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Watershed Lesson

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Gage Urbach

During this year, I learned many things and a lot of skills through the content we have learned this year. I learned how to measure, graph, and lab skills like measuring, mixing, and stirring. I also learned how to be ready for a test or quiz. Many skills I learned this year was through our Science Night project. Skills like how to research and write will come in handy for many things in my future. I think the skill I worked on the most was my ability to create tools to help me on tests. I was able to create many study guides and sets of notecards to help me be ready. Before this year I mostly just read my notes to myself but never tried to explain it to someone or myself. Also, I started drawing more things like the cycles …show more content…

This year I learned what was important and what was not important through the help of Roseanne saying that most of the notes I took were useless to humanity. I do think I can still work on this though because I still take some not needed notes. At the beginning of the year, we started with the Watershed unit. To be honest it was not my favorite unit but I did learn a couple thing about watersheds. I learned about conservation practices and what a watershed was. We then moved onto learning about cycles like the nitrogen, carbon, and Water cycle. I know that the nitrogen cycle creates protein and that the carbon cycle creates glucose and that the water cycle is involved in these cycles. The carbon cycle is almost like photosynthesis because both of these processes create glucose, a sugar that is needed for everything to survive. Once we learned about these cycles, I figured out how they all connect because plants need all of these cycle products to survive. It also lets plants give things for other organisms. In the Science Night Project, I and my partner, Maya, experimented with adding coffee grinds to soil. The coffee grind that affected the growth the most was actually decaf coffee. Now I know that when I grow plants add just a bit of caffeine but …show more content…

I learned eukaryotic cells have a nucleus and prokaryotic has no nucleus and plants and animals are prokaryotic. I also figured out how all cells work together and create something bigger. Cells working together create tissue and tissues creating organs and organs create organ systems and then it make an organism. Also, drawing the cells and the parts of a cell helped me on the quiz because we needed to draw and remember the parts of a cell. When we started the microscope drawings it was not my favorite because drawing and sitting around is not very fun for me. Nevertheless, I did learn important skills on how to use a microscope for the future. I think this will give me a head start over others kids who have to learn how to use a microscope when I can start my work right away. I did think looking at some things under the microscope was pretty cool because of the weird and vibrant patterns but overall it was not my favorite. The last thing we learned in science this year was how water works. We learned the chemistry of water and different properties of water like cohesion, adhesion, surface tension, solvent properties, and pH. We also learned about the density of water and

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