Here is the place to post your Weekly Science Article Report #3.
You are to post your report here by Friday, and to respond to at least 3 other students' reports (in your class) by Monday.
I look forward to reading your work.
(Just in case, here is a link to the assignment)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
81 comments:
is it ok to do an article on a los astroud that was recently found again
Yes, rocker, that would be fine.
Long Lost Asteroid
In this article called “Long Lost Dangerous Asteroid Is Found Again” by SETI Institute and was posted on www.ScienceDaily.com is a very complex and a little confusing article. It is about this asteroid called 6344 p-l (with a lot of asteroids this could get confusing) that is potentially dangerous in hitting earth don’t be alarmed, though it is rotating around the sun and earth it has come to the attention of many scientists and more then one say that a half a century ago when this was spotted first we assumed that it was an asteroid. Now with our modern technology we have discovered signs and behaviors that the alleged asteroid could be o moon of Jupiter.
I thought that this article was confusing and a little boring with all the scientific words and symbols. Even thought it was a hard read it was different and was interesting I never would have figured where to find the website if a friend hadn’t told about it. It surprised my that there haven’t been more falling asteroids or meters on earth since there always things orbiting earth. If I were to write to the website I would ask if there was a kid friendly version of this article and maybe it would help people understand it better.
ROCKER ROCK ON
Weekly Science Article Report
My article is called “U.S Cancer Death Rates are Found to be Falling Faster”, by Denise Grady. I found this article in the Monday, October 15th, 2007 issue of the New York Times. It was in the front-page news section. My article was about how death rates from every kind of cancer have been dropping by an average of 2.1 percent a year in the U.S.A., almost doubling decreases that started in 1993. I really liked this article because of how much it shows that American medicine and cures have improved since 20 to 50 years ago. I was really surprised that Dr. Meropol of Fox Chase Cancer Center said, “What jumps out is that we really still have a long way to go.”I was really interested in how every one percent is 5,000 people who aren’t dying. It’s really amazing how many lives doctors and scientists are saving. If the average dropping of deaths a year are 2.1 percent, than that’s about 10,100 that re being saved each year!I would really like to know more about which cancers are the most deadly and which cancers are the least harmless. I would also really like to know if the American cures are being shared around the globe. What are the most common cancers in both men and women around the world? Are there any cancers that have absolutely no cures?
-By GreenMango
err deleted my work
My article is from a website called www.sciencenewsforkids.org. The article is titled "Koalas, Up Close and Personal" by Emily Sohn.
The article is about how scientists have recently started studying koalas and have found out a lot about how they live. Global warming is causing the koala habitats to disappear, and researchers are trying to help protect the furry little animals.
This article was really interesting and taught me a lot about koalas. I really liked it because it taught you a lot about koalas in an easy-to-read way. The article wasn’t too long, but it had cool facts in it. I was amazed that when a koala is born it is only the size of a jellybean! It is hard to imagine an animal to be so small. Koalas are marsupials like kangaroos. A marsupial is an animal that has a pouch in the front to carry their babies. I wonder what other animals have pouches, and if the koalas are related to them. It is really sad that koalas are becoming endangered because of people cutting down eucalyptus trees. Koalas really depend on the trees to survive and now eighty percent of the trees have been cut down or burned by wildfires. I thought that it was really interesting that koalas adapt to heat change like cats. They curl up when it is cold and sprawl out when it is hot. After reading this article I think that saving the koalas is very important and people should try to help.
To: Rocker
This report was really good but you forgot some punctuation, so the sentences were very long. I liked your comment about how you were surprised that more astroids have not hit earth. Over all,I really liked your report.
To: Greenmango
Wow! Your report was very organized and you really expanded on all the questions you were suppose to answer. You don't really have that much to improve on, except I would like to know a tiny bit more bout what the article was about.
