast could you make it?

All classes, Monday, 3.06.17

Hi,

Today's assignment:

1. click this link : https://www.dogonews.com
2. Click SCIENCE and find YOUR GRADE LEVEL
3. choose an article...must be related to science somehow
4. read the article...must be able to connect it to science somehow
5. Complete one of the assignments below:

a) Create a comic book (minimum 4 boxes) explaining the story or science behind your article. must have diagrams, color, word bubbles, etc. You can use the white computer paper in front of the class. then, you can glue it into your notebook.

b) Pretend you are me and make 10 questions about the article. After that,You then need to answer the 10 questions (inside notebook)

This assignment is 40 points.

See you Tuesday.

Marquez

216

Creating Wind Anemometer

Materials and Equipment

• 5 three ounce paper cups (Dixie Cups)
• 2 soda straws
• pin
• paper punch
• scissors
• stapler
• sharp pencil with an eraser
• a fan with at least three different speeds (high, medium, and low)
• ruler (optional)

Procedures:

Experimental Procedure

1. Take four of the paper cups and use the paper punch to punch one hole in the side of each cup, about a half inch below the rim.
2. Take one of the four cups and push a soda straw through the hole. Fold the end of the straw and staple it to the side of the cup across from the hole. Repeat this procedure for another one-hole cup and the second straw.
3. Take the fifth cup and punch four equally spaced holes in the side of the cup, about a quarter inch below the rim. Then punch a hole in the center of the bottom of the cup.
4. Slide one cup and straw assembly through two opposite holes in the cup with four holes. Push another one-hole cup onto the end of the straw just pushed through the four-hole cup.
5. Bend the straw and staple it to the one-hole cup, making certain that the cup faces the opposite direction from the first cup. Repeat this procedure using the other cup and straw assembly and the remaining one-hole cup.
6. Align the four cups so that their open ends face in the same direction either clockwise or counter-clockwise around the center cup.
7. Carefully push the straight pin through the two straws where they intersect.
8. Push the eraser end of the pencil through the bottom hole in the center cup. Carefully push the pin into the end of the pencil eraser as far as it will go. You may need an adult to help you push the pin in.
9. Now your anemometer is ready for use! It should look like Figure 1:

1. Describe wind in scientific terms.

2. What is convection? Draw a diagram showing the warm air and cool air.

3. What does a wind vane show?

4. What tool do I use to measure the speed of the wind?

5. What are the 3 types of wind machines?

6. What is the difference between a wind mill and a wind turbine?

7. What are the five main parts to a wind turbine?

8. What is the purpose of wind farms?

9. Do wind turbines produce lots of wind energy a year or not?

10.                  List 2 environmental impacts of wind turbines? 

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