Endangered Species Project

MYP 1 Science

Endangered Species Research

Common name	Azuay Stubfoot toad (They say they are also the hopping dead)
Scientific name	Atelopus Bomolochos
Picture
Caption	Here is the rediscovered Azuay Stubfoot toad coming out of the water
Source	http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150831-frogs-extinct-rediscovered-science-animals-ecuador/
Why choose this?	Because I thought it would be to talk about a rare species that were thought to be extinct in 2002 due to a deadly fungus called chytrid and be sooner discovered in a small group in the mountains of Cuenca, Ecuador presenting no signs of chytrid and if they got the fungi again they could again be wiped out of existence making them very endangered because of the fungi.
Natural habitat	Mountain forests near lakes
Endangered because...	re-discovering of species in 2015 and also because they were found in a small group making them still endangered after re-discovery. Also because if he gets the fungi that they were wiped long ago, they will vanish once again.
This species is important because...	It maintains the control of insects around the forest making sure the insects do not overload and spread irritating everybody around the area they live.
Strategy used to avoid extinction. Describe.	The people that live close to that areas have decided to protect where they live making them easier to reproduce so that they can be set free, or basically for them to live again a normal life when they have again repopulated.
Advantages of this strategy. Don’t forget to discuss each advantage from a specific point of view. (Moral, social, economic or environmental?)	They can not be hunted down making their chances of reproducing or repopulating much higher than before their extinction. 2. It will also not only help the frogs but all that surrounds it making it a somewhat safer place for other animals grow helping the trees and animals around them not be extinct, cut down or killed.
Disadvantages of this strategy. Don’t forget to discuss each disadvantage from a specific point of view. (Moral, social, economic or environmental?)	It can be wasted a lot of money in the economic part and they can get poor, in meaning of the whole country of Ecuador. 2. Even though Ecuador is trying to maintain the Azuay stubfoot toad alive they can also be doomed as they will be loosing a lot of money again in the economic part, and they will not really be able to improve a lot their city making them poor.
Evaluation: strategy successful or not? why?	I think it is being successful as they are really protecting the Azuay stubfoot toad and it is not only protecting them but the animal and trees living around it protected by using the process of protecting the habitat of the animal even though they are wasting a lot of money.
All sources (MLA format) (min. 2)	http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/150831-frogs-extinct-rediscovered-science-animals-ecuador/ http://news.mongabay.com/2015/09/good-news-stunning-extinct-toad-rises-again-in-ecuador-photos/ For photos (mainly): http://www.arkive.org/azuay-stubfoot-toad/atelopus-bomolochos/
Extra picture 1 + captions + source Here you can see the azuay stubfoot toad (Atelopus bomolochos) in their natural habitat and a researcher finding one of them. link: http://news.mongabay.com/2015/09/good-news-stunning-extinct-toad-rises-again-in-ecuador-photos/
Extra picture 2 + captions + source Here are two Azuay stubfoot toad mating, this process is mostly used to regrow their population. This can happen in enclosures, protected forests using observation or just naturally in protected forests with no one observing. In this case they are obviously being observed. Link: http://www.arkive.org/azuay-stubfoot-toad/atelopus-bomolochos/

French video

Here is me introducing myself in french

Rugby project 1 part

France

Match one

Points – 32

Tries – 3

Penalties – 6

Possession – 46%

Match two

Points – 38

Tries – 4

Penalties – 1

Possession – 55%

Match three

Points – 41

Tries – 5

Penalties – 2

Possession – 54%

Galvão Bueno career story

Galvão Bueno Career Story

Galvão Bueno was and still is a very famous Brazilian T.V. commenter and a nationwide ``announcer for Rede Globo where he mostly hosted Formula one, Brazil`s national cups and where Brazil`s team played in world cups``, he is also known for hosting various top sporting events.

Here are some places that Galvão worked at

Childhood/Early life

Galvão was born in ``July 21<sup>st</sup> 1950, in the city of Rio de Janeiro by the actress Mildred dos Santos and the journalist Alda Viana Galvão Bueno. `` When ``Galvão`` was the age of six, his family moved to São Paulo where he stayed there for a long time. ``When Galvão was a teenager he practiced equestrianism, volleyball, football, handball, swimming and carting. `` When Galvão was the age of 15 he met Lùcia and had two sons. ``He studied business administration and economy but moved to physical education, as he preferred it more. `` Galvão then finally married Desirèe Soares and went to live in Londrina, Paraná.

