week 3

This week in science class wee did more with the Trueman middle school sickness case. we discovered a couple of things.

1. all the kids had stomach aches
2. all the kids had either a headache, diarrhea, or fever
3. most of the kids that swam in the lake and ate at Cheep Chicken Hut got sick.

we thought it might be food poisoning or contaminated lake water. we asked for some interviews and blood samples. Also we asked for samples of the water, sample of the chicken, and the health inspection from Cheep Chicken Hut.

also we had a homework assignment that was a simulation. it com pair different objects to each other(i.e. pin, hair, red blood cell, rhino virus, etc). Then we had to answer questions after you saw the simulation. The next day we discussed what the difference is between macroscopic, microscopic, and sub-microscopic were.

macroscopic-big don't need a microscope

microscopic-small, need a microscope to see it

sub-microscopic- so small you can't even see it with the microscope.

Then that night for homework we had to think of surfaces that would be dirty and not dirty. Then we had to make a hypothesis of what would happen if we swiped somewhere in the bathroom. The next day with our table groups(mine are 3 boys) we had to decide where we were going to swab in the bathroom. Since my table is a mix of 3 boys and me we decide to go in the boys bathroom and swab the toilet seat and the wall. Mr Finley then asked us to answer these questions about the bacteria in our blog.

Are they multiplying or reproducing?

i think it is reproducing since i have never seen anything that can multi by it's self it has to reproduce

How do you think we can make it reproduce or multiply faster?

i think that we could keep it in a warm place since that is what the sheet told us to do when we first got it and we should keep it upside down.