This semester we have been learning about water; reason why it get polluted, how clean New York tap water is, what bodies of water there are, but we have not forced on types of animals that live in these bodies of water. The Bio Bus introduced a new animal that I never knew about. Dapnia is a type of fish that is really small and hard to see. Dapnia is a type of animal called an indictor animal because it is some times used to indicate how fresh a body of water is. Dapnia can only live in fresh body of water, so if the Dapnia is put into a body of water and it dies of get sick it indicates that the body of water isn’t fresh or clean.
The Bio Bus interested me because of all the things that make it environmental friendly. The Bio Bus is run by three environmental friendly methods. One, the solar roofs that uses the energy of the sun’s ray and turns it into battery energy to power everything in the bus. Two, wind power which a propeller is put in the front of the bus when is parked, so that it can turn the wind power in battery energy as well. Last, the Bio bus runs on used veggie oil from restaurants. Other thing that interested me about the Bio Bus was all of the different microphones and how close some of them got. I don’t think I ever want to get that close to anything because everything seems to look creepy when looked up close.
Although I learned many things from the bio bus I am still confuse about how the veggie oil works because of all the car information need to understand it. In addition, I would like to know development of these microphones and the reason why some were created. Why would people want to get so close to something? I know that scientist need to see things up close to study them, but some of the microphones were just ridiculously close for me.
Something we have learned this semester but I got to under stand more thanks to Ian Urbina, was hydrofracking and public options on it. Ian Urbina is an investigative journalist for the New York Times; who has written a lot on hydrofracking.
I have been learning about hydrofracking for two weeks now and still find many things confusing about both pro-fracking and anti-fracking, sides. The reason for this is that both sides seem to be putting facts to establish their own point, so the information is for the debt. When asking Mr. Urbina questions about hydrofracking he answered by saying that, there is a lot of truth in what both side states has fact, although these “facts” are only ones that support their own side. He explained that both sides are like salesman trying to put their point across. All the information in Mr.Urbina’s talk helped me understand more about what the issue on hydrofracking is and the thing both sides are doing to make their point across. Now I feel like I have no questions or confusion on hydrofracking.
This week was my favorite we meet two scientist named Dr. Ben and Sarah. Dr. Ben and Sarah gave us a tour of their amazing Bio Bus.The Bio Bus was amazing because it had many energy sources like windmills, it had plants in the back to attract more energy and keep the Bio Bus cool. The Bio Bus also had solar roofs that gives energy to the bus from the suns rays , The last source was they use left over veggie oil to run their bus.Inside the bus they had their lab in which they had microscopes, computers and lots of gear they used for their research.In the Bio Bus we observed an animal that lives in our water called a Daphnia.The Daphnia is very little and you could barely see it just using your eyes, We used a microscope to zoom in the Daphnia and observe its features. It was amazing how the Bio Bus used no gas and ran on left over oil from restaurants . How can that be possible? I was also impressed because the Bio Bus uses different sources for energy and is not a factor of pollution. One thing that amazed me the most was when we used the telescope to zoom in on the Daphnia . The Daphnia was so little, I thought that it was just like a white dot.When we zoomed in on the telescope I witness that their was much more to the Daphnia then just a dot it had a heart a head it even had a stinger as a source of its protection.Not only did I learn a lot in this tour but it also changed my view of scientist as well.Before this tour I thought scientist had underground laboratories, or even big rooms as laboratories, but I never imagined a laboratory on a bus.The Bio Bus was not only full of learning experiences it was also comfortable.
This week in Environmental Science, Dr Ben, and Sarah came to our school. I got to visit the Bio Bus and learned lots of information about it. I learned that Ben bought the bus for 30,000 thousand dollars in San Francisco, and drive it all the way to New York. Furthermore, I leaned that the Bio Bus uses vaggie oil in restaurant instead of gasoline. Inside the Bus includes scientific materials, one of which is a microscope. I was able to use this microscope to see what Daphnia looks like, which is an animal that lives in fresh water. Daphnia is an organism who do not need too much water in order to survive, and it eats bacteria. After seeing what a Daphnia looks like, they seem to move by using their shells. Finally, in class, I had a do now paper where I needed to identify everything about Daphnia.
This week was very interesting because Ian Urbina who is an expert of Hydrofracking also came to talk to us as well. We were able to ask him questions on where he stands on the situation of Hydrofracking. However, he could not take a side on the situation. This is important because having an expert coming to us, give us more information to write for our position paper. Ian Urbina is a journalist who wants his voice to be heard, and want to make a big impact in his society. However, his job is really dangerous because he tries to find information about things he's not suppose to.
Learning about the Bio Bus really change the way I think about science because, I never thought there could be an a laboratory in a bus. Also, this shows that you don't need a lab room, and that performing a lab can happen anywhere.
This week in environmental science was really interesting. Two scientist called Dr.Ben and Sarah came to visit wheels. It was pretty cool because they show us their Bio-bus where they work in their laboratory. I learned that they use left over of oil veggie instead of gas to run the Bio-Bus. Plus they have this grass growing on top of the bus, that it obtains sunlight that is use for energy for the entire bus to function , they also have this wind power that is another source that they use for energy.This guys really use conservative method and idea to use energy and gas that would not harm or affect anything in their bus. Dr.Ben and Sarah introduced us to this little fish called "Dasphia" This creature is very hard to see ,when they showed it to us I thought there was nothing. But when they zoom in to this microscope we got to see the part of this little creature, it had eyes,a heart,legs,mouth. I never thought this little fish would have all of this and survive under bodies of water, I was really amazed.
Another thing that I found sketchy and cool was the microscope where you can zoom in to anything you want. You can zoom in into a person hand and you can see all the hair,the cuts a person might have ..everything. You can even zoom in into a jean and see all the material that is made of.
