One lesson I learned throughout this project was being able to communicate with my partners, and realizing how important it is to have that communication. We were able to discuss multiple things, like due dates, what everyone needed to get done and how, and where everyone was on getting everything done. It was really helpful being able to help my partners stay on task and have them help me stay on task as well. Another thing I learned from this project was being able to take away data from research and apply that to something in the project. I was able to find data on the demographics and fire severity, and I was able to connect those to how it related to my project.
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The zine category I chose to focus on was the "We're All Humans". I thought it was important to address because I feel that a lot of people know about their heritage and culture, but not as many people know about the science being heredity and how you're related to others. I want to educate people on the science behind genes and heredity. I want to educate how they're a part of their culture.
Genes can affect our characteristic traits. They can be affected by the heredity that you got when you were born. Both parents and their family line work together to provide genes and chromosomes to make you and your genes. Some of your traits can be from your dad, and some from your mom. Some of the traits you receive can be dominant, which means they are more likely to show. There are recessive traits, too. These aren't as visible, and can sometimes be seen on rarer occasions, because the dominant traits might overpower the recessive ones. The combinations of genes and alleles are like a game of chance. Those mutations can be passed on to future generations, in a study call epigenetics. It's where certain parts of the genetic code are locked and unused, but can be unlocked by the environment and the organism's surroundings. There are on and off "switches" in the genetic code of organisms that can be turned on and off depending on certain environments it's in or certain experiences it may have. As a baby, you mave have had blonde hair and blue eyes. That's because the genes that produce melanin are turned off in the early stages of your childhood. As you get older, though, the melanin code gets unlocked, and is turned on. Melanin is the amino acid that controls the pigment of your skin, hair, eyes, etc. Your hair may begin to change color and your eye color may change, depending on how much genetic code you have for creating melanin. The reason I used Spanish in my zine to communicate with the Hispanic community, which is who the Heritage event is focused largely on. I used the images in my zine to emphasize the categories on each page. The DNA drawing in the "Herencia" category is supposed to emphasize that heredity exists through the genetic code. Theorists, The Game. “Game Theory: Why Eevee Is the MISSING LINK to Pokemon Evolution!” YouTube, YouTube, 29 Nov. 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn2XVQ4XXPY. "Defining A Species." Understanding Evolution, U.C.M.P Berkeley, 22 August 2008, https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_41 “What Is Epigenetics?” Edited by Steven Dowshen, KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation, Mar. 2018, kidshealth.org/en/parents/about-epigenetics.html. The zine category I chose to focus on was the "We're All Humans". I thought it was important to address because I feel that a lot of people know about their heritage and culture, but not as many people know about the science being heredity and how you're related to others. I want to educate people on the science behind genes and heredity. I want to educate how they're a part of their culture.
Genes can affect our characteristic traits. They can be affected by the heredity that you got when you were born. Both parents and their family line work together to provide genes and chromosomes to make you and your genes. Some of your traits can be from your dad, and some from your mom. Some of the traits you receive can be dominant, which means they are more likely to show. There are recessive traits, too. These aren't as visible, and can sometimes be seen on rarer occasions, because the dominant traits might overpower the recessive ones. The combinations of genes and alleles are like a game of chance. There are also mutations. Mutations can occur when gene's structure is change and re-built. This can result in a physical trait change. When the sun tan your skin, that is an example of a mutation. Mutations usually happen because of the environment. Those mutations can be passed on to future generations, in a study call epigenetics. It's where certain mutations can be passed along to future descendants. If somebody early on in your family line gets something like diabetes, the rest of your family can be affected from that. The descendants can also get that disease, because that mutation is now in their genetic code. "Defining A Species." Understanding Evolution, U.C.M.P Berkeley, 22 August 2008, https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_41 “What Is Epigenetics?” Edited by Steven Dowshen, KidsHealth, The Nemours Foundation, Mar. 2018, kidshealth.org/en/parents/about-epigenetics.html. For my research, I mainly researched the angles of all of the sources of renewable energies, and from there we were able to choose which source was most practical and the easiest to encourage people on. It was between EV’s and solar, and after further research on both topics, we chose solar because the EV’s still have to get their electricity from somewhere, mainly from fossil fuels, so solar was the better option.
The movement we went for was the video. I was set on that as soon as my team made our problem statement. I think my team wanted to do this because it was next practical thing to do, other than social media account. We didn’t want to do a social media account because almost all of the other teams were doing that, and our target audience were older people, so social media wouldn’t have been the most effective way. A surprising amount of people watched the video, and we got some good responses out of it. I think we could’ve done a way better job of making the video, but it would’ve taken a lot more time. Overall, I think that our video was OK, but it wasn’t the best way to interact with our audience. One of the main struggles that I faced while working on this project was relying on group members to do their work and contribute to the team. One of my group members didn’t shoot the video when they were supposed to, and that set us back a lot. I got really mad at that teammate, even though I couldn’t do anything about it. I learned to calm myself down and work on fixing the problem, so that’s what I did. Me and another team member shot the video and posted it to YouTube, but it was a couple days late. So, our prototype was a storyboard and we got feedback from mainly peers. We put the first storyboard together really quickly, and needed some critiquing. We took it to the first peer and addressed the fact that in the video, we were trying to focus on people getting electric vehicles, even though our problem statement was addressing solar energy. We redid the storyboard to fit more accustomed with the feedback, and the rest of the feedback was mainly good, and we further developed it after the feedback. Artist Statement The Triforce was one of the first ideas that popped into my mind when this project first started. The Triforce is a game element in a video game called The Legend Of Zelda. I really wanted to do this for my lantern, so my team and I tried to incorporate my lantern into our theme. It fit into 3-dimensional geometric shapes. We also had another theme, which was using materials other than tissue paper. I used Post-It notes. My lantern is a triangular prism with three smaller equilateral triangles. I started out developing my lantern with a prototype that I made in Art class. I thought that we also had to make a final product, so I started to make a better lantern once I was done with my prototype. For my lantern, I had to put it together in a certain order, or else I wouldn’t have been able to put some of the elements in. Sustainability I needed to find materials that would do the job, and not wear out. The skewers I chose are made to hold cobs of corn, not kabobs, so the rods are a lot thicker and harder to break. They are also made from wood, so they can be recycled. The Post-It notes I got are super sticky, which means they have a better stick and they can last longer. The notes are also mostly made from plants. The paper itself is 30% recycled material, and the adhesive is plant-based, which is better for the environment. They are also recyclable. Sustainability can be shown through recycling because recyclable material can last a longer than non-recyclables because they can get re-purposed and reused as different things. Non-recyclables can’t. Construction: Step 1: Draw a segment with a straight edge and label the ends point A and point B. Step 2: Set your compass to the length of segment AB. Step 3: Draw an arc with the compass starting at point A, and do the same with point B. Step 4. You should have two arcs that intersect. Label that point C. Step 5: Connect point A and point B to point C using a straight edge. This construction works because an equilateral triangle has 3 sides that all have the same length. This also means that the three angles of the triangle are all 120 degrees. The equal sides are made when I intersected the two arcs made by the compass. I also bisected segments AB, AC and BC which made midpoints D, E and F. I made another triangle inside the bigger equilateral triangle using only the midpoints D, E and F I made by bisecting the segments. This proves that all of the segments are the same length, and would therefore also have the same angles. |