Monday, June 6, 2011

post 10 : This week in science (fruit fly DYO part 1)

This week in science we set up our notebooks for our DYO.we also learned to set up our data table and we gathered back ground information on our fruit flies.The most fun part i heard about they did was putting the fruit flies into the tube sadly i wasn't her but i heard it was very fun. . My group and I are using Two Females and One Male. We created a chart to observe the number of fruit flies during three weeks. We also came up with our hypothesis that if their are 2 females and 1 males by the end of 3 weeks we should have 840 fruit flies just because fruit flies lay up to 20 eggs a day so, if we have 2 females that leaves us with 40 a day 



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this week in science no impact man


No impact mans project was to live a year without electricity, transportation, tv, refrigerator, no washing machine, no ac  and all that other stuff. so it was basically him trying to make the least amount of impact to the world. people and including myself think hes crazy, but he dont care. he still got to do what he wanted. He bought local food so the food wont be transported from place to place, he would ride a bike to get to places in stead of using a car or train, he used a cloth diaper instead of a real diaper, he used candles for light instead of wasting electricity, and washed clothes by hand. I think that his behavior lowered his negative impact on the environment because even though he knew it was a hard thing to do he always had a good attitude about it. I thought that he was not going to be able to do this for a year, but he actually did it, because he had hope ! My reactions and feelings while watching this was that this guy was out of his mind. the guy got rid of electricity for a year, i cant ever do that. this guy is brave and smart though, atleast he tried helping the environment