The Bio-bus experience really changed my way of thinking towards scientist. I never thought scientist would have their laboratory in their bus. Either i knew they would use this smart methods and techniques to run a bus without no gas, or other source of energy that we use now in days. Now i think that every scientist have their own unique way of thinking, searching, and discovering things in their laboratories. Overall i think i was pretty fun and cool, This guys really worked hard for all of this.
My Bio Bus experience was like no other. I enjoyed discovering and learning more in depth about this small organism called "Daphnia". Daphnia is found in fresh water, and wouldn't survive in any other water. With this information we know that, we can use Daphnia as an indicator species to identify if water in a certain place is fresh or not. This really helps us know where water is at least safe to drink. Daphnia wouldn't harm us if we drank it, for the reason being that out body will dissolve it instantly.
The Bio Bus was something like I never imagined. In the past I heard rumors of vehicles that ran on Veggie oil, although I wasn't very convinced. Well Dr. Ben showed me and my classmates that he is one of those people that took their diesel engine and making it run on veggie oil. I was also surprised how fully packed the Bio Bus was. This “SMART” Bus included a small like-garden in the roof top used to decrease the amount of heat getting accumulated by the sun. This shocked me, mainly because it’s an exquisite idea; that I didn’t know about but made sense.
This Experience was like no other, THANK YOU MR.FOX, and the BIO BUS CREW!
During this week in environmental science my class got a visit from Dr. Ben and Sarah who showed our the class the bio bus which I found pretty interesting. The Bio Bus was amazing because it had many energy sources like windmills, it had plants in the back to attract more energy and keep the Bio Bus cool. I also learn the way that their bus runs, Instead of using gas to power their bus these scientist use veggie oil as a replacement for gas to give power to their bio bus. I also went inside the bus which was pretty amazing because we was looking at a creature called daphnia through different microscopes and one of these microscopes was actually very expensive.
I found this week interesting because prior to this visit I never went inside an actual Bio Bus before. I found this week interesting because I learn the way they give power to the bus. Most people spent a lot of money on gasoline but this week I found out why waste your money on gasoline when you could use veggie oil. I found when they was showing daphnia interesting because I saw the creature's heart and legs and it look really big when they put the slide on the microscope.
This changed my perspective because now that i Know the way the Bio Bus is power, I wonder if people could the same thing with their cars. This also changed my perspective because now I know that the bus plays in important role in giving power to their bus. Some question I still have is can they give power their bus with other things besides veggie oil?
This week in environmental science my class got a visit from Dr. Ben and Sarah where they show us their bio bus. The bio bus is a mobile science laboratory that before used to be normal bus that was used for public transportation in San Francisco. Also the the bio bus uses waste oil instead of gasoline which is saving them more money and helping us at the same time because that way restaurant would not used the same oil over again. The bio bus has windmill in the front that way when they make a stop they could get energy using the windmill but this is not always the case because sometimes where their no wind they can not get energy.
The bio bus has very advance microscope that helped us look at a specie called Daphnia very closely. this species called daphnia lives in fresh water. Most people use daphnia to see if their water is clean because they know that if the daphnia dies that means the water is not clean. Also daphnia reproduce asexually and sexually because daphnia could make their own babes without having any relationship. also daphnia do not have a heart and they digest through their digestive tube.
This experience was one of my best because i have never seen i bio bus before and i had never experienced been in a actual science laboratory. another thing is that this changed my view point toward scientist because now i know that science could be done anywhere and some science do this job without getting payed since this is something they love.
This week we went on a school trip to the bio bus were we met Dr. Ben and Sarah. They are the owners of the bio bus were they tour the country in a mobile lab. I learned many things like the fact that they have a veggie oil engine which allows them to convert old used up oil from restaurants in to a fuel source to run the bus. This is very eco friendly since it causes no pollution what’s so ever as well as their amazing idea of growing plants on their roof. This is used for cooling down the car when there in places with high temperatures the plants absorb all of that heat energy which creates a cooler environment inside the bus. Another innovation that they have taken advantage of is solar power technology I learned that they put solar panels on top of the bus in order to power it without using any polluting power source. They also have wind mills on the bus which creates electrical energy helping power the bus as well as the solar panels.
The bus was a very fun and informative experience for me I learned a lot about an animal called daphnia. It is an animal which lives in fresh water it is an animal with an exoskeleton meaning its skeleton or shell is on the inside. Dr. Ben told us the reason that they study daphnia is because of the fact that its shell is clear and we can see through it. The daphnia is so small that the only way that we could clearly see it was by observing it through high powered microscopes. Those microscopes gave us such an amazing experience since I had never seen something so up close with so much detail.
The bio bus visit significantly changed my view on science. Before I thought that was boring and not fun at all but after this I saw that it is actually very exciting and creative. Since there are so many things that one can do that relate to science that is quite amazing as well as extremely fun.
This week we learned about water. My favorite part was when we got a visit from dr.Ben and sarah. We also got to see one of America's bio buses. the bus used vegetable oil that was used by resturants basically as its gas. The bus was also able to be runned by solar and wind power. On the bio bus there were about four different microscopes each stronger than the other. The microscopes helped us see up close on the daphnia we were focusing on. With the microscopes we were able to see things we werent able to before. For example the daphnia shell ,its legs its eye,its mouth etc. I found it fascinating how technology can helpus do and see things that we normally would not be able to see with our eyes. I also learned on the bus that some animals especially animals that live under water in bacteria infested places do not live very long. For example the daphnia although it feels like years for them they only live an estimated 3 months most probably because of their surroundings. Overall the bio bus was a great experience and i hope we can do something like that again :)..
This week we had a visit from the Bio Bus. The Bio Bus is basically a science lab on wheels. It travels around New York City and across the country visiting public schools and teaching them about the microscopic world using state of the art science equipment such as an electron microscope found on the Bio Bus. The Bio Bus in run by Dr.Ben and Sarah.
