There are many parts of a cell. It is said that no two cell diagrams are exactly the same. The cell has a cell wall, a cell membrane, nucleus, etc. 
    The cell wall protects the cell's contents from harm from the outside world. Without the cell wall, the cell could be badly damaged. Only plant cells have it, not animal cells. The cell wall is responsible for keeping certain things inside the cell and letting certain things out. The cell membrane has tiny holes to let waste out into the blood stream to exit the body. The nucleus is like the brain of the cell. It is the part that makes the cell function correctly. The nucleus is the most important part of the cell; without the nucleus, nothing would be in line, and the cell would be all wacky. 
    In class, we are making a model of a cell that has to be edible. It is my job to bring the licorice as a model for the E.R. I also have to bring 13 toothpicks so we can tell what parts of the cell are witch. 

    The baby rats are born naked, blind, and dependent on his/her mother for everything. After the first two weeks of life is when they begin to open their eyes. As they develop more, they grow fur, start to play wildly, and eat just about everything. You should regularly check their cage in case there are any health hazards or dead babies. After the babies are a few weeks old, you should clean the cage in which they were born. 

    In the 1st quarter of science, my favorite activities were watching the body parts get bigger. I thought it was really cool how the body parts absorbed the water to gain mass, weight, and length. Learning how all living things need water, food, shelter, and air was a really fun thing to put on a Glogster. I learned the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction, too. I thought how the cells reproduced asexually was pretty cool (they get bigger then split forming an identical copy of themselves). 
    We had to do a Glogster poster about the needs of living things. We talked about how animals/plans/cells reproduce, cells, the responses living things have to the environment, DNA, living things use energy, and how living things grow and develop.

    In science class we are learning about mass, volume, and weight. 
    Mass is the amount of matter that is in an object. Weight is how much gravity force there is on an object, therefore the weight will be heavier when it is more compact, like a pebble, but a cotton ball is lighter. The cotton ball is about the same size, but the atoms in the rock are squished together a little more.
    Volume is the size of the object. For example, a bolder would typically take up more room than a person (a.k.a . Homosapien). 
    Weight depends on the density of an object. Again, a pebble can be the same size as a cotton ball, but since the pebble has atoms in a tighter place than a cotton ball.

 So far in Science class we've learned how to measure in all metric types and we did a little experiment on which kind of oragami frog would jump farther: card stock or paper. 
    With the metric types, we measured things like staple boxes and paper clips to the most percise mm. It was very difficult, and I got most wrong. I was confused. My esimates were close, but not accurate. My Science teacher, Ms.Poole (you can see her website on the 'My Classes' page), helped by telling us that most metric rulers don't have the zero at the very end, and that we needed to line it up at the zero tick mark. 
    With the oragami frogs, the results were the card stock frog jumped further. The paper frog didn't do so hot. The furthest I got it was to 5 cm. The card stock did very well with a high of 25 1/2 cm. My hypothesis was wrong (It was: I think the paper frog will jump further because it's lighter.). After the experiment, I thoght that the card stock frog jumped further because it was made out of thicker material and therefore, it had more spring. The part I didn't understand was why in the world we had to wear safety goggles. I asked Ms.Poole why and she said," We have to wear safety googles because there will be paper frogs flying everywhere and we don't want one hitting someone in the eye." I'm still confused, but it was a good safety procaution. It's true someone could get hit in the eye and in the worst case senario, they could go blind. We all looked silly when we had red marks from the glasses around out eyes!

Back when computers were first invented, they were huge, and bulky. They took up a whole room and only the wealthy had them. 
    Now and days, computers are small and even portable. Now we can project computer images onto walls. Teachers can connect to students' computers to monitor their progress. Now we are getting even smaller and portable. Now we have tablets, Laptops of all sizes and colors. Even look how far the telephone has come!
    In the future, I expect computers that project in the air so you just touch air and type.....or do they already have those.....I'm confused....