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Physics Final Benchmark
Fast Plants Final Reflection
I noticed that
We had only 3 baby seeds out of all of our pods
We adopted seeds from other groups
Added soil and fertilizer
Planted 2 (YG and B) baby seeds in each pod
Covered in more soil
Plants range in length from 3 ½ cm to 8 cm
3 of the stems are becoming purples
4 stems are a very light green
13 of the leaves look rigid
14 of the leaves are rounded
Biotic factors: other plants, bacteria, plants themselves
This is categorized like this because bacteria and plants are living organisms. The bacteria in the air could affect how our plants grow. Our peers’ plants could interfere with our plants because they could rub against each other. Our plants could rub against each other which could take off some leaves or flowers. Abiotic factors: artificial “sunlight”, temperature, soil, air we categorized the abiotic factors in this way because we are using are artificial “sunlight” to help our plants grow. It could be possible that the light could blow out. The temperature could change depending on the light or the room. The room could be hot or cold if the windows are open. The soil is a factor because we don’t know what’s included in the soil. Lastly the air, because it may be certain particles throughout the air that could affect the plants. We predicted that the F1 and F2 plants are going to be the phenotypes and genotypes for our baby plants. Since both of are parents were yellow green leaf, homozygous and heterozygous, their kids were more than likely going to produce yellow green leaf babies as well. This cycle continued on since we didn’t have a variation of the parents. One thing that could have effected our plant process was lack of light, because a lot of people in my class plants were dying because they did not have enough light to grow so they were drying out.
Fast Plants Reflection
The F2 generation look like how we predicted them. We expected the colors to be different since we took the seeds from the first generation to plant the second generation. The F2 generation grew faster than the the parent generation. The first generation barely grew at all. Some of the factors that could have hindered our plants abilities to thrive is how much we watered them.
The environment and ecosystem effects organisms chances of survival. For example, many organism exhibit traits such as camouflage to hide from predators or conceal themselves from their prey in order to capture them. However, environments can change due to a multitude of factors, some being caused by human activity (burning fossil fuels, deforestation, pollution) and natural disasters. For example, the rock pocket mice depended heavily on their sandy and light colored environment, which blends easily with their light colored fur. This was an advantage that they held when it came to predators. Yet, years later a volcano erupted, turning the sandy environment into dark molten rock. Due to this, rock pocket mice light fur turned into a disadvantage. They were easily exposed to their predators, leading to the decrease of their population. However, if you look at pocket mice today, they have dark colored fur. Though this happened, it wasn’t the environment that changed the pocket mice phenotype but a genetic mutation that happened at a pivotal moment for the pocket mice population.
When hypothesizing what an organism will look like. The greater indicator would be looking at the genetic makeup of the organism. What stood out to me is plants can be affected by the light, location, and how often you water them, all of these affect the growth of the plants.
Fast Plants Final Reflection
The procedure of this lab is to take parental seeds and observe each parental type which is homozygous with the phenotypes we will investigate. In order to complete our lab successfully everyone will need to have good background knowledge on genetics. The purpose of the procedure is to understand the basics of Mendelian genetics, the use of punnet squares, chi-square analysis of data, and the life cycle of diploid organisms useful in genetics studies. Something that stood out to me was how after week two our plants begin to grow and all have pods. Only plants NP gave birth. Things that would hinder our plants were the environment it was in and how we took care of it. We did not water our plant everyday.
Lit Duey
We always take our friends dueys and wear them. We do this because they get us wavy. So we thought why not get wavy with lights! Which is perfect for the holiday season! It’s something that a lot of people wear in our area so we thought why not add a fun twist to it. We thought, how can we take an everyday object and make it something most people have never seen before and the thought just came to both of our heads at the same time. We feel as though our art portrays us as fun and creative people with a different way of thinking. -Anna DeSouza
When we come to school we always take our friends dueys just to make them mad. Since they get mad when we take theirs we've decided to get one of our own and make it even better with lights. This is an unique and creative idea because this has never been done in Mr. Gray's physics class. We love our duey because we love getting wavy. It's an amazing way to show holiday spirit as well! ~ Brianna Ricketts
Lit Cases!!!
Electric Art Project
Electric Art Project
Najla- The reason why we picked a star because Is from my hometown Los Angeles because that’s my home where i am from.The next reason why we picked a brick wall because The brick wall represents that we both come from a place where you see nothing but bricks like brick houses. The bricks are plain and nothing out of the ordinary.
