Caitlin. T's 2 Minutes to Make a Difference Final Reflection

Version One

Version Two/Final Cut

2. Please reflect and talk about the changes you made between the first and final cut of your movie. Were the student comments helpful in making your final cut better?

What we did to make our video better was that we added background music, also talked louder. We also added more pictures, the credits at the end, and some information from a environmentalist. We added many things to our first draft from many of people's comment's.

3. How did you find your expert? List 3 important points your expert added to your movie. What did you learn from your expert?


Razel found an expert on some website.

- we added information like conserving gas.

-recycling

-Conserve water and energy.



What I leaned was that global warming is not all our fault it became a natural occurrence which we probably can't fix.

4. How did you find your expert?

Well I found my expert on a website, but it wasn't a really good response that person told me. I searched up David Suzuki because he's a Canadian environmentalist but all I ended up was with a foundation.( I guess there's no contact to him anymore he's like 72 year's old..). We ended up using what Razel's response was since it was much better.


6. What was your greatest success in the 2 minutes project. What skills will you take away with you and use in the future?

The greatest success in my project was that we were able to actually finish on time and fix every problem there was to solve. I think everything there is to do to help earth that we were told are the skills I would always use from now on to help with earth because once we make a mistake on earth who knows what would happen.



7. What frustrated you during the movie making process? What strategies did you use to become successful?

What frustrated me was that I was being so negative that we ended up having a kind of bad version one video. All we did was went to Hannah's place to fix up a bit of thing's and Then Kaitlin and Hannah did the voices in the end.

8. Why is the 2 Minutes project important to Grade 8 Students?

The 2 Minutes project is not only important to us, 8 graders, but important for the world to know that the environment needs our help to use the 3 R's; Reduce, Re-use, Recycle. Our world will be non-existence if we do not do this. For example, our water and the people who pollute our water or the trees; the more we use the less chance we will have any in the future. We have to work together to keep our world alive and more healthier place to live so we can have more generations to come, life of not only us, but every non-living/living thing.

9. How will you make a difference in the future?

Well, in the future Also I would like to ask for there to be a law for only families to have only 1 or 2 children in the family to reduce over population. Also maybe I would like it if people could actually think and care for the earth because like what my video said "we'll only live once and so will the earth." The earth is almost 75% full with all cities and luxury. We should stop for once and maybe even have a No Luxury week to save power and electricity. And Always remeber the 3 R's reduce, reuse, recycle.

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Caitlin. T's Faction Growing Post

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I apologize my video isn't from ustream, I couldn't figure out how to save it and preview it.

Any mistakes?? feel free to comment on them so I can learn from my mistakes.

Part 2

Part 3:

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Caitlin T's Surface Area Growing Post

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Please comment any mistakes of forgotten information.

Thanks for reading my post! :]

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Caitlin T's Scribepost for February 3, 2010

Sorry they are pictures but it's easier for me to do. And sorry if I answered or made a mistake during the ratio tables.


OOH! one more thing if you see I was mistakened I put the percent first instead of the other number. [I was in a rush after school ]

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Caitlin T's Scribepost for January 5, 2010

CLICK ON IMAGE TO SEE BETTER!!! and the answer for the second one is actually 7.2**

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Caitlin T's Pay it Forward

PART 1:
After watching the movie " Pay it Forward " I thought that the movie meant that if one makes a difference by helping 3 different things and that multiplies maybe everyone can feel that they are a hero for helping one. And if you make a difference once it doesn't mean that you don't need to do it again. You should try and try to make a difference so everyone can realize that it's better to make a difference then don't do anything at all.~sorry if it's not the one I handed in, this is one of the paragraphs I made to hand (i made 5 different copies).

PART 2:
Our Pay it Forward act of kindness was going to the childrens hospital to donate new toys and books and giving goody bags . We chose this activity because we love little kids, we could've went with day care but then making goody bags sounded fun to do.(and if we did day care we probably wouldn't be able to take pictures with them without the parents permission.) We helped out little kids by making them happy throughout there sickness. Vicky, Kim, Christine, Abby, and I went to the Childrens Hospital and talked to a lady from the front desk that we were donating things and giving goody bags. She told us to write on a piece of paper what this was for and write our names and address down. She told us that she would give it to some administrator (i think) then she thanked us. We did our act of kindness on monday December 7.


