Madison

Criterion A: One World

In science class this year, our tearcher told us to pick an inventor or invention for the Human Ingenuity essay. I picked the Aztecs and researched how they healed broken bones. First I researched on the computer about my topic, than I went to the school library and found many books on Aztecs and medicine. While I researched, I made sure to write down many facts. After I was finished getting tons of facts, I wrote a five-paragraph essay. Then I drew my invention on a piece of paper and turned it over to write some interesting facts about my topic. The last thing I did before I turned it in was type up a Works Cited page. I picked the Human Ingenuity essay to represent Criterion A: One World because it shows us that the Aztecs made a huge impact on the world today by inventing a cure. The Medicine Man saw that his village people were suffering from broken bones so he decided to help solve and find a way to heal bones. Aztecs found that by using a variety of plants, herbs, and roots helped to relieve pain from their bodies but that was not all they came up with. They invented splints and casts. Today, Doctors are able to make better casts/splints but also they invented x-ray machines and a saw to cut off the cast. The tools used for this project were a computer, books, citation slips, paper, and color pencils.

Criterion B: Communication in Science

In the Second trimester, the sixth grade learned about rocks and how to classify them. As part of learning the rock cycle, we had to pick a rock and make a poster on it. Of course, I picked the Emerald since its my birthstone and started to reasearch right away. After I researched the Emerald, I made a colorful, bright postor to help represent it. Then I wrote down some facts about the Emerald and printed a picture of it. After I typed up a Works Cited page and turned it it. The mineral postor is a great example of Criterion B: Communication in Science because it represents important facts that people should know about the Emerald but also shows us a graphic picture of one too. The tools I used was paper, makers, a pencil, and a computer. This is why I choose the mineral poster.

Criterion C: Knowledge and Understanding

In the first trimester, we learned about the moon. We learned that everything evolves around the moon in different but unquie ways. As part of learning about the moon, we were assigned to write a five paragraph essay about it. First I used a essay organizer to help form each paragraph. The first and last paragraph was the introduction and conclusion paragraphs so they were easy to write but the second, third, and fourth paragraphs took time so we can think about it. After I wrote I the organizer, I started to write in cursive. Then I turned it in with my pretty drawing of the moon. This essay is a good example of Criterion C: Knowledge and Understanding because it shows us tons of knowledge about the moon. It also shows us that we understand what we learned in Science class and that we were atually paying attentation. The tools I used were paper, color pencils, pencil sharpener, and pencils. This is the project that I think represents Criterion C.

Criterion D: Scientific Inquiry

This March as a sixth grade, we went to Catalina Island for five days. On Wednesday our third day into the trip, I decided to go night time snorkeling. First me and a few of classmates put on wetsuits. We made sure to put a couple wetsuits so that we would stay etra warm in the water. Then we put on booties, flippers, snorkel, and grabbed a flashlight. Our mission or plan, we should say was to look at a bunch of sea creatures at night. This is a good example of Criterion D: Scientific Inquiry because it shows that first we planed what was going to happen. We planned what was going to happen by getting instructed on putting on wetsuits and then how we were going to stay together as a group. After that we investigated by going out into the creepy, murky water to find many sea creatures. The tools we used for this amazing but scary experience were wetsuits, masks, booties, flippers, and flashlights.

Criterion E: Processing Data

Before we went on our sixth grade trip to Catalina, we made a Quilt. First we had to go to the Catalina Conservancy website which is [].Then we searched for a Native flora or fauna to make a piece of the quilt. I picked the Northern Mockingbird and drew an amazing picture of it. Then I wrote down some cool facts about the mockingbird. After that I pasted my poster onto some black paper and turned it over. Once it was turned over I took a white pencil and wrote my Works Cited page. After the whole sixth grade was finished making them we put them together to make a quilt. The quilt was very unique. The reason I picked this project to represent Criterion E: Processing Data because I organized the facts then presented them on my poster quilt. The tools I used were the computer, paper, and markers. This is why I choose the Catalina Quilt as Criterion E.

Criterion F: Attitudes in Science

In Science, we learned about safety in a Lab. We took a quiz on it but before hand, we took notes. We cut out the Safety notes and pasted into our moon journal. Afterwards we studied for a week. We were then ready to take the quiz.

This shows us Criterion F: Attitudes in Science because it shows that we were learning how to be safe in a lab. The tools we used were scissors and glue.