Characteristics Of Life
In science, we made a Glogster, an online poster. We had to make it on the six characteristics of living things, or what we all share on common as living things. The six characteristics of life are living things have cells, respond to change, reproduce, have DNA, use energy, and they grow and develope.
First of all, living things have cells, one way we know that is that the living thing is alive, because cells need to be working in order to keep the living thing alive and turn food into energy or carry out all the chemicals. All living things, grow and develop, that means that living things won't stay young, or small forever, they will grow eventually at least once in their life span. Then, theres living things respond to change, that means that all living things will react to there envirenmont around them. Living things, also have molecule deoxyribonucleic acid which is known as DNA. Every living thing reproduces at least once in their life weather it's a plant or an animal, or a person they all reproduce or will eventually reproduce.
First of all, living things have cells, one way we know that is that the living thing is alive, because cells need to be working in order to keep the living thing alive and turn food into energy or carry out all the chemicals. All living things, grow and develop, that means that living things won't stay young, or small forever, they will grow eventually at least once in their life span. Then, theres living things respond to change, that means that all living things will react to there envirenmont around them. Living things, also have molecule deoxyribonucleic acid which is known as DNA. Every living thing reproduces at least once in their life weather it's a plant or an animal, or a person they all reproduce or will eventually reproduce.
Edible Cell
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After studying the cell and all it's parts, we had to plan on what we were going to do on our edible cell. Our table had to decide what each part was going to be, and what edible thing we would use to look and make up the part. After we decided what parts would be used, we had to decide on who was going to bring what and who was going to make the labels. Everyone ended up bringing three things. When we got to class, the teacher (Mrs.Poole) gave us instructions on what we had to do, but not how to build it, and then she just let us put together our project. We only had twenty minuets to put it together, but with teamwork and knowledge we put everything in the right place and got everything correct.
This was a very fun activity that helped us learn where the cell parts are. I think other school years to come, the teachers should keep on doing this experiment because it does help you learn where the parts are located, and what they look like. They also help you learn what a part does, because at the end the teacher told each of us one of the cell parts, and we had to define what it did.
This was a very fun activity that helped us learn where the cell parts are. I think other school years to come, the teachers should keep on doing this experiment because it does help you learn where the parts are located, and what they look like. They also help you learn what a part does, because at the end the teacher told each of us one of the cell parts, and we had to define what it did.
Paper Pet Family
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In science, we are learning about genetics and how one parent passes down traits to their offspring. Each parent gives their phenotype and they combine to make the phenotype of each offspring which can determine their genotype. For example, you can use a punnet square in order to figure out what will be to more likely hood of what your offspring's phenotype will be. In order for you to figure out what will be more likely to come out of your offspring, you don't need no scientist. All you need to know is how to combine the phenotype with a punnet square.
In order for this to work, we had partners. One was the "father", and the other was the "mother." There we had to choose a certain phenotype and then make punnet squares to see what the exact genotype would be and then once we had all the information we needed to have, we started drawing the genotype on the kids and writing the information on the back of each offspring that had the phenotype and genotype, and a name. Then we taped them on to a piece of paper in order of which one was mad first and how the likely hood of the genotype and phenotype came out. You can also see if it is a girl or a boy by the mark that is either a curvy or slanted line on the top of their forehead.
In order for this to work, we had partners. One was the "father", and the other was the "mother." There we had to choose a certain phenotype and then make punnet squares to see what the exact genotype would be and then once we had all the information we needed to have, we started drawing the genotype on the kids and writing the information on the back of each offspring that had the phenotype and genotype, and a name. Then we taped them on to a piece of paper in order of which one was mad first and how the likely hood of the genotype and phenotype came out. You can also see if it is a girl or a boy by the mark that is either a curvy or slanted line on the top of their forehead.
Domains and Kingdoms
This quarter we have been learning about Domains and Kingdoms. We learned that there are seven of them, three of them are domains and four of them are kingdoms. Domains and kingdoms are group where scientists classify living things and plants that they discover each day. For example, things that would go into the kingdom Animalia would be animals as you can see from the name Animalia comes the word animal. So in that kingdom the animals would be sorted into there. For the kingdom Fungi, fungus would sorted into there just like the name, fungi means many type of fungus in a group. Same goes for the Kingdom Plantae, in the word Plantae you can get the word plant which would mean that plants are sorted into that group. Then, there is the kingdom Protista, protists are multicellular organisms which scientists don't know if they're an animal or plant so they created an extra group for that section. Then there are all of the Domains which are all for different types of organisms that have different traits and they are either multicellular or not or they have any other type of different characteristics.