Villain Story 1/27/17

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This week we were developing our villain. My villain's normal mode is a popular teenage girl in high school.  The nefarious mode is a swirl of alive vapor under a robe w/ hood. We had to choose four body systems to change out of these:
Circulatory
Respiratory
Excretory
Nervous
Eyes
Ears
Skin
Skeletal
Muscular
I chose Eyes, Respiratory, Skin, and Skeletal. My normal eyes are gray and oval shaped. The nefarious eyes are almond shaped, points out, and electric blue. My normal skin is the normal peachey color. The nefarious skin is black and only on the face. The normal skeleton is strong and sturdy, and the nefarious made doesn't have a skeleton. The normal mode lungs are healthy. The nefarious lungs are smaller then average and mostly clogged up.

We were drawing out our villains and their altered body systems. Then we wrote a one-two paragraph story on how our villain and superhero became enemies.                

Suprehero Origin Story 1/15/17

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This week we were working on our Superhero Origin Story and how our super hero came to be. It had to be sciencey, like when Peter Parker got a mutation from that radioactive spider. We could choose either a mutation or a GMO (Genetically Modified Organism). I chose GMO. We needed to include the science or if it was in real life how it would happen. Here is my story. I chose to do a GMO. My superhero is based on the frogfish. But in my story, I made it so she thought she would breathe under the water like a clownfish. But the scientist screwed up and brought in some frogfish genes that were being studied. So she got the powers of a frogfish instead of clownfish powers. Frogfish are really special because they can do a lot of things. They can camouflage, they can sort of expand their stomach, and they have a retractable lure of like a worm or whatever. They lure food in by hiding and wiggling slightly to make the lure appear alive. Strangely, despite all of those awesome cool things they can do, frogfish can hardly swim. If you look here you will see that they sort of have little legs and feet shaped from their fins. They "walk" on the fins. I hope you enjoy the story!

Genetics 2017

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This week we were discussing our superhero child and whether it was healthy or sick. Mine was healthy in all of them except on one where they were at risk. We also had the same kahoot twice. I did pretty well on both times. The questions were like, ‘what is an allele?’ And the answers were like:

            

Then a chart would come up with the results like this.

I had  lots of fun while I was on kahoot.