EXTRA CREDIT!!!

My favorite show is Phineas and Ferb. The episode I watched was called Unfair Science Fair. This had a lot to do with science. As you can see from the title that this episode was about a science fair. In this episode Biljeet's summer teacher says that he got an A- on a project for the science fair. Biljeet gets all emotional and says that he is a failure. He told his teacher that he was building a portal to Mars. In reply his teacher says that unless it dosen't work he will get an A-. So Phineas and Ferb help Biljeet make this portal to Mars, and in the end it works. Building a portal to Mars is all science. On the other hand we have Doofensmirtz who makes the biggest baking soda volcano. He was mad and ticked off beacuse every time he entered the sciencefair the first prize ribbon was given to a person who made a baking soda volcano. Baking soda volcano is classifeied under chemistry. As you can see this episode talked a lot about science!!!

Frog Dissection!

http://www.glasbergen.com/?s=dissection

The frog digestion was the coolest dissection I had to do.  The worm was just plain boring and disgusting, and the owl pellet just didn’t make any sense to me.  The frog though is the most unique amphibian there is.  Anyway, I can’t believe that frogs have so many organs that humans have.  Whenever I used to look at a frog I would think, ewww that’s the grossest creature I will ever see on the planet.  (Though the main reason I thought they were disgusting was because I was scared of them.  That’s a secret! Don’t tell anyone, got it!)  But I guess I can’t be scared of them anymore, you know because I dissected them.  They seemed like harmless creatures, but you never know. 

We had a female frog.  Gosh, did she have so many eggs.  It took us a whole class time plus half of another class time to take them out.  If you saw our frog after our dissection, you would think that she has a demented liver, but that was just Palavi’s expert cutting.  Anyhow, our frog seemed so weird.  It looked like she was made out of glass, now that was really scary but cool. I learned so much from this frog digestion, though I think I failed the quiz, but that’s beside the point.  Did you know that frogs can really smell?  Well at first I thought everyone was joking about them stinking, but you know what, frogs can really have a bad stench.  We named out frog OmarieImranieJoshieAmanie.  Don’t you love our frogs’ name? I bet our frog’s name was so original that no one names their frog OmarieImranieJoshieAmanie.  Yeah I thought so.  So, well I guess that’s as much as the cool things I saw and you heard.  Well I hope my blog wasn’t BORING!

http://www.glasbergen.com/?s=dissection

http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_16/BL_16.html

If you want to learn more about the frog, go to this website for more information!!!! 

As I was not there on the first day of the lab I can only talk about the second day when I was present for the lab.  We had four test tubes labled from A-D.  On the second day for the egg white appearance test tube A  through C had no reaction but test tube D started to disintegrate.  For litmus color test tubes A and B had no reaction, while test tube C and made the paper turn pink and test tube D made the paper wet.  This lab shows how the digestion system in our stomach works.  The digestive system is very slow.  This lab showed the digestion system because our digestive system has enzymes and acids and it braks down food.

Chicken Wing

On Thursday our science class dissected a chicken wing.  We learned the diffrent parts in a chicken wing, what color they are how they feel, etc.  My favorite part of the chicken wing were the tendons.  The tendons were shiny and white.  The tendons were at the end of the muscles that attached the muscles to the bones.  It was sooooo cool when our science teacher pulled on the tendon and the bones moved.  I thought it was freaky but also cool.  The part that I thought was disgusting was the fat.  The fat was yellow, and it was under the skin.  EEEWWWW!  The reason we did this lab was so we could see how human's arm work.  Other terms we learned were; Cartilage, Ligament, Muscle, and Skin.  Not only did we learn these terms but we also learned what color they were,the texture it had etc.

Diffusion Lab

Today in science class I learned new words such as diffusion and osmosis.  I also learned that if you put a bag of starch mixed with water into a beaker filled with water and iodine the bag of starch and water turns purple after 15 minutes.  In the beginning when we put the baggie into the water/idoine the water was orange but grudually changed color.  From this lab i learned an intresting fact, that molecules don't like to be crammed togather they want to move around freely.  An example Mrs. Rousseau gave was that if she put all of Omega and Chi in the science room everyone will be crammed together.  When she opens the room people will start to drift out, this is the same with molecules.  I also learned that the plastic bag was permeable to iodine since that was what the lab thought us.  

Prevention: Coffee Lowers Risk of Prostate Cancer, Harvard Study Says

A new result has shown that if people drink coffee they're less likely to have prostate cancer.  Harvard students did research on how much people drink coffee.  They found out that people who drink 6 or more cups of coffee have a 20% less chance of having prostate cancer.  Heavy coffee drinkers were 60% less likely to get lethal form of the disease than the non-coffee drinkers.  This study did not measure how much caffeine is put in the coffee or whether it is not caffeinated, rather the cups drank.  By drinking coffee you also have a lower risk of getting Type 2 Diabetes.  This study isn’t telling people to go crazy with drinking coffee, rather just drink it 3 to 4 time a day, or more just not crazy like 30 cups.   




http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/health/research/24prevention.html?_r=1&ref=health

Why Do I Get Acne!!!!

I have acne and I try every possible way to get rid of them.  I never really understood why teenagers got pimples, but by reading this article I’ve finally cracked the code.  Anyway, I learned a few tips to keep my skin healthy, and to have fewer pimples.  For example, I learned to watch my face often, not just twice a day.  My cousin told me to wash my face with cold water, but according to this article I should wash my face with warm water.  I also learned a few more terms from this article like, sebum, which is oil that lubricates your hair and skin.  Another term I learned is sebaceous glands which are also called oil glands.