We learned that the Bio Bus' engine runs on vegetable oil and it also gets energy from solar panels and a wind turbine. It also uses plants on top of its roof to save energy. The Bio Bus was able to connect our studies on water with their study on the Daphnia. The Daphnia is a micro-organism that is a crustacean since it also has a shell. We learned that the Dapnia lives in bodies of water. It is also an indicator, it can be use to indicate whether the water is good or not. We used different type of microscopes including an electron microscope to view the Daphnia in different ways. We were able to look closer at the Daphnia and view its heart and bodily functions.
It was really interesting to view the world in a whole new perspective. I was wondering if there is the possibility of anything smaller than the micro-universe and if there is I would like to know the organisms that live within it. I'm also curious to know if the DEP uses Daphnia as one of their sources to determine if the water is safe or not.
This week we had the chance to view and learn not only how a biobus works, but what kinds of things happen inside a biobus. The biobus we visited wasn't always a biobus. It use to be an actual way of public transportation, a public bus. Once this bus was not being used anymore scientists took it upon themselves to turn it into a biobus, where telescopes and technology was used in order to observe several things. I learned many interesting things about the biobus and how it works before actually stepping in. At the top back of the bus in the outside there was a small patch of plant. This plant like all the other changes made on the bus had its purpose, to prevent the inside of the bus from getting really hot, this plant was places on the roof, therefore instead of the sun hitting the roof top the plants would absorb that light, go through the process of photosynthesis and keep the inside of the bus cool. On the left side of the bus also on the roof there were metal plates, which gaining its energy also from the sun creates electricity. Electricity which helps power all the electronic equipment used inside of the biobus. The boibus also runs on used vegetable oil, collected by the Sarah and her partner from restaurant. This struck me as clever and unique. I asked myself and wondered, can we make cars work the as this biobus does? How would that then help or hurt the environment. If we have applied this in some areas of our society, where? Is it working? Why don't more people push this idea, of using plants/vegetable oil?
While inside the biobus, I was all ears. I learned about an organism which lives in the waters right near where I live. This organism is called Daphnia. They are very small but under a microscope we were able to see it closer, close enough to see it's heart, its eye, and even that it was pregnant, and even though this organism doesn't have vanes , its blood flows freely. Even though daphnia live in water, they do not need many of it, however if they have too little water they will eventually die. When our water goes through its cleansing process, there is actually a machine that does not let organisms as small as daphnias through. Therefore we shouldn't worry about it contaminating our water. However I wonder if there are other machines that cleanse out even smaller possible contaminations like daphnia's feces. Learning about the microscopes and how they work was very interesting as well, especially how the smaller cheaper microscope could do things the bigger more expensive one couldn't, like go into a much deeper, detailed focus. Overall I was very thankful for this experience. -Lisnanlly Guaba
This week we had the chance to view and learn not only how a bio bus works, but what kinds of things happen inside a bio bus.
The bio bus we visited wasn't always a bio bus. It use to be an actual way of public transportation, a public bus. Once this bus was not being used anymore scientists took it upon themselves to turn it into a bio bus, where telescopes and technology was used in order to observe several things. I learned many interesting things about the bio bus and how it works before actually stepping in. At the top back of the bus in the outside there was a small patch of plant. This plant like all the other changes made on the bus had its purpose, to prevent the inside of the bus from getting really hot, this plant was places on the roof, therefore instead of the sun hitting the roof top the plants would absorb that light, go through the process of photosynthesis and keep the inside of the bus cool. On the left side of the bus also on the roof there were metal plates, which gaining its energy also from the sun creates electricity. Electricity which helps power all the electronic equipment used inside of the bio bus. The bio bus also runs on used vegetable oil, collected by the Sarah and her partner from restaurant. This struck me as clever and unique. I asked myself and wondered, can we make cars work the as this bio bus does? How would that then help or hurt the environment. If we have applied this in some areas of our society, where? Is it working? Why don't more people push this idea, of using plants/vegetable oil?
While inside the bio bus, I was all ears. I learned about an organism which lives in the waters right near where I live. This organism is called Daphnia. They are very small but under a microscope we were able to see it closer, close enough to see it's heart, its eye, and even that it was pregnant, and even though this organism doesn't have vanes , its blood flows freely. Even though daphnia live in water, they do not need many of it, however if they have too little water they will eventually die. When our water goes through its cleansing process, there is actually a machine that does not let organisms as small as daphnias through. Therefore we shouldn't worry about it contaminating our water. However I wonder if there are other machines that cleanse out even smaller possible contamination's like daphnia's feces. Learning about the microscopes and how they work was very interesting as well, especially how the smaller cheaper microscope could do things the bigger more expensive one couldn't, like go into a much deeper, detailed focus. Overall I was very thankful for this experience.
