All the boys favorite science activity and the girls least, is the animal dissection. Many people wonder what is the point of cutting open a dead animal and examining its insides. Dissections serve multiple purposes in classrooms. First, it helps familiarize ourselves with the parts of the body, and it’s purpose. Though it may be only a frog or worm, animals share many of the same body parts as humans. Also the hands-on experiment provides a new and easier way to learn. I have learned the names and functions of many new body parts thanks to this experiment.

For our semester project, my partner Cayman and I decided to test the resistance of different types of gum. Our testing gums ranged from being sugar free to containing 3 grams of sugar. The gum types we included were as follows: 5, Extra, Juicy Fruit, Quench, Stride, Trident, Trident Splash, and UP 2 U. We sandwiched the chewed gum between two cups and pulled apart to find the resistance of each gum in Newtons. What we learned was, one, Quench gum is the most resistant of the listed gums, and two, the amount of sugar in the gum does not contribute to its resistance. What I liked best about this project was chewing the gum during the project, and keeping it after. Though doing this project was fun, I still wish we would have done my first idea of using Tesla coils experiment something else. I believe this would have been more advanced, more fun to do, and also much more exciting to the class than just pulling gum apart.

I believe that God created the universe from scratch. I cannot bring my self to believe that it just happened. In the Big-Bang theory it states that two molecules collided and exploded, creating space. Well, where did the molecules come from? Also how did we come from monkeys? Scientist have found no proof of this and probably never will. The theory that states that every thing has always been here cannot be true due to the fact that we have found no proof that the Earth is older than 10,000 years. The earliest record of all time is the Bible, and the bible states that God created the Heavens and the Earth in 6 days and resting on the 7th. None of the other records of civilization prove that what Bible says is false. I therefore, find the Bible the easiest to believe.  Some people say its hard to believe there’s a God, but I find it much easier to believe that a supernatural being created the world, rather than being created by pure chance.

Many things happen in a chemical reaction. Some changes are visible to a naked eye, and some only visible through powerful microscopes. Though not visible to the naked eye many things happen inside a chemical reaction. What we see on the outside (smoke, bubble, temperature change, and odor change) is a result of whats happening on the inside. Inside of the atoms valence electrons are changing atoms thus causing changes in the chemical make-up of an atom.

There are many reasons why we must study science lab equipment and safety before we start working in the lab. First, without learning lab safety you would not know what is right or wrong. This could cause many minor to extreme accidents such as spilling acid, drinking poison, blowing something up, and also catching yourself on fire. Secondly, because we study these lab utensils we know how to use them before we actually start doing experiments. Third, during an experiment it would be nearly impossible to do an experiment without knowing how to use the equipment properly. For instance, if you had to heat a beaker you would need the right equipment. It is for these reasons that it is vital that we study lab safety and equipment.