The Floating Egg Lab

Ingredients	Observation of egg in water before adding ingredients	# of teaspoons added	Observations when ingredient added	Observation when water carefully added
Salt	It’s At The Bottom Of The Cup	6 Teaspoons	It doesn’t go up much, but it goes up.	It floats but in the middle of the water, not all the way at the top.
Epsom Salt	It’s At The Bottom Of The Cup	3 Teaspoons	It starts moving upward.	It stays in the same place, it doesn’t move upward.
Sugar	It’s At The Bottom Of The Cup	10 Teaspoons	It starts moving upward.	It floats on the opposite side of the side where we added water.
Baking Soda	It’s At The Bottom Of The Cup	4 Teaspoons	It moves upward slowly.	It sinks as we add the ingredient.

1)      What Did You Notice While Using Each Ingredient?

I noticed they all floated up slowly, but in the end they always end up floating. Also that we never used less than 3 Teaspoons.

2)      Why Do You Think This Occurred?

I think this happened because the egg is heavy enough for it to sink, but the more ingredients you added the more substances the water contained. So that caused the egg to start floating rather than to sink.

Pre-Reading From "On The SideWalk Bleeding"

1)      When do you form impressions or opinions about people you first meet, what kinds of things do you consider: their looks, clothing, where they are, what they are doing, etc.?

When I form opinions or impressions about people I usually look at what they’re doing and what they look like, because depending on what they’re doing or what they look like it will somewhat determine what kind of person they are. If they are doing something bad or that can cause trouble, you can assume that they are troublemakers. If they are doing something that involves helping people or something that want get you in trouble you can assume that they are good people. I also see if they are smiling, or have a bored expression. If they are smiling you can see that they like smiling, and are a happy person. But it can also mean that they are hiding the fact that they are sad, which can mean that they don’t like to show their feelings in public. But these are just my thoughts, because every person and appearance is different.

3) How would you answer the question “Who Are You?”

 I would say that I’m Steffany Mejia, 13 Years old. I was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, so I speak Spanish. I love helping people, because I feel sorry for any person easily, even if I don’t like that person. I would play sports but they’re not my favourite thing, I love fine arts, doing drama, drawing and sketching, and dancing. I like people that can make me happy, like my best friends, and I hate it when my best friends are sad because then that makes sad. Its not very hard to get along with  me , I would say and in a way I’m not different than a person and totally different in other ways.

Schoolyard Bully Convicted Summary

             Schoolyard Bully Convicted

“If I try to get help, things will get worse, they are always looking for a new person to beat up and they are the toughest girls.” That is what Dawn-Marie wrote on her good-bye note before she hung herself on Nov.10.2000. This story is about a 14-year old girl, Dawn-Marie, who ended her life because of bullying. 3 girls at school, threatened to beat her up, and worst, kill her. They were not named, but the main bully supposably cried when she learned what her bullying had caused, but was caught smirking from it and smiling when she met up with her friends to smoke. The odd thing was that the main bully and Dawn-Marie used to be great friends, have sleepovers and spend Halloween together, then the bully heard second-hand that Dawn-Marie saying things behind her back about her. Dawn-Marie had had too much and was done putting up with all the things that were happening to her so she thought that there was no other way for it to stop. She didnt think about who would find her, or what her family would feel, she thought about herself first. The bully who is now 16, said she “Very Much” regrets what she caused. She is no longer bullying since Geoffrey Gaul, a provincial Crown counsellor who talks for Prosecutors from other provinces, said that he hasn’t noticed any cases in B.C., except for a charge of assault after a schoolyard fight about two years ago on Vancouver Island.