In Diabetes, a Complex of Causes
By Amanda Shaffer
(The New York Times)
This article is about Scientists finding new research that is changing their understanding of Diabetes, and giving new clues of how to attack it. I liked this because scientists found a hormon in the bone that is released that will help with diabetes in order to make it less common for a person to have diabetes. An intersting part of this article was that about 73,000 Americans die from Diabetes each year. A scientist from Columbia University, Dr. Gerald Karsenty found a hormon that is released from bone may help regulate blood glucose. This discovery wil help becasue Diabetes is a disease when the body can't regulate blood sugar. The scientist figured this out by working with mice with diabetes. I thought that this article was very important especially to people who have dibetes becasue scientists found the cause of what regulates blood glucose in the body.
I wonder why Dr. Gerald Karsenty chose mice to experiment? I wonder why some people's body fails to regulate glucose?
1) Rocky Finding: Evidence of extrasolar asteroidbelt,www.sciencenews.org By: Ron Cowen
2) It's a very interesting article which says that outside of this solar system there might be another one forming a asteroid belt like ours (the one that's right next to mars orbit, on the outside..).
3) A)I thought the article was interesting because we might be able to find new life forms (but the belt is 70 light years away) I liked because it had a lot of information on what the topic was about.
B)What surprised me is how the found this place even though its 70 light years away.
C) I really want to know what kind of tolls did the use for this kind of project. When will they be able to reach this place?
-R3gr0wth
This article was written by Wesley G. Moon and Diane Mackie of the University of California. I got this article from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070531162359.htm . This article is called Anger Can Make You More Rational Not Less, According To Recent Studies.
This article is about how things that anger or agitate you makes you more rational about the actions you make. The University of California made studies on three of their students. The results were stunning; the three students were asked to write about it and instead of making them lose their mind or be unrational, anger made them rational and analytical in their reactions.
I thought that the article was amazing. Most people think that anger can hurt your health or make you go mentally crazy but this article proved us all wrong. I liked this article because it gives us answers and we just don’t have to assume anger is bad. In this article I took very much interest in how they didn’t test on women but they tested on men. I have a few questions. One of my questions was that why didn’t the university test on men AND women. Another one of my questions was why didn’t they state how this affected your health. I would like to read more about how mood changes, such as anger, sadness, happiness, etc can affect your mental health and social life.
oh oops forgot to formally sign off!!!
=] x0x0x0x0x0 DuH!95
Weekly Science Report #3
Monkeys Use ‘Baby Talk’ with Infants
10/18/07
I found this article at www.scienceagogo.com by the University of Chicago. This article is titled, Monkeys Use “Baby Talk” With Infants. Here is the link- http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20070730025934data_trunc_sys.shtml
This article is about how researchers think adult female Rhesus Monkeys use special “baby talk” vocalizations to entertain and interact with their infants. To test this theory, the researchers studied a group of free-ranging Rhesus Macaques on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico. They studied the vocalizations exchanged between adult females and found that grunts and noises, called “motherese” increased a high amount when a baby was present.
I thought this article was pretty well written and I really liked it because it was really interesting because I never would of thought that monkeys are that intelligent and have a way of comprehending their own language. Also, I never thought they could teach and interact with each other. I thought this article could be a bit confusing to comprehend, but after I read it a few times and got used to the idea, I really enjoyed it.
What really interested me about this article was how intelligent monkeys can really be. It was really interesting that they basically have their own language and that they have a way of teaching each other and talking to each other. I never knew that they could interact this way and especially just to babies and the baby’s mothers. What surprised me was that they are able to learn from each other and interact in a way that is healthy and that can help an infant grow up to an adult. It really surprised me that they can understand their shrieks and screams and comprehend that as a ‘language’.
I have many questions about this article such as how do scientists know that the monkey’s are talking specifically to the infants? How does this ‘baby talk’ help the infants? How did researchers discover this? What I want to learn more about is what this talk sounds like and what the babies get out of getting spoken to like this. Overall, I really enjoyed the article.
-dance4peacexo
Science Article Report
Bacteria that Killed Virginia Teen Found in Other Schools
By Mythili Rao and Tim Langmaid
This article is from the CNN web page, October 7th, 2007. This article is about how this certain bacteria, MRSA, short for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, is responsible for more deaths in the United States each year than AIDS, according to new data. Just a few days ago a student from Virginia was killed by this bacteria because it was all over his school..
