Reflection

         At the beginning of this year I was confused; while at ramp camp our topics we would be studying all year were presented and we, the students were told that we would be working these topics Into all 3 of our classes. This mystified me because 10 years of traditional teaching had led me to believe that interweaving a topic into different areas of study simultaneously was something impossible. Through this year my views on this  have slowly changed. Now, while studying social media and the environment, I have been able to develop english, science  and science skills through my campaign on waste disposal.

By creating content for my website on waste management I demonstrated my English prowess. By mastering complex analysis of evidence, as seen in this essay on racism To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, I was able to create effective analysis of evidence when approaching my lab background.

The procedures I wrote for my lab and
displayed  on my website

These two pieces of writing show mastery of evidence analysis across two different types of analysis. Additionally both the background and procedures are written with considering the prospective audience in mind. I keep the language scientific but simple in a way that encourages young visitors to ask questions about unknown concepts so that they can learn. I also keep the procedures simple enough so that anyone without scientific background could complete this lab. This is important because I want as many people as possible to complete the lab.This skill of writing with an audience in mind translated well to the completion of my ted talk. By mastering this skill while writing my background and procedures I was able to effectively write my Ted Talk. I did this by considering that the ted talk audience would be there to learn something, to be told something, or to be entertained. I tried to use the first two purposes in my Ted Talk by utilizing rhetoric that enforced these purposes. I used informative rhetoric in the meat of my talk in order to teach the audience and switched to a rhetoric that called for action at the end of my talk in order to raise awareness and passion about the issue, and therefore, my solution. Even now, It surprises me how much English skills were necessary to be invoked in such a scientific study and project.

By studying the environmental

The data collected when I completed my lab
 that is to be used as an example
 for people that would like to also complete it

problems caused by improper waste disposal, I was able to design a lab to show the human aspects in causing it. I thoroughly studied the effects and proposed and designed a solution to this problem in my essay on my A Better Waste Bin. Writing this essay allowed me to define the cause and effect of the problems caused when you throw out recycle or compost incorrectly. This was fueled by strong and reputable research as can seen in the works cited. This essay began my deep dive into the topic of recycling and reflected my ability to find and logically analyze scientific evidence. This led me to create my lab.
This lab showcased my ability and expertise in the scientific method. I linked our study of aerobic vs anaerobic at the beginning of the year to the decomposition of organic matter in landfill which demonstrates my retention of information from previous units and my ability to connect scientific topics across studies. This skill was helpful when writing the background for my lab and while creating my video on the problem. My entire campaign was fueled by my scientific research and the creation of a lab that was designed specifically to help people understand a complex scientific problem that I had become an expert in.

The twitter account I designed to spread the word about my lab and the
environmental problem  of  waste disposal

To raise awareness around the topic of improper disposal and its consequences I created a social media campaign across 3 platforms in order to get people thinking. First of all I used my skills in website design that I started to develop two years ago to create a website that presented the problem and a homemade lab that would demonstrate the problem to people when they completed it. This was put together into a polished website. This lab can not help raise awareness by itself, because a website like that does not acquire much web traffic by itself. So, I had to get people interested the problem and my website/lab, and I did this using Twitter. This platform has been on my radar as a way to get an idea out to people because of its prevalence in the news. Last year, when I started a personal twitter, I was intimidated by its open nature. This led me to stop using my account before I even started. Now that I have created my own twitter for this project I have learned that there is nothing to worry about. I created a twitter account specifically to advertise my lab and the problem. I am using images and engaging poss to attract an audience, and I already have almost 20 followers that have accounts dedicated to similar topics. This shows my mastery of a social media platform that I was not comfortable with coming into the year. It also demonstrates my online responsibility. This has helped me reach out to an authentic audience and help me start to get online momentum on this topic. This excites me because I am reaching out to real people who care about the real environmental issue I am presenting and a solution my group  and I designed.  Additionally I showed my prowess in getting over tech hiccups in my production of my 3 video playlist.