Achievements, Later life events and Conclusion

Galvão had a son with Desirèe called Luca, while the other two sons he had with Lùcia, ``Carlos Bueno and Paulo Bueno, raced in the Brazilian stock car. ``Galvão had finally won a contest for becoming a commentator and his career officially began in 1974. Galvão grew very fast in his career where he was most known for commenting sports at Rede Globo, even though he made part of lots of other T.V. programs. ``Because of his very long and successive career lots of Brazilians associate Galvão in famous games where he commented. `` He had a famous speech where Brazil won the third world cup: “E TETRA! O BRAZIL E TETRA CAMPEÃO!’’ There is a very famous internet meme between Brazilians about Galvão Bueno called “Cala Boca Galvão” that actually became very famous between Brazilians in twitter.                                                         

Xote and Forró research

Xote

Xote – is a musical type of rhythm dance that can and is performed by a big amount of singers

 and a little bit of Forró

Origin – was created in Germany during the second world war and has been added lots of aspects of the Latin American music

Instruments –

Ø  Concertina

Ø  Triangle

Ø  Tambourine

Ø  Zabumba

Ø  Guitar

Mood – It feels a bit of the same like Forró but as I don’t listen to it very often I do not know how to explain it very well but it still makes me feel uplifting

Forró

Origin – was created in the north east of Brazil using the cultural aspect of the time in that area of Brazil

Instruments –

Ø  Accordion

Ø  Triangle

Ø  Zabumba

Ø  Drums

Mood – for me it feels as if I was in Salvador a very nice place, the breeze of the wind and it makes me feel very uplifting

Boat project reflection

Boat Reflection

1. Our boat at the start did not look like it would not sink and that was very good even though some water was entering it was still there floating at that is very good to know that our boat did well. Our group also agreed with some ideas and that is why in my opinion the boat was very good. After school I had swimming lessons, so I tried the boat again, the boat was medium level of water after 1 hr and still floating, but after 2 hrs it was full of water, BUT STILL FLOATING, now in my opinion that is a very impressive boat.

2. The project was supposed to be a kayack so I think, as our boat was not shaped as a kayack, we shopuld reaaly improove our format and we didn`t see this but there was a hole in the boat the last moment, but it still went fine but we need to take in consideration that we will be carrying people in that boat, not objects.

3. Well our group worked very well because they firstly had an idea but I thought of one that might even be better and they all said it was alright, so we all worked as one on the same thing, but we divided in different stations one for the floaters, one for the body or the cup and one for the planning. In the end we had one of our friends do nothing because they had already finished but in the end again we all did fine.

Famous scientist reasearch

Name of scientist	Marie Curie
Picture of scientist with caption	Here is Marie Curie in her process of discovering the elements Radium and Polonium
Picture source	http://www.biography.com/people/marie-curie-9263538
Birthday/Date of death If still alive, how old is he/she now?	Birth: 7th november 1867 Death: 4th July 1934, Passy, France
Born in...	Warsaw, Poland
Where did he/she work?	Sorbonne,  Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry most
Wanted sentence	“Wanted for…”Being the first professor to discover Radium and Polonium
Invention/discovery explanation	Marie Curie was the first woman to win two nobel prizes. She discovered two elements of the periodic table, Radium and Polonium that were keen for radioactive therapies.
Application of invention/discovery	It applied to better understandings of the use of radioactivity to help cure cancer and other problem.
How did this change the world?	Now people are living in a better way without most parts of the problematic cancer. People are also now more relaxed with the problem of cancer and also more aware about it. People with cancer can now meet their family once more before dying and sometimes can stay with them for a time period or for their lives like they normally would.
Picture of invention/discovery + caption	The one on the left is radium and on the right is Polonium
Picture source	http://www.cancernews.com/data/Article/480.asp
Complete bibliography	http://www.biography.com/people/marie-curie-9263538 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.htm http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-facts.html l

Bean Investigation Hypothesis

Bean Investigation Hypothesis

The plant that is in the sunlight will grow bigger as they have the photosynthesis. The photosynthesis is all the nutrients needed for a plant to grow larger. The one in the dark will grow smaller by a certain amount as they will only use the stored energy that they have and it will stop growing when their stored energy is lost. The one in the sunlight will look more alive than the one in the dark because the one in the light got healthier nutrients.

kidsgrowingstrong.org

www.kean.edu

Tatanua Mask

The tatanua mask

In this image here is one of the masks I am doing about in Art

The Report

The Report

Meaning of the words

1.      V – shaped valley – a valley that was been formed in a V shape as the river flows inside the valley, almost always very narrow and created by the  downward eroding process that is when the water cuts the ground like a saw and carrying away the bits and pieces of loose rock.

2.      Gorge – a division more or less of two lands that a river can pass through it. The breaking process of the waterfall normally creates the gorge; this is why sometimes you can see a waterfall on the end or start of a gorge.

