Healthy Snack Recipe

Johan’s Yogurt & Muesli Parfait

Recipe:

• Greek Yogurt
• Muesli

• Fresh Strawberries
• Fresh Blueberries

1. Was my snack healthy? Justify why you say yes or no. Think about what we’ve talked about sugar and fats. 
Yes, my snack had very little to no processed sugar and all my sweetness came from my fruits. I used greek yogurt, muesli, fresh blueberries, and fresh strawberries. All my ingredients had no sugar which make it healthy and I had fruits which provide not only sweetness, but also vitamins such as vitamin C. My recipe was also low in saturated fat, very low in cholesterol and sodium, high in dietary fiber and contains high levels of vitamin B6 and C.

2. When you choose a snack do you think about how healthy/unhealthy it is? Why or why not. 
Yes, because my parents always were always big about unhealthy foods and snacks. They told me that you can't eat the snack I liked because it was either super high in sugar or was junk food. Growing up, my parents started to let me control what I ate and from then on, I controlled the amount of junk food or sweet foods I ate.

Do you think food is meant to be eaten with other people? What are some effects of eating and socializing at the same time? 
I think food should be meant to be eaten with other people because its a great time to talk and socialize. With many people on devices and computers for a majority of their time, it's harder to find a time when you can just talk, which makes eating food a good time to socialize. Some effects are that you get closer with others and that you become more aware of how you eat.

Did you enjoy preparing your food? Do you think preparing your own food affects how much you enjoy eating it? Explain
Well I really enjoyed preparing my snack. I think preparing my own food can affect how much you enjoy eating it because if it taste really good, then you feel super proud, but when it doesn't turn out like you hoped it would, there is a possibility that you wouldn't feel happy anymore. Also, if you know what the ingredients are and the steps to making it, you know what you are eating, which can help you enjoy the food more.

Poverty Unit Reflection

This unit has helped me open my eyes further and understand poverty in our world. Having visited the Philippines a countless number of times, I’ve seen poverty a lot through beggars, homeless people, and much more. Before this unit, I knew about poverty and being poor, but I had no understanding of how to escape and the difficulty of escaping poverty. But now, after learning more about poverty, I understand the difficulty of living in poverty and the difficulty of trying to escape it and I now know how we can make a difference in the world we live in.

One of the activities we did early on in the unit was interviewing people in absolute poverty through a website called the Places We Live. By interviewing people who live in slums, I got a better sense of the situation many people are in now. Many of them don’t have enough money to buy food since they either don’t have a job or have a very low paying job, like trash picking. Their homes don’t have toilets which results in poor hygiene for many. Also, their homes aren’t very safe and they have to be prepared due to the fact that they can easily get kicked out by the police at anytime. This is relevant to me because it gives me a perspective of what it feels like to be in their shoes and the large number of people experiences the difficulties of living life in poverty. It also shows me how fortunate I am to be living my life comfortably and it motivates me to do my part in improving other’s lives. After completing the activity, I had a greater understanding of absolute poverty but I still had some questions. I thought about donations and us doing our part in helping them but I realized and asked myself: Is donating money going to impact them as much as if you were to buy them a home? And if you buy them a home, will they be able to use that to get closer to escaping the poverty cycle or will they just go back to where they were at the start?

Another activity that helped me better understand poverty was Spent. By being put into the shoes of someone in relative poverty, I got to experience life in relative poverty. Living life in relative poverty was surprisingly hard for me as I barely had any money at the end of the month, even when I said no to almost every decision I could make. All my decisions weren’t based on the right thing to do, it was based on if I had any money. For example, my mom was in the hospital and she had no more money to pay for it, I wanted to say yes because it's my mom, but then I didn’t have enough money so I couldn’t do anything about it. This is relevant to me because people who are born into the situation I’m in now don’t have to worry about basic needs and food but people in relative poverty have to. We can live life comfortably, thinking about what I should wear tomorrow instead of do I have food for tomorrow while people in relative poverty can’t. This has helped me understand how fortunate I am to be in the situation I am in now and how I can make a difference in our world. A question I still have about this is: Having almost no money at the end of the month, would I still be able to live in relative poverty, or would I go down to moderate poverty?

