Environmental Accords

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Summary: These are the laws of the land. Literally! To preserve our planet cities, urban areas and most importantly urban villages must follow. The Environmental Accords include things like preservation of natural space, use of local grown foods and water uses cuts. Even we have to consider their importance. So lets get right into how we used these.


S&EP; Conducting Explanations and Designing Solutions:
     The environmental accords are all something to consider when designing an area. During our Urban Village project we were assigned the task of designing a village that also includes these accords. For example in our urban village we will use natural lighting to conserve energy. If we really looked deep enough we could probably get a system to make our pool eco friendly to conserve water. When designing we just had to look beyond the accord by applying it to our village.

XCC: Cause and Effect: As I talked about in my last blog we all have and effect on our environment. Its like the butterfly effect. Lets just say you decide to not throw away some trash this morning. Well that trash can be eaten by a bird. That bird could easily die knocking the food chain unbalanced. Now since that bird is not eating the bugs the bugs can start reproducing more. Then the bugs need room to live and they start eating our crops. Then over a course of a long time we all dont have any food because you decided not to throw your trash away. Just be careful every choice matters. Make wise ones.

Human Effect

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Summary:Deforestation. Mining, Overfishing, and ,Global warming. These are all examples of things Humans do to hurt our environment.  Every choice we make can either deteriorate our world or help sustain it. For example, using air filters or properly disposing our waste is positive. I have also seen how cutting down trees, using fossil fuel, creating more factories, are bad for the environment. Lets explore more examples of  this Human effect.

S&EP: Asking Questions Defining Problems. How hard could it be to sustain a society? I mean you just build homes a few farms, a power plant and you're golden. Well... not exactly. Believe me I would know I played a game this week all about Human Sustainability for 17 minutes straight. I didn't even win. You may feel like you could last a while but really there are so many factors to keep in mind. Every building every action you make has some positive or negative effect on the environment. If you build a cattle ranch its causes greenhouse gases, water depletion, and loss of species  in that existing area. Nothing is easy.

XCC: Stability and Change: As we have been talking about any decision that may seem small may have a world of difference. For example if you cut down that big oak tree on your front lawn it could cause many things. One it can heat up the are around it making the ground and even the over all air quality warmer. This can lead to more use for air conditioning during summer times. Which then causes more energy use for your house hold. On another perspective it can harm the insects and organisms in your grass. They could start dying off because of the heat. This means the food chain is now imbalanced and the grass begins to die as well as the organisms. Just becasue you decided to cut down that oak tree all of this happened. That's the Human effect.

The ph Scale

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Summary: You're trapped in a room and a cloaked figure is giving you 3 jars. One jar is filled with an acid that will burn right through you! Another is filled with a base liquid that with a sip you will be as good as gone. Then of course one is filled with a neutral that will let you go home free and alive. So which one do you pick? Well luckily I have my ph meter always with me... but I don't know how to use it. Well not until this week's science class! There are clear differences when using a ph scale. The left side of our scale is our acids. These come in colors from red the most deadly to dark pink.  Then we have the the very middle a ph of 7 this is our lucky neutral our salvation in this case which is usually in some form of purple. Then on the far right we got our bases. These come in a range from blue to yellow. Now let's see if we can survive this crazy dilemma.

S&EP; Analyzing Data: Now we have used our ph meter on each of the three test tubes. The ph scale identifies 3 colors. We have in the first tube a dark green color.  Lets start there. Since we know the right side of the scale is bases and the left is acids we need to remember the colors connected. Well do you remember that the bases are from the range of blue to yellow. Well if we refer to the image above we can see that this vial is not for drinking. Ok 1 down 2 to go. You see we did processes like this this entire week except we were  not risking our lives more so our grades.

XCC; Stability and Change: Stability. We all want that right. Something to depend on to feel complete. Well atoms are just the same. That why we have acids and bases. Acids can help give to your needy atom to become complete. Then we have our bases that get your greedy atoms that got one too many to ease up their load and be complete. See its easy as pie. Don't try to put acids and base in your pie they will not make that complete!

Mr. PobbleBot

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 Summary:  Did you ever expect Chemicals to be this fun. Chemical Reactions are everywhere in our world. Well let me tell you all about how chemical reactions and games doesn't have to be like the combination of noble gases and alkali metal( not likely). Legends of Learning is a website designed to improve your education and understanding about topics like Chemical Reactions.

