How Weird?

Last week I was watching the Today Show and there was a story about how women in their 70 are having babies. They interview this 70-year-old woman in India. She felt like she was excepted in her village and the other women there stopped making fun of her[after she had given birth].

The thing is that it wasn't even her child, because she was passed menopause, but it was her husband's seaman. Some doctors had used a donor's eggs and put them into her. In the segment they even said "Technology tells us what we can do, but not what we should do." [sound familiar?]

Just thought I should post something:)

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Technology

Technology tells us what we can do but not what we should do. It shows us what we are able to do but pieces of technology will never decide moral issues for us. That's something that we need to do for ourselves and some people, who rely to much on technology, will want it to make a difficult decision.

• Ex: We have the technology to clone but we don't have any form of technology to tell us if we should do it.

Hidden Messages tell you what to do with the technology.

• Ex: A ruler "tells" us to measure things with it.

They all have a good side and a bad side. It also causes even more problems then it solves.

• Ex: The good side of the car was that we are able to get places faster. The bad side is that it causes air pollution, which is, obviously, bad for the environment.
• Ex: Blogs vs. Newspapers
• -Blogs are an easier way to get news stories, but they sometimes only cover one side of the story or only cover the main points and not the details.
• -Newspapers cover what's happening in one specific town. They usually have all the facts and (depending on what paper) tell the whole story. But now that people are getting their news from the web, newspapers are becoming practically extinct. ** Bad side to them going out of business: the printing companies may go out of business to and people could loose their jobs.

People used to have all this time to do things with their families; but now that they are able to take their work home with them, they will be "absorbed" with business and not the things that matter. [i.e. family]

Technology also forces us to give up certain things.

• Ex: Talking to people.

1. When we talk face to face, we have body language, tone of voice, and the words we use.
2. When we talk on the phone, we have tone of voice and the words we choose.
3. When we text or IM, we only have the words we use.
4. As you can see, each time we got a new technology, we were forced to get rid of something.

Plate Tetonic Theory

The plates are moving. On each plate is a continent or ocean. There are different boundaries; they are:

• Transforming- when two plates are moving past each other[many earthquakes]
  
• Converging- when two plates are running into each other


• Diverging- when the plates are moving apart

In the converging boundary, a more dense plate that's going slower than a plate that is going faster will go below the less dense one. When that happens, its called subduction. In a diverging boundary, lava comes through a space that is revealed as the plates move apart. In a transforming boundary, the plates move across each other.

There are layers to the earth. They are:

1. Crust(lithospere)-Thinnest; made of rocks
   
2. Mantle-made of magma; thickest; convection currents in mantle cause the plates on the crust to move
   
3. Outer Core- liquid metal; causes magnetic field


4. Inner Core-solid metal [dense]

Vocab terms to know

Pangea- supercontinent

What Pangea might have looked like

Evidence to support^^^

• puzzle-look of continent borders
  
• landform locations
  
• fossils on two different plates are the same
  

Mid Atlantic Ridge- where a diverging boundary is seperating and causing lava to come out and makes a raised section of rock. It looks like the coasts of South America and Africa, which supports the Pangea idea.

Hot Spot- an opening in the crust that doen't move; pressure from the mantle

This is a picture of the hot spot that caused the Hawaiian islands to form.

CONFERENCES UPDATE

In science this quarter, we have learned about:

weathering-break down of rocks

erosion- moving of material

deposition-settling of material

rocks

-are made of minerals

-properties: luster, color, hardness, density, streak, fracture, grain shape

discover vs. invent

different land forms,

theories vs. laws- t: why/how something happens l: what happens

and, of corse, "What is science," and "How does science work".

We use the class blog, the "ning", and gmail.
We've done differnet projects with our "table" group. We've also worked with students from different class periods. link1 link2

I like that we don't have homework and that its challenging.
We are learning different things about science and how scientists work.
One day we worked on trying to figure out what this blue stuff was. Its called Ooblek. Here's us:





That day, we learned about a continuum. Ooblek registers in between solid and liquid.

Another activity we did, was clay boats. We did it when we were learning about sinking and floating.



things with a density less than 1 float, greater than 1 sink

We even categorized a small amount of rocks. Here's how:

http://api.ning.com/files/8leY9wbYcpSFcJjg9JEVHLwriBiiJiOSld-m892*SzfUNK8v2ZBFZOZml6LwHnRyAnleB2GEg15Dtfz1sgnw5WIOM4OBklzU/photo.jpg

For more videos, go to the classes youtube channel.

2/5/10

today we posted the google doc to ning. we got rid of the this, that, and its. i think we got together better today then we did this whole last week.

2/4/10

today we fixed most of our "red" lines, cleaned up, and tried to sort out most of our problems.

2/3/10

today we reviwed. raul had written some parts of the report yesterday and today he wanted to make sure that we all agreed with it. casey began typing, she's taking it home today to finish tommorrow we'll focus on it and change some parts maybe even retest the experiment.