Digital Portfolio: ScienceHere is where I will be placing all of my produced online content for my 6th Period Science class. Right now in Science we're learning about the basics of life science and the characteristics of living things. As of April, we're beginning a project that we'll also work on in Computers about an animal at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo.
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Projects
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Characteristics of Living Things GlogsterThe objective of this project was for students to create a graphic blog (Glog) to be used as a presentation for the characteristics of living things. There are six of these characteristics, explained in detail in the project. We learned about them beforehand but were told to explain them further and add information, links, photos, and videos. The Glogster is very interactive and you can enlarge it by pressing a button on a drop-down menu that you get from hovering over the logo. We worked on this project for about two weeks.
The project's interactivity definitely helped us to remember the content. The videos and photos worked as great examples for all of the project's lessons. For example, the video of the Venus flytrap catching a fly in its mouth is an example of a stimulus. A stimulus is an umbrella term for any recognizable change in an organism's environment that would cause a change. To humans, temperature changes are examples of stimuli. This seems like a project that Mr. Kimbley would be proud of. He helped us sign up for our Glogster accounts. It was a fun, accessible, and graphic way to represent the information we had learned. It was a great way to start off our use of Glogster, which will probably continue in the future. It was our first major Science project, and the cross-curricular connections in the Glog made it very valuable and interesting. Glogster is not half as foreign as it seemed before we made this. I hope we make more presentations and Glogs using Glogster. It was fun to learn about and easy to use. |
Edible Cell
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The objective of this project was to help us learn what cells look like. The lesson was made more relatable to us by assigning us to build a somewhat scale model of a eukaryotic cell using different food items for different organelles. We were given 20 minutes to build and afterwards, we had to answer questions about the organelles and their different functions. It was a lot easier to understand and explain the materials once they had been translated into something I already understood. In addition to learning about cell structure, I also learned how to work together with my table group.
I got a 90% on this assignment, but I still learned a lot more than hours of pure studying could have.
I got a 90% on this assignment, but I still learned a lot more than hours of pure studying could have.