SON GCE Portfolio

Welcome to my AP for the third unit of Population. For this AP, I made a video about how human population growth is affecting the chosen organism's population growth. The organism I chose to research was the elephant. The reason why I chose to research elephants is because of their unique behaviors and how their population is quickly decreasing because of humans. You will learn more about what is happening to them in the video below. My math equations appear after the video. They reflect how I got the data for the elephant population on my graph in the video. It is called a geometric sequence - a type of sequence using multiplication and division. Before we get things started, I just want to say that the things we learned in this unit are arithmetic and geometric sequences and symbiotic relationships, which are discussed below. This will be the final AP for my first STEAM class of my sophomore year. I hope you enjoy! Preserve The Pachyderms from S N on Vimeo . This is...

Welcome to my second Action Project blog for Population class. In this unit, we studied how species thrive in their natural habitats and how their special traits allow them to do so. A Field Experience to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum taught us about many different landscapes and the animals that live in them. The purpose of this AP was to discover if a certain species or organism could survive in a habitat different from it's own. The species I chose to study was the Chinese Water Dragon, also known by it's scientific name  Physignathus cocincinus. I, hypothetically, altered the Chinese Water Dragon's tropical Asian climate by drying it out. I made inferences about how this change would impact the species and how it would survive in this new climate. ---------------- Chinese Water Dragons are beautiful green lizards reminiscent iguanas, only smaller. They originate from the tropical environments of Asia, but can also be found at nearby pet stores around the...

Hello; I am SN. This is my first blog post for my Sophomore year. I am taking a class called Population. It has been incredibly fun and interesting. So far, we have learned about set theory, binomial nomenclature, taxonomy, and have read the book In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall over the summer. I am going to cover most of that in this AP (Action Project). For this Action Project, we had to choose an organism, identify its population, and highlight what makes the population unique. During our first FE (Field Experience), our STEAM teacher had us choose an organism at Lincoln Park Zoo. For this AP, I have chosen the fennec fox, a.k.a Vulpes zerda. You might ask, "What is a fennec fox? I will show you in this AP, along with everything else we studied thus far. The fennec fox is a small mammal that is from the Sahara of North Africa. It, naturally, lives in very hot and sandy climates. That would make sense because, according to the Lincoln Park Zoo website, it is said the fennec...