How different sounds effect how you wake up - Update 2

While doing research on methods to help wake me up, I found a good method that worked for others. It is an app for your phone which makes it vibrate until you walk. I think this is a good way to wake you up because it wouldn't wake you up suddenly and uncomfortably, but it will wake you up peacefully. It also wouldn't stop until you walked around, which would really wake you up. It is called the MoveUp Alarm clock. What I learned about myself was that I have different options to wake up to.

A setback I have had is how to download the app, since it is for android only, and I have an apple phone. To solve this, I might borrow an android device to test this app out. My next steps are to use the app, and see if there are any other similar apps like this one.

I can apply this knowledge to my school day mornings, by being able to start off my days earlier and more relaxed. I could also spread my findings with my community, to help them in the mornings.  

Unit 8 reflection

Unit 8 was about how the human species evolved, the difference between natural change and evolution, how evolution is actually the change in alleles, how species evolve, what is evidence of evolution, and what the origin of life is. Evolution is gradual change in a species, which is the same as the change in alleles. Species can evolve through natural selection, where the weak die off, so only the stronger genes are passed on. Speciation can occur because of behavioral, geographic, or temporal isolation. The two patters of speciation are gradualism and punctuated equilibrium. Evidence of evolution come from fossils, homologous structures, and analogous structures. Earth's history goes very far back, the main eras being the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, and Precambrian. The Hunger Games Lab was a good lab to teach how natural selection occurred. The Geological Timeline was a good way to see the scale of how old the earth was.
I want to learn more about the past, and how different it was. Would the Earth look like a different planet from now? I wonder what would happen if dinosaurs never went extinct.
I have tried to improve my assertive skills , but I still need to work on improving them.

Geologic Timeline Individual Reflection

One major event of earth's history was during the Holocene era. This is the time period where humans evolved and populated the earth. The Holocene era goes from 11700 years ago to now. Humans have changed the earth a lot, with pollution, global warming, destroying habitats, and making species extinct. Another major event of earth's history was the extinction of dinosaurs, which happened near the end of the Cretaceous era. This changed the planet because without the extinction of dinosaurs, humans might not exist today. Before, dinosaurs were the dominant race, but now humans are. Another major event of earth's history is the Cambrian period. It is when animal phyla in increased in diversity suddenly. This is also the time when different groups of animals started to appear on the fossil record.
What was surprising about the scale of earth's history is the fact that humans were around for such a short time. Dinosaurs were around longer than humans, and they went extinct. Humans have a chance of being extinct, along with all the other species that live on earth.
In the short time humans have been on earth, we've done a lot. We have made a hole in the ozone layer, which effects the earths atmosphere, which will effect life on earth later. We have also made things that are hard to dispose, like glass and plastic. But with earth's history being on such a large scale, they will decompose.
How long will humans live on the planet before it runs out of resources, or we become extinct?

Hunger Games Final Analysis

1. In this lab, we used different methods of picking up corks to simulate evolution and natural selection. The ones that picked up enough food got to reproduce and another person would go back in. The ones that didn't get enough food would die.
2. The pinchers were the best at picking up food, because they could grab two at once quickly.
3. The population did evolve, because the species that were better could pick two at once dominated over the slow stumpys, who died off. In the first round, there were eight stumpys. In the second round, more than half died, leaving three stumpys. In the third round, they completely died off.
4. In this lab, the placement of corks was random, because sometimes they were in a small area, and other times they were all spread out. If people didn't run for the food, they might not have gotten much, since everyone swarmed it. What wasn't random was the number of birds that started out, being about the same. This could have given birds more of a chance to pass off their alleles to make their certain type of bird.
5. If the food was smaller, the stumpys might not have even made it to the second round, the knucklers would have had a harder time getting food, and the pinchers would be about the same. If the food was larger, then the stumpys might have had a better chance, the knuckers would have would have had a harder time getting food if it was larger than their knucles, and the pinchers would have had the same amount of food. In nature, if their prey became different, they could effect how much each bird would eat.
6. Without incomplete dominance, there would only be stumpys and pinchers. Pinchers would slowely become the entire population. The stumpys wouldn't be able to reproduce, and pinchers would eat all the food.
7. Evolution is the change in allele frequency, which changes the organism's traits. Natural selection is when the organisms with bad traits are unable to reproduce, making the majority of the population have good traits. Natural selection makes evolution happen.
8. The same species tried to reproduce with the same species.This would make more of the same species, so the ones that could reproduce would grow in population.This could effect the allele frequency by making more of the similar allele from the same species.
9. In evolution, the population evolves. Evolution doesn't happen to only one organism, because evolution works over a long time, or else natural selection wouldn't work. Natural selection acts on the phenotype.
If we had more stumpys in the beginning would they survive longer?

