Zachary

The Moon Journal is a project where I observed the moon every week day for 29 days, from 12/9/11 to 20/10/11. For each observation I gave a brief observation, discuss the weather, the tiome, the devices I used, and make a sketch. When I observed the moon I observed the moon phases such as the first and the last quarter, waxing and waning gibson, cresent, and new and full moon. I also learned about the moon and the suns gravitational pull on earth and how depending on the sun, moon and earths interactions tides change. I learned about two tides in particular spring tides and neap tides. Spring tide being the greatest range between high and low tide, and neap tides being the least distance between high and low tide. For this project I used my eyes senses, a pencil, night time, the Moon, my iPhone, and the Internet.
 * Criterion A**


 * Criterion B**

the rock journal diorama is a project where three to four people get together and make a diorama of three processes that a rock could have gone through to present to the class. My group (Christian, David, and Myself) used a little elbow grease and some teamwork to make a diorama of sediments getting deposited in a river then getting buried under other sediments for millions of years and falling into a magma chamber where it will explode out of a volcano in the form of lava and hardening becoming igneous rock. unfortunately the diorama was only the size of a shoe box and we couldn't use real lava. After we finished the diorama we presented it to our class. Our goal when presenting was to use as much scientific language as possible. Some of the words are like ash, lava, magma, extrusive, intrusive, deposition, igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. During the presentation each of us tried to say about the same amount of scientific language, so we each got about the same amount of credit. This project is a great project for Criterion B because we all worked together, we used scientific language, we had an oral presentation, and I give credit to my group by saying we. For this project we used clay, dirt, each other, plastic, fake trees, a shoe box, vinegar, red and orange food coloring, baking soda, orange water, moss, and youtube.


 * Criterion C**



For the Rock journal project my group found nine rocks from all over the world and analyzed them to find out what types of rocks they each of them were. After that we typed up a paragraph for the four most interesting ones telling where and when we found them and what the rock might have gone through to look like the way it does, while using as much scientific language as possible. Then we took a closer look at the rock to see if it was either a mineral, Igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary. Each paragraph also contained the grain sizes and its structures shape. This was a great project for criterion C because we used scientific language to explain, we analyzed information, and identified problems. For this project I used my group members (Christian, David, Myself), paper, ink, and a camera.

In Catalina my favorite class was the night snorkel. The purpose of it was to see all of the sea creatures that you can only see at night. Our instructor predicted that we would see lobster, bioluminescent plankton, guitar fish, and leopard sharks, I thought we would see a few of each but we only ended up seeing one of each except for the bioluminescent plankton. In order to see all the sea creatures we had to put on wetsuits to keep us warm in the freezing cold water my instructor even told me to wear two because it was so cold. We also had to wear fins a snorkel and a mask. Then when we finally got in the water we had to look in the habitat where the sea creatures we were looking for might live with a flash light to see in the dark water. This is a good project for criterion D because we experimented and investigated by going in the ocean and looking for all of the sea creatures.
 * Criterion D**

For the phony experiment we each read for five one min. trials for both of our readings, which were read allowed and recording our words per min., while trying to read the most words as possible. Afterward we graphed each of the readings in order from first to last in the form of a scatter plot on a labeled graph with an X and Y axes. Then we labeled each dot and color coded both of the readings which was which and lastly we created a key. This is a good project for criterion E because I collected data in a numeral form organized it and graphed it. For the phony experiment I used a pencil, reading sheet, colored pencils, and a graph book.
 * Criterion E**

In Catalina I got to touch animal in a touch tank. It held horn sharks, leopard sharks, guitar fish, and bat rays. If we wanted to touch them (I did) we had to use two fingers and gently stroke down their back. If we did not do this we could of hurt the animal or got hurt by stroking up a sharks back because they have sharp slits on theirs backs, so I did not do this. This is a good project for criterion F because I was responsible and tried to be rental when touching the animals and I also followed the rules so that non of the animals got hurt. For this project I used my hand and fingers, and the instructors advice.
 * Criterion F**