Category Archives: Science

Small But Mighty

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The Driving Question

The driving question for our project is “How does our knowledge of cell biology contribute to public health?” This project was all about cells and vaccine, we leant about how different types of cells help our body fight off diseases and viruses.

Cells

Before we started the project fully we had to learn all about the adaptive immune system. We learn all about the cells in the adaptive immune system and it was fun! I had fun learning about how the cells in our body help us fight off sickness and disease.

Field Journal

As the first main part of this project we made a field journal, in the field journal we were to pick 2 or more surfaces that we would swab and put them in a Petri dish and watch the bacteria grow. We would record the data and write it down in our field journals. The 2 surfaces I chose were a desk and a pencil. We had to make a hypothesis and if you don’t know then a hypothesis is an educates guess. I hypothesized that the table would be dirtier than the pencil because more people touch it each day. My hypothesis was correct! The table had more bacteria than the pencil all though it was pretty close!

Immune Character Cards

After we had done our field journal we learnt all about immune cells. The cells we learnt about are called Pathogens, B-cells, T-cells, White blood cells, and Macrophages. We had to choose a theme for our immune character cards so we could draw the characters on the cards, and I chose Mickey Mouse! I had a lot of fun drawing and making these cards because it was just really cool drawing and designing them! Before we could start we had to learn about all the cells and write them out in a sheet we were given.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vaccine Media Campaign

As our last part of the project we learnt about vaccines and why some people were anti-vaxxers. Some of the reason were: blood clot, autism, micro chips, it was to rushed and much more. We were asked to make a media campaign about some of the reason people didn’t want to vaccinate, we were allowed to have a partner and my partner was Julia. It was fun making the campaigns because we got to use Canva and I love using Canva! We had to make three media campaigns and the main focus that we decided on was “The Government Planting Microchips In You.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

In conclusion I had a lot of fun during this project! The bacteria was kinda gross and it smelt really bad but it was still cool to see how it grows. My favourite part of this project was making the media campaign, I liked doing this because it was fun to design a media post about the covid vaccine. I think that I did a good job in this project because I was eager and I finished all my work on time and put lots of effort into everything that I did. I had a great time doing this project and I hope you enjoyed reading all about it!

Having fun with Atoms!

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Our First Science Project!

For our first science project we learned about Atoms! We did many worksheets such as “States of Matter” and “Split Screen Protocol” where we learned about when people discovered the atom and how people discovered what it looked like.

Black box

We did an activity called “the black box” in this activity we were given a small container that was covered with black tape so we couldn’t see inside, we were also not allowed to open the lid. We were given a bunch of materials and then we had to recreate what we thought was in the black box by using are senses to guess what was inside.

How can we communicate our knowledge of atoms in a fun and creative way?

As we went further into learning about atoms our first project was introduced…We had to make a video game!!!😁 This sounded super cool to me and I had lots of ideas for my video game! We had to make our video games about what we had learnt about the atom. The website we used to make our video game is called scratch. Scratch is a website where you can make games and it’s all about coding! When I first opened it I had no idea what to do but now that I have made a game (I made multiple because I couldn’t decide on what to do!) I now know so many things that can help me in the future. I made a trivia game that makes you answer questions on the atom! To check it out click here

Conclusion

Overall I think I did a good job on this project, I really liked how we had to make a video game to showcase our knowledge it made the project so much more fun! I now know many things about atoms and I know how to determine the volume of things and I am now very good at using my senses to determine what is inside objects. I really enjoyed this project and I hope that we can do something like this again!