The Bio Bus was an experience that changed the way I thought about living organisms and fresh water. When Mr. Fox told us about the Bio Bus I thought to myself as if we were going to ride to certain places and talk about “Bio” things. But I was wrong. We actually got to see and witness what actually goes on in the Bio Bus. Before we entered the Bio Bus, Ben and Sara told us a couple of interesting facts about the Bus itself. They told us that the bus actually comes from California and they drove it all the way to NYC. They also gave us a quick tour around the bus and showed us its technology and the way the bus gets most of its energy. The Bio Bus had a cool, cooling system which consisted of a 2 inch soil with plants in order to keep the hotness of the sun away. The bus also had a fan which produces energy as the wind spins it. The bus also had solar panels in which gives the bus energy from the sun. This shows how the Bio Bus contributes to the environment, which is a plus in my book. After Ben and Sara finished giving us the quick in tune on the buses surroundings we entered the bus. As we entered the bus, the class split into 2 a group towards the back and the other stayed on front. I noticed that they were some high priced gadgets such as highest tech telescopes. They also had very expensive technology equipment. As we proceeded into the bus, Sara was talking to us on what actually happens in the bus. They do a very high research on very small organism called Daphnia. When I heard this I immediately thought of cells for some reason, just because cells are very small as well. She gave us a little “testing” tube with the small creature inside. We all were amazed about the creature, but me I was really amazed in which this Daphnia lives on fresh water, which makes me ask a question to myself, Is fresh water really that fresh? After we were done with checking out the creatures and sharing its details and looks with the class, Sara too the Daphnia and zoomed it in with a high powered telescope. We were all surprised on how this Daphnia really looked, but most of our characteristics did match the looks of Daphnia. It looked like an “alien” fish. When we were done observing Daphnia in the back of the Bus, we headed towards the front where they were telescopes that were stronger than the ones we were recently using. This was very interesting because it meant that we were going to get a closer look at the Daphnia. As we were zooming in on Daphnia we notice the very small details of it, in which we didn’t get to see on the back of the bus. We even got to see its hair. After we all were done with observing and inferring Daphnia we headed out and as we did, my perspective towards fresh water completely altered. I think that we were very thankful and fortunate that Ben and Sara came to our school to show us their personal creation, Bio Bus. Not a lot of kids get to have an opportunity like this. It was a life changing experienced.
The Bio Bus was an experience that changed the way I thought about science in general and how important science is in our life and to the environment. When I saw the Bio Bus it look just like the normal yellow school bus but when Ben started telling me and my class meets about the Bio Bus everything changed I saw a whole new side of science a more cool fun side. Ben talked about the reason why the Bio Bus is so cool. One reason why the Bio Bus is so cool is because it runs in vegetable oil. This is cool because regular cars run in gasoline but not the Bio Bus ran in vegetable, they get this oil from restaurant like the oil left that they use after cooking fried food. To start the Bio Bus first they put a little bit of gasoline so it could start than they put the vegetable oil. Another cool thing that I found most interesting of the cool bus is that it has a little garden on top of the car were the back window of the car is at. The reason why the Bio Bus has the garden on top is to maintain the car in a good temperature not getting to hot when the sun in hitting the Bus like other cars that get to hot inside because of the sun. The garden suck up the energy when the sun is hitting the car and this prevents the car to get hot and it also give energy to the plant which benefits both. When i went inside the bus my whole image about how the bus was going to look inside change everything i saw inside the bus I never seen it before. The third thing I enjoy about the bio bus was when Ben was talking and showing us the daphnia which was so small you could barely see and when he used the supper cool microscope that you could see everything up close the way they make the clothes like the treed of the clothes details on your skin hairs eyes. This was very interesting because you could see everything close up which was very fun. Before I when inside the Bio bus I used to think that science was boring and that everything in science was no fun and interesting but the bio bus made everything change because when I came out the Bio Bus there were so many things I never seen before like the little animal that was very interesting.
Personally i think that seeing the biobus and actually seeing it in the inside made me more interested in science. I didnt think there were that many different ways to get energy without using gas. The bus had solar panels on the roof, vegetable oil for the engine, wind trubines in the front and grass on the roof for energy and to cool off the interior. To me the bus looked like something out of a science fiction movie. I was impressed by the different ways energy could be acquired. But it doesnt end there. I was awed by the interior. The electric microscope was the one that really made me interested. I never heard of anything like it that could magnify that many times and see that close.
During this week we had two informational visits by Dr. Ben and Sarah from the Biobus and Ian Urbina the New York Times. First of all the Biobus brought us a different experience because it was a mobile lab. It had really expensive equipment that helped us study “Daphnia.” This was a very small animal that is in most of Manhattan’s streams. This animal eats bacteria in the water therefore it is helping clean the water. It is also very easy to study because it is transparent. What I really liked about Dr. Ben is that he just explained to us how to use the expensive equipment and the he just let us use them without being supervising us. I thought someone was going to break something but Mr. Fox was the only person that came closest to breaking something.
This week we also had Ian Urbina from The New York Times come visit us to answer questions about hydrofracking. Even though he didn’t tell us if he was for or against hydrofracking, I believe he was against it from the way he talked to us about it. What I found interesting was that when he entered college Ian ended up doing something completely different than what he originally wanted. I can tell that he is very successful in what he does because he is working for a very important newspaper. I believe this will help students realize that just because you start studying something in college doesn’t mean that they will end up doing that for the rest of their lives.
Lastly, both these visits have changed my thinking because it made think more about the environment and all the different ways it is being affected. The biobus made me think of the many ways someone can reduce the pollution in the environment. Maybe one day I can apply these genius pollution reducing ideas on my car or house.
During the BioBus experience, I learned about Daphnia. Daphnia are animals that live in fresh water. Daphnia reproduce every three days. They have options; they can reproduce with having eggs or like humans. Daphnia is very interesting to learn about. I didn’t even know they existed. One thing about the BioBus that I really liked was the equipments. They had nice microscopes that I never seen or heard about before. I got to play around with the microscopes and gave me a better idea on how to use this. This experience with Dr.Ben and Sarah made me look at science very different because science is not all about lab reports. When Ian Urbina visited he talked about what he knew about hydrofracking. He mentioned how all the chemicals we use like dish soap and others made me realized that I never thought about it that way. He talked about his journalism experience which was really cool how he did a story on Elliot S. Also about the pimps who used kids for his benefits. I really want to read about it. -Gen colon
This semester we have been learning about water; reason why it get polluted, how clean New York tap water is, what bodies of water there are, but we have not forced on types of animals that live in these bodies of water. The Bio Bus introduced a new animal that I never knew about. Dapnia is a type of fish that is really small and hard to see. Dapnia is a type of animal called an indictor animal because it is some times used to indicate how fresh a body of water is. Dapnia can only live in fresh body of water, so if the Dapnia is put into a body of water and it dies of get sick it indicates that the body of water isn’t fresh or clean.
