This week (by Thursday at midnight), you will do your first Weekly Science Article Report.
Here's what to do for this assignment:
1) Citation: Here you will put the name of the article, the author, and where you found it (for example, the New York Times or Science News for Kids).
2) A brief summary: Here you will summarize the article in one or two sentences. This is to give your readers (including me) a sense of what you have read.
3) Reflection: This is the biggest part of your report. I am interested in your response to the article. Please address the following questions in your reflection:
a) What did you think about the article? Did you like it or not? Why?
b) What interested you or surprised you about the article?
c) What questions do you have about what you read? What would you like to know more about what you’ve read?
I am really looking forward to reading what you write.
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2) A brief summary: Here you will summarize the article in one or two sentences. This is to give your readers (including me) a sense of what you have read.
3) Reflection: This is the biggest part of your report. I am interested in your response to the article. Please address the following questions in your reflection:
a) What did you think about the article? Did you like it or not? Why?
b) What interested you or surprised you about the article?
c) What questions do you have about what you read? What would you like to know more about what you’ve read?
I found an article called “A Brain Boosting Video Game” at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20090916/Note2.asp
Scientists say that playing Tetris can improve your brain. In the article, they say when kids play Tetris, their gray matter is thicker.
I thought that it was an interesting article. I was surprised at the fact that they say a video game can boost your brain, because I was always told that video games are not good for your brain. My only question is, is it better to have more gray matter, because I’m a bit confused on that part.
I found an article called "Genetics of Green" at http://www.messybeast.com/green-cat/green-genes.htm. The article originaly was on Time Magazine.
This is an article about how a cat breeder found a green kitten in the hayloft of a barn. Veterinarians tried to wash it out but it would wash out. They then bred the cat, and its kittens also were green. Scientists say it is just genetics.
I really enjoyed the article. They explained in detail and showed real pictures of the felines and non of it was fake or photoshopped. I was surprised that it was not something that stained the cat's fur but that it was actualy born that way. I was also very surprised to see that when the bred the cat, it's kittens were also green. I do have one question though, how or from who did green color become part of the genetics of these cats? I would like to know if maybe the cat's iris in its eye is green. Also, are any of the organs inside the cat are green or abnormal in any way.
I found an article called "An Earthlike Planet" at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20070502/Note2.asp
This is an article about an extrasolar planet that could have liquid water, and possibly extraterrestrial life. It is at the right distance from its star for the temperature to be just right for liquid water.
I found this article very interesting. They explained very well their theory of this planet having water on it. I was surprised that they could get this much information on a planet that is 116 trillion miles away. Also i was surprised they had the weight relative to the earths weight. I would like to know however, how did they get the weight relative to the earths if it is 116 trillion miles away? Also i would like to know how they know what temperature it is on the surface.
1) Name- A Brain-Boosting Video Game Author- Richard Haier. URL-http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20090916/Note2.asp.
2) This article is about how three girls playing the well known game tetris for three months had increasing gray matter in their brains (good thing).
3) I think the article was cool because it was an article that was about something that interests me. When I came to the website it was the first article that came up. I said to myself. "oh cool tetris!" and wanted to read about it.
What surprised me about this article is that I would never think that an online game has such a good effect on your brain.
One of the questions I have about this article is what caused the scientists to think of such a random experiment. and why didn't they use boys in the experiment? Some more I would like to know about this article is how did they choose these three girls over any other three girls?
By accident I typed in "Veterinarians tried to wash it out but it would wash out." I ment to say it wouldn't wash out, not would wash out.
I found an article called "Recipe for health". URL-http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20080402/Feature1.asp.This article is by Emily Sohn
1.) This is an article about obese kids, and ways to help them from being obese. Statistics in this article show how if you get to fat, risks of disease and heart problems are very high.
2.) I found this article very interesting because I never thought that the statistics for overweight kids were so high. It is also interesting because the kids that have diseases, in many cases the diseases are caused by being overweight. I liked the detail in the article, and how there are all sorts of different facts. Such as, statistics, how to eat healthier, and describing the diseases, etc.
