20 Time Final Post

I think my Ted Talk went okay. My partner and I were nervous, so we forgot to bring up a timer. In the middle of the presentation we suddenly realized we forgot but it was too late. We tired to time it as well as possible, but still missed the time slot. If I could do my ted talk again, I would bring up my phone as a timer. I feel like I got better at speaking in front of audiences. I would also practice a lot more because I forgot some of the things I was going to say when I was up in front of everyone.  I think listening to the other presentations was very interesting. It was fun to see other people's ideas. I think our project couldv'e been a lot better as well. We had pictures to go with the things we said, but I forgot to change the slides as I was talking, since we practiced without the slides and just us talking. If I had practiced more I would have gotten the timing for that a lot better. In terms of organization, our project needed some improvement with that. I said some things that were repeated from what my partner said. In summary, we should have practiced a lot more, because if we practiced more, we would have made less mistakes.


Our Ted Talk:

Our data for our experiment:

	Free throws (5 tries)	Elbows (5 tries)	Middle (5 tries)	Total shots made
Person 1	1	0	3	4
Person 2	1	1	4	6

Music type: No Music

	Free throws(5 tries)	Elbows (5 tries)	Middle (5 tries)	Total shots made
Person 1	0	1	2	3
Person 2	3	1	4	7

Music type: Pop

	Free throws (5 tries)	Elbows (5 tries)	Middle (5 tries)	Total shots made
Person 1	1	0	2	3
Person 2	0	1	3	4

Music type: Classical

	Free throws (5 tries)	Elbows (5 tries)	Middle (5 tries)	Total shots made
Person 1	1	0	3	4
Person 2	1	1	4	6

Music type: Rap

20 Time Reflection

For our 20% time project, we were trying to see how music affects sports. We saw that their was positive effects. We chose this topic because my partner, Sirisha likes sports, while I like music. We were focused on using music to improve athletic performance. We had some setbacks because we originally were going to test for basketball, but because we couldn't get a hold of the gym we focused on running instead. We learned that listening to more upbeat music makes you faster when running. If I had a chance to this project again, I would plan our project better so that we could test in school as well. There is still a lot more to learn about this project. We could go more in depth to see which sport gets the most affected by music, or exactly which song has the most positive effect.

Unit 9 Reflection

      In this unit we learned about evolution. We learned that taxonomy is the study of naming and classifying organisms. Phylogeny is the evolutionary history and relationships of a species using taxonomy. The order is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species. Archea live near hydrothermal vents, hot springs, digestive tracts of animals, and marshes. Chemoheterotrophs are heterotrophic bacteria that take in organic molecules. Photoautotrophs use light to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbon compounds. Chemoautotrophs use energy directly from chemical reactions involving ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, nitrites, sulfur, or iron.
      Viruses are not cells.They are a very small infectious particle consisting of nucleic acid enclosed in a protein coat and, in some cases, a membranous envelope. Bryophyta are mosses. They are the most common seedless nonvascular plants. Pterophyta are ferns. The vascular system allows them to get off the fround resulting in more photosynthesis. The roots allow absorption of water and nutrients. The leaves allow for more photosynthesis. Gymnosperms are cone bearing plants. Angiosperms are flowering plants. There are two major types of Angiosperms. Monocots and Dicots. Monocots have a single seed leaf. The leaf veins are usually parallel. The flower parts are usually in multiples of three. The bundles of vascular tissue are scattered in the stem. Dicots have two seed leaves. Leaf veins are usually netlike. Flower parts are usually in multiples of four or five. They have bundles of vascular tissue in rings in stem.
     Fungal cell walls are made of chitin. Plant cell walls are made of cellulose. There are sac fungi which form a reproductive sac. Yeasts are single-celled sac fungi. Animals are diverse but share common characteristics. 97% of all animal species are invertebrates. Sponges and cnidarians are the simplest animals.Flatworms, mollusks, and annelids belong to closely related phyla.



This is my presentation on cats:

What on Earth Evolved: Cats presentation



this picture shows the difference between dicots and monocots
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