ReplyDeleteThe Bio Bus interested me because of all the things that make it environmental friendly. The Bio Bus is run by three environmental friendly methods. One, the solar roofs that uses the energy of the sun’s ray and turns it into battery energy to power everything in the bus. Two, wind power which a propeller is put in the front of the bus when is parked, so that it can turn the wind power in battery energy as well. Last, the Bio bus runs on used veggie oil from restaurants. Other thing that interested me about the Bio Bus was all of the different microphones and how close some of them got. I don’t think I ever want to get that close to anything because everything seems to look creepy when looked up close.
Although I learned many things from the bio bus I am still confuse about how the veggie oil works because of all the car information need to understand it. In addition, I would like to know development of these microphones and the reason why some were created. Why would people want to get so close to something? I know that scientist need to see things up close to study them, but some of the microphones were just ridiculously close for me.
Something we have learned this semester but I got to under stand more thanks to Ian Urbina, was hydrofracking and public options on it.
Ian Urbina is an investigative journalist for the New York Times; who has written a lot on hydrofracking.
I have been learning about hydrofracking for two weeks now and still find many things confusing about both pro-fracking and anti-fracking, sides. The reason for this is that both sides seem to be putting facts to establish their own point, so the information is for the debt. When asking Mr. Urbina questions about hydrofracking he answered by saying that, there is a lot of truth in what both side states has fact, although these “facts” are only ones that support their own side. He explained that both sides are like salesman trying to put their point across. All the information in Mr.Urbina’s talk helped me understand more about what the issue on hydrofracking is and the thing both sides are doing to make their point across. Now I feel like I have no questions or confusion on hydrofracking.
This week was my favorite we meet two scientist named Dr. Ben and Sarah. Dr. Ben and Sarah gave us a tour of their amazing Bio Bus.The Bio Bus was amazing because it had many energy sources like windmills, it had plants in the back to attract more energy and keep the Bio Bus cool. The Bio Bus also had solar roofs that gives energy to the bus from the suns rays , The last source was they use left over veggie oil to run their bus.Inside the bus they had their lab in which they had microscopes, computers and lots of gear they used for their research.In the Bio Bus we observed an animal that lives in our water called a Daphnia.The Daphnia is very little and you could barely see it just using your eyes, We used a microscope to zoom in the Daphnia and observe its features.
ReplyDeleteIt was amazing how the Bio Bus used no gas and ran on left over oil from restaurants . How can that be possible? I was also impressed because the Bio Bus uses different sources for energy and is not a factor of pollution. One thing that amazed me the most was when we used the telescope to zoom in on the Daphnia . The Daphnia was so little, I thought that it was just like a white dot.When we zoomed in on the telescope I witness that their was much more to the Daphnia then just a dot it had a heart a head it even had a stinger as a source of its protection.Not only did I learn a lot in this tour but it also changed my view of scientist as well.Before this tour I thought scientist had underground laboratories, or even big rooms as laboratories, but I never imagined a laboratory on a bus.The Bio Bus was not only full of learning experiences it was also comfortable.
This week in Environmental Science, Dr Ben, and Sarah came to our school. I got to visit the Bio Bus and learned lots of information about it. I learned that Ben bought the bus for 30,000 thousand dollars in San Francisco, and drive it all the way to New York. Furthermore, I leaned that the Bio Bus uses vaggie oil in restaurant instead of gasoline. Inside the Bus includes scientific materials, one of which is a microscope. I was able to use this microscope to see what Daphnia looks like, which is an animal that lives in fresh water. Daphnia is an organism who do not need too much water in order to survive, and it eats bacteria. After seeing what a Daphnia looks like, they seem to move by using their shells. Finally, in class, I had a do now paper where I needed to identify everything about Daphnia.
ReplyDeleteThis week was very interesting because Ian Urbina who is an expert of Hydrofracking also came to talk to us as well. We were able to ask him questions
on where he stands on the situation of Hydrofracking. However, he could not take a side on the situation. This is important because having an expert coming to us, give us more information to write for our position paper. Ian Urbina is a journalist who wants his voice to be heard, and want to make a big impact in his society. However, his job is really dangerous because he tries to find information about things he's not suppose to.
Learning about the Bio Bus really change the way I think about science because, I never thought there could be an a laboratory in a bus. Also, this shows that you don't need a lab room, and that performing a lab can happen anywhere.
This week in environmental science was really interesting. Two scientist called Dr.Ben and Sarah came to visit wheels. It was pretty cool because they show us their Bio-bus where they work in their laboratory. I learned that they use left over of oil veggie instead of gas to run the Bio-Bus. Plus they have this grass growing on top of the bus, that it obtains sunlight that is use for energy for the entire bus to function , they also have this wind power that is another source that they use for energy.This guys really use conservative method and idea to use energy and gas that would not harm or affect anything in their bus. Dr.Ben and Sarah introduced us to this little fish called "Dasphia" This creature is very hard to see ,when they showed it to us I thought there was nothing. But when they zoom in to this microscope we got to see the part of this little creature, it had eyes,a heart,legs,mouth. I never thought this little fish would have all of this and survive under bodies of water, I was really amazed.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing that I found sketchy and cool was the microscope where you can zoom in to anything you want. You can zoom in into a person hand and you can see all the hair,the cuts a person might have ..everything. You can even zoom in into a jean and see all the material that is made of.
