Period 8 - September 27

Today in Science, Mr. Finley instructed us on how to do a blog post.

• You must first summarize the day's lesson. To do this, if there was a simulation or video, state the main points. If there was notes or vocab defintions, copy them down. If there was an experiment or demonstration, write down the hypothesis, prediction, data, and conclusion. If there were instructions about how to do something unscience related, write those down too.
• Next, you have to make a reflection on the lesson, and answer one of these 3 questions:
  Why is this important?
  Why was this confusing?
  Or, give some general advice about something that might have been hard and how to do it.
• Next you need a multimedia thing. This can be any one of the following: (Video, Picture, Link, Sound bite)
• Finally put your initials and period.

Here is some vocab that was defined today:

Patient 0: the person who started the disease

We started talking about how to find patient 0. Mr. Finley showed us a tree diagram, and told us how to set it up. You start off with one thing at the top, and make several branches with other things in them. Then the other branches split off into other branches and so on. We began making a tree diagram to graph who was patient 0. We made a list of people who definitely were not patient 0, which was:

Erica W
Lloyd G
Rachel R
Juliana R
Katie G
Will Z
Kevin D
Lexie
Simrin
Saad
Maddie
Carter S
Talya
Megan

We learned things from everyone. Here are some examples:

• From Katie we learned that Katie G and Will Z were not patient 0, that Rohan could be patient 0, and that Rohan got Katie sick.
• From Rachel we learned that she can't be patient 0, and Simrin, Saad, and Maddie couldn't either.
• From Juliana we learned that Talya and Megan couldn't be patient 0.

At the end of class, we figured out that these people could be patient 0:

Nick
Rohan
Noah
Maria
Brendan
Harris

By - L.G. Period 8