Biome Project Part 1

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This week we have been working on our biome projects.We had launched them last week and we got the desert. My group had picked the sonoran desert. We have been doing research on the supplies we will need to survive and how we will get it. We will need food, water, animals, shelter, fire, plants,  and hazardous animals. These are things we need to know about if we were to go in this desert so we are researching it. This week has been all research and it is going well.

This week we have explained and designed solutions. We did this by using the research we had done to make a guide of some sort. we have used the data to help people understand what to do and how to do it. We also have explained mostly for plants and animals what they are and what they do. We have used the information obtained to give good explanation on how to survive.

Patterns: We have have seen a few patterns during this research. For example if something is poisonous in the desert that usually makes its one of your biggest threats. I can see this though lost of my research and it makes we see a pattern. also I can see a pattern in the uses of items like for example every time we found an animal with a hid or fur them we would try and use it in shelter because it protect you. I can see a pattern in that because every time you have the fur it makes you think of protection. These are just a few pattern I saw this week.

This week I was a wanderer

Message in a Bottle - The Great Bottle Trip

The people of the Galapagos Island was a small island and all the people on the island  had  grow up there never left. That all changed though one fine day. One day a plastic bottle floated near the island at the coast. The place it went was the Cline Family's Home. They where scientist that tracked the ocean around them. They mostly tracked the currents. So Mrs. Cline was taking her morning walk and she saw a strange cylinder shaped thing in the water. She went and looked at it a little closer and saw some words on it. It said " Great Bay Water Bottles" but the coolest thing about it was it floated on the water. In the future they would discover this was an example of density. Density is the ratio of mass to volume. She was so interested in this she went home to show her husband. When she got home she saw her husband bent over a work bench. " I can't figure it out I need do do something to test on my theories." "Hello guess what I found." Mrs Cline said. " Fruit" guessed Mr Cline. " No I found this floating bottle." she said. He jumped up from his work. " What a floating device this is what I need!" he said. He started to pace around the room in excitement. " Here" she said. Then for months they started to build. they made a giant bottle like a boat. In the Summer they set of on a great expedition to learn more about the sea and currents. They set of and a few weeks in they started one of there first tests. " We should research the water in the ocean." said Mr. Cline. " They may have something to do with the currents." Then they put a contraption meant for collecting water and they lowered it as far down as they could go. Then one they got that water they got some water from the surface of the water. Mr. Cline tested both of the waters and found out two things about each waters. The water from the bottom of the ocean's results  were it was cold and it was very salty. Then the water on the surface it was warm and was less salty. In the future they would figure out this is because of salinity. Salinity is the amount of salt int the water and in the ocean there are different levels of salinity. Mr. Cline tracked his theory of the currents though the 3 year journey. He was right he had figured all the currents and was the first person in the world to do so! Once the trip was over in the Santa Barbra Islands he got a hold of some really famous scientists. They had a huge board meeting about what he had learned. He talked about density, sanity and the currents. The scientist where fascinated with this and all his proof was solid. Mr. Cline and his wife became famous for what they had discovered. In the future they ever helped name the currents. the currents they rode on that great bottle Journey where the S. Equatorial Current, E. Counter Current, N. Equatorial Current, Subtropical Gyre, and California C.

Ocean and Wind Currents

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This week we have been learning about ocean currents. We have been learning about their patterns and how they connect to wind currents. We have learned that wind currents help power ocean currents so we are seeing the connection between the two. We have even been conducting experiments. These experiments can help us prove our thinking on the connection between wind currents and ocean current. This week has been great getting to learn all about how are ocean currents work.

This week we used models. we used models by learning from pictures of ocean currents and wind currents. We also used are experiments that modeled the world for us so we could see how everything moves. We used these models to determine lots of factors this week. For example,we did an experiment where we blew out of straw s and we got to see from that how the northern hemisphere turns and why and the  same for the southern hemisphere. This week we have used our models to learn.

This week we learned about cause and effect in ocean and wind currents. we learned that wind currents effect and help great ocean currents. We also learned that ocean currents can cause items to move along with the current. We have seen how win effect the direction of a current. We have also seen the influence that winds can have on that water. This week we have learned a lot about how these can cause and effect things to happen in our world.

I was a Creator Student this week