During our first few weeks in school we did a lab on wood bugs. Carter, Russel, Max, and myself each collected 3 wood bugs and placed them in a container filled with different types of food. The point of this lab was to experiment on which food group would attract most of the wood bugs to eat, hide, and group together. I thought this was a wonderful start to grade 9 science. I was both entertained and absorbed in this experiment. Although I knew what wood bugs were, I knew very little about them which is why this was a wonderful opportunity to learn just a little more about another living species. During this experiment we were however shocked on how the wood bugs were more around the bread then the lettuce. They are claimed to eat decomposing vegetation mainly. So for next time we can definitely look into why that happened.
Site C Research Assignment (Fall 2017)-2-rbx4wa
In our electricity unit in science we discussed and looked into the ” Site C Dam”. In our groups we were assigned the question : Do you think the Site C Dam should be built? In my group we thought it best we build the Site C Dam. One of our examples was: The Site C dam will allow clean & renewable energy to be produced for over a century, with low maintenance costs. I enjoyed this assignment because we got to talk about a current question that is being discussed in Canada. It also gave me a good idea on how advanced our technology is in this topic.
Onion-Root-Tip-Lab-1-1p37euf.docx
In science we recently covered the unit “cells”. In the cells unit the cell cycle was included. To get a better understanding of what the real-life prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telephase stages looked like we got microscopes and got a closer look at onion root tips. I really enjoy learning about how the body works, so this unit was really exciting for me. This group assignment were our observations and understandings of the image of the close up onion root tips we saw under the microscope. I was interested to see that 90% of the 595 cells were in the interphase stage in just the small part of the onion cell. That got me really curious on how many interphase stages were going on in the whole onion when it was alive and healthy in the moment?