The playlist that contains my 3 videos and other related ones

The screen recording software I was using would not let me record audio along with the recording so I recorded my voice separately and used drive to get the two clips on the same computer, but the screen-casting site does not allow you to download your clip, only post it to YouTube. This led to me publishing my clips to YouTube separately and downloading them through a special website. I then joined the clips in Imovie and posted the finished videos. As it turns out, Erika was having a similar problem with her videos, and I was able to help he r walk through my process. This exhibits my technological mastery of the production of videos, in that I was able to design a viable solution to my problem, and apply it to me and Erika’s problems. Only through a project and program like this would technology be so vital to a science issue.

Completing this project has not only helped me develop skills in all three of the subjects of Science, English, and Technology/Social Media, but also begin to see that there is always a possibility for us to make change or raise awareness. This process has also let me see how vital social media is to this process. Whether it be YouTube, Twitter, or just a website it is incredibly important to use a media to reach as many people as possible. I recently saw my dad accidentally drop a piece of paper in a parking lot and then leave it to fly away. I told him “I can't preach recycling if you do stuff like that”.  But, as I realized later, this is just one person, to make a difference i am going to need to get everyone's attention. To do this I need social media. And as I have found out through my personal experience in this core: You can not have one without the others, the subjects of Science, English, and Technology/Social Media are forever intertwined. You can not master one without mastering the others.

Fresh Lab Data Just For You!

I have completed my lab on recycling, and here are two graphs representing the data I acquired in the process. These pie charts represent the makeup of a trash can's contents by both the number of items and mass of each type of waste discovered to be in the can. These metrics are both useful for different reasons: The data based on the mass is useful for approximating the amount of greenhouse gasses that are being released because waste is being improperly disposing of waste because it is possible to find out what amount of GHGs are released by a certain mass of waste material. However, the number of items is a better percentage of the human aspect of the improper disposal of waste, because it allows for a better representation ow how much of what we throw away does not belong in the trash because people throw waste away by a number of items not mass.

Rhetoric

Rhetoric (noun): is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing. With movies or other visual mediums, think about the use of figures of speech, images and music.

ABO blood types

Today in science we determined my ABO and Rh Blood type. 

For all of you non-nurses out there here is a little info on what this alphabetical gibberish means.

Red blood cells are similar but differ in that they have either have or don't have several antigens (proteins), and are classified by the presence or lack of three different antigens. Antigens are proteins that can be found on the outside of cells, including your red blood cells. Your blood contains antibodies (more proteins) that peruse the cells in your blood. When the antibody "sees" a cell with antigens that don't match the antibody signals for a lot of other antibodies to be produced. These antibodies are slightly different: they swarm around the foreign antibodies that didn't match the original antibody. This signals for the white blood cells to attack the pathogen. This process is part of both the innate and acquired immune system.  So, if you get a blood transfusion with blood cells with antigens that aren't the same as the ones on your blood cells the process will be carried out on those blood cells. This causes many issues. But, there is hope: the blood transfusion does not have to be from a donor with a  perfect blood type match because as long as the blood does not have antigens that your blood does not have, your antibody won't recognize it as different and therefore won't attack the foreign blood. 

according to redcrossblood.org:

• Group A – has only the A antigen on red cells (and B antibody in the plasma)
• Group B – has only the B antigen on red cells (and A antibody in the plasma)
• Group AB – has both A and B antigens on red cells (but neither A nor B antibody in the plasma)
• Group O – has neither A nor B antigens on red cells (but both A and B antibody are in the plasma)

Trial	Reaction With A (Y/N)	Reaction With B (Y/N)	Reaction With Rh (Y/N)	Blood type
Isaac	N	N	Y	O+

Questions

• The blood types in the Introduction are for red blood cells. There are other cell types in your blood though. What are the other cell types and do they have the same blood typing systems?
• Meet The Cells
• white blood cells (immune response)

Neutrophils digest bacteria Monocytes become macrophages Lymphocytes consist of B cells and T cells Platelets help blood to clot