The totally surprised me because I never realized that some schools are crawling with bacteria. I also feel horrible for the boy who died, I mean he died because his school wasn’t clean enough. I think now schools should clean up more often, and possibly work a little harder at it. The other thing that really surprised me was that MRSA is responsible for more deaths than AIDS in the Unites States. That is definetly a good reason to try a clean school better, it would help bring down death rates!
I got this article from the sciencenewsforkids.com website.
This article is about an experiments to see if chimps and infants do generous things for no reason. The behavior is called altruism.
I thought this article could have had a little more info. Also it okay written not great, I didnt understand it very well.
Something that interested me was that chimps and infants actually do this action. It surprised me that after I read the article I relized that my neighbors baby does the same action.
I don't really have any questions on this article. I think it tells me all i need to know even though i said it should of had more info.
Deep-Sea Search Nets Rare Marine Life
By Oliver Teves, AP
I found this article at http://news.aol.com/
This article reminded me a little bit about that movie that we watched during class recently. It was about a group of scientist who were trying to find new species of marine life that were isolated for millions of years in the Celebes Sea, which is by the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. They used a under water camera to find what they were looking for, I am guessing it is sort of like Hercules that Dr. Robert Ballard used when he found the Titanic.
I thought it was cool how some of the scientist said, "This is probably the center where many of the species evolved and spread to other parts of the ocean, so it's going back to the source in many ways." So it was sort of like what they were about to find could have been some of the first marine life ever.
One thing that I would want to know more about is during the article it said that the deepest part of the Celebes Sea is 16,500 feet, but their camera only went down 9,100 feet. Why didn’t they go any farther down? There could have been a lot more undiscovered organism deeper down than they went.
-Aidan :
dear greenmango,
I thought that the article is something that everyone should read and try to help make the rates go lower
Weekly Science Report #3
by Pie82
I got this article from a health magazine called Current Health1.
This was article was about daydreams and why they happen, and why your brain has them. I thought the article was very interesting. They write a bunch of articles of every other thing the brains does. They very rarely write articles about daydreams. Maybe it’s because you really wouldn’t think of daydreams when you think of how the brain functions.
Something that interested me was how they said we have daydreams because the brain is always doing something so it is ready to go when quick reactions are needed. Isn’t that really cool?
My question is, why can you not really tell when you are having a daydream. Why is it so…real and you just kind of, snap into it?
I would like to know more about what are the top thing people dream about. I would also like to know is, what is the average time a person takes when daydreaming?
-Pie82
dear Aidan,
that is a really cool article how did u know about the titanic dicovered?
Dear Chopsticks,
That Was A really nice thing to write about i have one question out of how many people have daibaties then wut is the persentige of the death to # ratio
Dear R3gr0wth,
You article does sound very interesting. You explained it very well. Next time maybe...ah I got nothing =D
-Pie82
Dear Singer95,
Wow that was a really cool article! I have no idea! Next time maybe talk more about what made the schools dirtier.
Good Job!
-Pie82
Dear Singer95,
Wow that was a really cool article! I have no idea! Next time maybe talk more about what made the schools dirtier.
Good Job!
-Pie82
Dear MO-ZMAN,
Nice job next time talk more about the summary.
Pie82
To: singer95
Your article was very interesting. I think that you should include a some questions or things you would like to know about the article, so you can leave the reader with a few thoughts in mind.
-potat0potaht0
your article was really awesome and well written. its cool that koalas are only the size of a jelly bean when thayre born. next time try to put in questions or things that you wonder.
-greenMango
-dance4peaceXO
you article was really well written and it sounded really cool. can humans actually understand the baby talk?
-GreenMango
-singer95
i cant beleive the boy died because of the bacteria. mrs. butts told that to us. its called the superbug and it seems really freaky. Next time try to put questions in your srticle.
-GreenMango
mr. ardito:
sorry about the spelling mistakes in my comments. i'll check the spelling before i post them next time. -GreenMango
Pie82-
I thought that your article was cool because it talked about daydreaming and not many articles or websites talk about that kind of stuff. I would like you to include just a tiny weeny bit more detail in your summary.