S&EP: This week we explored Conducting Investigations. This week  we got a wonderful opportunity to ask the creator of Mr. PobbleBot some questions about his game. I think this was almost like an investigation because we got to learn about the path he took to create a game that would engage the students. It really helps me understand that the topics im learning now could lead me to a path such as game creation. It was so amazing to learn about game creation in general.

XXC: This week we explored Cause and Effect. Other than Legends of Learning we learned about Exothermic and Endothermic. We all know the Law of Conservation.  No energy can be created or destroyed. So in every chemical reaction the energy needs to come from somewhere. When we have our Endothermic Reaction it needs extra energy or more so it takes in more energy. So where does this energy come from? Actually the energy comes from the air around your reaction. The atoms pull in extra electrons from the other elements around it. This therefore makes the reaction colder. Then we have Exothermic. Exothermic reactions actually expel energy. This means the reactions will put protons and electrons. This therefore makes your reaction colder.

Relationships and the Elements

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 Summary: Isn't bonding great? You have probably seen it everywhere. Especially in Hollywood. Relationship after Relationship. Lets talk about some types of Relationship. First of all the classic , your 1 + 1 = 2. This is when two people/ elements combine together in a relationship were they can create something entirely new. Of course we know that not relationships work so we have the decomposition of a relationship this is when those combined elements split apart once more and become single. These are just two examples of kinds of combinations. There are so so much more. I think this just got interesting....

S&EP: This week we explored Asking Questions and Defining Problems. This is a question that all Sieber fans have been asking for years. Why oh why did Selena and Bieber break up? Just kidding but we did ask ourselves how do our atoms relationships compare to that of Selena and Bieber's. Different elements combine to become complete. That's why maybe one element sees another that will make it become closer or fully complete in its most outer energy level, sorry but old relationship over. That is considered a Single Displacement. Then lets say that sad rejected element finds some other element to complete them. On top of this being a happily ever after for all the elements its also considered a Double displacement.

XCC: Matter matters. You even matter. Plus us and anything that has mass is Matter. That's why when we are looking into atoms its almost as if we are looking at tiny pieces of who we are. We can see how we are connected. How everything is built upon something smaller. Understanding the connections that are within our world such as the connections elements can have. Neat right?

Women's Rights Article Blog

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Summary: Women's Rights is everywhere. The problem affects each and every one of us. This article covered how Women's Rights affect our women college students. They interviewed women and there were a wide range of ideas/ opinions but they all cried out one thing " We deserve better". Some came from religious standpoint and others standing for protection and safety. Did you know that annually there are 250,000 cases of attempted rape against women. We all deserve better and its time for the world to show it.

Zimmerman, Eilene. "On Campus, Embracing Feminism and Facing the Future." The New York Times. The New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017. Web. 09 Apr. 2017.

S&EP: This article used Conducting Investigations. The author of this article had been curious on the opinions of women college students. The best way to get anything done is to go out and do it so she did just that. They looked deeply into their sides on a women's roles, wage gaps, and even religious standpoints. She discovered that " Women now account for the majority of college students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, 11.3 million of them as compared with 8.7 million men. And 63 percent identify as feminist." These facts made her want to explore more on these minorities feelings. Change has to be made and shining a little light always helps everyone.

Chemical Reactions

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Summary:Chemical reactions are when you have an element reacting to another. For example Lithium and water. Lithium will catch on fire and admit gas when in contact with water. These happen to be examples of chemical reactions. Chemical reactions can change temperature, change color, changing smell and or turning into a solid. If you see any of these things will doing a lab you make be experiencing a chemical reaction.

S&EP: This week we Conducting Investigations. We played this game were we were creating chemical reactions. This was all about looking around the room to find the elements, mixtures, or compounds. It was like a big puzzle where you have to find the right fit. Investigations are just further discovery which is what I believe chemistry is all about. Discovering new things based on looking closer than ever before. That's what I believe the game was teaching us. You need to look at all the clues to discover the way out.

XCC: This week we worked with Cause and effect.  Lets put liquid nitrogen and water together. Pow you are suddenly engulfed in a thick white smoke. You now have a masterful disguise on your hands just like a ninja. So does this mean Ninjas are actually chemist in disguise? Thats a theory for another day but lets look a little closer at this " magic trick". So first lets say we have a cup of water/H20. What causes this H20 to turn into this thick white smoke? Well thats easy the effect of adding in liquid nitrogen. Cause and effect is everywhere in chemistry you just have to look beyond the "magic" to see the magicians tricks.