study study study 10-10-07

Today, in class we were doing math in math/chemistry and taking notes in Spencers class for our quiz on Friday! Tomorrow, i have a presentation on pH that i am really confident about because i have done a lot of research on it and i can allaberate on each slide because unlike in spencers class that we wrote everything we were going to say on the powerpoint presentation on the slides, we made it condenced and easy to understand! Good night!!!

pH powerpoint 10-9-07

Today in class, Kerstin, Coco, and I worked really hard on our powerpoint for our pH research that we are presenting on thursday. We all used the websites that we posted on our previous blogs and for the work cited page we turned in yesterday. We each contributed to the powerpoint and we all had good information on our blog. I am just glad that we were able to work on that the two hours so now we just need to present it and of course keep researching. I found more information today in class but it is all on the school computer and on our powerpoint (also on school comp.)

In spencers class we were watching powerpoints and taking notes on them because we are having a quiz on thursday. It was kinda interesting but my hand really started to hurt and my finger started to turn purple. I know how hard everyone worked in the class though and i know my group was really productive. It was just hard to give the ppt yesterday because we didn't really know what spencer wanted us to do but know we know for future ppt presentations.

pH reseash con. 10-8-07

THe first website (on the blog before)was about acid, bases, and pH. It is a really cool website because it gives valuable information and equations that will be able to help me with the water project for Annes class. It also has this really cool animation about proton exchange. It is simple but you understand what it means by moving protons. It also shows a diagrom of what the Neutral Solution: [H3O+] = [OH-] is and also Acid Solution: [H3O+] > [OH-]. Check out the website.

1.http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/7-ph.htm

The second website is another good website about pH. It talks about the moles and how you can figure out pH of water by the consintration of H plus moles/liters. They have a diagram which is a pure water and the numbers for pure water.

2. http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/pH.html

this next website is formated like a ppt or a flash with information. It has moving parts which shows a scale where you can see the numbers move. It talks a little about the Power of Hydrogen but it is also interesting to actually see diagrams when you are learning about something.

3.http://www.johnkyrk.com/pH.html

The next website is by Roger McFadden. It talks in details about ACIDS, BASES AND SALTS, SIMPLIFYING A FORMULA, A GOOD WARNING SIGN, SEVERAL METHODS FOR MEASURING pH, IMPORTANCE OF pH IN OUR LIVES,and NEVER IGNORE pH VALUES. This website is from the Coastwide Laboratories so i feel that it is really trustworthy.

4.http://www.coastwidelabs.com/Technical%20Articles/ph__the_power_of_hydrogen.htm

pH research 10-8-07

THe first website i found was

http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/7-ph.htm

ill tell you more about it later!!! got to go to class!!!

Pictures 10-5-07

This blog is just going to be websites that i got my pictures from for the Guatemala project. If you would like to check them out, click on the websites below.

http://web.mit.edu/urbanupgrading/upgrading/graphics/Maps/Guatemala.gif

http://www.deguate.com/infocentros/personajes/presidentes/images/jorge_3.jpg

http://www.worldmayor.com/manifestos05_pics/guatemala_arzu.jpg

http://www.travelingguys.com/archives/peopleofixil.jpg

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/02/23/PH2006022302542.jpg

http://site.voila.fr/hl-inside/livresfichiers/montesquieu.jpg

http://images.worldcupblog.org/ira/Mexican_Flag.jpg

Research 10-5-07

I finally got my blog up and running again. It wasn't working on the 3rd or 4th. Here are more good websites for the Guatemala Project.

The first one is from the US government which has facts about Guatemala and i am using it for their history and when they became independent. It has great info on other aspects about Guatemala. Check it out on 1 of my websites below.

The next three are pictures of Pedro de Alvarado.



1.http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2045.htm

2. http://www.cuscatla.com/conquista1a.gif

3. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Pedro_de_Alvarado.jpg/435px-Pedro_de_Alvarado.jpg

4.http://www.thepirateking.com/images/bios_pedro_de_alvarado2.jpg

Guatemala Research 10-2-07

I am looking for research for my mini-project that we are going to be working on during school tomorrow and friday, thursday we are on a field trip, my partner is Jessica. I am looking for different websites that will give me the history and how the government changed over time.

The first website that i found was the CIA world factbook. It gave some information about the 3 different branches: Judicial branch, Legislative branch, and Executive branch. It also says information on the that is important like, there independence is 15 September 1821 (from Spain). Check it out if you want to know more information.

The second website i found has different links to different topics about Guatemala. I read the history section of it. I thought it was cool that it did talked about the history all the way back to the mayans. It didn't give to much info on the Mayans but it still spoke about it. It didnt talk about when Guatemala became free from spain but it did say; "The country then slid into a state of almost perpetual civil war between a series of right-wing military governments and various leftist guerrilla movements: a major figure during this period was the former general Efrain Rios Montt, a self-styled evangelist who as army chief of staff and (briefly) president during the 1970s and 80s presided over a vicious counter-insurgency campaign whose savagery was exceptional even by the standards of the era and the region." (iexplore, history). It also has great pictures that we can add into our ppt.

Number 2 on this website gives information on when Spain came and concoured Guatemala. "2. The second important period in the history of Guatemala is marked by the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, conqueror of Guatemala, in 1524." (giorgio, history). It is a short but to the point website.


1. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gt.html

2. http://www.iexplore.com/dmap/Guatemala/History

3. http://www.world66.com/centralamericathecaribbean/guatemala/history

pH research 10-2-07

This is are really cool website. It has some interesting information that will be a great help for our water project. It explained the different pHs (with other numbers) and a few equations. I think this is a valuble trustworth website. What i thought was really cool was their little animation in the beginning. It had very good information and it draws the reader in. I thought it was cool that you can move the center piece back and forth and see how the numbers change when there is more acid or the other direction Alkali. Alkali is (from dictionary.com's deffinition) "any of various other more or less active bases, as calcium hydroxide." I thought it was interesting that when it was on 7, which is when it is completly nutural the number is 0.0000001 and when the number was 7.0 the hydrogen ion concentration is 0.00000095.

The website is:

http://www.purchon.com/chemistry/ph.htm

Beyond the Boarder 10-1-07

Today in school my group worked to make sure the script is ready to be turned in tomorrow as the second draft. We have been working on it for a while so we had it pretty much done. I called Dr. Weisses office today and scheduled our interview with him for Wednesday. We also did a read through of our script for the first time to see how long it is. The documentary is supposed to be between 5-7 minutes, but ours is 10. We decided that it is better to have more than too little. We have finished all the script and now we just need to do filmming and editting. toDAY was very productive because we didnt feel stressed to be finished with something. I will keep doing more research but i am glad that i am in this group.