PART 3:
My act of kindness went really well, we entered the building then took pics we waited a while then the lady came to us and asked us what we were doing. We told her that we were donating things. She was trilled and she told us to enter another room . After that she gave us a piece of paper and told us to write down what it was for, then Christine wrote everything Vicky told to write. Then we took more pictures, then we asked a man to take a picutre all of us together. I felt really good that we were doing a good thing . No, but in the cards we wrote "PAY IT FORWARD". We didn't ask the person to Pay it Forward since she was really busy with a patient.

PART4:
It's important because is you help one person, they might help others then like it becomes a chain of helping people. I think that my act of kindness has made a difference because that I might of made a child happy by greeting them a happy holiday and giving a goody bag filled with christmas things and other necessities.

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Caitlin.T's Scribepost for December 1, 2009

Today in Math class, Ms. Usiskin handed out are math quiz she graded it with letters:







Ms. Usiskin was talking about it for a bit, then we had to try to revise our quiz.



Then we started to go over the homework, which was the foldable on the numberline. Then after that we started to talk about "square roots". Which is the second flap in the first foldable.





sorri if i didn't say everything we did in class i kinda forgot.


THE HOMEWORK: Finish revising quiz and finish your number line (with fractions, with decimals and with your calculator) . REMEMBER to press SQUARE ROOT for the calculations.

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How I stopped an Alien Invasion using Proportion

One day I went early to school and met Abby at Harbecks room…Hey Abby can you help me on the proportion questions on page 67, 68, &69? OK! What number are you at? Uhm, wait. NOSIES…Me & Abby what’s that sound? Let’s go check it out… (Alien coming out of the ship) Earthlings we are going to destroy your planet. How rude! Pst Caitlin, I bet there allergic to math questions. Huh? You make no sense Abby, Why would you think that? But whatever let’s give it a try. Uh, they’re clothing says I hate Math questions.

ME: Ok question number 4 page 67: Determine the unit rate.

a) Three dinner rolls cost 99¢.

For 1 dinner roll it would be about 33 cents.

b) Seven identical objects have a mass of 14 kg.

For the mass of 0.5 objects it will be about 1kg.

Aliens: AAAHHHH… no!

Abby: HA. I’ll try number 16 page 68.

A gardener takes a half hour to mow and
weed a lawn that measures 20 m by 15 m.
He charges $25 per hour. How much
should the gardener receive for a lawn that
measures 40 m by 30 m?

The gardener would receive about $25.

Alien: NOOOO, my skin is getting all itchy & i'm getting a major migrain.

Me: BWAHAHAHA. That’s what you get for threatening us, Abby let’s do the last one together!

HHMM, what question should we do now…


OUR ANSWER!


ALIENS: AAAH, please stop it hurt’s to much .
ME & ABBY: IF YOU DON’T DESTROY THE EARTH WE WILL STOP.
ALIENS: Ok, Ok we won’t destroy your Loved Planet called Earth. BUT PLEASE STOP WITH THE PROPORTION MATH QUESTION & ANSWERS.
ME & ABBY: OOOKAAY.[:

[sorry theres no picture of an alien or something, I don't understand how to put the UR address.]

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%%%%%'s Rate Growing Post

PART #1.



Ratio-compares 2 quantites measured in the SAME units.







Rate - Compares 2 quantities measured in DIFFERENT units.







What is the difference between ratio and rate?



RATE is comparing 2 quantities measured in DIFFERENT units while a RATIO compares 2 quantities in the SAME unit.



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4. Determine the unit rate in each situation.

a) An orca swims 110 km in 2 h.

b) A Canada goose flies 800 km in 12.5 h.

c) Cathy plants 45 daffodils in 30 min.




a)55 km/hr


b)64 km/hr


c) about 1.5 daffodils a minute



[How I got the answers I made a Ration Table, then I did the usual routine to get the answer.]





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10.Trevor rod ehis mountain bike 84 km in

3 h. Jillian rode 70 km in 2.5 h. Who is

the faster cyclist? How do you know?



Trevor and Jillian rode the same speed which was 28km/hr.(I think that's what i got)



[ How I got my answer was i made another Ratio table, then divided 3 by 3 then did it to the othere side which was 84. Then my answer was 28 for Trevor, I did the same routine to Jillian.]

