Mira's Science Blogs

Link Link Summary: This week, we were learning about foods that should be in your diet. We were basing it on My Plate and My Pyramid.    Fruits: Link According to My Plate, fruits should be 20% of your diet. Fruits include apples, oranges, peaches, mangoes, bananas, blueberries, and many more! Fruits are important because they are a good source of vitamins and minerals. They are also good for nutrients including potassium (especially in bananas), fiber, and vitamin C. As you can see, fruits can really make a change, and help you stay fit. Vegetables: Vegetables should be about 30% of your diet. Vegetables include carrots, cucumbers, broccoli, green peas, and more. Vegetables are important because they also have potassium, fiber, and vitamins A, E, and C.  Link Broccoli has vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, iron, magnesium, and more potassium than most vegetables. It also provides fiber and is low in calori...

Summary This week, we were learning about food systems. A food system includes the steps that it takes for a food to get to a grocery store after it has been grown. First, we tried to organize the steps in order of the apple food system. The apple food system was long and had a lot of steps because there are many apples that are grown with bruises or bumps. We got into groups and chose a fruit or vegetable that we wanted to learn the food system of. My group chose potatoes. It took a little while, but then we found the steps: The potatoes are grown on a potato field. Grown on fields The potato digger or harvester digs out the potatoes from the ground and uses a series of belts to load them onto a large truck.  Next, the potatoes are going to get washed. The potatoes get dumped from the truck into the washer. Then, the potatoes get put into sections for good potatoes and bad potatoes. Next, the potatoes are sized and put into sections such as “big”, a...

This is a picture of my newspaper basket About the Project: In class, we were assigned to create something that either would be recycled or thrown away.  I decided to create a basket out of old newspaper. I decided to do this because I was thinking about what to do, and then I realized I was staring at all of the old newspapers that were going to be recycled. I thought about what I could make with it, and I decided on a basket. To make this basket, first, I made many rolls of newspaper that I would be weaving later. Then, I created the base of the basket out of an old cereal box. After I made the base, I started weaving the different rolls of newspaper together which started to form a basket. Here are the materials I used for the project: newspaper (that would have been recycled or thrown away) cardboard (from used cereal box) glue (for making the base of the basket) tape (for sticking the roles together) Summary: This week, I learned that there are so...