Thnx- DuH!95-out x0x0x0x0x0x
potatopotahto-
I think your article was excellent and how you care about the enviroment and the things that live inside of it. Next time you might want to........I got nothing.
DuH!95-out x0x0x0x0x
More people should be posting because I have no one to critizise on. (However you that!)
Well not excatly critizise on but to comment on soooooo... people come on and post so I can this assignment over with!!
DuH!95- out <3 x0x0x0x0x0x0
A Dangerous Meal
Citation- I got this article from ScienceNewsForKids.com
Summary- At the University of Sydney in Australia, studies of scientists show that the snakes some people might think of as dumb could be pretty smart. When a snake wants a poisonous frog with toxin chemicals to eat, he injects his deadly venom and waits patiently for the chemicals to die out before he eats the frog.
Reaction- I thought the article was pretty interesting even though it was sort of hard to follow becuase I had to keep looking back to see if we were still on the right topic. What really shocked me was that snakes could actually be smart enough to do what they do even though their brains are so small. I would like to know more about the paticular snake and know its environment and how it lives.I would also like to know what could of happened if the snake didn't wait for so long to eat him when he still had all the chemicals.
greenmango,
I thought your article was very interesting. I thought it was on a good topic that needed to be heard and you did a great job of getting it out there.
chpsticks,
I thought your article report was very useful and had lots of information. It was very well detailed and described!!!
duh!95,
I thought you did a great job on your report! It was well described and was very organized. You sorted it out really nicely which made it easy to read.
Dear GreenMango,
That was a really cool article, you really din't have to improve.
Dear MO-ZMAN
That sounded like a cool article, evn if it was hard to understand. Next time, try and write more about it though.
Dear R3gr0wth,
That sounds so cool, but next time make the refection a little longer.
Schools found improving on nutrition and fitness.
By: Kevin sacks
Found information at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/health/20junkfood.html
Spurred by the growing crisis on kid’s obesity, the nation’s school has made “consideration improvement” in nutrition and health over the last 6 years of this crisis. According to the new government survey that found more physical fitness and less of selling French fries and other bad junk. Striking thirty percent of school district has banned junk from school vending machines. Just four percent of elementary schools, eight percent of middle schools and two percent of high schools provide physical education each school day. The researches found that the proportions of school’s selling water bottle’s grew to 46 percent from 30 percent, They have also mentioned that three fourths of high schools who sold soft drinks and that 61 percent sold potato chips and other very fat snacks
By: Gymnast95
Dear drp 143
Yea thats sounds kreepy but next time you dont really need to write like reflection and all of that its your choice =]
dear Pie82
I thought that was a great article and that really funny because im am always day dreaming but next time try to put a little more information=]
dear aiden
I thought that was good and i also read that article and almost did that one haha =]
Dear Singer95
I thought your report was very interesting and detailed, but very sad. Next time, it would be great if you added some questions and things you would like to learn more about.
-dance4peacexo
Dear duh!95,
I thought your article was very awesome and detailed but next time you should include what interested you.
-dance4peacexo
Dear Greenmango,
I thought your report was incredible because it's just nice to know that doctors and scientists are curing so many more people. Next time, try to include what you want to learn more about.
-dance4peacexo
dear Rocker,
Your whole report was really good. You were honest about what you thought 1, and 2 you also just picked a really cool article and although you didn't give too many details, You still gave the big idea. Maybe next time, nope I got nothing it was just really good.
- Tall Cool One
Dear Green Mango,
I thought your report was really good along with the article and what they're talking about. I have the same questions as you too. I thought your article was just really well written and you gave a good summary of the article. Maybe next time, you should put a space between your reaction and your summary and citation.