PART # 2

1)What would the recipe look like if it had to serve 10 people? Show your calculations.

-All i did was I multiplied the numbers by 2.5 then that's how i got my answer.

2)What would the recipe look like if you had to only serve 1 person? Show your calculations.

-I did the same thing to this question from the earlier question, but I divided by 10 to get to 1.

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Caitlin T's BOB October 6

BOB

The Three things I know about graphing are:

1.) There is always an interval on a bar graph(a.k.a bar chart), line graph, double bar graph, and double line graph.

2.)There are 3 ways you can mislead a graph or distort : Distorting the Scale , Distorting the Size of the Bars and Distorting the Visuals.

3.)Line graphs are for showing something over time. Bar graphs are for comparing data by categories or groups(i think). Circle graphs are best for comparing data by using percents. Pictographs are best for comparing data using pictures as a representative.

What I know that would improve my test:

I could've improved if i put more information, exspecially better sentences(which I didn't do). Plus maybe i Should've used that paper that was handed out. && I should've made everything better, like my drawings, my writing etc.

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Caitlin.T's BOB Ratio

1.) THREE, PART-TO-PART RATIOS:

a.) green to yellow - (3:2)

b.) pink to grey - (2:1)

c.) peach to blue - (1:4)

2.) TWO, PART TO TOTAL RATIOS:

a.) orange to total - (2:22)

b.) white to total - (1:22

3.) TWO, THREE PART RATIOS :

a.) pink to green to blue - (2:3:4)

b.) peach to yellow to orange - (1:2:2)

4.) Here is my ratio in ratio notation, fraction, decimal, percent, and a word form:

The ratio i chose was green to yellow.

Ratio Notation: 3:2

Fraction: 3/2

Decimal: 1.5

Percent: 150%

To get the the fraction you should know the ratio notation, then to get the decimal you have to divide the numerator and the denominater of the fraction. Then to get the percent you multiply the decimal by 100, then you get your answer.

Making An Equivalent Ratio

To make equivalent ratios, you have to know that if you do something to one side that you do it to the other side as well.

3 Questions

1.)What would some of the ratios be in the lowest terms?

2.) Give me one equivalent ratio for 2/1?

3.)Show how the ratio peach to blue could be shown as a fraction,decimal, and a percent.


BOB 2

I made lots of mistakes in my test, but I'm going to tell you two of them that didn't really make any sense to me when I got to them.

The first one was -

8.) A picture frame has a width to length ratio of 5:7. If the width of the photo is 9 cm, the length of the ph0to is

I got this answer wrong b/c i just guessed, But next time for me to remember I will, get the length to width ratio then get the other length (9) and then make it into a equivalent fraction, then multiply 5 and 1,8 to get to 9 then do it to the other side too. So it would look like 5/9=7/?
then like I said earlier multiply the fraction by 1.8, then y answer for 7/? would be 12.6.(I got 1.8 from dividing 5 and 9.

Another One-

18.) In a student election Carol gets 60% of the votes. If there were 485 votes cast, how many votes did carol get?


I didn't get to answer it b/c I was still trying to figure out the answer. But a way for me to remember to answer it correctly is that, I would use a ratio table starting with VOTES and on the other side it would be 60%.

The two questions-

10. What percent of all the phones were Motorola?
a. 14.4% b. 25% c. 50% d. 77%


18. In a student election Carol gets 60% of the votes. if there were 485 votes cast, how many votes did carol get?

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Caitlin T's Scribepost For October 16, 2009

Question #17


There are 48 passengers on a transit bus. At the next stop, 16 passengers got 0ff and 12 others got on the bus.


A) What is the ratio of passengers who got off the bus compared to the original number on the bus? Show the ratio in lowest terms.

Passengers getting off:Original Number -(16:48) in fraction form it's 16/48

I think if I show it in the lowest terms it would be 1:3 because -16:48, if I divided the 48 by 3 it end ups being 16,(the number of passengers that left the bus). So then if i simplified it (i think) my answer would be 1;3 or 1/3


B) What is the ratio of passengers who got on the bus compared to the new total on the bus?
Write your answer as a fraction, decimal, and percent.

