The Fox and the Goat

Don't get tricked easily, because in the end your the one who's going to end up getting tricked.
I think this is the lesson because the fox used the goat to get out of the well. The goat got tricked and in the end he's the one whoose going to have to suffer. So make wise decisions, instead of quickly making them.

Ask a Geneticist

Something new and interesting i found out was that chimps and humans are almost so similar they have almost the same genes. There really isn't a relationship between chromosomes and genes. At one point, chimps and humans started out with the same chromosomes, but eventually later in time, some chromosomes were lost, some were gained, and some where copied. But why do humans and chimps look different? Geneticists say that the answer is hidden in the section of the genosome that doesn't code for the genes. Also, genes give instructions on how to make proteins. There are many similarities between animals and humans. So, we can have genes from animals, or animals can have genes from us!

Wooden Bowls

When I finished reading this story, I thought it had such a great meaning to it. If I could relate it to C.A.R.E.S, it would be cooperation. At first, the son and the daughter in law could not cooperate with the grandfather, but then towards the end they learned how to cooperate with him. The son and the daughter in law had to realize that he was an old man and he was slowly falling apart. The son should have realized how much that could hurt his father. On the inside and the outside. But since the grandson told them he was making wooden bowls, the son and the daughter in law learned that cooperation is very important.

Basic Genetics

What I learned about Herdity was that we inherit "traits" from our parents. Humans have two sets of of 23 chromosomes. So when the parents have the child, each set is is given to the child, and that' s how the genes get passed down. A trait is a quality or feature in a person. It is passed down from generation to generation. There are physical traits-they way you look, behavioral trait-the way we act, and medical conditions-such as illnesses or diseases.

Current Event #2

East Coast Blizzard seen from space?!

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41979&src=eorss-nh

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/east-coast-blizzard-from-space?npu=1&mbid=yhp

The snowstorm that was so big, was even seen from space. That enourmous blizzard shut down the federal government, travelers, left many people without electricity, and more.

They took this picture from Washing D.C. on with their MODIS instrument. (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) They say the storm was a Nor'easter, which is a powerful storm by a strong low-pressure that forms in the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean and it moves up north in the east. I thought this was very interesting and it caught my eye because I didn't know the storm was that strong that you could see it from space! I learned what a Nor'easter was. When I was first reading that article and I saw that word, I was like what the heck is that? But then I read about it and it was very interesting.

Current Event

The current event I chose was about the mystery of snowflake shapes. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50770/title/FOR_KIDS_Scientists_explain_mystery_of_triangular_snowflakes_
A scientist named Kenneth Libbrecht was trying to experiment the shape of snoThatwflakes. Researches found that usually snowflakes are in a shape of a hexagon, but they can be triangular as well. In the lab, Hannah Arnold and Kenneth Libbrecht worked in the lab trying to figure out the snowflake shape. Was it a hexagon, or a triangle? They built a fake snowflake and compared them with actual snowflakes and saw that they were hexagons, but then they started to notice flakes that looked like triangles. They thought that maybe triangular snowflakes aren't so rare! Snowflakes aren't only about seeing in winter, they include math and science by learning how snowflakes move in the air. That is called aerodynamics. I thought this was a very interesting topic because I don't really pay attention to the shape of the snowflake, but how beautiful they look!