Antonia's Reflection Post

Over the past years, I think that I have improved as a blogger. I used to make many mistakes involving both technology and the written parts. Now, I know how to do things and as a result, I proofread my work before I publish it. Although, my bog posts are not perfect, they have become better during the years. I still have to focus on putting in enough scientific facts sometimes, but that is getting better over the time too.
A blog is very good for a class in school, because it can show the people that were absent on a day, what happened. It can also explain something that you might have not understood during the lesson. Another thing that the blog can do is showing us what the other classes are doing. From that we can also learn a few new things that we did not cover in class.
I think that a blog could be used for many different things. For example it could be kept as a diary, or a way to share information with your friends. There are also many different ways in which a blog could be used for school. The students could share information in a sort of journal, so that the other group members know what they have to do.
Blogging has helped me a lot in writing. I used to make stupid mistakes that I learned to correct when using blogger. It has also developed my scientific writing with the help of the comments.
Before blogging, I never really knew how to comment on someones writing before, but after we used blogger I really learned how to be both critical and serious, without being mean.
The most important thing that I have learned from blogging is being more scientifically. I was never good at that, but I think blogging has helped me improve my work.

Thursday, April 22, 2011

The symbol of Eris

Dwarf Planet Eris

Eris

Basic Information

• Names: 2003 UB 313, Eris
• Nickname: Xena
• Named after the Greek godess of discord and strife

Sign

• The sign represents the arms of Eris

Statistics

• Diameter: 2300-2400 km
• Density: 2.3 g/cm3
• Mass: 1.68x10^{22 kg}
• Rotation: about 8h
• Revolution: 557 earth years

The Orbit

• eccentric orbit=the orbit is not a perfect circle
• Eris is about can 96.7 AU from the sun when it is the farthest away (aphelion), and can be 38 AU away from the sun when it is the closest (perihelion).

Climate

• Temperatures: 217°C to -243°C

• The temperatures are very similar to Pluto

Land and Atmosphere

• The atmosphere is frozen to the surface of Eris
• The land is made out of icy frozen rock
• Chemical components: methane, nitrogen, water
• Tholins= cause the reddish color when they get mixed with methane

Location is the Solar System

• Located in the Kuiper Belt
• 3x farther away from Earth than Pluto
• It is the most distant dwarf Planet when it is in its aphelion
• About 96.7 AU (aphelion) from the sun ( 14.60×10⁹ km )
• Perihelion: 38 AU ( 5.64×10^{9 km)}

When discovered and by Who

• Discovered by Mike Brown, Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz
• Picture taken in 2003
• Discovered in 2005

Where Discovered

• Discovered in a Palomar Observatory

The Moon

• Name: Dysnomia
• Named after the daughter of Eris ( the demon goddess of lawlessness)
• Nicknamed after Gabrielle

Spacecrafts

• New Horizons
• Send out to find out more about Pluto and the objects beyond it, including the Kuiper Belt
• Expected to arrive at Pluto in 2015

Interesting Facts

• Most Distant Dwarf Planet to orbit the Sun
• Eris is the reason why Pluto is not a Planet anymore (27% more massive)
• The largest dwarf planet in our Solar System
• Smaller than Earths Moon
• Some people associate it with 2012
• The naming of the Dwarf Planet and classifying Pluto as a Dwarf Planet led to a lot of strife, which is why the dwarf planet is now called Eris

Links

Link to Moodle

Link to a video of how Eris might look like

Link to a long talk that Mike Brown gives about the dwarf planets

Antonia’s Reflection Post

I feel that I improved this quarter by having a better organized scribe post, which I did not have last quarter. I also did not make any spelling and grammar mistakes, and paid closer attention to the sentence structures. I feel that I need to improve my explanation of tthe science. I still do not explain labs that were we did or are doing detailed enough.

