Health/Bible

The verses 1 Corinthians 6:19 (Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own) and Romans 12:1(I appeal to you therefore, brothers,^[a] by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship) talk about respecting your body. How do you respect your body? Respecting your body can include protecting yourself from things that can harm you like Drugs, Smoking and Drinking alcohol. Respecting your body also means exercising and doing brain teasers or puzzles doing these thing can help your body as well as mind grow. 

Mental well-being

Understanding What mental well being is can be very difficult. Nowadays there is lots of stress about little things like tests and friends and jobs. Ways to promote mental health for you and others can include doing things to release stress like deep breathing staying calm and doing things to relax you. You can also try and learn new things learning new skills helps to challenge your brain and keep it sharp. Try to be active as being active can make you brain feel great. Connecting with other people can also help you to be social and can also help to relive stress.

Exercise

Exercising and doing activities that are active helps your body. Different activities help different parts of your body, for example, doing a fitness circuit exercises many parts of your body so it is a very beneficial exercise to do. Doing a fitness circuit can also help you build up stamina a little bit at a time. Doing competitive swimming can build up your arm muscles and your leg muscles. Another benefit is being able to control your breathing well. An emotional effect competitive swimming can have is it helps you to develop good sportsmanship.  Effects that doing yoga can have on your body include flexibility, the ability to hold a pose for a long time and it relaxes people. Being active can help your body to work better and help you to feel better physically and emotionally.

My favourite kind of exercise is running and swimming because it uses my legs as well as my arms.  I have recently discovered that I like basketball through Faith and Fitness.  I like being able to work with other people and to dribble down the court while communicating with everyone else to work to pass to them.  

Bullying, discrimination and stereotyping

     Consequences of Bullying, Discrimination and Stereotyping can be very big and some can be very small. Bullying is being mean to someone else and physically or verbally abusing them.  Discrimination is when you treat a certain type of people lower than everyone else.  Stereotyping is when you judge someone before you get to know them based on what other's think.  You don't even get the chance to know who they are because you have already judged them.
     If you are bullying someone or being bullied you could cause someone or be feeling like nobody cares about you can't do anything right and make them do things that will hurt themselves. Some ways you can stand up to Bullying, Discrimination and Stereotyping is by making the victim feel better after it happened, Telling the person to back off or telling an adult. NEVER be mean back as it will make you feel just as bad.  Bullying, discriminatiion and stereotyping is something that is happening more and more now days.  People are getting bullied if their hair looks funny or their clothes look different.  If everyone did their part to stop these issues then people would be happier and there would be less cases of suicide.  

Career

I visited two sites that take your personality and decipher what kind of person you are. they then take there information and tell you what kinds of jobs your skills could allow you to do.

Education Planner

and

Student Planner

     I was a Creative thinker. I now know that I have all the skills required to do all the jobs that I have always wanted to do like childcare, being a doctor or nurse, being a verterinarian or a baker.  I also know the jobs that I wouldn't be good at like being a plumber or electrician.  I like the kind of jobs where you have to interact with people and care or them.  I love baking, taking care of kids and helping others.  It's fun to think about what jobs I could be doing in the future and imagining that.

Goals

I wrote myself three goals for this year.  I've taken one goal and put it through the SMART goal process.

S-Starting my baking business
M-I will know I've reached my goal once I've made the posters, and started to get my first baking orders.
A-Set my prices-Make the poster-get poster to people-in my Grandma's complex and Dad's work etc.-start taking orders
R-This goal is very reachable especially with Christmas coming
T-I'd like to have my first customer by December

Earthquakes

    Set Your Table for a Sweet and Sticky Earthquake Shake

Introduction

The purpouse of this experiment was to see which soil was the best side to side earthquake conducter. We had 4 soils and fake peanut butter suger cube houses. My hypothesis is that the bedrock will be the worst conductor and the gravel will be the best conductor

Materials

To build the shake houses

-Butcher paper or newspaper

-Damp cloth to wipe your hands on

-Sugar cubes (approximately 600)

-Bowl

-Spoon

-Peanut butter

-Scissors

To build the shake table

-Packing tape

-Coffee can lid,

-Marbles, or any small balls of the same size (1-2 dozen)

-Shallow box, like the lid on a board game box

-Tray

to make the soil trays

-Play-Doh®

-Flour (3 ½ cups)

-Salt (½ cup)

-Oil (3 tablespoons)

-Water (2 cups, boiling)

-Grape-Nuts cereal (1 box)

-Cornstarch (1 box)

-Water (approximately 4 cups)

