DISSECTION - PROJECT REFLECTION
For the dissection project I chose to dissect the shark because aquatic life has always interested me. I wanted to see the different ways the fish functions vs the mammal. I learned many different things throughout this project. One thing that particularly stuck my interest was the fact that the shark had three liver whereas humans have two. The reason behind the shark having three livers is because it is a bottom feeder and consumes many toxic creatures. The liver was also interesting because of the oil that coats it for floatation. What I had learned about myself through this experiment is that despite my fourth grade ambitions I intact do not wish to become a heart surgeon. This project was however very engaging and I enjoyed it thoroughly but it does not interest me as a career path.
HONEY BEE - PROJECT REFLECTION
Did you know that 90% of our crops are pollinated by honey bees? Did you know they create that delicious honey we drop in our tea? How about this, did you know honey bees are disappearing right before our eyes? Besides the fact that without honeybees we can kiss almonds goodbye honey bees are responsible for 14billion dollars of our US crop production. Pollination is also responsible for keeping plants and flowers healthy. We should be concerned about the decrease of honeybees not only for the previous reasons but because bees are practically irreplaceable. Please bee considerate of our wonderful honeybees.
For this project I chose to focus on the honey bee "dance". I learned a lot about this topic whereas before I had no idea it was even a thing. I learned that this dance is a form of communication to the door of the hive along with where the bees can find food. Not all bees do this dance, there are dancer bees and follower bees. The dance is also not always accurate and stirs up a lot of controversy in the science industry. My product for exhibition was a flash mob dance. I was the most proud of the idea of a flashmob, although I can't take all the credit because Colleen did help I thought it was a unique project. I was also proud of the leadership role in conducting a flash mob and helping students learn the dance. If I were to do this project again I would add props and decoration for my dance.
Julianne Marqua
April 24, 2015
Biology
Research Source #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3LZBDcQvE
Povenmire, Dan. "Phineas and Ferb - Waggle Dance." YouTube. YouTube, 28 Apr. 2013. Web. 20 Apr. 2015.
This source was specifically helpful to me in the manner that it helped me find the song I will use in order to develop my flash mob dance. I am choosing to use this song because in addition to the song being a catchy tune it also includes many facts about the bee dance. I feel as though this will educate my audience in an engaging way. This being my first source I learned many new interesting things about the reasoning behind the movement the the bee dance. I learned that the direction the bees move is direct correlation with the angle to the hive from the sun. The bee dance also communicates how far the bees are from the hive.
Quote 1: “See the waggle explains the angle from the sun to the door of the hive” 0:16
Quote 2: “Yeah, but also tells the bees the distance they need to go to get there” 0:27
Quote 3: “Figure 8 then shake it again” 1:15
Research Source #2
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0021354#ack
Landgraf T, Rojas R, Nguyen H, Kriegel F, Stettin K (2011) Analysis of the Waggle Dance Motion of Honeybees for the Design of a Biomimetic Honeybee Robot. PLoS ONE 6(8): e21354. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021354 Web. 21 Apr. 2015.
This source was interesting to me because it stated many new reasonings behind the be dance that my previous source had not mentioned. The extent of my knowledge of why the bees more before I read this article was so they could find their way to the hive. After gaining further knowledge from this article I discovered that it also directs bees to food and shows the quality of the food. Reading this article gave me the idea Of creating a picture of a hive and putting it on the door where my bees with enter and exit from. It also gave me the idea to have a chain reaction in my dance because there are follower bees and the dancer bees. This will add to my dance because its another engaging way to fit something educational in my dance.