- Tall Cool One
Dear Potato Potahto
I loved your report, it was so well written. Your Reaction was great, cool facts, like baby koalas are the size of a jellybean, thats amazing! Your report was great and I totally agree with you that we should try and save the little animals. Maybe next time, you should add more to the summary.but great report, overall =)
- Tall Cool One
Yay Mr. Ardito, after lots of tinkering and such with the computer, we were finally able to download my comments onto the website!!! YAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so heres my report!!!! YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!Weekly Science Report
I got my article from the New York Times on line. It was written by Donald G. McNeil Jr. and published October 18 2007.Its called "New Malaria Vaccine Shown to Work in Infants Under 1 Year Old, a Study Finds"
Scientists have finally come up with a malaria vaccine, which has been shown to work in infants under 1 year old, the most vulnerable group for the disease. Although it can only protect up to 45% of the time and that would not be accepted here in the west, any step to saving children and infants in Africa is a huge one. The vaccine is taken in 3 shots and it is not yet known how long the vaccine lasts, it so far is the best candidate for success. It will be expected to cost 600,000,000 by the time it is launched all over Africa. The vaccine is created by using a little of the malaria parasite, some hepatitis B virus and a chemical booster which helps the immune system.
I thought this article was really well written and gave lots of information. I was really drawn in and interested about how this vaccine worked. I think that it's a great thing that scientists from all over the world are coming together and working to save these people from their many epidemics. I never knew before that sometimes in vaccines like these they actually use part of the disease to fight the disease itself and as it turns out they actually do that in a lot of vaccines. I would like to know more about Malaria, the symptoms, the way it spreads and how it develops.
-Tall Cool One
Dear Rocker,
I thought that your article was very good. I think that more people should read the article that you read becasue it's about an astroid taht may hit the earth.
I was wondering what interested you about the article?
Dear greenmango,
I thought that your article was really interesting. It is also a very important article that you read because it's about how American medicane is heping so many cancer patients not die. I would also like to know if American cures are shared around the globe.
Dear Duh!95,
I really liked your article becasue you gave a lot of description on what you thought of the article, and you showed your opinion in your article to.
I got my article from www.sciencenewsforkids.com. It’s written by Emily Sohn and is called Acid Snails. It is about how factories, cars, and other machines spit out lots of a gas called carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide heats the atmosphere but also dissolves into seawater. This changes the water’s chemical composition. As a result, seawater at the surface of the world's oceans has become more acidic. That shift could eventually make life tougher for a type of snail called the common periwinkle, say researchers from the University of Plymouth in England. The common periwinkle lives along coastlines throughout much of Europe. One of its main predators is the common shore crab. The common shore crab eats snails with thin shells. The common periwinkle has naturally a thick shell, unless the seawater becomes too acidic.
I liked the article and thought it was pretty interesting. I like reading about what is affecting our environment and why it is. What surprised me about the article was that when carbon dioxide goes into the water it makes it more acidic. I always thought when carbon dioxide and other chemicals went into the water it just polluted it. What also surprised me was the carbon dioxide makes it hard for common periwinkle shells to grow thick. The question that I have is if all the common periwinkle shells stay thin and crabs eat so many of them because they can will it affect the food chain and if it does how drastically will it?
-THiNKPiNK21
Dear potatopotahto,
That is awesome when koalas are first born they are the size of a jelly bean, they probably grow at least 10 times bigger. Did it mention in the article that cats also adjust to heat changes or did you just know that?
-Aidan :
Dear dance4peacexo,
I wonder if each species of monkeys have a different language. It rather looked like you repeated the same idea in two paragraphs, as if you wrote it one way and then wrote the same idea using different words.
-Aidan :
Dear singer95,
I just do not get some times why it takes some one to die or something for people to take action fro something. Like after the kid died that is when people start publishing articles and stuff about it even though they probably knew it existed before hand. I wonder how many schools have those bacteria in it?
-Aidan :
comment 1
greenmango- that's really cool how less and less people are dying of
cancer. You only have one spelling mistake but be sure to check it
over next time.
comment 2
potatopotahto- that's really sad how koalas are becoming endangered.
Next time you should put a question you have too.
comment 3
chopsticks- that is cool how they might have a way to prevent diabetes.
Next time check your spelling though.
I got this article off of the internet, but I forget the website.. This article states that there could possibly be a huge amount of oil (15 million barrels) under the surface, off the coast of New Orleans. Analysts are predicting that in about 30 years, the U.S. could double the amount of oil from domestic sources. This article is very interesting, and could have a huge impact on the U.S. I like this article because it’s good news. The only question I have is how they found the big pocket of oil.
