Culminating Reflection

Culminating assignment
Biology
1. How did learning about cells and tissues and/or about
organs and systems, help you to have a better understanding
of your health? Describe what you learned (give specific
examples) and how it helped you understand how to become
more/stay healthy.
Firstly, learning about cells and tissues provided me with a full understanding
of how they work well together to form organs and organ systems. For instance,
learning about how our body’s cells keep dividing, helping us grow, and also in
repairing and replacing dead cells.
Secondly, learning about types of tissues gave me an understanding of their

different uses in specific places, like muscular tissue around the bones for
movement and nervous tissue that receives and provides signals to/from the
brain. I believe that nervous tissues/systems are essential to protect our health,
as it helps every living being to stay away from harmful things like sharp
objects, extreme hot/cold surfaces, and eating something that is not good for
our health.
Lastly, understanding our circulatory system was difficult for me, but as I
learned through, I became knowledgeable about it. I had
heard of having a hole in the heart, and I used to ask
myself, "How can a person have a hole in their heart?”.
Now that I have learned about this concept, I completely
understand that it's the absence of septum that divides the four chambers of
the heart, helping purify the blood.
Chemistry
How can chemical reactions have a negative impact on the
environment? and how can they also be used to help solve
environmental problems?
Negative Impacts:
1. Pollution- Pollutants gets released by combustion of fossil fuels

from factories, industrial processes, and vehicles.
2. Climate Change- Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane,

nitrous oxide, and HFCs are the result of some chemical reactions
that cause climate change.
Positive Impacts:
Water treatment- Chemical reactions are used to purify water that will be
safe for drinking, and can be used in swimming pools. Mostly chlorine is
added to remove impurities from water.
In our everyday lives, we use chemical reaction products like detergent,

rust remover, hair color, car wash, windshield fluid, burner, and many
more. These chemicals have made our lives so easy and helped us improve
our lives.
Climate Change
How do your actions contribute to the climate change problem
and what can you do to become a part of the solution?
Human actions play a significant role in contributing to climate change

through different factors and activities. These would include:
3. Deforestation- Cutting down trees for urban development, wood, and

other purposes decreases the Earth’s power to absorb carbon dioxide.
4. Fossil Fuels- Burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas, and oil for
transportation, industries, and energy is very harmful to our
environment because they are major contributors to greenhouse gases.
5. Landfills- The disposal of organic waste in landfills releases methane, a

powerful greenhouse gas that is 30 times stronger than CO2.
6. Agriculture- The usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is

responsible for releasing large amounts of nitrous oxide and methane into
the environment. Also, cattle farming is a contributing factor of methane
gas.
To control the effects of greenhouse gases, we need to limit the amount of

carbon dioxide, methane, and HFC (Hydrofluorocarbons) in our atmosphere.
We can take action in the following ways:
1. Educating people- First and foremost, we should spread awareness
about human activities that are a cause of climate change. And, If people
have the knowledge, then they should also know how to implement their
knowledge to help reduce the impact of climate change.
2. Opting for alternative transportation- Rather than traveling alone

in a car, we can opt for other transportation like carpooling, public
transport, or biking and walking for fewer distances. I have observed
many students getting dropped off at school every day in their cars. These
cars emit a large amount of toxic pollution into our atmosphere. Well,
these kids should find alternative solutions like biking, walking or using a
school bus to reduce their carbon footprint.
3. I believe that when it gets hot, whether inside the car or our home, we
should first prefer opening windows instead of turning on the A/C. If we
estimate the energy that will be saved by cars, it will be very good for our
atmosphere. By this, the emission of HFCs will eventually decrease and
there will be less trapped heat in the atmosphere.
Physics
How has what you have learned about how light behaves
helped you to understand some common, everyday things that
you may experience or see?
The lesson on how light behaves with different materials helped me understand
some of my thinking questions. For example, I learned about how concave and
convex lenses work to help us see distant and near objects, how every rainbow
has the same arrangement of colors, and how objects in water appear different.
Earlier, I had only learned about reflection. And, this year I realized that
refraction was the main reason that helps form rainbows, helps light go
through different lenses, and let people read or see the objects at various angles
and distances. Moreover, for instance, car headlights (convex-shaped, help to
scatter light), bathroom mirrors (used for makeup and shaving as it enlarges the
image), our phone’s camera lenses, and many more can be some examples. This
lesson teaches me a lot about lenses that supported me with the reasoning of
how things are made to help humans in everyday life.

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Secondly, learning about types of tissues gave me an understanding of their

1. Pollution- Pollutants gets released by combustion of fossil fuels

2. Climate Change- Greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane,

In our everyday lives, we use chemical reaction products like detergent,

Human actions play a significant role in contributing to climate change

3. Deforestation- Cutting down trees for urban development, wood, and

5. Landfills- The disposal of organic waste in landfills releases methane, a

6. Agriculture- The usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is

To control the effects of greenhouse gases, we need to limit the amount of

2. Opting for alternative transportation- Rather than traveling alone

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