Science Lab

     Today in science lab room 14 learned about plastic. The students first learned about how plastics are in almost everything. Students had five minutes to make a list of everything that they used on a daily basis that contained plastic starting from when they wake up in the morning. Mrs. Martinez then gave an example that showed how plastic can not always be a positive aspect. She said how scientists gathered a group of people with the same blood type and divided them in half. Each group was fed the exact same breakfast, lunch and dinner for seven days. The only difference was that one group was having canned soup for lunch while the other group had homemade soup. At the end of the week, the scientists tested everyone's blood again and found something very shocking. The group that had canned soup for lunch had one thousand plastic particles in their blood. This was because the soup can was lined with plastic and the soup absorbed it. This comes to the conclusion that plastic can helpful but also dangerous at the same time.

Science Lab

     Today in science lab, room 14 learned about natural gas, oil and plastic. The students learned about how when people drill for oil on land, the usually also find natural gas because they are commonly found together. Also, the oil is what makes up some of the gasoline that people put in cars. Now it comes to plastics. Plastics are everywhere. Plastic bags, toothbrushes, cd's and many more. Room 14 learned a lot about oil, natural gas and plastics that they can put into their daily life if they want to know what is in their parents gasoline.

Science Lab

     Today in science lab, room 14 learned about the continental ocean shelfs. The students learned how different coasts around the world have different shelf distances. This can be helpful because if people go on vacation, they will know how far to go out into the ocean before it drops off. Snorkeling is an example of this. Also, oil drills can not drill for oil on certain ocean shelfs because they are to close to the coast and are visible to tourists. This helps students learn about the coastal shelfs and how they are different around the world.

Computer Lab

     Today's computer lab lesson was about the computer application "Food Force." In this game, the player tries to help people in another country that don't have enough food. It also tells the viewer to help them establish a home for them. Even though this application is fun, it teaches kids about other places around the world and how people are not always having a full stomach everyday. This is a real company that goes and helps these people which makes the game a lot more authentic since people actually did whats on the screens.

Carlos Eire project

My Animoto Video

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Computer Lab

     In today's computer lab lesson, Mr. Jost introduced Room 14 to the Bitesize Math website for junior highers. On this website, it gives little mini lessons and activities on the math subject of the viewers choice.  From fractions to multiplication and angles to geometry, Bitesize Math is like a little version of Khan Academy. The lessons also come along with tests that quiz the user on the information in the lesson. Maybe someday, websites like Bitesize Math might give teachers a break on their lessons. Who knows?

Computer Lab

       In computer lab today, Mr. Jost showed us a few sites that we can use in the future to help teach ourselves. Khan Academy, a website that goes above and beyond to teach it's viewers of all the subjects that they need to know, is a place where Salmon Khan teaches me personally how to do math and anything that I just find interesting! Wonderopolis is a website that can be used just to quench your thirst of curiosity. It is full of interesting facts with videos to show the viewer what they are talking about. This website is basically just a place where they ask random questions then turn right around and answer them for you. Who says that learning with computers can't be interesting?

San Francisco Animoto Video

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Mockingjay

Mockingjay

By Suzanne Collins

290 pages

     Just imagine defying the odds and being rescued from a nightmare. Katniss has lost everything including her home, love and the will to live.

     In Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins, Katniss has been rescued from her second Hunger Games and is now a big part of the war against the Capitol. She is taken to District 13, the place that was thought to be obliterated in the last war. What Katniss didn't know was that ever since, District 13 had been rebuilding and getting stronger to get back at the Capitol. She finds out that Peeta is in custody of the Capitol which is a huge set back. Katniss must go through responsibility to save people's lives, loss of family and friends and the decision that changed Panem forever. Read and see if Katniss' duty as Mockingjay went to good use.

Catching Fire

                                                                         Catching Fire

By Suzanne Collins

391 pages

     Just imagine winning the fight of a lifetime but being threatened for life to be miserable unless something is done perfectly. This is Katniss and Peeta's lives after the Hunger Games.

     In Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins, Katniss and Peeta are living in Victor's Village. They have just come out of the Hunger Games where they survived by defying the Capitol. This caused an uproar throughout the districts. Now, if these two people don't convincingly act lovebirds, things could take a horrifying turn. As Katniss and Peeta go through their daily lives, Katniss' nightmares come true when she realizes that she has to return to the arena. Reading this novel is the only way to find out if Katniss and Peeta  can survive a second journey through the arena.