3.) Some questions that I would like to know about are; Why do the parents let there kids get this way? Did the pediatricians that treated these cases treat them before they got bad? Why did the population of adults change so much from the 1980s until now?
A grim future for killer whales.
I was unable to find the name of the author but I found this article on http://www.sciencenewsforkids.com/articles/20090415/Note2.asp
1) The article is about an oil spill that took place in Alaska about 20 years ago. It was the largest oil spill in the U.S. It killed some endangered species of whales.
2) The article was pretty upsetting because the deaths of these innocent animals were due to our unnatural living habits. The killer whale suffered from the spill. There were two groups of orcas during the time of the spill.
3) I really liked the article. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of articles on how humans are killing the environment but this one really struck me because not only are we making a harder place for us to live but we are ending the lives of earths other inhabitants. How can people be so careless and self-centered? Why would someone possibly put oil over the life of an innocent animal?
Animals make the most earths natural resources. But they seem to be the largest victims.
1) The article is called "Icy Ball Is Larger Than Pluto. So, Is It a Planet?" , by Kenneth Chang. It is not a recent article, it is actually from 2006. I got it from the NY Times website - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/science/02planet.html.
2) The article is mainly about how astronomers found a ball of ice that is about 30% wider than Pluto. And the scientists are still debating if or if not Pluto is a planet, and also what the definition of a planet is.
3) A) I did like the article, and I kind of like astronomy, so that makes sense. I don’t know if I like that people (not only in the article)were debating over if Pluto is a planet, or not. The article was also really easy to read and understand, so I liked that part about it too.
B) I was not surprised with the article at all because I already knew that people were debating over Pluto. I am also a bit interested in astronomy, not as a future profession or anything like that, it is just interesting to read about.
C) I would like to know what happened to 2003 UB313 (the ball of ice). Since it was a New York Times article, which is a daily newspaper, it doesn’t tell what happened after the fact. I also would like to know why Pluto is such a big deal to people.
1. I found this article on a website called growingupwithadisability.blogspot.com/. It was written by a boy named David who had also had disability when he was growing up. The article is called growing up with a disability.
2. This article was about how in this world people really just judge a book by its cover. When people have disability right away people just put them of as weird but really they should be included in our society.
3. I thought this article was well written, and true. I liked it a lot because it made me think. It made me think of myself and what I do when I see a disabled person. While I was reading this article I was thinking I sometimes judge people by their cover. That is why I loved this article so much, because I was not just reading to be done I was reading and learning and thinking about myself and what I do all at the same time.
I was really surprised when he said that some adults that see a child with disabilities say that the parent of that child is less graced by god. I was really surprised that someone would even think that none the less say it.
One of the questions I have about what I read is why do people look down to the disable people when they are just as good as everyone else. I also would like to know the percent of the people in the world who judge children and adults by their cover and not by what is in the inside.
1. I found this article on a website called growingupwithadisability.blogspot.com/. It was written by a boy named David who had also had disability when he was growing up. The article is called growing up with a disability.
2. This article was about how in this world people really just judge a book by its cover. When people have disability right away people just put them of as weird but really they should be included in our society.
3. I thought this article was well written, and true. I liked it a lot because it made me think. It made me think of myself and what I do when I see a disabled person. While I was reading this article I was thinking I sometimes judge people by their cover. That is why I loved this article so much, because I was not just reading to be done I was reading and learning and thinking about myself and what I do all at the same time.
I was really surprised when he said that some adults that see a child with disabilities say that the parent of that child is less graced by god. I was really surprised that someone would even think that none the less say it.
One of the questions I have about what I read is why do people look down to the disable people when they are just as good as everyone else. I also would like to know the percent of the people in the world who judge children and adults by their cover and not by what is in the inside.
1.) The name of my article was “Two Monkeys Get the Gift of Color” the author of this article was Nicholas Wade. I chose this article from NYtimes.com.
