Final Class Reflection-Week 18

During the course of this class I learned that as a student I am very determined to get the grade I want. I learned that I could push myself farther than I ever thought. This class was a challenge at first but then I learned how to excel in here. I found that all the due dates and the projects one after the other was very difficult for me. I do not do very well under pressure and in this class I always felt pressure. I knew that one project could bring my grade down way farther than I wanted so I always stayed on edge trying to make my work the best it could be. I get stressed out very easy and this class was difficult due to that. I was always stressed about due dates and tests and quizzes and all that kind of stuff. I am or was not used to classes that pushed me this hard. I am very thankful for this class because now I know just  how much I  can do. The thing I think I most enjoyed about this class was the fact that I retained the information. In most of my classes you learn a tiny bit of information, memorize it long enough for a test and than its gone. This class was way different. I find myself all the time putting out facts from biology and relating things to what I know. I have strongly benefited from this class. I also enjoyed how everything was hands on learning and how this was not a lecture class. I was always very involved and active in this class. I believe that this class will help me in my future classes because I am so much more determined now knowing what I can do. This has made me a different, better, and more determined student. I believe this will continue not only to help me in the classroom but in life in general. I am very thankful for this class.

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Week 17-Reflection

This week we had a lab practical. This really opened my eyes to what college will be like. I studied really hard but I still didn't get the grade I wanted. It was the anatomy of a worm, pig, and a frog. The one that I know I messed up on was Mr. Vogler placed an earthworm inside of a pig and I said that it was the small intestine. There was also jars in which you had to know what class, phylum, and the common mane and I did not study the common name of any of them I just focused on the Phylum but I got those wrong. Honestly im really tired of biology I am so ready to get out for the summer. This class really hasn't been this hard for me its just taught me to study alot. If you don't study in this class you fail. I do feel pretty confident for the biology EOC. This class has stressed me out but I feel like ive benefited from it. I really just want everything to be over though!!

Week 16 -Reflection on collection project

This week we did collection projects. During this project I had to explore around outside. I first went to my grandparents house and collected roughly around 10 leaves. While at school we collected about 15 or 20 but some got lost and some were the wrong classification so I got about 10. Where I got the rest of my leaves were in some woods behind my house. I found about 14 there. I did a scrapbook that contained 34 leaves. During this project I learned more about trees and the environment around me. The only materials I needed for this project were a pencil internet access and a picture book. I built a blog and posted pictures of my leaves and put my voki and Goanimate on that site. I also linked my website to it. I built a website as well that asked the most three common questions and it had examples and pictures. I took me a process of about three hours and then the leaves probley took around three total. I was also first to go and I was super nervous and kinda messed it up.

Field study Journal-Week 14

- Short, slender tree with light brown bark.
- Tall really thick stumped tree with thick leaves.
- Thin trunked tree with lots of thick leaves and a dark brown color.
- Thick tree that had leaves up really high and not many branches.
- Tall tree with light green leaves and a dark thick trunk.

Mistake-Field Study Journal- Week 13

Well apparently we were supposed to do our field study journal this week. I looked last night and it said do a reflective post and add a link. Here is some of my study so far:
- A skinny, weak looking tree with very few leaves. about three long branches that are all equal in size. The leaf is very small, bright green, and has a squarish size.
- A small tree with a thick trunk and many small branches. The leaf is very long, thick, green, and huge.
- A very small tree where the trunk is very weak and its leaves almost look like one bush at the top of the tiny trunk. Its a light brown trunk. The leaf is very small and comes in bunches of three.
- A very large and tall tree but does not have very much leaves. The leaf looks like a bunch of needles. They are think and come in bunches.
- This is a very small tree with many tiny branches. Its a light brown color. The leaf is a big leaf and its ends are pointed and its a very light green color.