blog for week 9/21/09

This week in class we were trying to learn why so many kids were absent from school from Truman Middle School and Jackson Middle School. The science ideas that I learned was that many of the kids that were out sick were sick with stomach problems like stomach pain,vomiting and diarrhea. We also learned that the kids started to get sick more during the month of May. with this information we may be closer to solving the problem of why the students are sick.

We did not learn all thi stuff by ourselves. We found that most of the kids had stomache problems by seeing interview the principals of both schools had with the kids who were absent. Another thing that we learn was when the kids started to get absent lot was by looking at the attendance data on the schools' website.

Finally many people including myself could find learning these things valuable in the real world. these things can teach us about observation and getting facts from the direct source. You could use this if you decide to become a journalist, a scientist or just someone who wants to know something. In many things that you do the skills can help you in everyday life.

what we did this week in class 9/18/09

Hi

So this week in class we learned about diseases and how they are spread from person to person. We did an experiment in class to show how this happens and most of the class got sick except for a few people. We also had a homework assignment about a different disease. i got cholerea. This is a disease found in dirty water and makes you get severly dehydrated.

Also this week we dicussed what things areliving and non-living and what are their characteristics. we came up with a few things like living things have to be able to breathe, get energy, and reproduce. So tis is what we learned in class this week.