2.) This article was about two male monkeys (Dalton and Sam) who got red pigment transplanted into their eyes so that they could see in color. To find out if the color vision really worked scientist put them through a special test, which they passed and this experiment resulted in huge success.
3.) a) I enjoyed this article a lot. I enjoyed it because I liked how they thought to try and give the monkeys a chance to see in color. Also there was a picture of how most male monkeys see and how the two monkeys saw after the experiment and I thought it was really amazing.
b) The main thing that surprised me is that the male monkeys do not see in color, but the females do. The reason for this is because the gene that possess the color lies on the monkeys X chromosome and you need green and red on the X chromosome to see in color and females have two so they usually end up with both. But males only have one so they usually get either red or green (green in Sam and Dalton’s case) but not both.
c) I probably would like to know more about what I read because I found this article very interesting. The questions I have are how scientist thought of doing this experiment, and why when the monkeys evolved they didn’t gradually get colorful sight.
I found an article in the New York Times via the internet called Are Indoor Pools Bad for Your Lungs The website http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/are-indoor-pools-bad-for-your-lungs/?scp=1&sq=are%20indoor%20pools%20bad%20for%20your%20lungs&st=cse
In a 2006 study of youth athletes in Quebec City, young high-level swimmers wheezed and coughed far more often than young, indoor soccer players. Since the swimmers reported these symptoms, the study monitored 72 swimmers and 73 soccer players during 5 practices.
This was a very interesting article because I often swim indoors during the winter. I was surprised that frequently swimming in an indoor pool may lead to lung and respiratory problems. Some people develop these issues because of the high levels of chlorine and proteins in the water. An indoor environment doesn’t help because it is very humid and stuffy.
I was not surprised that swimmers had more breathing problems than soccer players because swimming uses all muscles whereas soccer predominately uses your legs and feet. Plus swimmers are under waters and use their lungs more.
Questions that I have:
1) Is there an alternative to chlorine to help clean the pool?
2) Should high level swimmers get tested for lung and respiratory problems before they engage in swimming?
3) Why did they compare soccer to swimming?
When Yellowstone Explodes
By Joel Achenbach
Summary: I read a story about Yellowstone on top of a super volcano. This super volcano is the biggest one on earth.
I like this article because of how descriptive it was. The article shows how big it is by showing maps, diagrams and how big the next eruption will be. What interested me about the article was how it showed how much infrared that is in lava, and how people explained how big the explosion would be the next time it blows up. I would like to know more about how far the lava would spread in the next explosion.
1) I found an article called "Colors of a Chameleon" at http://www.kidzworld.com/article/1740-colors-of-a-chameleon
2) "Colors of a Chameleon" is about how chameleons can change colors and why. This article tells you what light, temperature, mood, and health have to do with the changing color of their skin.
3) I thought that this article had good information and it was age appropriate meaning it didn’t have hard words or to much scientific examples. I liked this article as I have said before it was age appropriate and it was brief it didn’t go on and on like some other articles. I had always thought that chameleons color changed with their moods but I found out that I was wrong. I do have one question, what are pigments?
1) I read the article Polar Ice Melting. That was written by Jill Egan Posted by the NEW YORK TIMES. (http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news/story/0,28277,1176861,00.html)
2) The article that I read was about global warming. It focused on the rising of water caused by melting glaciers and how fossil fuels are ruining the o-zone layer with the green house gases.
3)
a. I really enjoyed reading the article because I feel concerned about it also. It also helped me learn about the things I need to cut back on to save the environment (driving cars, the heating in you house, keeping the lights on, keeping phone chargers on and more.).
b. I was really surprised at how fast global warming is really becoming a serious problem. I was also surprised how much the sea level will rise when the glaciers melt. One thing that really surprised me was that some glaciers are as big as Manhattan and as tall as the Empire State Building.
c. I would like to learn more about the subject and get people more involved with helping. I also want to learn about how long it’s going to take until the problem gets so serious that everyone will need to get involved. I also would like to learn about what animals are going to be extinct and in how long.