In conclusion, I learned a lot more about poverty and I expanded my knowledge on it. I learned that escaping the poverty cycle is very difficult because of the rare chances and opportunities to get a job or education to be able to break out of it. I realized some people get lucky and get scholarships, and some people have better job opportunities. And I now see how  these factors can help you break out of the cycle. This unit has helped me to understand more about poverty aside from just being in it and has helped me open my eyes to the world many people live in: poverty.

Seasons

Cellphone Plans

You are a representative for a handphone company and it is your job to promote different phone plans. 

• Plan A costs a basic fee of $29.95 per month and 10 cents per text message 

• Plan B costs a basic fee of $90.20 per month and has unlimited text messages

• Plan C costs a basic fee of $49.95 per month and 5 cents per text message 

• All plans offer unlimited calling
• Calling on nights and weekends are free
• Long distance calls are included

1. Determine the cost of each plan if you send 500 text messages in one month. Show your working out. 
Plan A cost $79.95 because on the graph, on plan A's line, the y coordinate for the x coordinate 500 is 79.95. The x coordinate is the number of text and the y coordinate is the cost.

Plan B cost $90.20 because the cost doesn't change from the number of text since it has no rate of change.

Plan C cost $74.95 because on the graph, on plan C's line, the y coordinate for the x coordinate 500 is 79.95. The x coordinate is the number of text and the y coordinate is the cost.

Plan A

Plan B

Plan C

2. Your boss asks you to visually display three plans and compare them so you can point out the advantages of each plan to your customers.

The Graph

3. A customer wants to know how to decide which plan will save her the most money. Determine which plan has the lowest cost given the number of text messages a customer is likely to send.
If you text 0 to 400 times in a month, then Plan A is the cheapest plan for you.
If you text 400 to 805 times in a month, then Plan B is the cheapest plan for you.

If you text more than 805 times in a month, then Plan C is the cheapest plan for you.

Phases Of The Moon

New Moon

Waxing Crescent

First Quarter

Waxing Gibbous

Full Moon











Waning Gibbous

Third Quarter











Waning Crescent

COSMOS Video

Science Questions:

1. Of all the spacecraft humans have developed which one has traveled the furthest? 
Voyager 1

2. What are the 6 lines of our cosmic address? 
Earth
Solar System
Milky Way Galaxy
Local Group
Virgo Supercluster
Observable Universe

3. Why were Giordano Bruno's ideas so controversial?
Bruno's ideas were so controversial because his ideas were not correct/possible compared to the churches beliefs back then. He talked about different worlds that God, the creator, made which is impossible according the churches beliefs back then.

4. According to the cosmic calendar, how long ago did we begin to use science to reveal natures secrets and her laws? 
a. 1 month
b. 1 minute
c. 1 year
d. 1 second

Catalyst 10

Dear Mom and Dad,

I'm looking forward to you coming to my science design fair on December 17th from 1:40 to 2:10.

My group and I are working on an invention that is answering our driving question- "How can we save our world?". We created an invention to help prevent people from dying because of tornadoes.​ Our designs will be set up in our core classes and I will give you further information ​next week.

The link to our project is here: http://tornadosafetyonline.weebly.com/

I would like tonight, to share with you what our group has come up with so far. I would love to hear your feedback and share it with my group.. My teacher has asked me to have you write me back on an EMAIL so I can provide the feedback we discuss with my group. I value your opinion because you have lived MUCH longer than I have and experienced MUCH more than I have.

I love you and so looking forward to you coming.

Your Son,

​Johan​

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Proving Similarity

I think that Triangle B is similar to Triangle C because of two reasons: the angles are the same and the sides are proportional. 

Since Triangle B is similar to Triangle A, the angles must be the same even though the side lengths are different. Same with Triangle C, since Triangle C is similar to Triangle A, the angles must be similar too. So Triangle A, B, and C's angles are all the same. I checked this by making up angles. I looked at the corresponding angles for all three shapes and found that they were all the same.

For the side lengths, I made some up myself. The side lengths for the triangles are shown below in the image. I found that Triangle B's side lengths were proportional to Triangle A's side lengths and Triangle C's side lengths were proportional to Triangle A's lengths. This means that Triangle B's length is proportional to Triangle C's length, making them similar. I made sure that this was correct by comparing corresponding sides from all three sides. I found that all of the corresponding sides were proportional to each other. I also found that there was a scale factor for all the triangle relationships providing more evidence that Triangle B is similar to Triangles C.