For the last 2 weeks in ESOL we have been creating our own digital books using ‘Book Creator’ Our books were based off family, it had to relate to the actual book we were reading. Basically family relations. We had to include specific words, but unfortunately I didn’t. My story wouldn’t make sense since I already had an idea for what I was going to write about, and it was the most family related thing.
My book is about my family and friends spending our New years holiday together.
Here is my book cover, I can’t share the link here on my blog post. Because the link won’t take you to my book and it’ll only take you to the webpage.
Are males faster typers than females at Hornby High School?
Plan:
My variables are Typing speed (wpm) and Gender.
We gathered the data by:
Using a device, students will go on Human benchmark and select the typing speed test.
Human benchmark will give students random paragraphs that students will need to fill out. Students typing speed will be reduced for inaccuracies.
Students will put their typing speed (wpm) and their gender into a spreadsheet.
Analysis:
Center: The median typing speed of females is 37 (wpm). The median typing speed of male is 58 (wpm).
We can see that males is faster than females by 21 (wpm).
Spread:
The IQR for females is 21 (wpm).
The IQR for males is 29 (wpm).
We can see that males has more variety of typing speeds than females.
Conclusion:
Because the median typing speed of males is significantly higher than females, there is enough evidence that males are faster typers than females at Hornby High School.
Make a copy of this Doc and put it in your Health folder
Write down 3 questions you have about service/therapy animals
Find the answers and put them in the answers box
Find 4 interesting service/therapy animal pictures and put them in the picture box
Questions I have/things I want to know
Answers
Can therapy dogs do other things other than doing their task for their owners health?
Yes they can, they’re
Can service animals lose focus?
Yes absolutely, this often happens publicly when too many people are wanting to pet the animal. Another thing that can distract them is the amount of things happening in the world.
Can there be different types of animal used as a therapy animal?
Yes absolutely there can be different types of therapy animals.
For this term we are looking at Animal therapy, this is a new unit that we have started. I would like to talk about Animal Therapy, what they are, what they help with etc.
What is a therapy animal?
A therapy animal is trained to provide love, friendship, company and comfort. There are multiple things a therapy animal can do but those are what they mainly are for. The most common therapy animals are cats and dogs, but did you know there are a variety of animals used for therapy too? An example I have are, bird, fish, and guinea pigs, they can be trained to become a therapy animal.
What do therapy animals do?
Therapy animals can help with people who struggle with stress, anxiety etc. They help reduce their owner feeling this way by providing them company, love, friendship and comfort.
Most people can’t find the difference between a therapy and a service animal, the major difference about them is that a service animal is professionally trained for specific health conditions or illnesses. They are working animals, the tasks or duties they have must be related to the person’s disability who cannot perform that task for themselves. Meanwhile a therapy animal is to provide care and love.
Lay the plastic bag out flat and cut out a big square.
Make 4 holes in each corner.
Thread a 20cm long string in each hole and tie a knot.
Get a plastic cup, and make 4 holes evenly.
At the end of the strings, attach it onto the cups by tying a knot.
Hypothesis:
I feel as if the egg would break, mainly because the support it was sitting in wasn’t enough. We are going to drop it off a balcony let’s say about 10ft? I knew the bag would not slow the parachute down (we already did this experiment in year 8) It really isn’t no help.
Results:
Sadly none of us took any pictures.
My prediction for the experiment was wrong, my group’s egg actually survived the 10ft fall.
Discussions:
What is gravitational potential energy?
A common example I have for this is 2 balloons, 1 balloon filled with air and the other one filled with gas. The gas inside the balloon will cause the balloon to float, but when a balloon is filled with air it stays on the ground. The balloon floating is the one that has greater gravitational potential energy than the balloon that is on the ground.
What is air resistance?
Air resitance in simple words is a force that is caused due to air when an object passes through it.
For this week’s science, I would like to experiment by dissecting a cow’s eye.
Investigation:
Hypothesis:
As I am a beginner in this experiment, my prediction is that the eye will explode due to me cutting the eyeball incorrectly. Explotion will occur as the eyeball is under pressure. Liquid or fatty-textured slime called Vitreous will come out if this process is done incorrectly.
