Life After the People

My homework is to write about what I think will happen if all the people on earth dissapeared except for people in Taiwan.

First I think that the people in Taiwan will go and investigate the other countries. Taiwanese people might move to all of the world. We might ship in goods that we cannot get in Taiwan from other countries. Over years the people in Taiwan might settle in those places. Over thousands of years the people who move to other places they might develop their own culture and way of life. Eventually there might be different nations. But before the people moved to the other countries, I think it will be like the what the movie "Life After the People" said. Even thought it might not be thousands of years before the Taiwan people go explore those places, it will still take couple of years at least. At the first week the animals in the houses and zoos might die, the electricity will shut down, and grass and moss will grow all over the buildings. Then in 1 year the wild animals there might thrive. In 5 years the places will turn into a forest and stay like that until the people go there.

Reflection on project

In humanity class I needed to write a blog post about a reflection on a project.

The project I am going to do a reflection on is a science project where we needed to do research on two body systems. I was to do the muscular system and the skeletal system. Then I needed to make a 3d poster showing the bones and muscles of both arms and legs.

One of the student outcomes I used the most I think was problem solver. Sometimes during the project there may be mistakes such as "I stuck the things on the poster the wrong way" of "There aren't any more information." and more questions like that.

Pelican Illness

Animal experts are trying to find out why hundreads of pelicans are bexoming ill. A number of dead or ill birds has been spotted along the Californian coastline. Rescue workers are trying to help these ill birds but they don't know the cause of the illness. They are managing to save the pelicans at the cost of $500 for one bird. Some of them have been found far away from their homes and seen in places such as gardens, roads, and feilds. Experts are going to use an blood test to see what is making them ill. The ill birds will look thin, confused, and have discoulored patches on their feet. These pelicans was almost extinced in 1960's and 1970's becaude a very harmful pesticide got into their food. The specie did not recover until 1972.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7820000/newsid_7821900/7821923.stm

Famous Climber Dies

The youngest British climber to climb mount Everest has been killed with another climber thats from Briton too in an accident in the French Alphs. Ron Gauntlett was from Sussex in South England. He was only 19 years old when he climbed up Mt. Everest in 2006. His 21 year old friend was ice climbing along with him in Chamonix reigon when tragedy struck. His family were all shocked. "We can only take consolation that he died doing something that he loved." said his mom Nicole. The other climber was named James Atkinson and was also from the same place as Ron. In November 2008 Ron Gauntlett and his friend James Hooper, from Somerset, waere named the National Geographic 2008 Adventure of the year. They were also given an award after going through a 22000 miles journey using humen and natural power to go from the magnetic North to magnetic south.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7820000/newsid_7822800/7822812.stm

My Hiliday Break and My Schools Goals for 2009

My Break

1.Sleep until 10pm almost every day.
2.Play Nintendo and piano when I am bored.

My 2009 Goals

1.I will try to do and finish all my homework on time and handing them all on time.
2.I will try to not fail and get A+'s in every class especially math.

Reasearch Reflection and Magic School Bus

Research Reflection:
For the past month we have been research body systems on our own.

A few things I like about this research is that we get to do out research instead of the teacher telling us what to do. Our teacher gives us very little questions but allows us to go very deep and understand more about that question. We were allowed to go to different websites to find the information we need. I also liked the test. The test is to find out if we did enough research. We were aloud to search the answers to the test if we were stuck.

Things that I didn't like about this kind of research is that sometimes information is very hard to find. Some of the websites you go to will give information about totally different things. The test we received consists of some questions that we didn't even need to research so we had to find more information on the website.

I I think that our teacher Mrs.Smith planned it this way so we can learn to work independently. In the future we might need to do more independent work so this could be a good practice. I also think that it would be easier because then she can just give out 6 questions instead of lots of little questions,

Some suggestions I have for this project is to put a list of websites first. Some of the websites will contain very little information so it was very hard to answer some questions. If there were lots of websites from the start we could have get the information from those sites and then go to different sites. The next suggestion I need to give is about the test. No matter how much I like the idea of looking up the information on the internet to answer questions, I think we shouldn't be able to do that. A person could just go up to the internet and search all the answers for the test.

The Magic School Bus:

Today our class watch Magic school bus. There are correct things but also some flaws.

Some things that were incorrect was that digestion takes almost 10 hours to fully digest so it is imposable to crack the bus in a few seconds. The second flaw was that the digestion takes place in complete darkness so it should be imposable to see what was happening. The last flaw I am going to talk about is they only showed the gib intestine absorb food. The truth is that they both absorbe food.

Some things that were correct is that the stomch acids do help break down food and some things do not get completely break down in the stomach.

2 things that were correct was that

Rioting Hits Greek

A rioting has broke in at least 3 cities with the people and police when a teenager boy was shot. Students has been battling the police for 3 days since the boy was shot dead at Athens on Saturday. But there may be more problems since people are planning to protest in 5 more other places. The two police officers who was connected to the boys death has been arrested. It was said that people were throwing stones at the polices car. Soon after the incident, news, and protests has been spreading across the country at a very fast rate. The Greek government is trying to calm its people but lots of people are blaming the government for its violence.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7770000/newsid_7771100/7771108.stm