1. I found an article called Thinking Out Loud, by C. Claiborne Ray. If you copy and paste the link below, you can go to the exact article, which I found on the New York Times website, in the science section.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/science/22qna.html?_r=1&ref=science
2. This article is about why people talk to themselves. Psychologists believe that young children talk to themselves (or their imaginary friends) because it is part of their normal development. Adults may talk to themselves because of a mental disease, or because they are having trouble reading a document, and it helps to read it out loud. Listening to yourself speak helps you understand things more easily. Another reason why adults may talk to themselves is because they have trouble remembering things. As people get older, they star to lose their immediate memory, so they say things out loud to help themselves remember.
3. I really liked this article. I thought it was interesting because I often find myself talking, even when there is nobody around. I will talk to myself to remember what is for homework, or when I am doing multiplication, I will talk out loud. I was interested/surprised that young children talk to themselves as part of their natural development. I thought that they did this to entertain themselves. One question I have is this: Is it possible for people to not talk to themselves? If so, how do they keep track of everything/remember everything?
Researchers studying blue whales off eastern Canadian coast from Zurich Switzerland found the animals changed their vocal cords. In response to an under water whale their communication has gotten shorter because of the shipping boats propellers that make a lot of back ground noises.Dr Di Iorio's group tried to persuade the Canadian university conducting the seismic survey to co-operate in the research, and to give details of where and when the underwater bangs were being produced, but the attempt failed but the whales made double the two and a half calls they made days with out. the researcher suggested that the whales some times had to repeat themselves or even are block by bangs.The researchers uses spark which are devices that produce eletrical discharges that cause an bang,but the sparks are quieter than air guns
1.By Richard Black,BBC News 3.I thought that the article was very interesting it was really into the problem and how they were trying to solve them.Most articles I've read weren't as interesting and clear as this one. The way that the researchers did things I felt as though I were seeing this on television. A. I like this article because it sounds so inspirational. B. What surprised me was the technology they were using.C. No questions about what I read and I definitely would like to read more.
Why Pluto is no longer a planet – science report
1) My article was called “Why Pluto is no Longer a Planet” by Fraser Cain. I found it on a website called www.universetoday.com/2008/04/10/why-pluto-is-no-longer-a-planet/.
2) My article was about why Pluto is no longer considered a planet. The author goes into explaining the discovery of Pluto, and then how it was decided to no longer be considered a planet.
3)I thought the article was very interesting but also a little frustrating, because I think Pluto should qualify as a planet. In the article the author said there was another planet, named Eris that was also discovered with Pluto, and was considered to be a planet. I thought that was really cool because I had never know they had discovered other orbiting “planet” like things (one being Eris) bigger then Pluto, made of the same ice/rock mixture. Something else I thought was really cool and kind of funny was that Pluto was named after an eleven-year-old girl in Oxford, England, and was named after the Roman goddess of the underworld. I still want to know more about the other planets that were discovered, especially Eris.
Teen Vogue "Cruel Summer" by Beth Janes
This article is about ho tanning can give you diseases like skin cancer, even if you are still young.
I enjoyed reading this article because I learned from it, and its always nice to know stuff. I didn't know how careful I should be about watching out to make sure I put on enough sunblock and making sure I don't spend to much time in the sun. I would like to learn more about the subject, and my question is whats the possibility that I could get skin cancer, ya know, just to be safe.
ohn delorean inverter of the delorean has agreed to be in a documentary about him.
In the 70s he invented a car called the delorean. It is a super nice expensive sports car.
In the early 1980s his car company closed down because he did not sell enough cars. He tried to sell drugs to people to keep his company alive.
Elephantitis
Melissa
I researched an article about elephantiasis. Elephantiasis is a parasitic infection. Parasitic infection is an organism that lives inside humans. This causes limbs to grow so enormously, that they look like elephants foreleg in size, texture, and color. http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/elephantiasis
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Elephantitis
I researched an article about elephantiasis. Elephantiasis is a parasitic infection. Parasitic infection is an organism that lives inside humans. This causes limbs to grow so enormously, that they look like elephants foreleg in size, texture, and color. http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/elephantiasis
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