Terrific Beach Day (:

On the July 14th, 2009 groups 1 and 2 went to the beach in front of MAST on Virginia Key. When we arrived to school we were sent to the auditorium and introduced to Ms. Stiger whom is a marine biologist. She was extremely enthusiastic and jumped right in to teaching us about flora (plants) and fauna (animals). She explained to us about the dangers of sea life and the beauty of it too. She told us about all the poisonous animals that looked normal, or like other nonpoisonous animals that will attach onto you, or sting you. One was the "thumb splinter" which was a shrimp that looked like a praying mantis that is bothered would split your thumb and cause a deep painful cut and bleeding. After this hour and a half presentation we made our way onto the beach. Unfortunately, I was not swim tested and was unable to get into the water; Lynda was also unable to get into the water. But as our fellow classmates were looking at the various sea life, Lynda and I studied life on the land. We looked at some of the flora and fauna we saw on the sea shore. We then explored the flora on the shore; we saw the Australian oak which is not native to Florida and the dwarf palm tree which is native to Florida. Everyone benefited from this experience at the beach and I hope we go again. I learned a lot and will never forget this experience.

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Science Project Idea's

Calling It Quits: What Is the Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking?

This project's objective is to find the most effective way to quit smoking.
I would like to conduct this science experiment because we often hear how difficult it is to quit smoking and that although the smokers would like too quit they are too addicted to the nicotine and they can't find a method that works. This project would show the most effective quitting methods and be able to put them out for people to pick and choose from. They would be able to see the result's of the other smoker's or ex-smoker's that chose the method and compare their results to their's. Smoking causes many health problems, highlighting the best methods to quit will help develop preventive health strategies to promote the methods that work and decreasing the risk of health problems associated with smoking.

Why Are Teens Stressed?

This project's objective is to find the main source of teen's stress.
I would like to conduct this science experiment because I as a teenager often hear complaint's from my peer's about how they haven't been able to sleep because of there stress or how there teacher is putting extra pressure on there already hectic life. Finding the teen's source of stress would be beneficial because we would be able too maybe find a way to calm down that source of anxiety and allow the teen to live a more relaxing life. Teen's also suffer from loss of sleep do to stress and often resort to extreme messure's to 'relive' the stress. This would help teen's cope and find out there source of stress and how too find solutions on how to calm themselves.

What Conflicting Mental Tasks Reveal About Thinking: The Stroop Effect

This project's objective is too test the Stroop Effect. It is attempt to unravel the workings of thought processes that involve attention, perception, reading, and naming. I would like to conduct this science experiment because I have always been intrigued by the way information is processed in the brain. This project involves reading a color name with the name being in a different color. Such as the word being red but read being the color yellow. In this case the brain is tempted to say yellow because that is the color but must say red because that is the word on the page. Understanding how we process information in the brain provides clues to how the normal brain works and how it is affected when disease occurs.