this week in science #9

This week in science we did a experiment that involved us cutting into some animals. I had to cut open a skate and take out the lungs, heart ,guts, and a lot of other nasty things. When i had to cut it open the rib cage was pretty hard to cut open. It took me some time to cut it open and then i had to take my hand and try to rip the skates flesh open. Then when i did open it i had to dish out some of the water that got stuck in side of the skate was that was pretty nasty. I cut off the tall and it was cool it had tons of spikes on it. So that's what i did in science.

This week in science i learned that the skate is in the ray and shark family. I think that is awesome that's pretty cool. I also learned that the skate has lots of spikes on its body so if any animal tries to eat it the animal would get hurt. I learned there is over 1000 different kinds of skates in this world. The skate has sharp teeth but they are very small.

We had to dissect the skate and the perch. Some of the structures to me that was the same was the skin flesh whatever you want to call it but it was really hard to cut through. They both had small sharp teeth and they both some strong and long gills. Then some things that were different was that the skate you had to cut ope the gills o see inside and it was kinds hard but the perch we just ripe it open like nothing. Also the skate has lots of spikes on top of its body and the perch had lots of scales.

This Week in Science #8

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This week in science we learned lots of new vocabulary words like dorsal. Dorsal means the back of the animal where ever the animal has a spine.We also learned the word ventral which means the front view of something well its just the front of a animal.Also the word proximal means the distance between two things like your shoulder and fingers.We also learned about distal which mean the location of a body part like where the heart is for the craw fish.The environment craw fish lived in was a smelly wet area cause  when we took it apart it was one stinky craw fish. The craw fish had lots of features like orange guts, big claws, and a very weird mouth. The craw fish adapted tot there environment because they can walk and also go in water they have gills to prove that.
    
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My aha moments were when i found the craw fish lungs. It took me for ever to find them thanks to Jamie i found them. The craw fish cuts were orange. ewww. I had a aha moment when i realized that the craw fish didn't smell like craw fish. that was the biggest aha moment for me. I had a aha moment when i found out that i should of done the cricket. The craw fish reminded me of a lobster. The craw fish is a smaller version.Plus more people eat lobster than craw fish. I also noticed that the craw fish has a stomach that is almost up to there mouth.

this week in science #7

This week in science we did a project on the arctic tundra.We had to do lots of research and look up lots of things to put on our slide show. Well the project took about 3 weeks. But to me the project was really fun and i wouldn't mind to do it again. Then when we mad the slide show we had to do  a digital story. The digital story was fun because it was our voices reading what we wrote. Then we listened to each others slides.It was really cool.

This week in science i learned about the arctic tundra and its amazing features.I learned about the arctic tundra's climate and animals. I had to do a paragraph on the climate and i learned that the sun is out but that doesn't do no good it is like -19f in the arctic tundra. Also the arctic tundra is part of the global warming issue. Every day a little portion of ice is just melting away.I also had to write about the wolverine. I learned that the wolverine eats animals but no animals eat the wolverine. That is pretty cool.The wolverine has so many amazing body features. The wolverine has very sharp teeth for hunting, very sharp claws for hunting and catching fish, and lots of fur to protect them fro the cold weather.   
 

classification challenge

Kingdom:

Animalia - means its an animal.

Phylum:

Chordata- this means the animal has a back bone.

Class:

Mammalia-this means the animals nurses it young.

Order:

Chiroptera- this means the animal they have formed web wings.

Family:

Vespertilionidae- the majority of common bats in the tempera regain of the world.

Genus:

(a genus is the hierarchical point in the scientific system for grouping related organisms together.

species :

M. Lucifugus

crickets behavior investagation

QUESTION : Do crickets prefer wet or dry land?
 BACK ROUND RESEARCH :  Crickets both wet and dry areas. But crickets mostly prefer dry areas but the eat and lay there eggs in wet areas then they also grow there food in wet areas too. But when crickets are really thirsty they go to grass and get water. I guess they eat or suck on the plant. Crickets like to have sex in wet areas. They make the babies or eggs in the water most of the time. But mostly they like dry land they only do a couple things in the water not a lot of stuff.        
 

 What I did was look at where the cricket moved. Then after looking where they moved I saw which side the cricket liked better wet area or dry. Occur ding to my research the crickets like the wet side better. But the crickets like to stay active they are always moving they cant stop. But sometimes it could be even the crickets can go on both sides. The first cricket we had really moved a lot but the second one hated moving the cricket only stood in one spot the whole time it was lazy.

What I learned was that the crickets really like the wet. They like to move around a lot too. They can also stay in one spot for a really long time. The skinny cricket cricket 1 was really active and would not stop moving then the cricket 2 would not move cause it was fat. I learned that crickets really like to move and they can really stay still . 

This Week in Science #6

this is a very rare and ugly cricket

these are lots of different and good jellybeans

                      This week in science I did a projects about jelly beans and crickets again. I had to see how the crickets acted. Then we had to see if the crickets like wet areas better than dry areas. I noticed that many crickets liked wet area much better. Then I also noticed that many of the crickets didn't like to move and then some of the crickets don't know how to stop moving. I also had to do a project with dividing jelly beans and i have to make lots of groups. I had to separate the jelly beans by patterns colors and etc.              
                     
                   This week  in science I learned about how u can divided lots of things in lots of categories. You can separate jelly beans in lots of different categories and that's pretty cool and there is a lot of jelly beans. I also learned this week how to make different ways to record how a cricket acts. We can make a chart of how many times the cricket moves and where the cricket moves. We can also make a chart where you count how long the cricket stays in one place. Then we had to see if crickets the crickets like to stay in wet areas or dry areas.

                   
     

this week in science #5

I learned about the different  behavior of animals. I learned about some funny looking parrot. First the parrot was acting really scared and then out of the blue it started to attack the man that was trying to take a picture. But the teacher aka david said that the bird was trying to mate which means get with the man. I also learned about cat behavior. The cat video was really funny with two cats fighting. Then while the cats were fighting there was two bird there just like watching and flying around. Then when the cat ran away the birds followed them. Then after that at the end of the day i saw about four to five more videos and saw how protective deer can be to the calf.

This week in science we also watched lots of videos. I also observed crickets. we had to see what they did on how they reacted. Then after that we had to draw different angeles. Then when we were done with  that we had to label the part of there body that we drew. but most of the pictures i drew look weird because the crickets would not stay still. then lots of the people at my table were afraid of the crickets so it was pretty funny.    

crickets