Linda Brown Thompson

Hey, have you guys ever heard of the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education case? Well,since my mom is a lawyer she taught me a little bit more about this topic. Ms.Brown was one of the first black kids to go to a white school. COOL RIGHT!If you don't know her full name it's Linda Brown Thompson. Well, I am not going to keep you waiting, let's go! 

 

WHAT I am going to talk about!

1.  Ms.Brown's Childhood
2.  Linda Brown Thompson
3. My day at the Atlanta History Center
4. FUN FACT!
5. What I liked at the Atlanta History Center.

        

Now, first I am going to talk about her childhood.She was born in Topeka,Kansas in 1942.Pretend you were seven and you always had to walk a mile to school.Life was not easy for her, but she did it she got blacks and whites to the same school.She was picked on and not respected just because of her race.Oliver Brown(Her dad) said "This is crazy blacks and whites need to be equally treated." So that's what he did he went to a near by White school and asked "Can I see the person in charge"they said "NO!" and they need to leave quickly.












Linda Brown was one of the first black kids tho go to a white school. I know it was a BIG DEAL to go to a white school.Did you know that they gave less money to the black schools and more money to the white schools. SO UNFAIR! 
 




Hey, you know the Atlanta History Center I learned a little bit of what happened in the Civil Rights Movement. I went there with my class it was so much fun. First we went and learned a bit and then we went into war. Not like real war ,but I hope you know what I mean. If not then let me tell you about it. The guider first gave us a clip board, then we had a soldiers name and some points( heath and morale points) I had SO much FUN on that field trip.






                    FUN FACT !

Wilbur had his own book called Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk.








Well, sadly I only have one more thing to talk about and that is...what I liked about it. HMMMM.... maybe my favorite part was when we went into war. I already told you that it was not real war. So don't freak out.Nobody got killed.So yay.Why you are probably asking well because I got to do it with my friends and that's what made the field trip fun.So there you got my answer.



Adios... Hope to see you on my next blog and by the way if you did not notice this is my science blog. I am doing Social Studies.HAHAHHA!OH YAYAYAYAY almost forgot here are the links to where I got my pictures.

• library.thinkquest.org
• findagrave.com
• google.com
• policyalamanc.org
• pppst.com
• commentsyard.com
• dogeatdogma.blogspot.com

THANK YOU!

BIRDS!

                                             

       Wassup its Taylor here and if you did not know I am going to talk about a thing that can fly. If you said Birds then you shall be correct.Well I am not going to keep you waiting for the amazing blog.Anyway lets get started.


Birds!Nobody really thinks about one til they see it,but they probably say " Hey look that is pretty bird". They never ask "Hey how do they fly?" Well the anwser to that is so simple.They have hallow bones and when you have hallow that allows you to have light weight when you fly.We could fly ,but we have hard and heavy bones. Birds have not not so heavy or hard bones.Here is a picture.

    
          




Next!Why are birds endothermic?I bet if your reading this you never really thought aboout it? Well me to intil I did this blog. See they have to be endothermic because there are just built that way nobody really knows why.




OKAY!Know I want to get to something that we all notice on a bird or the bird of prey(eagle)there beak or bill. Well the bird of prey has a beak for catching and riping there food to shreads.Reagular birds have a bill because they are small and the beak would be to heavy for them to carry around. 





                                       FUN FACTS!

•   Did you know that female birds have a dark dule look to there featers to protect there babies and males have such a bright colorful look to there feathers.

• They have to types of feathers contor feather and a down feather cool right. A contour feather gives the bird the stream line shape. The down feather keeps them warm.

As we all know our national bird is the BALD EAGLE well I am going to tell you a few things about BALD EAGLES first they are one of the  best hunters. Thats probably why they are also known as the bird of prey.Cool right I would want to have a nickname like that.They are called the bald eagle because a long time ago people thought white is bald and then thats how it go hes name.






Last ,but not least my favorite bird is the LESSER GREEN BOARDBILL BIRD. Its latin name is Calyptomena viridis. Did you  know that they all love to live in like a cool tropical range. So I bet you will never see one in Atlanta. 








Thank you so much for reading my blog and I hope to see some good comments!BYE

2012

                                


Heyy guys;) It's me, again. This blog isn't gonna be that special, it's just about 2012. Oh! And  what I did over Christmas break. I hope you'll like this blog as much as I will! Well I'm gonna keep  you waiting.. Soo let's just move on. Just want to tell you before I start is that this my first blog in 2012 and I want to make this one the best.




