Quantitative Data Analysis: Using Bar graph and Pie chart

This activity was to make a bar graph and pie chart based on a survey that conducted to find out which course program, year level, gender and age dominates the IGP Park.

  The time frame for the survey was only thirty minutes, we started at 12:00 o’clock in noon time and ended at 12:30 P.M but we surveyed a lot. After collecting data I and Mr. Chan analyzed the data that we have gathered and make presentations using Microsoft Excel.

Showing the data obtained for Gender

Showing the data obtained for course programs 

CLAYMATION (Stem cell: cell differentiation)

Skin cell, Muscle cell, Nerve cell and Red blood cell

In this activity, we performed a method of animation in which we used clay and molded into cell figures then filmed by stop-motion photography. Our group agreed to have an idea about stem cell on how it differentiates to form a new cell.  

Stem cell (middle) starting to change into a nerve cell

In this Claymation we limited our cell figures into five cells only namely: muscle cell, nerve cell, fat cell, skin cell and stem cell.

Fully formed new nerve cell

We molded our cell figures in school during ICT and STS time and after molding the different cell figures Lief and Dawn were assigned to take pictures of each of the movements of the characters. They had taken 197 pictures and passed to me to edit those pictures in Fotor and Photoshop CS5. It takes a lot of time to edit the background so I asked Lief to help me edit those pictures. We had spent the whole night to finish editing those pictures but it was fun J. The last thing we did was to dub voice into the cell figures and those scripts were written by Leonard Chan.

         

To watch our video click this link http://youtu.be/PCOwHoSNa-4

PowerPoint Presentation: Using Hyperlinks, Images and Videos

PowerPoint presentation

      This activity is about making a PowerPoint presentation in which we are thinking about a topic that would be presented in class and it should be pertaining to science. I decided to have a presentation about reproductive cloning because many people would think that reproductive cloning is the “exact copy” of the original which is not because in reproductive cloning though the “whole” genetic make-up is reproduced from a single body cell the mitochondrial DNA is not passed or reproduce that would totally result in not exact copy of the original.

                                

         The most common cloning technique used is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same method used to clone dolly the sheep. This type of cloning is not an exact copy of the original.

Process of cloning Dolly the sheep.

         In the making of my report I inserted it with a picture that is hyperlinked to the text and pictures in slide and also I put a video for them to have better visualization about the process done in reproductive cloning.

Karyotyping Activity: Virtual vs Manual

Human Karyotype (Normal)

Karyotyping is used to detect whether the offspring would have chromosomal abnormalities by pairing its chromosomes. A normal human has 22 pairs of somatic chromosomes and 1 pair of sex cells.

In this activity, we have to work on pair to answer the karyotyping activity. Ma’am Rutchelle Enriquez provided us the link that will be printed out then cut all the chromosomes and match them by comparing its size and the arrangement of centromeres. After pairing the chromosomes I and my partner Jay will make a reflection paper comparing the manual method versus virtual method of pairing the chromosomes.

Watermarking: Image Authenticity (Baysay_Best Title)

Best Title_Baysay

      Our 5^th activity in ICT in biology was to take a photo of a living organism and use a free watermarking application. This photo was printed in 5'r with a waray word caption with copyright © and Our Professor Ma’am Rutchelle Enriquez will choose different pictures presented in class which will get the titles:

• a.     Best Picture
• b.     Best Story
• c.      Best Title

This photo was taken in our boarding house. It was in titled “Baysay” because this bougainvillea flower is very common to us but it is not appreciated compared to other flowers and other people would tend to look this flower hyperopically but if we looked at this flower myopically we will appreciate the true beauty of this flower.

Indeed. Our group believed that “simplicity itself is beautiful” and this flower is really beautiful that cope to its name “baysay”. And even though we did not get the best picture and best story we are still very proud because we get the best title in this activity.