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9. In evolution, the population evolves.

How different sounds effect how you wake up-Update 1

I have been researching about what helps a person wake up better, and I found out that vibrations could work to wake a person up. I found that some sounds would be more pleasant to wake up to, but may not be as effective. I've learned that waking up to different sounds each morning brings an interesting start to each morning. I setback I've had was how to record how much time it actually takes me to wake up, because each day could be different. I plan to solve this setback in the future, by researching apps that would do something similar. I could apply this by sharing my final results with others, so they have an easier time waking up in the mornings.

Bird Beak Lab

In this lab we asked the question of "If natural selection occurs in a population, how do changes in selective pressures affect the evolution of that species?". My hypothesis for Darwin's first conclusion was that  if individuals who inherited better traits will produce more offspring, then the tweezers beak will be able to easily get food, and get the most chicks. My hypothesis for Darwin's second conclusion was that if populations begin to look more like the winners, then the tweezers bird will have the most chicks. Both hypothesis were correct because the tweezers bird ate the most, because of its ability to be able to grab a lot of food in a short period of time. After the change, my hypothesis was that the other birds wouldn't get as much, because the tweezers bird would eat a lot of the food before other birds could. It wasn't correct, because the binder clip still the same amount of chicks it did before the change. The tweezers bird had eight less chicks (23 before, 15 after), and the scissors bird has four less chicks (13 before, 9 after). The binder clip remained at thirteen. This result was likely caused because the binder clip bird only fed off of rubber bands, so it made the same amount of chicks both times. 

Our data was unexpected because the binder clip bird should have had less chicks in the second round. This probably happened because the binder clip bird mainly fed off of rubber bands, which were easy for the binder clip. Before the change, the binder clip bird had 63 foods total, and 60 of them were rubber bands. After the change, the binder clip bird had 60 foods total, and 58 of them were rubber bands. This made our binder clip bird get the same amount of food in both rounds. Due to these errors, in future experiments I would recommend to make sure rubber bands were evenly spread throughout the pile of food, and cutting the rubber bands into smaller pieces so that the binder clip bird wouldn't be able to grab it as easily. 

This lab was done to demonstrate how evolution works. From this lab I learned how different beaks effect what birds can eat, and how much time it takes, which helps me understand the concept of evolution. The birds with better beaks which were easier to eat with produced a lot more chicks, and so more of the dominant birds became most of the population. Based on my experience from this lab, I can see if other animals will survive in their environment based on their traits.  

What sounds are most effective to wake you up?

20 time is a project where students do a project which is related to a hobby of theirs, for 20 percent of their class time. In my project, I will be figuring out what sounds wake you up the most efficiently. I have chosen this 20 time project because I have trouble waking waking up in the morning, and I want to see what would help me wake up. For  my project, I will be setting a different sound to my phone to wake up to, and it will record how long it takes me to wake up. Then, I will make a table, listing the times and sounds, and decide which is the best. My goal is to find out which sound is the best, and also tell others, to help their mornings. I will measure my progress by using my phone to time the time it takes me to get up. I will also be doing blog posts on my progress. My plan moving forward is to start recording data.