3.      Waterfall – a falling water that falls down normally on edges lower than the one the water stands on. It can break rocks in the process of falling making the gorge. It normally contains a plunge pool that is when the soft rock under the top layer of hard rock is broken making a more or less shape of a semi – circle that will lead to the hard rock forming the ledge undercut that will break, and this process continues.

4.      Meanders – a lake that goes up and down through the deposition of materials. As time passes, the lake will be growing wider and wider until it makes a meander.

5.      Oxbow lake – a meander that has been cut of as the main stream of water takes a shortcut. It happens most to large meanders that have been created thanks to deposition and erosion. The oxbow lake really becomes one when the tips of it are finally sealed off and the water flow is now stopped. It finally will be covered with soil and weeds and in time the lake will

disappear.

6.      Flood plains – an area that normally floods but does not always needs to be flooded.

7.      Delta – the end of the river, where the river encounters the ocean and deposits everything that it brought with it. The delta of the river is normally separated between other little rivers as the deposits gave grown into larger numbers and makes little lands.

8.      Tributaries – where other small little rivers join into the main river

9.      Source – it is where the river starts, where it forms. It could be in a mountain, valley or even in any flowing area of water.

10.  Plunge pool – an area where a waterfall has broken the soft rock under a layer of hard rock making a more or less shape of a semi-circle.

What this teached me

Well even though we had already learned the basic ones in previous years, evaporation, condensation and precipitation, we now here learned what made these items above happen. A source is a good start as if we had not had any source at all; nothing of the water cycle would start, as the water needs a source, somewhere to start all of this process. This also teached me of all of the different impacts the water cycle could have on the land like the V – shaped valleys and the gorges, if we had not had the water cycle process, especially the eroding process, we could not have had these valleys, not even the beautiful Cataratas do Iguaçu. This new learning can effect on my future thoughts of how can water be so powerful but beautiful.

Notes

·       At the start everything running fine

·       Second day Hétcor and Rafael started doing planning while I was doing objects like gorge and V – shaped valley and trees

·       We than knew all of our planning in the cardboard we just needed to paint to have a rough idea of everything

·       We painted the rivers and planned to where to put objects again

·       We also decided we could not finish all of this in school, so Héctor proposed to go to his house and we agreed

·       In Saturday we brought everything we had that could help us to his house and started working on the project

·       We had fun while doing our project and once we were finished or out of  materials, we decided to eat some ice cream so that in the next day of Humanities we could buy and bring what we needed to finish our project in school

·       We now in the 28/9/15 are just missing the utmost details and the signs and we are done with our project

·       Everything went smooth in my opinion and we had a bunch of fun together.

Bibliography:

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/encyclopedia/water-cycle/

https://www.fcwa.org/story_of_water/html/hydrocycle.htm

Humanities book

Biografia de Robert Lyra

Biografia de Robert Lyra

Robert Carlos Lyra (meu avô) filho de Carlos Pereira de Lyra Neto e Nancy Virginia Karns Lyra nasceu em Recife em 23 de Dezembro de 1952. Desde pequeno, meu avô sempre foi incentivado pelo pai a estudar e trabalhar. Aos 15 anos dirigia trator na empresa de seu pai (Usina Caeté).

Quando ele completou 18 anos foi fazer faculdade em Recife e se formou em engenharia química. Casou-se e teve 4 filhos. Meu tio Rodrigo Soriano Lyra, minha mãe Virginia Soriano Lyra, minha tia Renata Soriano Lyra e meu tio pequeno de 6 anos chamado Rafael.

Depois de formado começou a trabalhar cedo com meu bisavô nas usinas de cana de açúcar que a família era proprietária. As usinas são localizadas em Maceió (três unidades: Caeté, Cachoeira e Marituba). Meu avô pensando em expandir e crescer e ganhar dinheiro com seus negócios, se mudou para São Paulo e depois Uberaba. Na região de Uberaba, construiu uma unidade chamada Volta Grande e comprou outra chamada Usina Delta.

Meu avô tem uma irmã chamada Elizabeth que, após algumas brigas decidiram fazer uma separação das empresas. Meu avô ficou com as usinas perto de Uberaba e sua irmã ficou com as unidades perto de Maceió, Alagoas.

Na minha opinião, meu avô é uma pessoa muito inteligente, sábia e que eu admiro muito. Queria mudar nossa família para melhor. Mesmo tendo algumas brigas, no fim nossa família é unida. Ele dedicou muito tempo de sua vida ao trabalho e infelizmente não aproveitou o quanto gostaria os filhos. Hoje em dia ele tento compensar o seu tempo não tido com seus filhos e neto.

Este é meu avô