Comparative Anatomy and Dissection Unit Project
What I learned in this project is about the anatomy of many animals and how they function and what their ecosystem. When we first started this project we had observed ghost shrimp, crickets, meal worms, and snails. While we had observed these animals we had seen how they had moved and what aspects they have that help them survive. A snail's shell helps protect itself when predators come. While we had done this study another part of our study was so that we could learn about vertebrae and invertebrate animals. We had learned about how most of the animals that we had observed were invertebrate or had an exoskeleton. Crickets, the ghost shrimp, and meal worms were the exoskeletons that we had observed. The snail that we had observed was not an exoskeleton, but an invertebrate.
What I also learned from this project is the anatomy of a turtle was the animal that I had chosen to dissect or observe the dissection of. Before dissections had started we had to dig deep into research about the animal that we had chosen to dissect. What I learned about the turtle was it's anatomy, what type of ecosystem it lived in, the anatomy of a turtle. We also learned about the animal family of the turtle, so basically it's domain, kingdom, phylum, class, etc. The turtle's phylum is a chordata which means that it does have a backbone. Though it does have a backbone it is a part of the reptila class which means that it is cold blooded, lays eggs, and is scaly.
What I also learned from this project is the anatomy of a turtle was the animal that I had chosen to dissect or observe the dissection of. Before dissections had started we had to dig deep into research about the animal that we had chosen to dissect. What I learned about the turtle was it's anatomy, what type of ecosystem it lived in, the anatomy of a turtle. We also learned about the animal family of the turtle, so basically it's domain, kingdom, phylum, class, etc. The turtle's phylum is a chordata which means that it does have a backbone. Though it does have a backbone it is a part of the reptila class which means that it is cold blooded, lays eggs, and is scaly.
,My favorite part of this project and a part of observing dissection was that I got to see how real anatomy compared to the anatomy I studied. I got to see what the parts of the animal looked like. I was able to compare the anatomy of the turtle on the inside compared to the outside. I thought it was interesting to learn more about the turtle than I already knew. In the videos that I watched I was able to learn that turtles don't actually have teeth and use a certain part of their body near their head to eat their food. I learned that the trachea was formed in a ripped sort of way so that it couldn't collapse. I learned what an amphibian brain looks like and got to learn the function of each part of the brain. Even though I didn't dissect I was still able to learn a lot about the turtle and had a lot of fun with this project.
Environmental Science Microbe Project
In this project we studied Microbes, which is good or bad bacteria that covers our body and of course many other objects. Microbes grow on an ecosystem, we benefit from them and sometimes they befit from us. In this project as we studied certain types of microbes. I studied the microbes in a fish tank. I learned about the ecosystem that the microbes thrive on and what they do in the fish tank while growing. When the class was done researching about the microbes that we studied, we swaved the object that we studied and put the microbe that we swaved on an agar plate. After a couple of days we let the microbes grow, we were able to see what our microbes looked like on the agar plates.
Domestication Project
In the beginning of this project we learned about the domestication of dogs and how they came to be tamed and taught as pets. In the beginning of this project we read an article about Dingos and if should be domesticated, it was quite interesting to have a conversation about that, I think it was a great way to start off the project and a good way to learn about domestication. We also along the way in this project began to learn about Mendel genetics and how it connects to domestication and behaviors of animals, like phenotype and genotype. We also learned about the dominant and recessive gene in all living organisms. With this knowledge we were able to create our own project relating to animals and domestication. This is related to our project because we able to ask our own questions about animals and domestication. When we created our own question we developed a hypothesis and developed how we were going to test this, this was called methods. We would test our question with surveys, interviews, and observations. From the data that we gathered we created graphs and charts and put them into an infographic. With this infographic, we showed our question, our hypothesis, our data and our conclusion and present them to people.
My question and hypothosis for this project was: Does Cat Coloration Determine their Behavior? My hypothesis for this project was: Cat Coloration Doesn't Determine Behavior.
So what I did for this project was wanted to see if cat color determined their behavior. How I tested this was I observed my own cat and also sent out a survey to my peers where I got 22 results. In this survey I asked what color their cat was, and I also gave them a list of behaviors for them to mark down if felt that their cat acted that way. With those results I categorized color and personality. At the end of this project I concluded that cats do not act a certain because of their color coat. Sometimes they can act on their own stereotypes or perceptions, but they also have their own behaviors.
Why I picked this project was because I thought that it would be interesting to test something that I had always questioned when I was little, but knew that it wouldn't determine their behavior. I thought that it would be interesting to test something that I knew my hypothesis was right, but some part of me wanted to be proven wrong. I also love cats and animals in general so this was really fun for me.
What I found out in this project was that all different cats have different behaviors,. Though some cats are stereotyped and they may act on those stereotypes, they also have act on multiple behaviors like people do. An example of this is the black cat. The black cat is stereotyped to be very sweet, but as you can see in the info-graphic there is a little aggression in their behaviors as well.
Some future questions that I have are, because of this project and my results are we able to apply this to the real world and what we think of people?
My question and hypothosis for this project was: Does Cat Coloration Determine their Behavior? My hypothesis for this project was: Cat Coloration Doesn't Determine Behavior.
So what I did for this project was wanted to see if cat color determined their behavior. How I tested this was I observed my own cat and also sent out a survey to my peers where I got 22 results. In this survey I asked what color their cat was, and I also gave them a list of behaviors for them to mark down if felt that their cat acted that way. With those results I categorized color and personality. At the end of this project I concluded that cats do not act a certain because of their color coat. Sometimes they can act on their own stereotypes or perceptions, but they also have their own behaviors.
Why I picked this project was because I thought that it would be interesting to test something that I had always questioned when I was little, but knew that it wouldn't determine their behavior. I thought that it would be interesting to test something that I knew my hypothesis was right, but some part of me wanted to be proven wrong. I also love cats and animals in general so this was really fun for me.
What I found out in this project was that all different cats have different behaviors,. Though some cats are stereotyped and they may act on those stereotypes, they also have act on multiple behaviors like people do. An example of this is the black cat. The black cat is stereotyped to be very sweet, but as you can see in the info-graphic there is a little aggression in their behaviors as well.
Some future questions that I have are, because of this project and my results are we able to apply this to the real world and what we think of people?