The Bio-bus experience really changed my way of thinking towards scientist. I never thought scientist would have their laboratory in their bus. Either i knew they would use this smart methods and techniques to run a bus without no gas, or other source of energy that we use now in days. Now i think that every scientist have their own unique way of thinking, searching, and discovering things in their laboratories. Overall i think i was pretty fun and cool, This guys really worked hard for all of this.
My Bio Bus experience was like no other. I enjoyed discovering and learning more in depth about this small organism called "Daphnia". Daphnia is found in fresh water, and wouldn't survive in any other water. With this information we know that, we can use Daphnia as an indicator species to identify if water in a certain place is fresh or not. This really helps us know where water is at least safe to drink. Daphnia wouldn't harm us if we drank it, for the reason being that out body will dissolve it instantly.
ReplyDeleteThe Bio Bus was something like I never imagined. In the past I heard rumors of vehicles that ran on Veggie oil, although I wasn't very convinced. Well Dr. Ben showed me and my classmates that he is one of those people that took their diesel engine and making it run on veggie oil. I was also surprised how fully packed the Bio Bus was. This “SMART” Bus included a small like-garden in the roof top used to decrease the amount of heat getting accumulated by the sun. This shocked me, mainly because it’s an exquisite idea; that I didn’t know about but made sense.
This Experience was like no other, THANK YOU MR.FOX, and the BIO BUS CREW!
During this week in environmental science my class got a visit from Dr. Ben and Sarah who showed our the class the bio bus which I found pretty interesting. The Bio Bus was amazing because it had many energy sources like windmills, it had plants in the back to attract more energy and keep the Bio Bus cool. I also learn the way that their bus runs, Instead of using gas to power their bus these scientist use veggie oil as a replacement for gas to give power to their bio bus. I also went inside the bus which was pretty amazing because we was looking at a creature called daphnia through different microscopes and one of these microscopes was actually very expensive.
ReplyDeleteI found this week interesting because prior to this visit I never went inside an actual Bio Bus before. I found this week interesting because I learn the way they give power to the bus. Most people spent a lot of money on gasoline but this week I found out why waste your money on gasoline when you could use veggie oil. I found when they was showing daphnia interesting because I saw the creature's heart and legs and it look really big when they put the slide on the microscope.
This changed my perspective because now that i Know the way the Bio Bus is power, I wonder if people could the same thing with their cars. This also changed my perspective because now I know that the bus plays in important role in giving power to their bus. Some question I still have is can they give power their bus with other things besides veggie oil?
This week in environmental science my class got a visit from Dr. Ben and Sarah where they show us their bio bus. The bio bus is a mobile science laboratory that before used to be normal bus that was used for public transportation in San Francisco. Also the the bio bus uses waste oil instead of gasoline which is saving them more money and helping us at the same time because that way restaurant would not used the same oil over again. The bio bus has windmill in the front that way when they make a stop they could get energy using the windmill but this is not always the case because sometimes where their no wind they can not get energy.
ReplyDeleteThe bio bus has very advance microscope that helped us look at a specie called Daphnia very closely. this species called daphnia lives in fresh water. Most people use daphnia to see if their water is clean because they know that if the daphnia dies that means the water is not clean. Also daphnia reproduce asexually and sexually because daphnia could make their own babes without having any relationship. also daphnia do not have a heart and they digest through their digestive tube.
This experience was one of my best because i have never seen i bio bus before and i had never experienced been in a actual science laboratory. another thing is that this changed my view point toward scientist because now i know that science could be done anywhere and some science do this job without getting payed since this is something they love.
This week we went on a school trip to the bio bus were we met Dr. Ben and Sarah. They are the owners of the bio bus were they tour the country in a mobile lab. I learned many things like the fact that they have a veggie oil engine which allows them to convert old used up oil from restaurants in to a fuel source to run the bus. This is very eco friendly since it causes no pollution what’s so ever as well as their amazing idea of growing plants on their roof. This is used for cooling down the car when there in places with high temperatures the plants absorb all of that heat energy which creates a cooler environment inside the bus. Another innovation that they have taken advantage of is solar power technology I learned that they put solar panels on top of the bus in order to power it without using any polluting power source. They also have wind mills on the bus which creates electrical energy helping power the bus as well as the solar panels.
ReplyDeleteThe bus was a very fun and informative experience for me I learned a lot about an animal called daphnia. It is an animal which lives in fresh water it is an animal with an exoskeleton meaning its skeleton or shell is on the inside. Dr. Ben told us the reason that they study daphnia is because of the fact that its shell is clear and we can see through it. The daphnia is so small that the only way that we could clearly see it was by observing it through high powered microscopes. Those microscopes gave us such an amazing experience since I had never seen something so up close with so much detail.
The bio bus visit significantly changed my view on science. Before I thought that was boring and not fun at all but after this I saw that it is actually very exciting and creative. Since there are so many things that one can do that relate to science that is quite amazing as well as extremely fun.
This week we learned about water. My favorite part was when we got a visit from dr.Ben and sarah. We also got to see one of America's bio buses. the bus used vegetable oil that was used by resturants basically as its gas. The bus was also able to be runned by solar and wind power. On the bio bus there were about four different microscopes each stronger than the other. The microscopes helped us see up close on the daphnia we were focusing on. With the microscopes we were able to see things we werent able to before. For example the daphnia shell ,its legs its eye,its mouth etc. I found it fascinating how technology can helpus do and see things that we normally would not be able to see with our eyes. I also learned on the bus that some animals especially animals that live under water in bacteria infested places do not live very long. For example the daphnia although it feels like years for them they only live an estimated 3 months most probably because of their surroundings. Overall the bio bus was a great experience and i hope we can do something like that again :)..
ReplyDeleteThis week we had a visit from the Bio Bus. The Bio Bus is basically a science lab on wheels. It travels around New York City and across the country visiting public schools and teaching them about the microscopic world using state of the art science equipment such as an electron microscope found on the Bio Bus. The Bio Bus in run by Dr.Ben and Sarah.
