PE 11

1.) they put me in the course because it was the only one available, BUT I will try and make the best out of this course :)

2.) going on feild trips and the dance unit 

3.) I dance 6 days a week so I am fit and keep up physical activity for 12 hours a week 

4.) 9.3 I think 

5.) dancing 

6.) my knees sometimes get sore because I have a problem from dance 

7.) generally nothing will prevent me mentally from doing exercise unless I am extremely tried 

8.) my eating habits are okay, I do eat a lot of snacks and on the go food because of dance but I do try to eat healthy when I can 

9.) I want to be able to learn how to build up stamina and not get out of breathe so fast 

10.) I honesty only like dancing, I've never been a sports person personally 

11.) I want to just become more fit all together and become a healthier person on the outside and inside 

12.) my goals for myself are to improve in sports that I was not very goood at previous to PE 

Animal Kingdoms

There is so much diversity within life on Earth. By doing the various dissections i've came to the realization that diversity is is a huge part within Animal Kingdoms. Each animal is unique depending on it's uniqueness with feeding/digestion, reproduction, respiration, circulation, nervous system & more.


phylum annelida

The phylum Annelida is diverse in many ways. This phylum containing earthworms, leeches, and marine worms are all triploblastic, bilaterally symmetrical & also eucoelomate. Marine worms are filter feeders or scavengers. Earthworms squeeze organic material out of the earth. The digestive systems for all three classes are well-developed. The digestive system of annelids consists of an unsegmented gut that runs through the middle of the body from the mouth, located on the underside of the head then all the way to the anus.The gut of the annelida is separated from the body wall by the body cavity. This is called the coelom. The segmented compartments of the coelom are usually separated from each other by tissue. This is called septa, which are separated by the gut and by blood vessels. Annelids are the first to have a closed system of blood vessels, making pumping more efficient. Respiration within the worms occur through diffusion. Since annelids are hermaphroditic, sexual reproduction occurs through the exchange of sperm packets. Members of this phylum have a simple brain located in the anterior end with ganglia in every segment. They can sense light, moisture, and chemicals.

 phylum vertebrata, class amphibia

This Phylum includes Salamanders & Frogs. Transition from aquatic to terrestrial vertebrate & moist epidermis. These amphibians have no specialized membranes. Also they have webbed feet. Has external gills & is a tetrapod. It is cruitial that these amphibians skin stay wet; this is achieved by returning to moist enviroments regularly. Water is where they are able to reproduce, so without it the eggs would dry out and die if layed on land. The eggs also have a thin egg shell. They first start out with gills, the eventually lungs will grow as the amphibian gets older.

phylum arthropoda

Phylum Arthropoda has the most living organisms out of all the other phylums. There are more species of insects than all other plants and animals together. An arthropod has a segmented body covered by an exoskeleton made from chitin and other chemicals. This exoskeleton serves as protection and provides places for muscle attachment. Arthropods must "molt" their exoskeletons. They do such a thing because they don’t grow with them. Arthropods have open circulatory systems consisting of a dorsal heart. This heart collects blood from the body cavity and pumps it back into the body cavity again.  Arthropods have a well-developed, mesodermal, ventral, solid nerve cord and well-developed sense organs.

Finding Nemo

It's crazy that a simple Disney movie, such as Finding Nemo, changes completely after a simple Biology Class. You notice & understand so much more after watching the film. There were species of aquatic animals that I knew the names of, as well as sea plants. It's funny how knowing some simple knowledge about things you never knew before makes a movie so much more understandable. There were those sea worms that we noticed & sea sponges and sea enenomies. We learn about how different species live/servive and I never noticed how Finding Nemo captured that.. you just never really think about the background of movies until you learn about it so it's fun and understandable. I can't wait to watch more movies and spot more interesting facts learnt in bio that I can spot next! 

frog dissection

Cnidaria

Cnidarians, A.K.A. Cnidaria are a group of aqautic animals. Animals such as corals, jellyfish, hyrdas & sea anemones. Cnidarians are symmetrical. They have tentacles that are around their mouth for feeding. Their bodies consist of a gastrovascular cavity, which has a single opening through which food is ingested and food becomes digested. Mainly all cnidarians are carnivorous & will feel on small crustacans.
The body wall of cnidarians consists of an outer layer or epidermis, an inner layer or gastrodermis, and a middle layer or mesoglea. Cnidarians lack organs and posses a primitive nervous system known as a neural net.