                                        


Well as we all know the movie 2012. Well I hope that you don't think that the world is going to look like this and then we will all die.


                                                             


    This should not happen , but anyway lets move on to a subject that's not deadly how about what I got for Christmas.






I got a few things for Christmas that means so much to me and am so lucky that I was able to get these present that I got. Like my iPad it's so awesome I am so happy that I got.





     
I also so got some cute pair of boats not just one pair, but three pair. they are so cute.







My new easy bake oven can make cookies, pretzels,cupcakes,and more.













Last,but not least a flat screen TV in my room its so awesome . 







This was the best Christmas. Well all that's left is that what I am looking forward to for the next years so here I go.
   








 What I am looking forward to this year. Hmmmmm! Well I am looking forward to is going into the sixth grade. The sad thing about that is that I probably I have to go to a new school and I am going to so many different people. WHAT ELSE YOU ASK. I am going to tell you. I hope that I get on the AB honor roll at school. It's important to me and my mom.




Sorry.. But I'm afraid it's come to the end of my.. FIRST blog of 2012! Thanks for coming ;D Happy New Year:) I hope you liked it! I know i did ;). See you on my next blog of 2012. Thanks! Bye! (Now enjoy my pretty bye pic...)

SLIMY AMPHIBIANS

                                       
HEY. Its me.Wondering if you want to jump into learning about AMPHIBIANS. Well I hope you do. Cause I know that I do. Lets move on and I will tell you what I am going to talk about.

• Amphibians(frogs and toads)
• The life cycle of amphibians
• Where they live 
• How they breathe 
• Are they cold-blooded 
• How they lay eggs

 Today I am talking about these amphibians 


Not this amphibian    






He is amazing right. I know and you don't forget it.


Frogs and toads are both awesome,but they are still somewhat very different. Like toads they have skin that kinda fells like warts.NASTY. Have you heard the story when you touch a toad you get warts. I have and I will never touch one . Anyway they are different in so many ways.






      

Do you see the difference in the picture I do.




Next is the life cycle of these amphibians. They go from an egg, to a tadpole, to an adult. Cool right. See they go throw this thing called metamorphosis. It is something like a baby into his moms stomach and than into a toddler.


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AWESOME!!!!!!!






Normally they live near swamps because it is where all of the insects are and it is a good place to give live birth. The swamps are a place that is like a wetland. So that means that they can keep their skin moist so they don't get dried out and possibly die. Swamps are probably the best place for them to live. WOW





OK next on my list is how they breathe when they are still in the eggs they live in water until they are fill grown adults. Why you ask. Well I am going to tell you.When they are going throw metamorphosis they star to grow legs and they leap out of the water because they have grown lungs and they don't have gills anymore.




   




They are cold blooded that means thet they can change their body tempter. So if they when in a fifty five degree weather they would have that same tempter in their body , but if the weather was hot that means the body tempter would be hot to.

Last,but not lets how they lay their eggs. They first of course breed.Then they lay the eggs in a safe spot next. Until the eggs hatch the paretnts will gard them. when the eggs hatch the are taken to a water leaf one bye one . If they are not they will try to eat each other. Then the parents leave and then they star the hole life cycle all over agian.

That is it for today hope you had a fun time and the  video for the chickens in the movie the muppets was amazing.

The amazing bony fish

                                   



Hey you people that are reading my blog. Today we are going to talk about fish.Yes fish! We are going to talk about the awesome stuff about bony fish. Today I am going to talk about three types of fish and all their types of fins. Lets get on to learn! YEAH!! 












Rainbow Darter








   River Chub






 Greenside Darter







Well that you have seen the fish that I am going to talk about. Know I am going to talk about them.  The first on my list is the rainbow darter.





The rainbow darter as you can see from  the name it looks like a rainbow. So it has all of the pretty colors like a rainbow. They call them rainbow darters because of the unique colors on the scales. If you think about it they kinda look like a sombrero.

Lets get started with the awesome facts that I am going to tell you.

Rainbow Darters have 8-13 vertical bands along the side of the body. Sometimes the bands are  blue on the males and brown on the females and their young.