ReplyDeleteWe learned that the Bio Bus' engine runs on vegetable oil and it also gets energy from solar panels and a wind turbine. It also uses plants on top of its roof to save energy. The Bio Bus was able to connect our studies on water with their study on the Daphnia. The Daphnia is a micro-organism that is a crustacean since it also has a shell. We learned that the Dapnia lives in bodies of water. It is also an indicator, it can be use to indicate whether the water is good or not. We used different type of microscopes including an electron microscope to view the Daphnia in different ways. We were able to look closer at the Daphnia and view its heart and bodily functions.
It was really interesting to view the world in a whole new perspective. I was wondering if there is the possibility of anything smaller than the micro-universe and if there is I would like to know the organisms that live within it. I'm also curious to know if the DEP uses Daphnia as one of their sources to determine if the water is safe or not.
This week we had the chance to view and learn not only how a biobus works, but what kinds of things happen inside a biobus.
ReplyDeleteThe biobus we visited wasn't always a biobus. It use to be an actual way of public transportation, a public bus. Once this bus was not being used anymore scientists took it upon themselves to turn it into a biobus, where telescopes and technology was used in order to observe several things. I learned many interesting things about the biobus and how it works before actually stepping in. At the top back of the bus in the outside there was a small patch of plant. This plant like all the other changes made on the bus had its purpose, to prevent the inside of the bus from getting really hot, this plant was places on the roof, therefore instead of the sun hitting the roof top the plants would absorb that light, go through the process of photosynthesis and keep the inside of the bus cool. On the left side of the bus also on the roof there were metal plates, which gaining its energy also from the sun creates electricity. Electricity which helps power all the electronic equipment used inside of the biobus. The boibus also runs on used vegetable oil, collected by the Sarah and her partner from restaurant. This struck me as clever and unique. I asked myself and wondered, can we make cars work the as this biobus does? How would that then help or hurt the environment. If we have applied this in some areas of our society, where? Is it working? Why don't more people push this idea, of using plants/vegetable oil?
While inside the biobus, I was all ears. I learned about an organism which lives in the waters right near where I live. This organism is called Daphnia. They are very small but under a microscope we were able to see it closer, close enough to see it's heart, its eye, and even that it was pregnant, and even though this organism doesn't have vanes , its blood flows freely. Even though daphnia live in water, they do not need many of it, however if they have too little water they will eventually die. When our water goes through its cleansing process, there is actually a machine that does not let organisms as small as daphnias through. Therefore we shouldn't worry about it contaminating our water. However I wonder if there are other machines that cleanse out even smaller possible contaminations like daphnia's feces. Learning about the microscopes and how they work was very interesting as well, especially how the smaller cheaper microscope could do things the bigger more expensive one couldn't, like go into a much deeper, detailed focus. Overall I was very thankful for this experience.
-Lisnanlly Guaba
This week we had the chance to view and learn not only how a bio bus works, but what kinds of things happen inside a bio bus.
ReplyDeleteThe bio bus we visited wasn't always a bio bus. It use to be an actual way of public transportation, a public bus. Once this bus was not being used anymore scientists took it upon themselves to turn it into a bio bus, where telescopes and technology was used in order to observe several things. I learned many interesting things about the bio bus and how it works before actually stepping in. At the top back of the bus in the outside there was a small patch of plant. This plant like all the other changes made on the bus had its purpose, to prevent the inside of the bus from getting really hot, this plant was places on the roof, therefore instead of the sun hitting the roof top the plants would absorb that light, go through the process of photosynthesis and keep the inside of the bus cool. On the left side of the bus also on the roof there were metal plates, which gaining its energy also from the sun creates electricity. Electricity which helps power all the electronic equipment used inside of the bio bus. The bio bus also runs on used vegetable oil, collected by the Sarah and her partner from restaurant. This struck me as clever and unique. I asked myself and wondered, can we make cars work the as this bio bus does? How would that then help or hurt the environment. If we have applied this in some areas of our society, where? Is it working? Why don't more people push this idea, of using plants/vegetable oil?
While inside the bio bus, I was all ears. I learned about an organism which lives in the waters right near where I live. This organism is called Daphnia. They are very small but under a microscope we were able to see it closer, close enough to see it's heart, its eye, and even that it was pregnant, and even though this organism doesn't have vanes , its blood flows freely. Even though daphnia live in water, they do not need many of it, however if they have too little water they will eventually die. When our water goes through its cleansing process, there is actually a machine that does not let organisms as small as daphnias through. Therefore we shouldn't worry about it contaminating our water. However I wonder if there are other machines that cleanse out even smaller possible contamination's like daphnia's feces. Learning about the microscopes and how they work was very interesting as well, especially how the smaller cheaper microscope could do things the bigger more expensive one couldn't, like go into a much deeper, detailed focus. Overall I was very thankful for this experience.
