Our latest project in science was Mind Over Matter⚛️. I’d like to take you though the whole project, but to be honest I don’t remember anything from the first keystone. Our second keystone was called Gummy Bear Diffusion. In this project we put gummy bears in different things and saw which ones diffused first. Some groups chose doing water and Pepsi or things like that. I did fizzy water, ice, hot water, and cold water. This was a great keystone, and not just because we got to eat the extra gummy bears. Once we put the gummy bears in, there was nothing to do but wait. None of gummy bears ended up diffusing which was a shame because my hypothesis was way off. Instead the gummy bears ended up expanding like 4 times their size. After all the observation were done, my partner and I decided to have fun. So we completely smashed the gummy bears. It created a big mess, but it was really fun. 

Our third keystone was Video Game Pitch. The idea was to code a video game that had to do with what we learned about. I may have overestimated myself because my pitch looks nothing like the final game. I didn’t know how hard it would be to code. My game ended up being a lot simpler than I first intended, but it works and that’s all I can really ask. In this project I learned that CODING IS HARD. I ended figuring it out at the end, but I wasted a fair amount of time trying to get it work. If I ever make a video game again I’ll aim for a game I can actually make. I wish I could’ve added my video game but unfortunately I did it on a different website and it won’t embed on my blog.

These are some pictures from gummy bear diffusion…

And of course the smashed gummy bears…

We’ve recently had our first ever science project! Our project was called Small but Mighty and our driving question was:

“How can our knowledge of cell biology contribute to public health?”

We started out by testing things under a microscope and learning about the cell theory. This led into our first keystone. For this keystone we we swabbed an area and made a hypothesis. After this we put them in petri dishes for the bacteria to grow. We would then take them out every couple days. Obviously we had to wear safety stuff like goggles (which were very high fashion), gloves, and other things. Our final product was a field journal that documented the project.

Our second keystone was my favourite. After we learned about all of the different kind of cells like the T-cells or B-cells we made character cards for each one. I was a little nervous about his because we had to draw them and I am not an artist. But I will say that I am quite proud of my little characters. One strategy I used is that all of my characters are just basic shapes so it was easier to draw them. This was the keystone I enjoyed most out of the 3.

The third keystone was a health poster for kids. The idea was for the health posters to go into local elementary schools. I thought mine turned out pretty well. Once again I made mine pretty simple so I didn’t try to draw something I couldn’t do well. The biggest challenge of this poster was that we had to include a drawing that was drawn by one of the kids at the elementary school. I thought that it was a really cool idea but I know that for me and lots of other people it was hard finding places for the drawings in our posters. I’ve attached some links to my work and I hope you like them!

Field Journal Template

These are my characters:

Emily the White Blood Cell

Marty the Macrophage

Barney the B-cell

Andy the Antibody

Tabitha, Terrence, and Taylor the T-cells