Hello everyone!

Wow, it’s been a long time. It’s crazy how long it’s been so, forgive me if I’m a little rusty. 

This is my first first science blog post for this year and the project we did was called “handle with care!” It was all about nature and food webs, life cycles, and all that kind of stuff. I learned lots of things but, I think my favourite has been learning about how food webs and food chains are different things I’ll explain that later when I talk about the keystones for this project. 

I really enjoyed was getting to use a bunch of different tools to do my work for example, we used clips, iMovie, a fake social media post maker, and others. I really enjoyed the creativity that came with that. 

One thing I didn’t really enjoy was how sometimes a bunch of the class was gone because of the Alberta trip. And that kind of threw everything off which I didn’t really like. 

Something I’ll take away from this project is that we don’t necessarily need to kill off the thing that causes a habitat and that there’s usually a different way that we can handle it. 

In this project we had three keystones (it’s been awhile so a quick reminder that keystones are the building blocks for a project) the first was a coded food web we used scratch like in the “chemistry coding” project. The second keystone was a mock news report, mine was about the wolf culling. The third (and final) keystone was five different fake social media posts. 

 

Keystone #1 – Food Web

For this keystone we have to create a realistic food and then write a reflection. Here’s mine:

My reflection:

In my food web the humans don’t really have that much effect because it’s mostly just bugs and animals that humans aren’t known to eat. I think that there’s definitely a possibility that humans could impact my food web if they decided to start eating things that they don’t normally eat. My food web shows Interconnectedness because I think almost everything eats at least one other thing on the food web and everything eventually comes full circle. There are a couple things that don’t get eaten but those either provide food or eat other things. Everything in my food web would be destroyed if something got taken out and I think that’s a pretty good example of Interconnectedness.

Keystone #2 – Mock News Report

For this keystone we had to make a mock news report about a subject that we were assigned, like I said earlier I was assigned the wolf culling here’s the news report I made

Keystone #3 – PSA!

In this keystone we made five different social media posts about five different things that we learned. The earth’s sphere’s, Biocummulation/Biomagnification, Food webs, local wildlife management, and nutrient cycles. I used this website for my different fake posts: https://generatestatus.com/generate-fake-instagram-post/. Enjoy! (Click the links to see the photos

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Well that’ll be all folks I think this has been an amazing first project and as I write this we’ve currently started a new project which I’m super excited for! I hope you enjoyed this post look out for the next one!

Thanks for reading -Sydney🙃