• platelets
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2263/
• https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001306.htm
• What blood type is needed for a transfusion for a Type O positive patient?
• O positive or negative
• What would happen if someone was transfused with an incompatible blood type
• SWARM!SWARM!SWARM!SWARM!SWARM!SWARM!SWARM!SWARM!SWARM! 
• according to medlineplus.gov the symptoms of an ABO incompatible transfusion reaction include
• • Back pain
  • Blood in urine
  • Chills
  • Feeling of "impending doom"
  • Fever
  • Yellow skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice)

Diologue

audio

Narrative dialogue notes

• watch your tags 
• what goes before she said I said quietly
• use sparingly but to enhance tone
• realistic doesn't mean real get rid of um
• not a transcript
• use purposeful punctuation
• give speech patternes due to charctor poatterns
• age background and education
• cut out names and see if you can tell who said what
• dont have to begin at first sentence or last one 
• start at the meat
• punctation
• everry time somone speaks start a new line
• use a double quotation
• punctuation in parentheses
• comma or period? do not understand
• in anovel diouluge should


• reveal charctors relationship
• move the story forwardd
• increase  tenison
• develop chaecrtors emotions or traits
• do not use as a filler
• use said less

Lab Progect Progress: Materials

I am going to be creating a new amazon account for school. I will use this to create a wishlist for the materials needed for my lab.  This should make it easier for teachers and viewers of my lab to collect the materials necessary for my lab. I will add a link to this wishlist

Khan Acadamy SAT progress

 Today I completed a SAT reading diagnostic assessment on science in khan academy's sat prep section.

A picture of the diagnostic test I completed on khan

A screen shot of my perfect score

My score: 11/11

I want to get out of my comfort zone of science and focus more on history and social science reading sections so I can be better rounded when I take the test. I know I have a weakness in historical reading passages so I would like to spend most of my studying time there. I am comfortable using the multi choice Neto tips but I would like to speed up the process of answering the Qs and reading the passage, and this will only come with time and practice.

Ted talk analysis

Today we had the opportunity to analyze a ted talk to prepare for upcoming ted talks.

• Is it the solution that is proposed?
• the solution proposed a little at the beginning but hit home at the end of middle to the end 
• the solution that everyone can relate to because it is true all over the world and to anyone that is formally educated 
• Is it the way the community reacts?
• laughter helps introduce big ideas
• Is it the sheer passion of the speaker?
• passion and story telling
• organized and passionate
• tells funny stories but ones that are related and each one says a little something more about the topic each time

CH11 and 12 Discussion

• Why does Jem have to read to Mrs. Dubose? What is actually happening as he reads? Why does Atticus say Mrs. Dubose has “real courage”?
• bc he destroyed her garden
• she is correcting him but slowly falling asleep and not listening
• bc she faces a challenge that would normally be impossible and knows what she needs to do.

• There are clear gender roles during this time period. How are girls and boys supposed to act? How to these expectations complicate Scout’s life?
• they make it hard for her to go through life without people criticizing her  tomboyishness
• her quick to fight attitude is made to seem even worse because she eshould be a "yound lady" 
• Why doesn’t Dill visit in the summer?
• he has a  new daddy and is buidling boats with him
• Discuss the kids’ trip to church with Calpurnia? What do they notice about Calpurnia during this adventure? How are the kids treated at the African American church? What do they find out about Tom Robinson while they are there?
• They were treated like outsiders at first especially by lula but eventually were seen as equals especially the line "it's the same god" 
•  Calpurnia talks like she is uneducated around other people of color as not to make them uncomfortable
• tom robinson was a regular church-goer and his sentencing is causing struggling for his mother and her other children
• this is the first time the children have really been around poorrer people and the lack of adornmants and hym books suprise them
• the linen form of hymnals is confusing at first but is a solution to not beng able to read or afford religiooous texts
• Other questions or observations?
• the ewel that accusing  tom of rape is the same family that scout beat up the son of

Death Penalty Investigatio

Interesting info about the death penalty

• In California, killing a white makes you 3 times as likely to receive death sentence than a black and 4 times as likely than killing a latino,
• the south has carried out many  more death sentences than other regions
  
• police cite the death penalty as the largest waste of taxpayers money
  

Conclusions

• The south is failing its people in its use of the death penalty.
• The race is a pivotal factor in the administration and use of the death penalty
  
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Question

• If the public opinion of the death penalty is so low why hasn't it been voted out?
  

