Science? What’s that? I thought we had scimatics? Well, apparently not. It’s the start of an era: Science 9 PLP! This latest project is all about the environment, how we treat it, and how we should treat it. Let’s get started.
Ecosystems? Wildlife management? Spheres of the Earth? What are those? Well, let’s start with the different keystones that I made to help answer that.
The first keystone was a food web on Scratch, showing the food web of an ecosystem. This food web shows the transfer of energy from one living thing to another. For example, as the web shows, energy transfers from the worm to the bird, because the bird eats the worm. Here it is:
At this point in the project,we learned about the different spheres. There are 5: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the biosphere, the geosphere, and the cryosphere. The atmosphere is all gases, the hydrosphere is all water, the biosphere is all living things, the geosphere is all rocks and minerals, and finally the cryosphere is all ice. We also learned how we as humans impact the different spheres. For example, we impact the atmosphere by releasing fossil fuels into it.
This next keystone was our social media posts. These were a series of 5 fake social media posts, each featuring a different assignment we did. This assignment was basically a summary of the work we’ve done, and included important captions to help explain it. I enjoyed this assignment, because I was able to personalize it really well. Here are the “posts”:
Here are some other assignments that we did that weren’t keystones. I’m going to show my animated GIF and my ecosystem drawing.
This is my animated “GIF.” The assignment was to animate a gif, but I extended by making it longer to further demonstrate my knowledge on the topics of bioaccumulation and biomagnification (something I learned in this project!) Bioaccumulation is the buildup of pollutants (in this case, microplastics) inside of living things. In my gif, I show it building up in plankton. Biomagnification is thoroughly demonstrated in my gif: it’s when a smaller animal gets a small amount of the pollutant in it, and then a bigger animal eats a large quantity of that animal, and so on until you have a bigger animal who has a lot of the pollutant. Here’s my short animation:
Overall, I think I did really well in this project. I did all my work thoughtfully and handed almost everything in on time. I’m proud of my work in this project, especially my short animation, because drawing isn’t a strong suit of mine. Thank you for reading my blog post on the my latest science project, handle with care!