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How to Create a Closed Ecosystem         Oct 14 2011

What are closed ecosystems? Closed ecosystems can be big or small, and the most important is that ecosystems are where animals can live, eat, sleep, and attract new animals. An ecosystem is where biotic and abiotic elements can interact and meet their basic needs.

Materials: To make a closed ecosystem you will need a clean jar or a see through container with some sort of lid that lets no air in. You will need small rocks such as gravel or some sand. Then you will need to get some water, but not tap or filtered water. Next you will need a few biotic (living) elements such a crayfish, snails, or maybe even a little gold fish. Some weeds such s duckweed or any regular weeds. (When you pull out the weeds make sure to also pull out the roots.)

Steps: First you will need to take your jar and only rinse it out with water because if you rinse it out with soap it will die. Once you have rinsed out the jar you need to put some rocks/sand in the jar. If you have rocks rinse them of VERY well then put them at the bottom, if you have sand just put the sand in. Next you need to gently pour the water (not filtered or tap) into the jar, you should pour it over the sink so if you spill it doesn’t make a big mess. After that you need to take the weeds and push the roots underneath the rocks/sand so the roots can stretch and the plant will grow. You could also put in some algae if you want to add more appearance to your ecosystem.

Now you have made your very own closed ecosystem, leave your ecosystem for 1 or 2 months without human interference and see how long it can survive.

 By: Debra-Lynne

Zoom out to guess what this object is leave a comment and say what you think it is, then another person can zoom and try and gess what or where they think it is.

My favourite colour is kind of  red. I dont know why my favourite colour is red but it just is. Also the colour red has a long history in my family. Theese are all the peoole in my family that like that there favourite colour is red: Me, my half sister, my mom, my grandma, my grandpa, my great grandma, my great great grandma, my great great grandpa, and my great great great grandpa. That is a total of 9 people in  my family that have the same favourite colour. Including 5 of them i don;t even know. Somedays my favourite colour changes, for example today it Wensday the 12 and my favourite colour for the last 2 weeks has been purple. Also i can predict what my favourite colour will be the next day. For example tomorrow i know that my favourite colour will be lime green. My favourite colour will always be a mystery so never assume my favourite colour is red.

It was hallaween night and there was a little boy named Jake. He wanted to go tricker-treating, so he got his costume on and went looking around the house for his parents and his little sister. Jake was starting to worry because he couldn’t find anyone, then all of a sudden he saw………………….

Now you need to end my story.

Something people might not know about me is that i love soccer i would play it everyday but i always play it at home with my parents and my animals and i think that at school is a time to see all of your friends and have fun, i’m not saying soccer isn’t fun! I used to want to be a professional soccer player, but i did also think that i could be alot of thongs, but i am still not quite sure what i wnt to do with my life.

If i could learn anything it would be to be a professional drawer. If i could be a professional drawer i would always draw and do nothing else, well i would do other things i just mean that i would do drawing most of the time.

Challange 4 http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/10/02/challenge-4-after-hours/#comment-5528

After school i take music lessons, I take dance, and i also do some sports like volly-ball and basket-ball. I love to be active and to play sports. At home i also run but i don’t do it in a team. I think being active is fun and it keeps you healthy.

Challange 3  http://studentchallenge.edublogs.org/2011/09/25/challenge-3-me-on-the-internet/#comment-5521

Digital citizenship is…citizenship is being kind,loving, and supporting someone or something in real life. Digital citizenship is where you are being kind loving and supporting on the computer. You can’t and you don’t, have to be bestfriends with everyone but you still have to be nice to everyone. Digital citizenship is important because it tells people to be nice and kind and if no one was kind then the world would be filled with hate.

What sites have you joined on the internet? Facebook.

How much information did you give them? My name, my e-mail, age, date of birth, gender.

Have you filled in more than the *asterisk questions? Not usually.

What did you find when you googled yourname? I found lots of pictures of really old people.

Are you on the web for sports teams, named in newspapers and whereelse? No

How many cookies or footprints are you leaving behind? I think that i have left behind 12 years of cookies and footprints. I think this because when you are born you are born in a hospital, there is a footprint of you being born there, when you are a few weeks old and can’t be left alone your parents bring you to a mall to buy you some toys and clothes, there is another footprint, when you are celebrating something such as you being 1 year old mabye your parents bring you somewhere special, somewhere you have never been before like a park, you are leaving a foot print. On the computer you leave cookies, from when you were 4 years old to collage. We all leave footprints of ourselves whether we know it or not.