Method:
Equipment:
Eye
Tray
Safety glasses
Scalpel
Scissors
Gloves
Instructions:
For the first step you want to put on some gloves and safety glasses.
You then want to get the excessive fatty that surrounds the eyes.
Carefully cut between the cornea and the sclera. Make sure you do this step cautiously as everything in the eye is under pressure and may explode.
Take out the eye lens, which sits behind the cornea.
Split the eyeball in half.
On the inside of the eye, you will notice a light film sitting in the inside, it is called the retina. You then want to carefully take that out.
On the otherside, on the opposite side of the optic nerve you will see the blindspot. Observe what it’s like.
For today’s blog post I will be introducing you to Probability trees. Probability trees are used for multi-stepped experiments or a sequence of events. They are branches that show different kinds of outcomes. What we do is we write the probability along the branches and we write the different outcomes at the end. We also need to combine these outcomes, and to do that you need to multiply the probabilities of each of the branches along the path.
For this weeks experiment, I want to find out if I could build my own mini hot air balloon.
Investigation:
Method
Equipment:
Plastic
Tape
Hotglue
Scissors
Bundle of straws
Fuel
Instruction:
Gather your equipment
To make your structural support, you’re going to need to attach your straws together. for you to not need anything to attach them together, cut a split at both the ends of your straws and connect them together like this: (make sure your structural support is only 40cm each)
3. Repeat the step 1 more time.
4. Put the sticks into the form of an ‘X’
5. In the middle of the ‘X’ hotglue a tealight containered candle.
6. Attach your structural support to your plastic bag.
7. Do your experiment.
Results:
We didn’t get to test my group’s experiment out, but by observing the others, it was a huge fail for them. The plastic ended up melting due to the strong heat. I’m strongly sure that this is because of the cotton and fuel we used instead of candles that created weaker flame.
I want to find out how I can make a catapult, and how they work.
Research:
Method:
Equipment
12x popsicle stick
3x rubber band
Hot glue gun/stick
Bottle cap
Hypothesis:
My prediction for this experiment is that the object I place on my catapult wouldn’t reach such a far distance. The reason for this is because it isn’t big enough and there isn’t enough space for it to lean back fully and take off full speed. We could use a slingshot as an example, the further you pull it back, the further the material put on it will go.
Instructions:
Stack 10 sticks on-top of each other.
Secure them together in place using your 2 rubber bands. Tie ONE side only.
Between the last popsicle and the second to last, stick another popsicle stick it in on the middle, something like this:
4. Secure the other end with your 2nd rubber band.
5. Do this with your 12th popsicle stick – This will be the main body with the object your going to place on your catapult
6. You then secure the end with a rubber band.
7. Take a bottle cap, and a hot glue and glue it on the other end, just like this:
Take any sort of light weight material to put onto the bottle-cap, and then you are now finished.
Results:
My prediction for this experiment was that at least one of our gummy bears wouldn’t fly far, but turns out I was wrong. It actually flew quite far into the air, I was able to knock down a lot of the cups. 5 minutes before the battle ended, my spoon broke I was unable to use it so I had to use the other one, unfortunately the other catapult did not work, the gummy bear couldn’t fly at least a meter away.
Discussion:
What is elastic energy?
Elastic potential energy takes place from changing the shape for all elastic materials. An example of an elastic material is a rubber band, spring and more. Elasticity is when an elastic material has the ability to restore back to its physical form after being stretched or bent.
Two weeks ago, we moved onto the new section of math; Probability. There are different topics in probability and in Week 7 we have been looking at Theoretical probability.
Theoretical probability is how likely an event is to occur. For example, we know a coin is equally going to land on either heads or tails. It only has two sides. So the theoretical probability of it is 1/2. There are different ways to write down a theoretical probability, for example 0.5 is exactly the same as 1/2 except it’s written down in a different mathematical equation. Other than theoretical probability, there is True Probability. Which is quite literally almost impossible to make a prediction for.
