Crocodiles and Alligators By Nick Halferty

Crocodile and Alligator

 

The Alligator was swimming through a river searching for more food. After 8 hours of searching the Alligator came across a wounded Crocodile that had been wounded by other Alligators. The Alligator decided to keep the Crocodile and make it serve him. After many years the Crocodile finally feared him, acted like an Alligator and gave almost anything it had, or found to the Alligator so that he would not be eaten. One Day when the Crocodile was going to find food for his master he saw other Crocodiles sitting, basking in the sun near Alligators. The Crocodile was confused and frightened because he thought the Alligators would kill the Crocodiles. As he watched there appeared to be no stress between the animals and they were just relaxing in the sun. The Crocodile went back to his master and told him about what he saw. The Alligator punished him and told him that what he was saying was nonsense and to never speak of it again. Later the Crocodile got curious and when back to the river, and saw the same thing, Alligators and Crocodiles sitting on the same bank basking in the sun. He was now confused on why the Alligators and Crocodiles were not fighting. He went back to his master, who had grown weak, without having to go hunt food, and told him again that the Alligators and Crocodiles were living peacefully together and the same bank, and he wanted to go visit them and ask them what they were doing. The Alligator took a deep sigh, and Told the Crocodile to go, and  visit his people. The Crocodile went and met his people and he was able to rule himself and was never seen by the Alligator again.

This shows the Crocodile basking in the sun with his other Crocodiles

Reflection on Striving for Health

This is my reflection about the project that we have been doing for the entire school year Health in the long run. First we started by researching the different things like UNICEF, and Macro/Micro Nutrients. We all created a SWAY about the topics and shared the info to the class. Then we had 2 quizzes in between there were we learned about nutrients and the effects of not eating enough of them. We then started to work on a new sway where we converted all the information to 1 SWAY and we started researching new information to add to the SWAY. During those 2/3 weeks that we were working on the new SWAY we had to create blogs to describe what we did, accomplished, how we did it, and what were things we failed, and how to fix them. From there we advertised the project by doing lunch announcements, 6th,7th,and 8th grade announcements during the hall meetings. We also put up posters that students created in groups showing unique things that we did and learned in our project and had a URL to our SWAY and Instagram account that could  give them fun facts about health. We also did something called the ten day challenge which was were papers were given out to each table in the lunch room and at the end of lunch people would fill there paper out to show how many servings of protein, grains, dairy, dessert, vegetables, and fruit that the table hat ate that day. I liked this challenge and I observed that many tables had enjoyed this challenge and ate healthier for the entirety of the challenge.I think that during the ten day challenge that I ate better than I usually do, and I ate more fruits and vegetable which I usually never eat.  I do not think that the slogan challenge worked the way we would have liked it because only a few people made a slogan which narrowed the choices we had to pick from. Finally we created a blog to reflect upon the project to see what we accomplished and what could we have improved on. In conclusion I think that this project completed what its goal was to make people more aware of what they are eating  and eating healthier.

Nick Halfertys Health Proposal blog

7th Grade Health Proposal

By Nick Halferty

I think the Writers should talk to the 6th graders to get their opinions on what the project and write down their thoughts. For the researchers I think that I think that they should go to the community, and the faculty to see what they think about our project and its goals.

 

I think that the artists should help design the flyers to make them visually appealing to get people’s attention. I think that the surveyors should see what people do after they see the flyers and could ask them if they wanted to change anything about the way the eat and if they were surprised about how much sugar is in foods. I think that they should help with the cast news paragraphs to help make them more descriptive to better inform the students and faculty.

 

I think that the developers should help create a story for cast news to help inform the middle school better because more people watch cast news than read the flyer. I think that the production should also help with the cast news story to better create a story that will be better for informing the school. I think that the marketers should make hall meetings and lunch announcements so that we remind people of our project multiple times so that we can make them think about the seriousness of what our project is about.

 

I think that the flyers that we create should have fun facts on them so that it won’t take forever to read but those facts should also be informational so that we get our point across. For example, the flyers could have information about how much sugar is in your food and drinks, how many calories are in your food, and how much food should you eat depending on the amount of exercise that you do on the average day, and other things like that. The Flyers should also be visual appealing so that it will get the readers attention in the first place.

 

At the lunch announcements and cast news we should have a short paragraph or two information filled paper. For the first paragraph we should talk about what our project is about and how to access it and the second paragraph should be facts about food like sugar and calorie amounts and how much you should exercise in a day.

flatland movie Nick Halferty

I learned that the different dimensions can be created by a square roots. for example. The square root of 10 is 3.2 which means that it will create a line . If you do the square root of ten to the second power it will form a square. If you do the square root of 10 to the 3rd power then it will create a cube. Which is the 3rd dimension. i learned that the dimensions can be created by square roots.

Change the World Blog

Caleb and I worked pretty well together on the project. we shared the videos equally, and made the site look attractive. I helped write and got all the pictures that we used to decorate the site. I also helped get 2 of the graphs that we used. My favorite piece of the project was the solutions that we could possibly create. I liked this part because it allowed me to use my creativity to come up new solutions. I don’t think that i would like to change anything with this project. I think that it is fine the way it is. I think that i will continue to research this topic because I think that it is very important for us to find a way to slow or stop the pollution that we are creating.

Health Blog 12/16/16 By Nick Halferty

My group and I were able to get the information from all the other groups down on our tablets and sent that info to the swayologists. My group and I went to the other groups to finish collecting the data they had gathered. We continued to work at different groups so that we could gather info quicker. I continued to do the divide  and conquer strategy  so that we could work more efficiently. Our groups communication has helped us work more efficiently with each other. I still think that we are on track to complete this project on time if we continue to work at this speed. We are now working transporting the info we collected to the swayologists so that they can put it into the sway. we are now close putting all this information together for it to make sense in one collective sway.natural-and-heatlhy-food

Health Blog 12/8/16 Nick Halferty

My group was able to get the questions from 3 groups down on our tablets and with one group we typed down all the information they had gathered. My group and i went to the different groups and were told their questions and information for the items they were working on and typed them down. We found out that it would not help to have 2 people working with 1 group because 1 person would be doing work and the other would be typing down the same info. we were challenged with having to type down all this info and making it all make sense. I learned that it helps more to divide and conquer than to all work with the same group. our groups communication has helped us work more efficiently with each other. I think that we are on track to complete this project on time if we continue to work at this pace. we are still working an gathering all the information that the other groups have gathered. we plan on putting all this information together for it to make sense.

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