This Week in Science (Fruit Fly DYO Part 1)

  This week in science we made a DYO about our actual fruit fly problem. We have our flies in a vial there are 4 females and 2 females. We also observed our vials to see how the fruit fly process is going. We finally came up with the hypothesis for our fruit fly problem and we are expecting to have 646 adults by the end of 3 weeks. Thats all we did this week in science class.

  This week in science we learned how to make a better DYO then the first one we made because for this one we gathered alot more information and it was more to do. I also learned something that i didnt know i thought fruit flies were adults in 16 days but by day 14 thier adults only that they cant have babies til day 16. I also learned how to make a better hypothesis using if then and because. I also learned how the average fruit fly only lives for about a month. Thats all i learned this week in science.

                                            This Picture shoes a science investigation.       

This week in science ( Fruit Flies Part 2 )

   This week in science we finally put in our spider in our habitat. When we first put the spider in the tank it was climbing up like if it was trying to escape but then it got used to its surroundings. We also took out some fruit flies from the jar they came in and we put them into another one to start the expirement. We solved the problem of how many eggs and adults will be born with 3 fruit flies in 3 weeks. After we solved the problem we made a poster and graphed our results.

   This week in science we learned how fruit flies reproduce and how long it takes for them to develop. I learned that every 16 days a fruit fly becomes a full adult where it can have babies. I also learned that a fruit fly may lay up to 20 eggs a day. The fruit fly process has four stages. First comes the egg, the comes the larva after the larva comes the pupa then finally u get the adult fruit fly.

   If i was to put 1 female amd 2 males fruit flies in a jar I expect to see to see 163 adults at the end of 3 weeks. Each female will lay 20 eggs a day. By day 14 those 20 eggs will become adults. Then everyday after day 14 20 adults will be born. So after day 21 we would have 420 eggs and 163 adults because we had to add the 3 from the start.
 

        This picture shows the fruit fly problem where you have 1 female and 2 males.

      

This week in Science (No Impact Man

  No impact man is a New Yorker who was starting a project to do things without causing impact to the environment. He and his family couldn't hurt the environment for a year. His project required him to not use plastic , paper , outside foods and most other food and he had to recycle and reuse everything. The only food he and his family could eat are foods that are naturally grown and he had to know how the food was harvested. After five months he couldn't even use electricity he had to get his light by natures daylight. They also could throw out any trash outside so he had a bucket of worms decomposing the garbage. The project didn't seem so hard for him but his wife was really struggling to complete it but they both put a lot of effort into it and they didn't impact the environment for a year.

  Impact man's behavior helps him lower is negative impact on the enviously because he wasn't hurting the environment at all. He was using things that were naturally grown into the environment or he wasn't using things that hurt it he was all natural. Impact man was trying to stop everything to hurt the environment because people were destroying the environment by producing so much garbage and using things processed. Impact man also behaved very well during his mission because never did he give one complain that he needed something that he couldn't use he was also trying to help his wife because she was really struggling but never did he give up.
 
    When I was watching this film I couldn't believe how he and his family was doing it because its so hard to quit all the good things for a year. I saw they gave up mostly all the foods and I thought to myself how can they do it because I know I can't I love eating outside foods and other things. I also thought it was crazy they took off their electricity because that means they had no refrigerator , no tv , no computer I don't know how they lived like that for a year because I know I'll go crazy if I had no tv for a year and all those other things. I think its a great accomplishment because us as americans hurt the environment daily and for him to not hurt it for a year its a big thing I'll be very proud if that was me.