With this exhibition we had to gather tons and tons of research, it was super boring. Anyway I thought we were going to use all of it but instead we just wrote a small little note card that was 200 words max for presenting. The set up of this whole exhibition was not like any exhibition I had ever done before. So we each had a group of three or four and we found all of our information of our eco region together. When we were presenting each person presented by them self's on the stage in front of like 60 or more people. It was very scary.
We learned about many different types of cells that make up the cell structure. Components of a typical animal cell: 1 -Nucleolus, 2 -Nucleus, 3 -Ribosome (little dots), 4 -Vesicle, 5 -Rough endoplasmic reticulum, 6 -Golgi apparatus (or "Golgi body"), 7 -Cytoskeleton, 8 -Smooth endoplasmic reticulum, 9 -Mitochondrion, 10 -Vacuole, 11 -Cytosol (fluid that contains organelles, comprising the cytoplasm), 12 -Lysosome, 13 -Centrosome, 14 -Cell membrane. After learning quite a bit about cells and the cell structure we played a weird game about cells.
We learned about soil in our field trip that we went on. We learned if the soil is basic acidic or alkyline. Basic is where you want your soil to be because it provides more different plants to be able to be grown. But if your soil is acidic you can only grow certain plants such as pine trees, our soil is acidic. Alkyline means there is like no acididie in the soil and you can only grow certain plants
First for this project we learned a lot about Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin is the first person to ever find out about evolution such as how there used to be those prehistoric sloths that were huge but now we have baby sloths. Next we played a game combining certain animals and cemical stuff to see if they were relitives or not kind of.
While hunting for fossils, these people found a bone that had DNA on it and that was the first time DNA was ever discovered on something dead. That started the hunt for DNA. Everybody hunted for DNA on fossils but one guy had an idea. When something sheds or dies it goes into the ground so does that DNA go with it. He presented his ideas to a group of DNA hunters and they all laughed at him. So he decided to work alone, he went to a certain area, and dug a three foot hole and took some dirt and examined it and it had tons of DNA like Mammoth DNA and more that I can't remember.
This exhibition was the hardest exhibition I have ever done. At first we were just learning a little bit about the rivers, but then all the sudden, BOOM, essay, we had to write a whole essay on a river just to find out that our teacher didn't think his essay format was that good so we had to create a whole other essay, and then we did another essay about a river with a group and then we did that same thing but about social History. It was horrible, all the research, all the work, just pure PAIN. Then it was finally time to work on the exhibition.
Our Inner Fish has been a big project this semester. We have learned about all the animals that have helped our evolution to the creatures we are today. It all started with fish. One time about 375 million years ago there was a fish called the Tiktaalik, and its fins were so strong that it was able to pull itself onto shore, and was able to walk around basically which started reptiles. Then it was reptiles to mammals and then to humans. You can believe in this or not that's up to you, I don't believe in it, I mean we have similar parts to other animals but I don't think we came from monkeys and that stuff.
We learned about our inner body. We got to choose from 12 different systems to learn about, I decided to learn about the nervous system because I always thought that it was cool that our brain and our nerves send signals to each other to make us move. So we did a ton of research and then we got into groups, I had a group of like 8 people, so what we were doing was making a poster of the human body with 3 of the systems, since I suck at drawing I did not do the drawings but I did find all the information on the nervous system. Once we were done with the poster we added stuff from our inner fish like bird wings or fish stuff.
Tardigrades are the only animal that can survive in space also known as water bears.