The article that I did is called ''A Fusion Of Electronic Vehicles From Zap!'' This article was about two new electic cars from a chineese company called zap. The two cars will be supposedly for sale in 2008. I thought that this article was not that interesting because it was clearly an advertisement, and it was just talking about all the ''Great'' features. It said the cars would be small suv's and they would cost 30,000 and 50,000.
DEAR sventhirteen713,
I liked your article.
It could have used alot more info. Its good telling us that you got it off the interent but try to remember the website, maybe next print the article out thats what i do.
DEAR jeff,
Being honest i thought your article was kind of bad. I thought i was like just a paragraph. You should put alot more info in next time. Try to talk more about what the article is about try to talk about whats in the article the good facts and everthing. You said it was just like an advertisment , and if it is, then get a actual article.
Dear, Gymnast95
Good detailed summary but next time say what you thought about your article
-THiNKPiNK21
Dear Tall Call One,
I liked your article but next time make more of ending.
-THiNKPiNK21
Dear Greenmango,
I found your article very interesting and I hope that one day we will find a cure for cancer.
-THiNKPiNK21
Dear Aidan,
nice info on the topic. I like how u had no spelling mistakes. Good Job!!
regrowth
Dear Singer95,
Nice writing, you gave good info on your topic. I was wondering, is this disease like the super bug one?
- regrowth (live on)
Dear chopsticks,
Nice thing to write about. You gave really good info on diabetes. I was wondering how many people die from diabetes??
regrowth
Dear ThinkPink21-
I thought that your article was v ery interesting and informative. I really enjoyed it. Just be a little clearer next time.
DuH!95-out x0x0x0x0x0x0x
Gymnast95-
I liked what you had picked as well what you said but next time try to put effort and time and the next article will come out with much more detail and more interesting.
DuH!95-out x0x0x0x00x0x0x0x00x <3
Citation: A Brewing Backlash Against Lobos. By Todd Wilkinson. From the magazine Wildlife Conservation.
Summary: This article is about wolves being shot by ranchers in Idaho and Montana. There are more wolves than there used to be and they are killing rancher’s cattle.
Reflection: I thought this article was interesting because I didn’t know that there were protected areas for them to go to. The wolves that have been shot are mostly gray wolves and lobos.
I was surprised because I did not now that over the past ten years hundreds of wolves in the west have been destroyed by government wildlife managers. I thought wildlife managers would protect them. Citizens can shoot wolves in Idaho and Montana legally is they are observed attacking cattle and sheep on private property. I’m really surprised that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is preparing to remove 25 years worth of federal protection for wolves that started in the Midwest, by handing wolf management over to half a dozen states where the wolves were willfully killed before.
I wonder why the FWS would undo all the work that they had done. I don’t really need any questions because the article gave a good amount of information on the things that were happening.
seventhirteen713
I think your article could have used a lot more information. I agree it's good news but you only gave one fact and then you basically ended it. I have all the same questions you had.
Jeff
I agree that it sounds like a really boring article.Do you know how well the car works? I liked how you told the truth about not liking the article because a lot of people wouldn't do that.
dance4peacexo
I think you did a good job, you gave lots of info about the topic. I think it's quite possible that monkeys communicate to each other because we evolved from monkeys monkeys.
to chpsticks I thought the article you had was interesting because I thought diebeties was only related to blood sugar I also did not know that there were scientists in colubia university I thought it was just a teaching college.
to rocker
i thought that your article was really interesting because scientists were able to track it to jupiter.
to duh!95
I thought your article was really interesting and I wonder to what other feelings would make you be.
A black hole was found 3 million lightyears away from earth. The black hole is 15.7 times the size of the sun. The black hole is called M33 x-7. M33 x-3 is the most massive black hole. A black hole is normally microscopic. A giant star is next to the black hole and will start to become a supper nova and there will be a pair of black holes. How big will the other black hole be?
Dear Rocker,
Your article was really interesting. I think that it is really cool that scientists can figure out if an astroid is coming down to the earth or not and when it would.
Dear MO-ZMAN,
I thought that your article was really cool because people found out that chimps and infants do generous things for no reason, for the same reason.
Post a Comment