Week Number One

This week in biology, we presented our cell models. Sophie and I were partners. Our cell model presentation went surprisingly well considering the situation. As we stood up to go to the front of the class, our model broke off from its string that was supporting it and as it fell, one of our vacuole water balloons busted and one of the mitochondria fell off. 

    This is our model after we finished our presentation, so the damage had already been done. 

For our presentation, http://cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm was very useful.

We had two of each so both were still represented though. Mr. Vogler also introduced our next project, the organism collection field study.
I've enjoyed Biology so far, I really like that we are left to be somewhat self-sufficient. Learning new things on your own makes them easier to remember, in my opinion. We have played a couple of Kahoots in class and those are always fun. Mrs, Vestal used them with our Spanish I class last year as well. 
Our lab on Friday (that carried over to this Monday) was really cool. We looked at onion, elodea, and human cheek cells. The chloroplasts in the elodea cells were very distinctive. The only other microscope I've ever used was a small kit when I was little which had far less magnification power and it's a crime to even try to compare the two.

I've enjoyed Biology so far and I'm looking forward to this coming year!