Science Night at Los Medanos Elementary

Reflection

Before science night we went to Harmon's house to test our experiment and make sure it worked. The next day we made a poster in class to appeal to the little kids at the elementary school and made sure everyone knew who what materials they were going bring to help conduct the experiment. The day of the science night we double checked all the materials we brought and performed the experiment again to be as prepared as possible.


We got to LME as soon as we all could to set up our table and make sure everything was ready for the kids. Throughout the night I made the boats for the children for safety reasons, Harmon &Shawn rinsed and replace the water for the trays, and Ivan & Jonathan taught the children what to do and set up the races. The children were able to pick the soap they wanted (Best Soap in Town, Best Soap Around, and Super Soap), put the soap on the boats and finally race with other children or with their parents.


The children enjoyed the competitiveness of racing the boats against each other and the parents would ask questions about the science behind the experiment while cheering for their children.
We answered their questions by telling them the concept of surface tension and how soap affects it. Finally when the race was over we hyped up the children by cheering for them, creating happiness for both the children and the parents resulting in more kids to want to come to our table.


From this night I got to experience how it is to work with other people in an public environment with kids. We all got to learn how to work under pressure and with problems occurring such as water leaks and boat outages. The work environment could sometimes get stressful even for a elementary school experiment! The suggestions I have are to be the most prepared as possible for these type of events. Have your materials ready, set up early, and make sure the experiment works and everyone knows what they're doing. Unexpected things are inevitable and you must work through them. Overall this was a great experience getting to work with my lab partners and teaching children and parents something new about science.

H-Weezy Blog

q² (Homozygous Recessive Individual) = .513
q (Recessive Allele) = .72
p (Dominant Allele) = .28
p² (Homozygous Dominant Individual) = .078
2pq (Heterozygous Individual) = .403

Population out of 1000
Homozygous Dominant Individual = 513
Heterozygous Individual = 403
Homozygous Recessive Individual = 78

Steps

1. To find q, find the square root of q²
2. Subtract 1 by q to find p (1 - q)
3. After finding p, square p to find p²
4. Then to find 2pq, multiply 2 by p then q (2*p*q)
5. To make sure your calculations are correct you can use the two formulas                (p + q = 1) and  (p² + 2pq + q² = 1)
6. Finally multiply each value of the individuals (q²,p²,2pq) by the total # of the population (1000) to find the population of each group of individuals 

Worm Lab Blog

I believe substance A is the depressant, substance B is the water and substance C is the stimulant.
The data to support this is the data that was shared by the 9 groups in Mrs. Moreno's second period class. 
The method I used to come to this conclusion was by averaging each groups data on each different substance (A, B, C).
By averaging the data I was able to find out that the average heartbeat of the worms in each substance.

Substance A: 26.99 (Depressant)
Substance B: 31.26 (Water)
Substance C: 33.81 (Stimulant) .

Ecology Selfies

 My experience with collecting selfies was great, I went hiking with a group friends and had tons of fun! We went to the Black Diamond mines and found plenty of things to take selfies and group photos of.

This is my favorite photo of the trip!
It's a picture of us with a gymnosperm(pine cone), showing everyone that went on trip with one of the first objects we found during the trip. I remember everyone being scared to pick it up, thinking there would be ticks in the pine cone or nearby.

In the third photo, its another group photo of us with a rotten fruit for evidence of decomposition.
Everyone was scared to pick it up because it was rotten and nasty, but in the end Daniel volunteered to take one for the team.