Classification Challenge

This is a Cicada

Cicada's Scientific Classification:                                                                                                               Its Kingdom is Animalia (animal), Its Phylum is Arthropoda (many species for one individual), Its class is Insecta (insect), Its order is Hemiptera (order of insects), Its family is Cicaidae (a family of insects), Its genus is Magicicada, and its species is septendecim.    
Cicadas have a long proboscis under their head which they inject into plant stems so they can feed on the sap.
They live in tropical climates and there are 2,500 different species of the cicada. Cicadas love to eat liquids from trees and their 
herbivores. Their shells are used for traditional medicines in china.                                                      

Cricket Investigation

Question: Do crickets prefer light or dark environments?                                                               Hypothesis: If I change the amount of light provided in the crickets environment then the side with the most light the crickets will like more because most crickets like light.                                                                                                                                             Background Research: Crickets are omnivores. Most crickets prefer the light, it depends on the type of cricket. Only male crickets chirp. Crickets break down plant materials and they also like sweet liquids. Some things cricket eat include bread crumbs, dead insects plants and fungi.

Our data table

In my data table I drew dots of where the cricket was every 15 seconds. I started off using a different strategy but we changed crickets so i moved on to the strategy of drawing dots. I learned that the cricket liked to be on the top of the tube more than It liked to be in the tube or on the ground. The cricket didn't really move much and. I would say the cricket did like the light more because it never stood in the tube it kept going out of the tube. My hypothesis did support the data because the cricket was in the light more than in the tube.

 

Our cricket investigation picture

This Week In Science #6

     This week in science we continued to work with crickets. We are studying them and learning about them. We started experiments with the crickets. This week we also starting collecting data a couple different. Yesterday we used a different way to collect data and study the crickets. We made 2 different dichotomous keys and every group had different questions to answer on posters.

 THIS PICTURE IS A FLOW CHART STYLE DICHOTOMOUS KEY                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This week in science in science I learned how to make a dichotomous key. I learned two different styles. There's the flow chart style and the list style. The list style is more easier, It's multiple questions that divide things into groups until each object or animal is in its own group. I learned that these two keys are to clarify things or organize things.

This week in science #5

       This week in science we started our 2nd unit. We looked at a lot of videos about animals and their behaviors. We finished our rocket conclusions. We have to do a cover  page for our second unit. We observed the crickets this week. We wrote things we noticed and things observed on a chart and drew out a diagram of all the parts of a crickets body.
      This week in science I learned the parts of a cricket. I thought that watching the videos was very entertaining. This week I also relearned how to write and complete conclusions for essays. One question I have is, why is our second unit about animal behavior? This week I learned about a rare bird.

 This picture reminded me of the video that we watched about the rare bird in Australia. This is a cute picture!

This week in science #4

This week in science pretty much all we focused on was starting and finishing our plant investigation projects. Me and Alexa assigned everyone with things to do on the project we thought they were best at. Some things in the project that i did was the procedure for gathering all our data. Before we started the project we collected information on our plants growth. I also wrote out the heading for our project, the team members names and the title. I don't have any questions about the project or anything else we did this week.
This week, I didn't learn a lot of new things. We pretty much went over everything we learned before, and we spent this whole week focusing on completing our project. I did learn though how to make a graph on a laptop. I also learned how to make a data chart by watching one of my partners, Andy set it up on his laptop. I also re-learned the difference between the background information and the procedure for gathering data, because their similar in a way but their not the same.  

                                                   

This week in science #3

This week in science we focused on launching our plant investigation projects. We worked on independent and dependent variables. We also measured our plants. We made our hypothesis for our plant investigation and we had data day. Which is we spent our time in class collecting data, every group got a certain question and we had to collect data from every person. The whole class just finished taking a quiz.
       This week i relearned how to figure out how to identify independent and dependent variables. I also learned how to create our investigation graphs. I learned the format for writing out a hypothesis. Its the if, then, because format. I also learned that every plants first leaves are not its real leaves.

This Week In Science #2

 This week in science we worked with poppers. We asked experimental questions, and then we acted them out. We also started our second plant investigation. We're using Brassica rapa seeds this time. We are also not using bags.

This week in Science we learned about the BrassicaRapa plant. We reviewed independent and dependent variables. We also learned how the plant needs a certain color of light to grow. It doesn't really depend on the the temperature. I also learned that the symbol used for the plant is BRRA.