Nicolas Reed Science Blog

Summary:        For the Charity Fair project what we had to do was choose a charity that we would like to raise money for and research. Then create a product in which you will use to raise money, then create a cost and profit document for you product. An additional thing you had to do revolving around your product was find the carbon footprint of your product and show that in an interactive map. For your charity you had to find and create a document about your charities statistics (how much money the charity raised basically) and create an ignite presentation about your charity. What I learned from this project is that in order to really persuade an audience with an ignite, you really have to have very compelling images. Images that mean something and have a story behind each image. You also should sound like what you are saying for your ignite is something that you have never said before, this will help make your presentation feel fresh, unique, and different. Ano...

Is Ecotourism Helping or Hurting our National Parks?              Have you ever thought about how ecotourism positively and negatively hurts national parks? Ecotourism is supposed to be a very good thing for us (humans) and wildlife. But currently, this is not the case. Ecotourism is actually hurting our national parks and also the animals and wildlife that lie within them. Ecotourism is hurting our national parks through changing their mindset and making them think more about the money that they will make rather than the animals they are supposed to protect. National parks are making these animals habituated or not "wild" and are putting these animals through conditions that are irregular. Furthermore, this is happening today and has become a huge problem the United States needs to face.        One reason/way ecotourism is hurting our national parks is by ecotourism affecting how they (national parks) see ecotourism. ...

Summary: Link      This week in science we learned about ecotourism in national parks, and because of this, I now know a lot of things about national parks because of what I learned based on my research. What I now know about ecotourism in national parks is things about why Ecotourism is helping and hurting our national parks. Ecotourism is helping our national parks by preserving and protecting lots of wildlife (land and animals) while still allowing many, many people. Also by ecotourism providing income and promoting national conservation. One last reason ecotourism helps our national parks is by boosting our economy and providing many new jobs for people (more than 200,000 jobs are created because of ecotourism). One way ecotourism hurts our national parks is by sometimes not keeping the wildlife, well, "wild" and by getting the animals close to humans and not allowing the animals to be in their regular, "wild" state. Another way ecotourism hurts our nati...

Summary:       This week in science we learned about the carbon footprint of the product we are creating for Charity Fair 2017. What I now know is what the total amount of CO 2 we produced from the creation of our product. I now know how much CO 2  was  produced by each of our materials. For example, I know that in total the felt produced 428.615 of CO 2 /kg. I also now know the types of vehicles used to ship materials and how much grams of CO 2 per kilogram each produces. The types of vehicles used to ship materials/products are planes, trains, trucks, and cars. And the amount of CO 2  each produces is for a plane it produces 0.8g of CO 2  per mile, a train produces is 0.1g of CO 2  per mile, a truck produces 0.17g of CO 2  per mile, and lastly a car produces 0.41g of CO 2  per mile. I also now know how much grams of CO 2 the materials my group used to create our product created. The raw materials used to create our product cr...

Summary:      For this project what we had to do with a group was think of a substance that could possibly spill and contaminate the ground and make a story about how that spill occurred. You then had to present that story in a news article and create an infographic based on a harmful chemical within the substance chosen. You lastly had to create a lab report based on an experiment you did to try and neutralize the substance chosen, you then had to create a newscast based on everything just said before this. The product I chose was Coke, and the harmful ingredient within coke is phosphoric acid. What I now know because of what I learned throughout this project are info on Coke & phosphoric acid, how to create a lab report, what can happen in a neutralizing experiment, and much more. What I know about Coke is that in a glass (250 ml) of Coke their is about 43 mg of phosphoric acid and in a can of Coke (12 oz) their is about 39 grams of sugar. What I know about phosp...

The Question I got Wrong Was: Reactions that involve burning are classified as I originally answered decomposition, the correct answer was actually exothermic. I realize now that exothermic is the better answer and was the correct answer. This is because exothermic reactions release heat causing its environment to get warmer. This creates a rise in the temperature which creates the burn. This means that exothermic reactions involve burning. This is why the correct answer was better than my original answer and is the best answer.

Link To Image Website Summary:      This week in science we learned about Dmitri Mendeleev (the creator of the periodic table) and the periodic table. We learned that one of the biggest reasons Dmitri Mendeleev made the periodic table was because he wanted to put it into a science textbook and by making it into a table it would fit into the textbook. We learned that for periodic table instead of saying row and column we say period(for row) and family (for column). We also learned that about a pattern that the periodic table has which is that with each period there is one more energy level for electrons. Also that elements in the same family have similar chemical reactions. We also learned about what the periodic table consists of and the families within it. The periodic table consists of metalloids, metals, and nonmetals. The families are the Alkali Metals (Family 1), Alkaline Earth Metals (Family 2) Transition Metals (families in the middle), Boron Fa...