Bee Project Reflection
Through this project I have learned a lot about the history of bees, and why we should care for them. For instance, I learned that bees are responsible for 80% of pollination worldwide, and help pollinate some crops that are worth more than $200 billion a year.. This was shocking to me because that means that this one insect is crucial for the existence of most of our food, making us almost completely reliable on bees. One reason that we should be concerned about the bees is that they are struggling from something that we have imposed on them. Researchers are confused on how we are losing so many bees due to CCD, but people are agreed that this was most likely one of the effects of us mistreating them by introducing them into the wrong environments. If the bees die out, not only will we have to find other ways to pollinate most of our food, but our economy will suffer major consequences.
For this project, I chose to use the problems that honey bees are having right now as an example and showcase of mankind’s greed and ignorance. At first I was going to make a rap about honey bees, but my group had several miscommunications and I ended up making my own poem. This poem was made to express how mankind needs to make some pretty significant changes to the way it treats other species because the results of this mistreatment can be extremely catastrophic. Through this, I learned that humans will find a way to exploit anything that they can if it means that they will thrive. I also learned that what we do as a species, is very influential to the ways that the whole food chain and circle of life flow. For exhibition, I had the final draft of my poem printed on a canvas where I painted sloppy patterns. I did this to convey the complexity and sloppiness of the situation that we have made for ourselves. I was most proud of the my actual poem in this project because I felt that I found ways to get my message across with only words, which is not something that I am used to. I also am proud of it because rhyming is one of the skills that I am trying to develope, and I believe that this poem had some of the most meaningful rhymes that I have ever created. If I could revisit this project, I would probably do it with a lot more caution. I wish I had realized at the beginning of this project how crunched for time I would be at the end, because then I probably could have managed it better and produced an overall better project.
For this project, I chose to use the problems that honey bees are having right now as an example and showcase of mankind’s greed and ignorance. At first I was going to make a rap about honey bees, but my group had several miscommunications and I ended up making my own poem. This poem was made to express how mankind needs to make some pretty significant changes to the way it treats other species because the results of this mistreatment can be extremely catastrophic. Through this, I learned that humans will find a way to exploit anything that they can if it means that they will thrive. I also learned that what we do as a species, is very influential to the ways that the whole food chain and circle of life flow. For exhibition, I had the final draft of my poem printed on a canvas where I painted sloppy patterns. I did this to convey the complexity and sloppiness of the situation that we have made for ourselves. I was most proud of the my actual poem in this project because I felt that I found ways to get my message across with only words, which is not something that I am used to. I also am proud of it because rhyming is one of the skills that I am trying to develope, and I believe that this poem had some of the most meaningful rhymes that I have ever created. If I could revisit this project, I would probably do it with a lot more caution. I wish I had realized at the beginning of this project how crunched for time I would be at the end, because then I probably could have managed it better and produced an overall better project.
Dissection Project Reflection
For my dissection project in Biology, I chose to dissect a shark. I chose this because of my options, it was the one animal that I knew the least about. I already knew that a pig’s internal structure is similar to that of a human and I was not very interested in cats. I learned a lot about sharks through this project because we had enough time to become experts on our animal. One thing that I learned is that this particular shark has an adaptation that allows it to pull in water and breathe without moving. This was interesting to me because it disproved a common misconception that I had about sharks, and it served as clear evidence of evolution in this animal for me. In addition to becoming an expert on the dogfish shark, I also learned something about myself during this project. I learned that in order for me to remember specific facts or concepts, I need a lot of repetition and to be as thorough as possible because this is something that I have struggled with in the past.
C.S.I. Project Reflection
This project began with the class being split up into 3 different sections, each with a different crime scene. Then, we were given the details of the scenes and showed how exoneration has affected our judicial and criminal system in general. Throughout the project we have been writing evidence reports on specific crime scene investigative strategies or ideas that apply to our crime scene. This project has been a way to find out how the investigative process works and what steps we would be taking if our job was a crime scene investigator.
We used mitochondrial dna in our crime scene to determine the mother of the victim and that led to identifying the victim. We also analyzed the skeletal remains of the corpse to determine that the victim was male, between 5 feet 1 and 5 feet 6 and had been dead for between 1 and 3 years.
The most interesting forensic science to me was definitely blood typing. This was very interesting to me because I thought that it would be very difficult but it ended up being a lot more achievable than I anticipated. I think that a lot of things went well in this project especially the evidence reports because they forced us to study thoroughly and helped walk us through each topic that we were assigned. One thing that I did not like in this project was how rushed it felt. I didn’t like how rushed it was because I would rather spend a lot of time on a project and master every aspect of it than rush through it just to get the content but it was still not horrible.
We used mitochondrial dna in our crime scene to determine the mother of the victim and that led to identifying the victim. We also analyzed the skeletal remains of the corpse to determine that the victim was male, between 5 feet 1 and 5 feet 6 and had been dead for between 1 and 3 years.
The most interesting forensic science to me was definitely blood typing. This was very interesting to me because I thought that it would be very difficult but it ended up being a lot more achievable than I anticipated. I think that a lot of things went well in this project especially the evidence reports because they forced us to study thoroughly and helped walk us through each topic that we were assigned. One thing that I did not like in this project was how rushed it felt. I didn’t like how rushed it was because I would rather spend a lot of time on a project and master every aspect of it than rush through it just to get the content but it was still not horrible.