Quote 1: not only informs foragers about the mere existence of a food source. At least to us humans, it even communicates the polar coordinates of a valuable field location enabling the colony to direct and coordinate foraging activities. P.1 S.3
Quote 2: In the central part - the so called waggle run - it throws its body from side to side in a pendulum like motion at a frequency of about 13 Hz. P.2 S.2
Quote 3: In addition to direction and distance, the dance communicates the profitability or quality of the food source with respect to the current hive's needs. Foragers tend to dance more lively and perform longer dances when feeding on a highly profitable source P.2 S.8
Quote 4: Follower bees “read” the dance, translate their sensory input into the remote target location and find the feeder even with large detours around obstacles like high buildings or hills. P.2 S.3
Research Source #3
http://www.livescience.com/3812-dancing-bees-speak-code.html
Schirber, Michael. "Dancing Bees Speak in Code." LIVESCIENCE. N.p., 27 May 2005. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.
Quote 1: The central element of the choreography is a shimmy, or waggle, along a straight line. For emphasis, the bee repeats this move several times by circling around in a figure-8 pattern. The angle that the shimmy makes in relation to an imaginary vertical line is the direction to the food source with respect to the sun. P.3 S.1
Quote 2: For example, a waggle dance pointing towards 3 o'clock is bee talk for: "Hey, there's food 90 degrees to the right of the Sun." P.4 S.1
Quote 3: The number of waggles in one figure-8 corresponds to the distance to the meal. P.4 S.2
April 24, 2015
Biology
Research Source #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3LZBDcQvE
Povenmire, Dan. "Phineas and Ferb - Waggle Dance." YouTube. YouTube, 28 Apr. 2013. Web. 20 Apr. 2015.
- The angle of why they dance
- The song i'll be using
- Angle from the sun to the hive
- Tells the bees the distance they have to go to get there
This source was specifically helpful to me in the manner that it helped me find the song I will use in order to develop my flash mob dance. I am choosing to use this song because in addition to the song being a catchy tune it also includes many facts about the bee dance. I feel as though this will educate my audience in an engaging way. This being my first source I learned many new interesting things about the reasoning behind the movement the the bee dance. I learned that the direction the bees move is direct correlation with the angle to the hive from the sun. The bee dance also communicates how far the bees are from the hive.
Quote 1: “See the waggle explains the angle from the sun to the door of the hive” 0:16
Quote 2: “Yeah, but also tells the bees the distance they need to go to get there” 0:27
Quote 3: “Figure 8 then shake it again” 1:15
Research Source #2
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0021354#ack
Landgraf T, Rojas R, Nguyen H, Kriegel F, Stettin K (2011) Analysis of the Waggle Dance Motion of Honeybees for the Design of a Biomimetic Honeybee Robot. PLoS ONE 6(8): e21354. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021354 Web. 21 Apr. 2015.
- Discovered more than 60 years ago
- Moves in a shape close to the figure 8 shape on the vertical comb
- Moves about 13 Hz
- Shows direction, distance, and quality
- Follower bees watch the dancer and soon become dancers
- Smell may be a factor of the dance
- Scientist are developing robotic honey bees to find the science behind the dance
This source was interesting to me because it stated many new reasonings behind the be dance that my previous source had not mentioned. The extent of my knowledge of why the bees more before I read this article was so they could find their way to the hive. After gaining further knowledge from this article I discovered that it also directs bees to food and shows the quality of the food. Reading this article gave me the idea Of creating a picture of a hive and putting it on the door where my bees with enter and exit from. It also gave me the idea to have a chain reaction in my dance because there are follower bees and the dancer bees. This will add to my dance because its another engaging way to fit something educational in my dance.
Quote 1: not only informs foragers about the mere existence of a food source. At least to us humans, it even communicates the polar coordinates of a valuable field location enabling the colony to direct and coordinate foraging activities. P.1 S.3
Quote 2: In the central part - the so called waggle run - it throws its body from side to side in a pendulum like motion at a frequency of about 13 Hz. P.2 S.2
Quote 3: In addition to direction and distance, the dance communicates the profitability or quality of the food source with respect to the current hive's needs. Foragers tend to dance more lively and perform longer dances when feeding on a highly profitable source P.2 S.8
Quote 4: Follower bees “read” the dance, translate their sensory input into the remote target location and find the feeder even with large detours around obstacles like high buildings or hills. P.2 S.3
Research Source #3
http://www.livescience.com/3812-dancing-bees-speak-code.html
Schirber, Michael. "Dancing Bees Speak in Code." LIVESCIENCE. N.p., 27 May 2005. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.