They live in medium to small sized streams. They can be found in the rivers of Ohio. That is so amazing right! This fish eats coral and carp.

The rainbow darters breeding time is in the mid April to the mid May. Every female darter can lay up to 800 eggs. If you said in your mind how I am about to tell you. First the female lay up to 7 eggs per minute and the male fertilize the eggs. That's how they lay their eggs. Cool Right.


                                                     This video is short,but amazing.                                                             

 

                                                                      


The next fish is the river chub. This fish can be found in the rivers of Ohio. Ohio is just were all the fish want to live right , but any who lets move on with the amazing facts. 

The river chub lives in medium to large streams in Ohio. They live in a area that gets polluted a lot. so they don't have a clean air system, but they probably get use to it. They can be found in deeper waters of Ohio. If you do these fish are usually hiding. This fish eats other fish and coral.

The fish has a dark stripe on their scales it is more visible on the young and the non-breeding fish.

This fish breeds by a pile of pebbles and two lovers. The male piles the pebbles while the female spawns around it to create the eggs that they produce. Interesting right. 

Lets move on to my last fish.

Did you know that my favorite color is green. Well if you did not well it is. That's why I chose this next fish the greenside darter.


The greenside darter livves in Ohio with all the other fish I have been talking about. They live in some of the ponds. They like to live in ponds because in is easier for them to swim around.


The greenside darter color has green and yellow stripes, but when breeding they have red and yellow.


When the breeding season comes for these fish they like to start this in April and the tempture in the water has to be at least 55 to 65 deggrees and if it is not they will not breed that season.




                                 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED!!!!!

• Have you ever wondered how fish swim.
• Have you ever wondered what the fins that they have are called.

If youl did now here is the chance to now. They have SIX diffrent types of fins.

                                                      Here are the fins

• The dorsal fin
• The caudal fin
• The anal fin
• The pelvic fin
• And the pectoral fin

If you did not know that operculum means gill cover. Well if you did that good if you didnt that is ok to. It is a hard flappy cover that protects the gills.

Dorsal fin- a dorsal fin is a fin that is located in the back of the fishes body.
Caudal fin- a caudal fin is a fin that helps them swim straigth.
Anal fin-a anal fin also helps the fish swim straight.
Pelvic fin- a pelvic fin is a pair of fins attached to the pelvic gridle.
 Pectoral fin-a pair of fin right behind the fishes head.


SORRY! but this blog is over. I have to go and so do you. see you next time. BYE-BYE   

                             



On more thing I forgot  to tell you ,have a great holiday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leaves Change Colors

LEAVES ARE CHANGING  

Hey everybody today I am going to talk about leaves and how they change colors. As you can see outside on the trees they are changing from green, to red,  to yellow. Sometimes they can be like a dark pink,purple color. The leaves change color by season. If the leaves were in the summer, they would be green. If the leaves were in the spring, the leaves would still be green. In the winter there are not any leaves so there is no change of color. Fall is my favorite.Leaves in the fall can be any color. Maybe noy blue or white. They are all very beautiful colors.Well here we go on to the most fun part. The learning part.

This is why fall is my favorite season.  The leaves are so pretty.

 

What Makes Leaves Die!

· Humans kill leaves when they cut down the trees and they the leaves die because can not produce any more food.

· The weather makes the leaves die. When it gets colder the days get shorter then the leaves get weaker. They cant make any more food so they drop off and die.

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Watch the video and learn more about how leaves change of color.

Okay lets get started with the awesome things to learn about how the leaves are changing. So lets move on with life. Well if you did not now about chlorophyll, here it comes right at ya!

· Chlorophyll-chlorophyll is a green pigment (a thing that changes the color of reflected light) found in almost all plants.

· Chlorophyll was first discovered by Joseph Bienaime Caventou and Pierre Joesph Pelletier in 1817.

· All green plants contain chlorophyll.

· Chlorophyll can be found in the chloroplast(a chlorophyll containing plastid) of plants.

Mr. CaventouMr. Pelletier

  

What We Have Learned

· How leaves change colors.

· What is chlorophyll?

· What colors could the leaves be in the seasons.

· What is a pigment?

· What colors leaves can be.

· Who discovered chlorophyll.

· How the leaves die?

Sorry I have to say good bye hope you liked everything. See you next time on my blog.

SEE YOU LATER!!!!!!!!