Chapter 11 Sketchnotes

Unit Reflection

According to a report by the world economic forum on plastics, “The ocean is expected to contain 1 tonne of plastic for every 3 tonnes of fish by 2025, and by 2050, more plastics than fish (by weight)” ( ).  This is just one of the appalling yet interesting things I learned during NEW Core’s environmental/ecology unit.    While participating in this unit I broadened and refined my knowledge of how, as humans, we are affecting the world around us by reading The Sixth Extinction, learned about the major issue of municipal waste management, and applied newfound technological skills to my work.

Reading The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert spurred my interest and exploration of environmental issues and their causes. This novel introduced me to some of the overarching themes of humans impact on Earth’s biodiversity.  For example, when reading about how global warming has an impact on biodiversity in jungles I took the following sketchnotes:

My sketchnotes for a chapter of the novel

I not only showed my comprehension of the chapter in sketchnotes, but showed the desire to learn more about the topic by trying to apply differential geometry to find the rate of habitat change experienced by tropical organisms due to global warming. This level of attention to detail was constant in sketchnotes for the book. This compelled me to investigate advanced mathematics’ ties to ecology. By understanding and connecting the small scale examples provided in this novel, I gained invaluable knowledge that led to an interest in the effect of plastic on the environment.

I expanded my knowledge about the failures and consequences that come with the way we recycle and prototyped a viable solution to this problem. I had always known that recycling is important and that it does not always happen, but the full extent of this issue was not revealed to me until I was asked to research and prototype a solution  to an environmental issue. Threw my research I investigated the cause and effect of improper waste management. For example, when researching the amount of plastic that gets recycled, I found this alarming graph:

 

This particular piece of evidence was included in both my research paper, and presentation, and exhibits the problem excellently: people are not recycling what they need to. As I learned, this causes myriad problems for the environment and its inhabitants. This compelled my group to design a trash can that tells the user what bin the piece of waste belongs in. It integrated an internal electronics system. This project needs the support of a tech firm called scio to become a reality because our prototype needs the functionality of their affordable molecular scanner ($250)    This solution showed a deep understanding of the problem that came from extensive research and the application of JAVA coding.

The prototype for "The Better Bin" minus the Molecular 

While exploring human impacts on the environment I was simultaneously developing my coding, mathematical skills, and getting the opportunity to apply them to real life problems.    I have loved coding ever since I was introduced last year, but I never had actually related the coding to anything less trivial than website design for the sole purpose of website design.    As the better recycling can became a project I had to start thinking of ways to incorporate electronics into the model to make it functional.    Here is an excerpt of the code I wrote to develop my groups model.

A couple lines of code from the arduino in the prototype

After a recommendation from a friend, I looked into the arduino as a way to start prototyping the electronics.    While searching around the internet I started to realize how much coding is involved in the creation of a prototype. So, while creating our recycling can, I started to use a borrowed arduino and JAVA to code for the prototype as you can see in this short snippet of code that is actually running in the Arduino right as this is being read. This widened my view of coding and how it can be applied to real life constructions. This process also has shown me how complicated yet simplistic coding for prototyping is.

AddItionally, I am watching a series of UCI mathematical biology lectures:

These lectures turned me on to field a mathematical field new to me: mathematical modeling of real life.    Watching these lectures has encouraged me to continue exploring the applications of the seemingly isolated science of mathematics in an environmental lens. This is one of the biggest pieces of experience that I will take with me because it relates two of my favorite areas of study and presents me with a possible career path that I could use my mathematical skills to make a difference in the world issues. This exploration of these two mathematical based sciences has allowed me to start to apply them to the real world.

