Research Reflections and the Magic School Bus

Research Reflections:
For the past month, we have been researching body systems on our own.


One good thing about doing it this way is that we can find information on our own and letting us have more freedom. It is also fun checking out different websites. Researching on our own lets us understand better what we're doing.

One thing I didn't like about doing it this way is that it can get very frustrating when you can't find the answer to a question and you just get really pissed. I don't like it when you just can't find the answer and when you do, you have to change it into your own words.

I think Mrs. Smith planned it this way because we can understand better when we do it on our own instead of Mrs. Smith just printing down the information and we don't understand. We can learn more on our own because we know what we are typing not just reading it or listening to it. If we don't understand the information on the internet, it is useless if we just plagiarize or we can't learn a lot of things.

One suggestion I have for Mrs. Smith is to make us hand in the work earlier so we can do more under pressure because you get really nervous about the work and you have to hand it in the next day. Which means when we are not under pressure we have more time to write so we can write more.

Another suggestion I have for Mrs. Smith is to give us less information so that we can handle harder questions.

The Magic School Bus:
Today in Science we watched "The Magic School Bus". The episode was about the class going into Arnold's digestive system.

One thing that was correct in the movie is villi absorbs nutrients and exports the nutrients into the circulatory system.
Another thing that was correct in the movie is that the esophagus pushes the food down to the stomach.

One thing that was incorrect in the movie is that digestion does not take 10 hours to digest
Another thing that was incorrect in the movie is that there are two holes at the throat and a flap to cover the other one.