Tech-Science Blog

          Today, in science, we did part two of the teddy bears fight pollution lab. Everyone used the same test results to make a line graph on how many healthy bears had survived. After our color coded line graphs were finished, we answered questions about the data. In tech lab, we learned about different career choices and play acouple of games that show you some types of jobs. Also, we did a couple of websites that either help pick out a good job or find out how much salary you need. I needed about $6,535.10.

Mockingjay

   "If we burn, you burn with us!", the screen blares out. Mockingjay is the last book in the Hunger games series, and Katniss is held in Thirteen. Apperantly Thirteen has built a complex society under the ground with  advanced technology. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol and being tortured, while a rebel army forms with Katniss as the spark to their fire.When Plutarch sends a group of fighters to rescue Peeta, Katniss waits for them to return. Once, they return she finds that he has been hijacked. Since all the rebels have turned against the Capitol, K atniss is no longer needed, but she insists on going to the Capitol to assinate president Snow. Many traps are still laid put for them though. Will she be able to defeat Snow, or be killed in the process?

390 pages
Author: Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

"Peeta!" I cried out. "Peeta!" I checked his pulse and found none. Katniss and Peeta are back........ and just in time for a Quarter Quell. This year reapinggs will be picked out of the pool of victers. That means Katniss is going back to the arena. Right from the start Katniss has trouble understanding what she is going through... again. On the first night she starts making a few allies like: Nuts, Volts, Mags, Finnick O' Dair, and Johanna Mason to help her protect Peeta. As she learns more about herself, secrets are out in the clock arena. Again, she must fight to stay alive... even if it is a little risky.

391 pages
Author: Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

    "Let the seventy-fourth Hunger games begin!", Claudius Templesmith's voice booms out over the arena. Will I survive? The Hunger games by Suzanne Collins is a completely thrilling book about Katniss, a young sixteen year-old girl, living in the ruins of North America called Panem. She is tired of living inside District 12 and illegally hunts to support her family. Her hunting partner Gale comforts her on the day of the reaping and they both dread it. When Katniss's younger sister Prim is called for the Hunger Games, Katniss volenteers to take her place. From that moment on, her life has completely changed. She brings her troubles in to the arena. Will she survive the battle? Or will one false move kill her?

374 pages
Author: Suzanne Collins

State Competition

This may be a little late, but two weekends ago my twirling team won state for the third time in a row.
I had a whole lot of fun doing the routine, and for one of them I did a no-drop! We had wins in marching and presentation, too. Now it is western regionals to work on.

Thursday Science

Today in science lab, we learned about how pollution can affect wildlife. By using rubber bears to help us understand, we played a game that lasted for twenty generations of bears. First, we took ten red bears (healthy bears) and two blue ones (contamination), and added them in to a tub. My group would pull out two pairs of bears and count how many weren't contaminated from pollution. Then we would add cubs cubs to each pair and the process would start over for five generations. After five generations, the pollutants would become even worse and the bears slowly started dying off. On the twentieth year, every bear was extinct.

Thursday blog

     Today in Tech lab we got to choose which game we wanted to play. My friends and I played Launchball. Lanchball is a series of challenges to get a ball in to a goal. It simulates the mind since I place special tools to guide the ball towards the goal. Some examples of the tools are: conveyor belts, batteries, copper, fans, magnets, and springs. Some of the games had a some sort of a challenge you had to surmount. Others were really easy.

Thursday Tech

In Tech lab today we went to BBC school two so we could practice some skills from school. Instead of Math like last week though, we focused on English and science. We would play the game and then do the quiz. Mainly I stayed on the English games, where I learned and reveiwed how to organize a report and use better vocabulary. Then I flipped over to science and did a sound game. That is what Tech lab was about.