DaShaun- What we made was a star on a brick wall. The brick wall represents that we both come from a place where you see nothing but bricks like brick houses. The bricks are plain and nothing out of the ordinary. However, were represented by the star. The star shows us as a something shining. This represents us shining in our communities. We also choose to do a star is because I want to visit Los Angeles in the future to see the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Fast Plants Final Reflection
The F2 generation looks like how we predicted them. We expected the colors to be different since we took the seeds from the first generation to plant the second generation. The F2 generation grew faster than the parent generation. The first generation barely grew at all. Some of the factors that could have hindered our plant's abilities to thrive is how much we watered them. The environment and ecosystem effects organisms chances of survival. For example, many organism exhibit traits such as camouflage to hide from predators or conceal themselves from their prey in order to capture them. However, environments can change due to a multitude of factors, some being caused by human activity (burning fossil fuels, deforestation, pollution) and natural disasters. For example, the rock pocket mice depended heavily on their sandy and light colored environment, which blends easily with their light-colored fur. This was an advantage that they held when it came to predators. Yet, years later a volcano erupted, turning the sandy environment into dark molten rock. Due to this, rock pocket mice, light fur turned into a disadvantage. They were easily exposed to their predators, leading to the decrease of their population. However, if you look at pocket mice today, they have dark colored fur. Though this happened, it wasn’t the environment that changed the pocket mice phenotype but a genetic mutation that happened at a pivotal moment for the pocket mice population. When hypothesizing what an organism will look like. The greater indicator would be looking at the genetic makeup of the organism. Something that stood out to me during this course is how many things can affect a plant ability to grow. For example, how much you water them and the soil. Another thing that stood out to me is how fast our F2 plant grew. Our F1 plant barely made it we had to keep re-planting since our soil and wick would dry out.
Wubbie and Brianna Artist Statements for Circuit Project
Wubbie:
The 2 hearts represent our hearts. One for each of us. Inside, we have pictures that represents us such as our family, our flags etc…. The hearts coming together captures the moment our friendship collided. The photos in the middle are photos that mean a lot to us. Everything is black and white but when the hearts combine together, you see colors. The colors represent the meaning of our friendship as one.
Brianna:
The hearts represent us. In those 2 hearts, you see pictures of our family, our selves, etc... Those things represents us. Everything is black and white and alone but when you combine those hearts, you see colors, representing that when our lives come together, it gets better. The colors represent the importance of our friendship as one. This is very important to me because I value true friendship.
Electronic Arts Project
Elise -
This project represents me because I have a huge interest in art and Vincent van Gogh is personally one of my favorite artists. I chose to do this for my project because I liked the way that the lights represented the stars in the painting at made it look really pretty. In addition, I thought it would be a clever way to put together a circuit, and a fairly straightforward project idea.
Alex -
This project is a representation of me because I like Vincent Van Gogh’s work and this is my favorite painting of his. I did this for my project because of that.
Electric Art Project (Puerto Rican Flag)
For our benchmark project we decided to light up a Puerto Rican flag. Our idea was inspired by the hurricane that happened a few months ago that left the island of Puerto Rico with no electricity by us lighting this flag we are representing hope to those families without light and to the island as a whole. The background idea for this project really hits close to home and means alot to us. For us to use our knowledge of physics to make lights turn on really inspires us because it shows that when we come across disasters like that, our knowledge is power. For our flag we created a circuit that has light bulbs both in a series and in parallel, in order to have each bulb’s brightness equally strong. We came across many challenges with connecting the wires successfully to where they belonged in order to light the flag but we overcame them by revising our notes and getting help from our peers. I hope that you enjoy our project and find it as inspirational as we did.
Light Project
The reason why I use headphones because like using my headphone. I think when I use my headphones feel my brain bright up. The different color lights show the different thoughts I have in my brain. One part is brighter because one part of my brain is stronger. I just Like music.
Physics benchmark -- Elise
This project represents me because i have a huge interest in art and vincent van gogh is personally one of my favorite artists. I chose to do this for my project because i liked the way that the lights represented the stars in the painting at made it look really pretty. In addition, i thought it would be a clever way to put together a circuit, and a fairly straightforward project idea.
Electric Arts Benchmark
Artistic Paragraph: Marcelus: I chose to use a sneaker because we both really like sneakers. I both wear sneakers every day. Many people see sneakers as something that you just walk but I see them as more than. I take really good care of sneakers some more than others but I like to make sure that they look good and even the smallest smudge puts us on high alert. This says that we are very serious about our sneakers but at the same time we have fun wearing them as long as we can no matter what. This also represents that sneaker very special place in our hearts.
Artistic Paragraph: Darien: I chose to use a sneaker because I thought it would be cool to light up a sneaker. Also, sneakers mean a lot to me I always clean them when I see the littlest mark. I take great care of my sneakers I always make sure they’re good. Sneakers are in our everyday life we need sneakers. Sneakers are a culture in our community in today's world.
Electric Art Project
For our Electric Art Project my partner and I decided to use a sneaker as our sculpture. Since me and my partner were as young as i could remember we always had a passion for sneakers and art. I can remember endless conversations about these two subjects. After thinking about options for this project, we found the perfect way to mesh these two ideas together. In order to consolidate art and sneakers into the faction of circuits and electricity in physics we decided to take a sneaker that I free-handily customized with an assortment of sharpies and lace it with lights. We wanted to make a design that was wearable and true to ourselves.