A teach back made using my newfound skills and sharing my mathematical and technological skills with others.

    This environmental unit has allowed me to grow my knowledge about the Earth, the issues it faces, and how mathematical sciences can be applied to these problems. This unit was vital to study in our current political climate and showed me the issues that both the Earth and all its inhabitants will face if humans don't change their ways. This realization prompted me to prototype a feasible solution to a large environmental problem, and improve my own recycling habits. Now that I now the true extent of the problem and its effects, I applied my technological and mathematical experience to educate my peers on how to leverage sheets as a possible data representation platform. This has led me to believe that to improve our environment, humans need to educate the young about the issues that they will face and cause if they do not change human practices for the best. If the already powerful do not want to recognize the impacts, then the best thing to do is to influence and educate the people that will eventually hold power. With this being said, by studying this unit, my peers and I have become fully aware of the problems that we will face, and this is, in my opinion, the most lasting chunk of information we will ever learn.

Works Cited

As You Sow. Unfinished Business: The Case for Extended Producer Responsibility. Asyousow.org/. As You Sow, 2012. Web. 16 Mar. 2017.

Mathematical Modeling In Biology

I have a deep interest in math, and when asked about what we would like to learn more of in our Ecology unit, I obviously wanted to know about math, so I found a playlist on youtube with about a day and a half worth of lectures from a UC Irvine Professor on mathematical modeling biology and ecology. They are done by UCI's Professor of Math and Biology, German A. Enciso, Ph.D. I was able to watch half of the Intro lecture in the time provided. Since the videos are published by UCI's educational youtube account and are presented by a qualified professor, I am able to consider the info credible. 

Playlist

In the beginning of this video, I learned how to model an equation for exponential growth in a population using differentials. This can be used for population growth and bacterial growth. When it comes to mathematics, I enjoy a neatly structured lesson like this one. It helps me follow the linear pattern of this type of math. This video appealed to my interest in advanced math and its application. It made the complex concepts easy to follow. The only hard thing was the audio, the marginal quality mixed with a European accent makes it difficult to understand at points.

Reflection on lab reports

Today I got the chance to go back over my previous lab reports.
I found one major glaring mistake on my part, I am not the best with English conventions. I need to focus on proofreading for punctuation. I also like the way double spaces after periods look but was told to remove them. Next lab I will pay more attention to punctuation conventions and proofreading. Both of my claims and thesi were strong. I would like to start adding more pictures to clarify my procedures and start integrating more specific materials into my reports. over all i think i deserve a 3 on both assignments due to mediocre writing and a few grammar and spelling mistakes.

My elf asset is based off of this rubric.

My groups consensus on our most common mistakes and skills we learned.

It is extremaly incnvint and its the truth

The other day we watched a documentary about climate change called the inconvenient truth. here ar some answers to the questions provded to us hiel watching


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Mnteray Trip

Last thursday our got the privilege to go on a fieldtrip to amontery U C Davis research center.

Here are some picture highlights from the trip.

Size comparison of local whales

A preserved bone whale face

Learned how stratfish like in this picture stick their stomach out when they try to eat

our busss and a veiw of the cosatl plainss, w=one of the many intersecting ecosytms that com together at the center

I was very curious to find out what these little thigs were

One of many tanks where people whee doing progects

A scinetific paper posted on the walls(one of many)

One of the many aquariums, this one contined rockfish

The shells of some of the endangered species that were discussed in a short lecture

The tidepool right at the entrance to the facility

I had a great time while learning more about marine life

A Better Recycling Can

http://www.instructables.com/id/Controling-a-solenoid-valve-with-an-Arduino/step2/Getting-the-stuff/

Coding Progress

As a class, we have been learning basic coding using Khan Acadamy. I have taken an accelerated pace due to my previous knowledge of HTML and CSS. I then chose to skip SQL and Java for Game design to move on to, in my opinion, the most interesting part of JAVA: Natural simulations. I am currently working on generating smoothly random numbers from 0-1 in relation to a changing time reference using Perlman noise. This has many applications, especially in the generation of natural 3d structures and cliffs.

an example provided by Khan academy about Perlman noise{ credit for the code goes to Khan Academy}

Questions to Ask Ourselves

Here are some questions we should be asking ourselves while self evaluating.

