MSU Experience

5 Things I Learned at the Planetarium:

• The north star doesn't move in our sky because our axis points straight at it.
• Scorpio the zodiac sign for October is not visible during October despite the fact that, that is the sign for October and some of November
• There are galaxies that are many different  shapes.
• Our galaxy is the milky way galaxy.
• Our galaxy is a spiral galaxy.

3 things I Learned at the Cyclotron:

•  There is a 6 foot thick door that closes to protect everyone from radiation.
• The walls and ceilings can be moved to accommodate for increasingly better technology.
•  MSU is making a linear accelerator and tearing out the cyclotrons because linear accelerators make atoms go closer to the speed of light.

2 Things I Enjoyed the Most:

• I enjoyed trying the chocolate cheese despite the fact that it was nasty.
•  I enjoyed lunch time and ICE CREAM! :)

If I could change anything about the trip I would change the weather because it kind of made it a bad day for the trip.

Climate Project

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ATsPGqomeU0MZGY0M3c0YnNfMThyNHRnczRjYg&hl=en_US

Great Lakes

I learned alot on our trip to the river. I learn how to test BOD and DO. I also learned about all the litte organisms in our river. I was one of the two people that got waders on and went in the water to help the lady colect all of them. Our q-value was 52 and our overall q-value was 73.779. I didn't expect our value to be so good because our river always looks really dirty and like it has trash in it to me. My action project can help our river by keeping fetilizer off our trails so that it doesn't pollute our river.

1)The largest great lake according to volume is Lake Superior and the smallest is Lake Erie.
2)The most urban lake is Lake Erie and the most rural is Lake Superior.
3)The lake with the longest shoreline is Lake Huron.
4) We can best manage our ecosystem by keeping the pollutants put out to a minimum because everything around us eventually runs back into the great lakes and we want to keep those as healthy as possible.
5)Pollutants that have to do with our project is fertilizers and pesticides. Many of the farms surround our trails and we don't want their chemicals to get into our trails' ecosystem.

Preliminary Questions:
1) Water from my house goes into our local watershed.
2) Runoff water is water that doesnt absorb into the earth. The runoff water goes into our near by storm drains or the river.
3)In the citys, runoff water goes into the same places as the sewage. This is not good because it contaminates our clean water.
4) The sources of pollution in runoff water is smog, fertilizers, pesticides, and other sorts of chemicals put on the ground.
5)Point source pollution comes from an easily known place like a factory emitting CO2. Non-point source pollution is when it comes from a place that isn't as known like a car leaking oil.
6) A watershed is an area where all the water goes to the same place.

Nature Walk

1) I believe that our nature walk was very successful. All of the little kids really enjoyed all of the cool things they saw. My kids name was Raven. She was a very talkitive little girl and actually already knew alot about nature and what she wants to do to help the environment. Within the first couple minutes of walking we saw a piece of trash on the ground and I swear, she nearly had a fit. She was all but cussing at the world and saying that we needed to go back to her classroom and get some trash bag so that we could pick all of the litter up off of the ground. I actually got to learn all of the stuff that she knew about nature.

2) The water chemistry we are doing is the biological oxygen demand test. This test is pretanent to our project because it will help us find out how much sewage is affecting our trails.

3) We are doing a project about improving trails. We are going to be putting out trail markers and handing out maps to raise peoples awarness of our trailand what is on it.

4) My group is doing well on our project. We have painted about  half of our trail makers and are going to be getting ready to putting them in the ground soon. We are also going to improve the map of the trail that we were originally given.

5) My responsibilities for the project are photography, letter-writing campaign, website creation, writing the action plan, constucting the power point, and adding effects.

Carbon Footprint

1) http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/

2)This site was extremely good for me and would be for younger kids because it has much interaction and pictures to help you along.

3)My carbon footprint would need 4.9 earths to be supported.

4)
   A) I can leave the water off when  brush my teeth, walk to places I need to go and take shorter showers.

   B) I can ride my bike to school, use a notebook online to conserve paper, and  I can recycle all my papers that I don't need anymore.
   C) I can set up recycling bins around town, I can walk to school instead of driving, and I can get the school to make bike routes so that other people can also ride their bikes to school.




5) For my action project, I am getting cross walks installed so that it is safer for younger kids to walk to school. This will reduce not only my carbon footprint but the carbon footprint of many people in the school district. In doing this i hope to inspire more people to take action like i am doing but in their own way or own community.

Google Map of Eaton Rapids

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS316&q=what+is+the+biggest+and+smallest+great+lake+in+terms+of+volume&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&ion=1&biw=1344&bih=620&wrapid=tlif131768691215410&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

First Post

I would like to learn a lot of things about internet and technology. The downfall is that I don't yet know much about any of it. I would like to learn how to use this blog first of all because it seems pretty important to this class. This blog so far seems pretty cool though, and I think that it might be fun to use once I learn how to. I would also like to know how the internet works. I just don't under stand how someone can come up with the idea to invent the internet.

I hope to learn about all the many varieties of science that affect the world around me. The things I would like to learn about most though are natural disasters. From the time I was a little girl I would watch the weather channel to find out about the most recent storm or tornado. Although, all storms and natural disasters fascinate  I have always been the most enthralled with tornadoes.  So this trimester, in Global Science, I hope to learn how tornadoes and all the other natural disasters effect my surrounding community.