I think there are quite a few benefits of using a class blog. It makes it easier for people that were sick to catch up and understand what we did during science class. It is also good for people that did not understand the lesson very well and want to review it at home. I did not like that Blogger sometimes does not let me post something, or just deletes it.

Thursday 24, 2011

On Thursday’s science class the first thing we did was look at the homework that was due. Ms. D made sure that we understand what we needed to do by going over it.

Tuesday- Apod #3

- Phases and Eclipses lab

Thursday- Reflection post

- Send someone outside of the AISZ community an email with the link to our blog. Make sure to CC Ms.D in it.

All the homework that is due is also on moodle. This picture above shows Cernan Flanked on the moon

After that, Ms. D checked our homework that was due on Thursday, which was:

-How many Apollo missions were there to the moon?

• There were 6 Apollo missions to the moon, but 17 in total.

-How many men officially walked on the moon?

• 12 men have officially walked on the moon.
• Ms.D also wanted us to remember these two people: Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin(Buzz)
• Neil Armstrong: one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind

Another thing that we talked about in class was the ISS and the space shuttle program. The ISS( International Space Station) is a working and living environment. We also talked about that the space shuttle program ends this year.

We ended the class with the Phases and Eclipses Lab. The teams finished drawing the pictures and some even went to the computer lab to finish the summery.

We had had to include 8 drawing of the moon, one of a lunar eclipse and one of a solar eclipse in the lab.(new moon, waxing crescent moon, first quarter moon, waxing gibbous moon, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter/ third quarter moon, waning crescent, lunar eclipse, solar eclipse)

Antonia's Reflection Post

I think that my scribe post for this quarter had both good and bad parts. The comments often pointed out similar things such as:

Good things:

• Good links to moodle and a website


• No spelling mistakes


• Only a few grammar mistakes


• I explained the vocabulary that we went through during class

Bad things:

• Only one picture


• The font and layout was a little confusing


• A better explanation of the food label activity that we did during class


• Did not include a video


• Did not use enough colors


• Could have made the labels more specific

For the 3rd quater, I will pay attention to using more than one picture and also looking at the layout. I will check on what I did wrong on my last post and try to avoid the same mistakes in the next post I write. My next scribe post will have a better explaination of what we did during class. This quarter I did not really focus on what activities we did during class that much.

I think the benefits about having this blog are that absent people can catch up on work. I did not enjoy adding pictures to the blog. Blogger can sometimes confuse someone because, it deletes what you wrote or, it changes and moves around the font. I think that blogging is fun and we should continue doing it!

Class on Tuesday November 16th, 2010

At the beginning of class we had to first show Ms.D the homework that was due on Tuesday and then we went over the homework that is on Moodle.

Due Thursday: The food packet activity for the people in Speech and Debate.

Due Friday: Study for quiz. The will be focusing on animal cells, plant cells, cell theory, how something is alive, chemical compounds in cells and how cells function in the environments. (There will be a review session on Thursday) Another thing that is due Friday is the second blog comment. Also don’t forget to measure and water your plant.

For more information about homework visit Moodle: http://zagreb.ceesa.net/course/view.php?id=189

Later on we took a few notes on:

Melanin: a pigment in humans that reacts to sun light

Chlorophyll: green pigment

Fiber/cellulose: material from plant that humans cannot digest, causes excretion

Celery is a good example of fiber.

We also talked about the Tree Man. He has a special parasite that causes him to grow abnormal things on his skin.

If you want to find out more about the Tree Man here is a CNN link: http://articles.cnn.com/2008-10-02/health/treeman.wart.skin.disorder_1_common-warts-immune-system-growths?_s=PM:HEALTH

We also went over the food labeling activity and explained it to the people that were not there. After that we looked at a few blog posts and comments. Ms.D showed us a few ways how to write a better comment or post.

· -check your grammar, spelling and punctuation

· -add pictures

· -check rubric

· -choose the right font and color

· -give the link to Moodle

· -add captions to pictures

· add both positive and negative blog comments

The next scribe is GiO :)