•Are you satisfied with your learning?

• Are you satisfied that you demonstrated your knowledge and skill?

• How does your work compare to the expectations on the rubric? 

• With which parts of the assignment (project, performance, etc.) were you most satisfied? 

• How closely does your work on this assignment (project, performance, etc.) reflect your learning? 

• Why do you think this assignment worked for you? 

• Were there any parts that didn’t work? 

• How did you do the assignment/project? Be specific. 

• Were the strategies that you used effective in helping you reach your goals? o What learning strategies were helpful? Explain. o What would you have to add to learn more, do better, etc.? 

• On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your effort? 

• Did the amount of time, effort and strategies used help you reach your goal? 

• If you were to do this over, how could it be improved? 

• As a teacher, what can I do to help you? 

• What can I do to increase the value of this assignment/project, etc.?

STEM water slide design.

We recently incorporated a Stem design challenge to a fun Friday. The goal was for us to make a water slide for a small lego firefighter out of materials found in the maker's space. Our designs were judged on safety and hight. Our group was the last to choose materials so we only got hot glue wood scraps and cardboard. This limited the things we were able to design. We used the wood to build up a tower and hung a long trough of cardboard. Unfortunately, almost all of it fell apart before we could test it because cardboard is not waterproof. Next time I would love to get in there earlier and get better materials. I would also like to use tape to waterproof the cardboard.

A better design than ours that utilized waterproof materials.

Unit Reflection: Mental Health

According to The National Institute of Mental Health “18.1% of all U.S. adults” (NIMH). suffer from some kind of Mental Illness (not including drug/substance abuse). This shows how widespread, universal, and immediate the issue of mental health is in America. As a member of NEW core I got the opportunity to explore this and other issues in a unit on mental health, and so, as a result of completing this unit I was able to apply knowledge of Manic Depression to psychoanalyze the mental health of a character in the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, Identify Romeo, Paris, Juliet’s Killer, and raise awareness about autism, a serious neurodevelopmental disorder in a modern media form.

I applied my knowledge of the serious mental illness bipolar disorder to Romeo and Juliet in a psychoanalysis of Capulet. While reading the play for the first time I noticed how Juliet’s father, Lord Capulet, when present in a scene, always seemed to be at the apogee of two different emotions: enraged or doleful. When assigned a psychoanalysis of an R&J character,  I wondered if Capulet’s moods were just good writing, or revealing of an underlying and undiagnosed mental disorder.  According to The National Institute of Mental Health, Bipolar disorder (Manic Depression)  “is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks” (The National Institute of Mental Health). As I noticed, Manic Depression encompasses many of Capulet’s character traits, words, and actions. This correlation is especially and exceptionally shown in Capulet’s actions and words in Act 3 scene 5 of the play, when he enters the scene in a tranquil mood and exits blazingly mad after verbally abusing his own daughter. For example, I wrote, “Capulet was apparently very agitated with Juliet because of her refusal, but, because he was experiencing a manic pole, he was compelled to react violently. This statistic also shows the overwhelming likelihood of him previously displaying violent behavior. This impulsive aggression is a polar opposite of Capulet’s previous phlegmatic passivity and shows the diametric change in mood that Capulet and other bipolar people suffer from” (Forrest). This excerpt reveals how, according to a statistic and a quote from Capulet’s angry rant,  Capulet had likely abused Juliet in the past and how he was compelled to during his dialogue. The depth of this analysis shows the extent of my gained knowledge and the extent of my proficiency in writing.  This psychoanalysis allowed me to better and deepen my knowledge of mental disorders, refine my essay writing skills, and bolster my understanding of the play and the motivations and backgrounds of vital characters like Capulet and his daughter Juliet.

