Month: March 2020

As everyone knows the Coronavirus, formally known as the COVID-19 is spreading all over the world. Because of this all schools in the state of Michigan have closed down until what was April 6th and is now April 13th. So last week when we should have been in school, we were at home doing assignments from our teachers. The truth is even with quarantine, most people are most likely to get it just by not washing their hands and going to grocery stores… The good thing is most of the people who get it, will just have the symptoms of a cold. It’s mostly affecting those over the age of fifty who either has a compromised immune system, smokes or has smoked in their life, or is overweight. My family has been taking melatonin before sleeping. We do this because when you graph how much melatonin babies lose as they grow it’s the exact opposite graph of the age of people who get corona. Therefor if we take melatonin we think that we are less likely to get the COVID-19.

Questions

1. When is the estimated time for a vaccine?
2. How old was the youngest person that died of corona?
3. Can any animals carry the virus?

A while ago we had the Science Expo. A science expo is like a Science fair only there isn’t a winner or a prize. This year my class (7th grade) got to choose their experiments. Mine was about cricket flour, which is really just ground crickets that you use to bake things with. I started by making two batches of cookies, one with cricket flour one with all-purpose flour. Next I offered the to everyone around school.  I would tell people how good crickets are for you and how they could be really good for the environment. But my experiment was to see if, even though they know it’s good for them, will people eat crickets. My hypothesis was that people would try to avoid the cricket cookies and just ry to eat the normal cookies, but it turns out that more people wanted to try the cricket cookies than the normal cookies. I thought that that was pretty cool because it shows that if we really had to eat insects, we probably could.

 

Questions:

1. Why can’t you bake only with cricket flour?

2. If more people knew about cricket flour, would they use it?

3. can cricket flour be made by machines?