Christmas Tree Worm

The Christmas Tree Worms are known to be one of the cuter species in the ocean. They get their name because of their christmas tree look. When a predator is near or when it feels threatened the worm will become less visible and the spikes on him will dissapear. Known as Spirobranchus giganteus, they are found on the Great Barrier Reef but have also been spotted as far away as the Caribbean.

Mono/Dicot Lab

Arts & Crafts

Moss

Moss is mostly found in wet/moist environments generally in shady areas. 

Moss grow in moist environments because the Sperm in the moss needs to stay wet in order to survive. The sperm has to swim in the water to the egg as their form of reproduction. 

Moss grows in low areas because it has a better chance of absorbing the water from the ground in order to survive. 

WEIRD PLANTS

The Rafflesia arnoldii is a parsitic plants which becomes the largest bloom that can grow! This plant can grow up to 3 feet. This plant is sometimes decribed has a teenager who has developed ance due to its red colour with dots. The smell of this plant is pungent and strong. There is a large hole in the middle of this plant which holds 6-7 quartz of water. Another crazy fact about this plant is that it has no leaves, stems or roots.

Pine Cones & Acorns

Pine Cones & Acorns are different because acorns are smaller then pine cones and have a hard, soft texture where with pine cones are larger and can be easily broken. Also both the pine cone & the acorn fall from trees. Pine cones come from pine trees & acorns come from the Oak trees. Both of them have seeds.. When an acorn is cracked open a seed is inside waiting to be placed into a place where it can grow again, 

Labelling

celebrity organism

Norasaphus monroeae:

is a species of trilobite named after Marilyn Monroe for it's hourglass-like shape 

looking through a microscope at different bacterias:)

Bacteria Growth! yucky!

pond water hmmm

flagellum!

spirogyra from the pond!

Lizards Tails Do WHAT?!

A while ago my friend was talking about a lizards tail falling off and it amazed me. I was so shocked because I did not know this occured in reptiles. As i researched more on this topic i found the answer to why this phenominon happeneds.

The answer is because theyre scared! Generally when they want to escape a predator. CRAZY RIGHT? Even though the tail is not attatched to the body of the lizard anymore; it moves just as if it was... in a wiggly motion. The wiggling motion of the tail distracts the predator away from the lizards body so it can escape.

You may think the lizard would die from  the detachted tail but thats false. It actually benefits the lizard. The only con of the lizard losing it tail is that it is unable to run as fast as a lizrd whos tail is attachted. Eventually the tail will grow back but it may not be as 'pretty' as the one before. Some may grow back deformed, smaller or bigger, and some different colours.

Reflecting On Your Progress

So far in Bio 11 it has been such a great experience. We've learnt a lot in this past month using creative learning techniques ex.) using the IPADS, watching YouTube Videos, doing fun cut and paste projects. One thing i am proud of was the project where we cut and pasted how organisms change with time that i did with Shimmi; it was a lot of fun and was a good visual of what actually happens. I wouldnt say im 'proud' of a lot of things we've done in Bio but many of them i can't remeber the names of them because we handed them in.

When I look in my binder most of the work is complete but a little messy.. it could definetly be more organized but i know where everything is. I plan on improving this and cleaning it up at the end of every week.

The comments on my blog that mean to most to me is the comments that are feed back. They help me improve and give ideas on what to improve the next time i do such an assignment. I find comments benefit greatly and really help individuals to improve.

I listen in class decently.. i do talk a bit when unnessary but i try not to when Mrs. Phillips is talking. I like how the class is so free spirited and 'chill'. It is a good learning envirnment and a class that i look forward to coming too, which says a lot because who really wants to be in class for 5th period!

I have many goals for Bio forsure. One in which is to maintain a B the whole semester. Also study to recieve passing marks on tests/quizes. I generally lack in handing work in which is a big negative in the mark department so i hope i can pull my weight for the next couple of months and make somebody proud about a grade i recieve which usually doesnt happpen...