Our Failed Attempt At Gel Electrophoresis

I, also, was able to identify  Romeo and Juliet’s Murderer by using Gel Electrophoresis. Gel electrophoresis is a process that allows for the separation of macromolecules by size and length by running an electric current through a microscopically matrixed agarose block, which will separate the molecules by size because they will travel towards the opposite electrode than its charge. Smaller and shorter molecules will travel farther than larger ones.  According to the conclusion of my lab report “the lengths of the strands of a human’s DNA is unique from person to person, and the longer a piece of DNA is the shorter a distance it will travel through the agarose. So each person has a unique pattern that is formed after a current is run through it” (Forrest). If a suspect's DNA is matched to a sample of DNA found at a crime scene, it is extremely incriminating evidence. Unfortunately, our lab failed, but we were able to acquire useful scientific skills such as DNA extraction, usage of a pipette, safety around biohazards, gel box construction. In my lab report, I also included fake lab results and subsequent graph based on the fact that Friar Laurence was later revealed to be the killer which shows a thorough understanding of the topic. This technique of gel electrophoresis can also be used for paternity and maternity test. This relates to the mental illness depression because of the hereditary nature of Major Depression. Genes are one of 2 major factors of depression and tests like this can confirm if a child is likely to have depression or not based on the knowledge of a parent's mental history. This lab allowed me to take an inside scientific perspective into Romeo and Juliet as a murder investigator while getting to expand knowledge of scientific analysis methods.

Faked Data Returned By the "lab"

Graph created From the Fake Data That Shows Friar Laurence's Distance Pattern Matching the Murderer's pattern.
(Also shows maternity between Lady Capulet and Juliet)

Lastly, I helped put people in the shoes of an autistic person by creating a video to be watched in an inexpensive vr player. My partner, Derek, and I decided to edit an original video to simulate the visual and auditory input overload that people, especially students, experience by creating an immersive vr experience inspired by this video. According to the National Autistic Society “Sometimes an autistic person may behave in a way that you wouldn't immediately link to sensory sensitivities. A person who struggles to deal with everyday sensory information can experience sensory overload or an information overload. Too much information can cause stress ... This can result in withdrawal” (NAS). We focused on the sensory overload that can be caused by autism by simulating a student that was being asked a question experienced a sensory and informational overload and a sensory overload that causes the student to remove themselves from the classroom and walk around campus for a little while before returning to class. This simulation uses a rising modern format of education and technology to help teachers and students better understand what it is like to have Autism, help educate them on what might be going on when they see behaviour such as shown in our video, and, by doing this, help them learn to accept this behaviour, not as disruptive or annoying, but as a sign that someone may be on the autism spectrum.

(Top: unedited video, Bottom: Edited)

These videos were viewed in a Gear VR utilizing special oculus software that converts 2d video into VR video,

but they can be viewed in VR using any Google-Cardboard-like viewer

This was an exceptional unit because the topic of mental health was very effectively tied to development in all 3 subjects: English and Science were tied to the psychoanalysis, technology and science were tied to the DNA analysis, and technology and science in the edited video. A person I know suffers from depression but, I thought this was a one in a 1000 type of rare illness, but this unit has opened my eyes to the prevalence of mental illness and what it truly entails.

Works Cited

The National Institute of Mental Health. "Bipolar Disorder." Nimh.nih.go. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services., 2016. Web. 20 Dec. 2016.

The National Institute of Mental Health. "Any Mental Illness (AMI) Among U.S. Adults" Nimh.nih.go. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services., 2016. Web. 20 Dec. 2016.

 "Sensory Differences." NAS. The National Autistic Society, 18 Mar. 2016. Web. 01 Feb. 2017.

Lord Capulet Gets Very Angry at Juliet. Perf. Kristen Berezniak, Ruthie Ofrasio, Beau Aranosian, and Elana Iskowitz. YouTube. East Brunswick High School Drama Club, 19 Jan. 2013. Web. 31 Jan. 2017.