- Dancing is a form of communication
- It is not an exact language
- They repeat the movement
- Number of waggles connects to distance
- Bees don't see the movement as well as human observers do
- Not all bee communicate with the dance
- The dance gives incomplete constructions
- The bee dance is highly controversial
Quote 1: The central element of the choreography is a shimmy, or waggle, along a straight line. For emphasis, the bee repeats this move several times by circling around in a figure-8 pattern. The angle that the shimmy makes in relation to an imaginary vertical line is the direction to the food source with respect to the sun. P.3 S.1
Quote 2: For example, a waggle dance pointing towards 3 o'clock is bee talk for: "Hey, there's food 90 degrees to the right of the Sun." P.4 S.1
Quote 3: The number of waggles in one figure-8 corresponds to the distance to the meal. P.4 S.2
CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION - PROJECT REFLECTION
For this project we were assigned a partner and a crime scene. With our crime scenes we were put in the position of an investigator. First we documented the crime scene by taking notes and pictures. We performed may test including things such as superglue fuming, blood spatter analysis and more. During this project we learned about exoneration. Exoneration is when someone who was wrongly convicted of a crime is released from jail. This is mostly thanks to DNA. DNA has improved our justice system greatly, It has done this by using dan as associative evidence. By doing that it will connect people to a crime scene and make for less wrongful convictions.
The definition of Forensic science is the scientific method of gathering and examining information about the past which is then used in a court of law. Specific sciences connected to this are things such as Blood spatter, trajectory, blood typing, analysis of skeletal remains, DNA analysis etc... We used this to help solve our crime scene by perfuming these test and through that eliminating and gaining suspects.
The most interesting science to me was superglue fuming. I found this to be the most interesting to me because I felt like it was the most hands on experiment we did and I learned the most from it. I liked learning about the three different types of finger prints and the things that make our fingerprint unique. I also enjoyed doing the superglue fuming because I felt like a real investigator. I feel like I did well on my evidence reports. Typically I am not a strong writer but I put a lot of effort in these and I felt really proud of myself after I finished each report. The ironic part was this was also my least favorite part but the pride I felt at the end of each report made up for it. I wish I would have spent more time organizing my binder because I felt that it was a bit sloppy.
For this project we were assigned a partner and a crime scene. With our crime scenes we were put in the position of an investigator. First we documented the crime scene by taking notes and pictures. We performed may test including things such as superglue fuming, blood spatter analysis and more. During this project we learned about exoneration. Exoneration is when someone who was wrongly convicted of a crime is released from jail. This is mostly thanks to DNA. DNA has improved our justice system greatly, It has done this by using dan as associative evidence. By doing that it will connect people to a crime scene and make for less wrongful convictions.
The definition of Forensic science is the scientific method of gathering and examining information about the past which is then used in a court of law. Specific sciences connected to this are things such as Blood spatter, trajectory, blood typing, analysis of skeletal remains, DNA analysis etc... We used this to help solve our crime scene by perfuming these test and through that eliminating and gaining suspects.
The most interesting science to me was superglue fuming. I found this to be the most interesting to me because I felt like it was the most hands on experiment we did and I learned the most from it. I liked learning about the three different types of finger prints and the things that make our fingerprint unique. I also enjoyed doing the superglue fuming because I felt like a real investigator. I feel like I did well on my evidence reports. Typically I am not a strong writer but I put a lot of effort in these and I felt really proud of myself after I finished each report. The ironic part was this was also my least favorite part but the pride I felt at the end of each report made up for it. I wish I would have spent more time organizing my binder because I felt that it was a bit sloppy.