-Bowls (2); for mixing Grape-Nuts with water, and cornstarch with water

-Spoon

-Fork

-Trays (4); any shallow nesting trays that are bigger than your test houses

to test the houses

-Stopwatch

-Lab notebook

-Camera (optional)

Procedure

Building the shake table

1. Cut off a strip of the packing tape and form it into a loop with the sticky part on the outside.
2. Attach the tape to the top of the coffee can lid and the bottom of one of the trays so that the top of the lid is stuck to the bottom of the tray.
3. Dump the marbles into the game box lid.
4. Set the tray with its attached coffee lid so that it is resting on top of the marbles. The lip of the lid should be resting on the marbles. This tray will hold your other trays as you perform each trial. Now you're ready to shake the game box side to side to create your P-waves. Continue with the rest of the steps first.

Building the test houses

1. You can build any shape of houses that you want, but keep in mind that you will need to build 12 of them, they should all be exactly the same, and they must fit inside your trays.
2. First, spread out some butcher paper or newspaper to make cleanup a little easier. Keep a cloth or bowl of water around to clean your hands if they get super gooey during the building. You should also make some clear space on the table or another counter for your completed houses.
3. Dump out some of your sugar cubes into a pile on the butcher paper or newspaper. You have a lot of sugar cubes and a lot of houses to build, so don't dump them all out at once.
4. Scoop out some peanut butter  into a bowl and put it next to the sugar cubes.
5. Now start dipping sides of the sugar cubes into the peanut butter and sticking them together. The sugar cubes are like little white bricks, and the peanut butter is like mortar. Build your first house on a section of paper that you can cut out when you are finished. Continue until you have created your first test house. Don't eat more than you build!
6. Cut out the paper around the test house and set it aside until you're ready to test.
7. Repeat steps 3-6 until you have 12 test houses that are built exactly the same and are all on their own pieces of butcher paper.              

Preparing your soil trays

1. You will be preparing four trays for testing models of four different soil types: bedrock, gravel, alluvium, and sand.
2. To prepare the bedrock model, fill one tray about half full of Play-Doh (either store-bought or homemade).  
3. To prepare the gravel model, pour dry Grape-Nuts cereal into another tray until it is about half full.
4. To prepare the alluvium model, mix about 2-3 cups of dry Grape-Nuts cereal with about 1 cup of water and pour the mixture into another tray until it is about half full.
5. To prepare the sand model, you will need a ratio of about two parts cornstarch to one part water. Put 3 cups of cornstarch in a bowl. Slowly add about 1 ½ cups of water to the cornstarch, mixing as you go with a fork or with your hands. You will know that you have the right consistency of the cornstarch mixture when it is firm enough to support a test house, but still liquid enough that you can press your finger slowly down into it.

Testing your houses

1. Now it's time to try this out! You finally get to shake your test houses on the four different soils.
2. Begin trial 1 with bedrock. Slide a test house and its paper gently onto the middle of the bedrock tray. Press the house down slightly into the test soil so that there is good contact between the test soil and the test house, and the test house does not slide around on top of the test soil during testing.
3. Place the prepared bedrock tray into the empty shake table tray. The bedrock tray should "nest" snugly into the empty tray in the shake table.
4. Have a helper time you shaking the box lid for 20 seconds. When you're ready to start, have the helper say, "Go!" and start a stopwatch.
5. Now shake or vibrate the game box lid from side to side very rapidly until 20 seconds have passed and your helper says, "Stop!". During the shaking, your hands should move from side to side no more than an inch or two, and you should avoid letting the tray bump the sides of the game box.
6. Take photographs for your display board, if desired.
7. Remove the prepared tray and the broken test house.
8. Repeat steps a-e for the three remaining soil types: gravel, alluvium, and sand. Be sure to record your results in your data table after each shaking test.
9. Repeat "Testing Your Shake Houses" steps 1-4 for two additional trials per soil type so that all 12 houses are tested. ecord the number of broken or fallen walls in your data table.                         

Data

Number of broken walls      Bedrock       Gravel      Alluvium     Sand

Trial 1                                         4                   4               4                4 

Trial 2                                         4                   4               4                4             

Trial 3                                         4                   4               4                4

Sum of trials                               3                   3                3               3

Average of trials                         4                   4                4               4

Conclusion  

 My hypothesis was correct because the house in the gravel fell almost instantly but the bedrock house stood a little longer. If I did this again I would Build a bigger house because when I Built a small house it didn't fall and when I built too big of a house it just collapsed. this relates to how when engineers build more compact house with stronger materials on a firm foundation they withstand better in an earthquake. This experiment is a perfect stimulation of a real life earthquake.