Got on: New total
12:44

Fraction= 3/11
Decimal= 0.27
Percent= 27%

Sorry my Scribe Post is late my Internet wasn't working properly.And sorry i didn't answer my answer in full sentences.):

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Caitlin T's Coin Math for October 9, 2009

First of all Mr. Harbeck showed us the picture below. Then he gave us a task to make 10 questions about the coins in the jar as a group (thats what I think I remembered). Then we had to share our answers with the class so he called each table to yell out there question. Then we figured if the questions we said aloud were questions about math or just silly questions, the answers that werre about math were coloured red and the ones that were silly were left black. Then riight after that Mr. Harbeck told us that all the coins in the jar equal exactly to ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS in American. Then he gave us our assignment which was to pick one PURPLE question and one BLUE or RED. Then we had to post it on the blog and the labels are suppose to be :coinmath,ratio,your display name.

THIS IS THE PICTURE WE FOCUSED ON IN CLASS.

1.Would the jar weight the same if there were $100 Canadian in coins?

NO because American's don't have Loonies and Toonies like Canadian's. The Loonies and Toonies may add more weight to the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters in the jar.The Americans have one dollar bills and two dollar bills. NOT like Canadian coins there is two extra coins they are called the LOONIE and TOONIE.

LOOK AT THE PICTURE BELOW!!

These are the two extra coins the LOONIE & TOONIE!! (not taken by me)

If you were to seperate the coins into groups. Which group has the most coins or the highest value?

If i seperated the coins into groups, like if i made a group of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. I think the group that would have the most coins would be the pennies. Beacause if you divide the $100 coins too maybe about 10 people. Like if you did this-> 10/100=10. Then that means each person would probably get $2.00 from the pennies which is 200 pennies all together. Then which leads me too the nickels and dimes which is $3.00 and quarters which is $2.00 each then all equals $10.00 for one person. Now tells us that the one that has the most coins is the PENNIES which means that the jar has about 2000 pennies in total.(i think)

Sorry there's no pictures for this question. And sorry I tried my best to make my answer understandable.

PLS. COMMENT AND FEEL FREE TO TELL ME WHAT I DID WRONG.

PART 2

If you started dropping coins into the jar on January 1 , 2010. What day would you finish filling up the jar with Canadian dollars and U.S dollars.

i didn't understand this question at all):

How much of the jar is filled with Canadian coins?

Well the jar is filled up probably about 35 % because since the American coins in the jar are 75% or 3/4 full(780 coins in jar,(370 coins for the Canadian coins).Because there are less coins in the Canadain jar, it's because Canadians have two more extra coins called the toonie and loonie.

Could you fill the jar with $ 100 American and $ 100 Canadian ? and why ?

NO! you couldn't fill the jar with $ 100 USD and $ 100 CND together because it would over fill and fall all over the place. Because in in the jar of American coins there are (780 coins) which is about 3/4 or in percentage 75%. And then we come to the Canadian coins which have (370 coins)which is around 35% like I said in the earlier question. Then you put the coins together in the jar. Then add the percents together or just add the numbers 75% + 35% = 110 %(75+35=110).But it still spills over , so you can not add them together unless you get a bigger jar!!

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Caitlin's Scribepost for October 5, 2009

These two are the same the division sign means to divide and then its the same thing with the fraction line .

The first way , shows the question division in a fraction form , like 4 divided by 4 equals 1 whole . but if you see it drawn it is not like the regular division sign (the one you see in the picture above) .

The second way is kinda simple (but not sure if I am right) because it is used for most divisional questions like the one above(in the pictures).

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Caitlin's Scribepost for September 28

Question 2.

a)Sophie surveyed her friends about their
favourite flavour of ice cream. What
information is missing on the graph?

On the graph i think that the information that is missing is that ,

in the title "Favourite Ice Cream" it wasn't finish ,

i think the title should have been , " Favourite Ice Cream Flavours"

instead of the other title .

b) How could you present this data more
accurately?

I think this circle graph would need the data like,

they should put the number of people that chose the

favourite flavour of ice cream, and maybe they should have

put the total all together.

Our HOMEWORK are on page 23 questions 1 and 2 on mytextbook.ca

and we have homework in our homework book page 6 .

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