-Lisnanlly Guaba (This was the intended post)
The Bio Bus was an experience that changed the way I thought about living organisms and fresh water. When Mr. Fox told us about the Bio Bus I thought to myself as if we were going to ride to certain places and talk about “Bio” things. But I was wrong. We actually got to see and witness what actually goes on in the Bio Bus. Before we entered the Bio Bus, Ben and Sara told us a couple of interesting facts about the Bus itself. They told us that the bus actually comes from California and they drove it all the way to NYC. They also gave us a quick tour around the bus and showed us its technology and the way the bus gets most of its energy. The Bio Bus had a cool, cooling system which consisted of a 2 inch soil with plants in order to keep the hotness of the sun away. The bus also had a fan which produces energy as the wind spins it. The bus also had solar panels in which gives the bus energy from the sun. This shows how the Bio Bus contributes to the environment, which is a plus in my book. After Ben and Sara finished giving us the quick in tune on the buses surroundings we entered the bus. As we entered the bus, the class split into 2 a group towards the back and the other stayed on front. I noticed that they were some high priced gadgets such as highest tech telescopes. They also had very expensive technology equipment. As we proceeded into the bus, Sara was talking to us on what actually happens in the bus. They do a very high research on very small organism called Daphnia. When I heard this I immediately thought of cells for some reason, just because cells are very small as well. She gave us a little “testing” tube with the small creature inside. We all were amazed about the creature, but me I was really amazed in which this Daphnia lives on fresh water, which makes me ask a question to myself, Is fresh water really that fresh? After we were done with checking out the creatures and sharing its details and looks with the class, Sara too the Daphnia and zoomed it in with a high powered telescope. We were all surprised on how this Daphnia really looked, but most of our characteristics did match the looks of Daphnia. It looked like an “alien” fish. When we were done observing Daphnia in the back of the Bus, we headed towards the front where they were telescopes that were stronger than the ones we were recently using. This was very interesting because it meant that we were going to get a closer look at the Daphnia. As we were zooming in on Daphnia we notice the very small details of it, in which we didn’t get to see on the back of the bus. We even got to see its hair. After we all were done with observing and inferring Daphnia we headed out and as we did, my perspective towards fresh water completely altered. I think that we were very thankful and fortunate that Ben and Sara came to our school to show us their personal creation, Bio Bus. Not a lot of kids get to have an opportunity like this. It was a life changing experienced.
ReplyDeleteThe Bio Bus was an experience that changed the way I thought about science in general and how important science is in our life and to the environment. When I saw the Bio Bus it look just like the normal yellow school bus but when Ben started telling me and my class meets about the Bio Bus everything changed I saw a whole new side of science a more cool fun side. Ben talked about the reason why the Bio Bus is so cool. One reason why the Bio Bus is so cool is because it runs in vegetable oil. This is cool because regular cars run in gasoline but not the Bio Bus ran in vegetable, they get this oil from restaurant like the oil left that they use after cooking fried food. To start the Bio Bus first they put a little bit of gasoline so it could start than they put the vegetable oil. Another cool thing that I found most interesting of the cool bus is that it has a little garden on top of the car were the back window of the car is at. The reason why the Bio Bus has the garden on top is to maintain the car in a good temperature not getting to hot when the sun in hitting the Bus like other cars that get to hot inside because of the sun. The garden suck up the energy when the sun is hitting the car and this prevents the car to get hot and it also give energy to the plant which benefits both. When i went inside the bus my whole image about how the bus was going to look inside change everything i saw inside the bus I never seen it before. The third thing I enjoy about the bio bus was when Ben was talking and showing us the daphnia which was so small you could barely see and when he used the supper cool microscope that you could see everything up close the way they make the clothes like the treed of the clothes details on your skin hairs eyes. This was very interesting because you could see everything close up which was very fun. Before I when inside the Bio bus I used to think that science was boring and that everything in science was no fun and interesting but the bio bus made everything change because when I came out the Bio Bus there were so many things I never seen before like the little animal that was very interesting.
ReplyDeletePersonally i think that seeing the biobus and actually seeing it in the inside made me more interested in science. I didnt think there were that many different ways to get energy without using gas. The bus had solar panels on the roof, vegetable oil for the engine, wind trubines in the front and grass on the roof for energy and to cool off the interior. To me the bus looked like something out of a science fiction movie. I was impressed by the different ways energy could be acquired. But it doesnt end there. I was awed by the interior. The electric microscope was the one that really made me interested. I never heard of anything like it that could magnify that many times and see that close.
ReplyDeleteDuring this week we had two informational visits by Dr. Ben and Sarah from the Biobus and Ian Urbina the New York Times. First of all the Biobus brought us a different experience because it was a mobile lab. It had really expensive equipment that helped us study “Daphnia.” This was a very small animal that is in most of Manhattan’s streams. This animal eats bacteria in the water therefore it is helping clean the water. It is also very easy to study because it is transparent. What I really liked about Dr. Ben is that he just explained to us how to use the expensive equipment and the he just let us use them without being supervising us. I thought someone was going to break something but Mr. Fox was the only person that came closest to breaking something.
ReplyDeleteThis week we also had Ian Urbina from The New York Times come visit us to answer questions about hydrofracking. Even though he didn’t tell us if he was for or against hydrofracking, I believe he was against it from the way he talked to us about it. What I found interesting was that when he entered college Ian ended up doing something completely different than what he originally wanted. I can tell that he is very successful in what he does because he is working for a very important newspaper. I believe this will help students realize that just because you start studying something in college doesn’t mean that they will end up doing that for the rest of their lives.
Lastly, both these visits have changed my thinking because it made think more about the environment and all the different ways it is being affected. The biobus made me think of the many ways someone can reduce the pollution in the environment. Maybe one day I can apply these genius pollution reducing ideas on my car or house.
During the BioBus experience, I learned about Daphnia. Daphnia are animals that live in fresh water. Daphnia reproduce every three days. They have options; they can reproduce with having eggs or like humans. Daphnia is very interesting to learn about. I didn’t even know they existed. One thing about the BioBus that I really liked was the equipments. They had nice microscopes that I never seen or heard about before. I got to play around with the microscopes and gave me a better idea on how to use this. This experience with Dr.Ben and Sarah made me look at science very different because science is not all about lab reports.
ReplyDeleteWhen Ian Urbina visited he talked about what he knew about hydrofracking. He mentioned how all the chemicals we use like dish soap and others made me realized that I never thought about it that way. He talked about his journalism experience which was really cool how he did a story on Elliot S. Also about the pimps who used kids for his benefits. I really want to read about it.
-Gen colon