Science post #4 (Biological drawing rules)

In science, there are specific rules as to how to draw something and how it should be drawn, and how it should not be drawn, I will give you these few rules that I've learned on how to make a science drawing perfect.

What to do

1.When you are drawing a scientific drawing, its bets to take up the whole page and not just half of it.
2. Make sure that your drawings are fully connected, like when you draw a circle there is always that one line that's in the circle. That can't be there it had to be a full round circle.
3. Don't add details only add the important things, the details don't matter.
4. Make sure your labels are connected to what you are labelling.
5. Make sure you give your project the right name, if it's a cell name the cells name, don't call a cell a bug.

6. Give the right magnification, if it's 10x 40 then you don't stick 10x 40 you stick what it equals so if it was 10x 40 it would be 400 magnification 

What not to do

1. Don't use only half of the page

2. Make sure labels are not crossing over each other

3. Do not doddle on your work.

4. if your drawing has a mouth in it don't draw around the mouth, give the mouth and opening.

5. Don't add detail, only add the important things
6. give the right name for the title.

and here are a few others

Draw what you see and not what you expect to see
Use a pencil not a pen (You can't erase mistakes with a pen)

Science post #3 (how to set up a onion skin slide)

On the 3rd to last day of the term, we used the microscopes but instead of having everything ready for us. We had to make the cell ourself, we were given a piece of onion a slide to pick the onion on and a small clear pice to stick on the onion piece and we were also given Iodine.

Step 1 - First, you had to get the piece of onion and grab the end and pull a thin piece of the option, then you need to lay it on the clear Slide.

Step 2 - For step 2 you need to grab the iodine and stick a small drop of iodine on the onion

step 3 - put the small clear piece of glass on top of the iodine and onion that lays on the slide

CONGRATS YOU CREATED YOUR FIRST SLIDE, the slide is clear rectangle thing, its made of glass so don't break it.

But then we have to set it up on the microscope.

to set it up I'll take you step through step

Step 1  - Set up the microscope, make sure to hold the microscope by the neck and base (Go to blog post #2 to see the parts of the microscope)

Step 2  - once you've set up the microscope grab your slide and gently place it on the base of the microscope

Step 3 - move the 2 clips on the side of the base where you slide is and move them onto to the slide so your slide doesn't move around while you're looking at your cell.

Step 4 - Look into the eyepiece to see the cells and what you made with onion, iodine and a slide.

In the eyepiece the onion will be a light shade, that is so you can see the cells within the onion.

Science post #2 (Parts of the microscope)

In science since we were learning about cells, we needed to use microscopes to look at the cells within the thing we were looking at.
In this blog post, I will tell you the parts and the functions of it.

Eyepiece - The eyePiece is what you look through to see the cell

Neck The neck is the bone structure of the eyepiece

Objective lens - is for different magnifications on how close or far you are from the cell (Yellow is M range it is 10X, Red is small and is 4X and blue is large which makes it 40X magnification) 

Stage - The stage is what is occupying your cell

Stage clip - The stage clip holds your cell in place so it doesn't move around while you look at it.

Light source - The light source is necessary so you can see the cell

Switch - The switch is to turn on the microscope

Base - The base is the bottom part of the microscope

Course knob - The course knobs allows you to move the stage up and down in big movements

Fine knob - The Fine knobs allows you to move the stage up and down in smaller movements

science post #1

In Science this term we first started off with Food and Digestion
This topic was basically relating to how the body works and the nutrients we need to stay alive and how they react with different foods <-- (Wasn't here for the experiment)

After that topic came Cell work our last topic of the term
For cells, we learnt about plant cells and animal cells and what is inside them and the difference of them.

Plant Cell - A plant cell has all the organelles, unlike the animal cell. The plant cell has a Large Vacuole a cell wall a cell membrane, Chloroplast and cytoplasm and lastly a nucleus

While an Animal cell has

Animal cell - A animal cell has a cell membrane a cytoplasm and a nucleus but no chloroplast, cell wall or large vacuole.

another difference between animal and plant cells is that plant cells are a square or rectangle shape and an animal cell can be any shape as unlike the plant cell the animal cell has bones which helps form its body.

The function of these organelles all have their purpose and what they are

Large Vacuole - The large vacuole is only found in the plant cell and its job is to store the food it collects within the large vacuole
Cell Wall -  The cell wall can be found in a plant cell, it helps structure the cell as a plant cell does not have bones unlike the anime cell
Cell Membrane - A cell wall within the cell of both animal and plant which allows some things in and out while it blocks other unnecessary things out.

Chloroplast - The Chloroplast can only be found in the plant cell and it absorbs the sunlight and uses that in conjunction with water and carbon dioxide gas to produce food for the plant

Cytoplasm - The Cytoplasm is the jelly-like liquid within the body of an animal and plant cell

Nucleus - A Nucleus is a form of a circle which holds the DNA of the creature or plant within it

Sir Edmund Hillary (Social Studies)

In Social studies we started learning about money and its value, so we were given a task just like all our other topics, the one I picked was to pick one of the people of the New Zealand dollar Note and research how they made it to the dollar Note, I picked Sir Edmund Hillary on the $5 Note.

Here is my final result.

Classroom layout (Math)

This week we had just moved into our new classrooms, D, B, P and old T block shall be removed and with them being removed we have gained new classrooms altogether, we now have an R, M and new T block in our school.

Yesterday we had our first class of Math in T8, when our math class used to be in D4.

So since its a whole new building with a whole new layout, we were given a task to pick a layout of the class with the resources that we have.

So we started a design process.

Brief:

find a new layout for the classroom with the resources we have

Research:

A classroom layout can be anything, it could be a row of tables in a line while the board and teachers desk is up the front or something else completely, though having a row of desks in a straight line seems boring and plain.

so I looked up some layouts of classrooms.

(Here are a few ideas)

Then after we came up with our design we had to come up with a few ideas for how we wanted the final layout to look.

the idea we came up with was this: 

The idea we were getting at was that when we were doing work we would be able to see the TV and the whiteboard at the same time instead of turning our body around to see the whiteboard or TV.

With 3 tables at the front on each side and a gap with 2 tables in the middle behind that are 4 tables on each side and the 2 tables on the sides will have 1 table in front of them and the 2 tables at the back are the High Tables.

Then next to the tables on the left will be the computers.

What we don't like about this design is that the people at the computers may not be able to see the whiteboard, but only be able to see the TV.

Our second idea has a small change.

What we like about our second idea is that its tidy and its spacious so there is room for everyone to move around easily, which helps a lot with walking in and out of the classroom. Even if it was a little change and we only changed the position of the whiteboard and the position of the TV.

What we didn't really like about this idea was that people would have to turn around completely if they would want to see the whiteboard (Computer people)

Where our first idea you didn't really need to turn much and the people at the tables could easily turn their head without hurting them neck to look at the whiteboard and TV whereas in this one people as the tables have to like turn their whole body to look at the TV...

So our final idea turned out just to be our first Idea

And to make it a lot better I wanna hear what you think about our design and if you think something should change?

Work from home (Art)