Maryland Science Center

Have you ever went to a science center where you could do experiments yourself and discover how things work? Well I have when I went to the Maryland Science Center where most things in there were hands on. I got to do many things, I visited the first floor, the second floor and the third floor. Each of them was filled with different things.

First my group went to the second floor. We were on the floor that taught you about the human body. We discovered that our nose is a big part of the taste. That's why food doesn't taste that good when your nose is clogged up. Also we figured out that music effects your mood the most. If you were watching a scary movie without music it wouldn't be that scary. Then we were called in for a science lab experiment. Following the directions some staff gave us we were able to decode tar-tar, laundry detergent and two other powders form each other using liquids.

Then we trudged up to the 3rd floor where most of the things were fun. There was this activity where you have to peddle to power light bulbs. There were three bulbs, LED, Florescent and another bulb. The LED was the easiest to power, Florescent was a little harder and the last bulb was the hardest to power because it wasted to much energy. Then we learned about the two animals in the Chesapeake Bay. One was the Terrapin turtle and the other was a blue crab. It is really hard for blue crabs to not die, many crabs die when they are young.

After all that we rushed to the ground floor and outside to see an explosion. Some staff set up soda and some mint in a can. Soon the can flew up into the air and exploded. I took my camera and caught the whole thing. Then we went inside to solve riddles. We were stumped by many of the riddles so we went to look at dinosaurs. We got to pretend to be archaeologists by using a brush to brush sand away from bones to see what they are. Soon we had to go. I definitely learned a lot of things today!

Survival Olympics Volume 3

Jake was not ready for another day of this torture. He had been in the Survival Olympics for only one day and he didn't think he could go on. But deep inside he knew that his family would be crying for him if he lost one event. So now Jake was more determined than ever to stay in the events.

Today was event two the "Gladiator arena".  All of the tributes are placed in a room where they have certain items with them. They can use those items to help them kill other tributes in the arena. You can team with other tributes until there are 20 tributes left. During the middle of the game there will be a giant drop off. Elite weapons and armor will be dropped at random places in the battle dome.

Jake landed in a room that had a whole set of leather armor, a wood dagger and a almost broken shield. Then he was rocketed out of his room and saw 49 people that he had to kill. One person had no armor and no shield but he had a giant iron sword. Jake avoided him and found a guy with a gun. He stole the gun from the other guy shot him with it and also shot it at him killing two people during the during the first minute. Then People saw him equipped with good stuff and got ready to kill him.

Jake was scared that he might die so he ran to his brother who was fighting off 6 people with a overpowered sword that could put people into flames. He asked his brother to team with each other so they could succeed. Suddenly a Elite set of armor appeared out of nowhere. He wore the armor and started shooting people with his M-16. Soon only 25 people were remaining. 5 more people needed to die until the event stopped. One person had a trident that could make earthquakes. Jake killed that guy and took his trident to make earthquakes. Then four people died and the event stopped. 

Jake was glad he and the remaining 19 made it into the semi-final round. They were going to have to work together to get out alive.  

Survival Olympics Vol.2

As we left of, Jake and two other people have made into the Survival Olympics. Today they will go on a spaceship to go to Earth, the host of the Survival Olympics. 33 planets will send 3 tributes while Earth will send their best tribute into the Olympics.

Jake was excited that he would be leaving his planet and going to Earth, were all of the species began.
Also he was sad that he had to leave his family but he knew from his heart they would be cheering for him and his brother to win the games.

When Jake took his first steps on Earth it felt no different than Deminos. The gravity was the same and everyone looked like the same. Except for one planet, the tributes from over there had long ears and could hear for half a mile. When everyone got settled in they were going to start the first event for the games!

The first event the "Easy Obstacle Course". You had to get to the to before the others so you can stay in. The first 50 that make it in get to move on while the other 50 get hanged. You climb spiked ladders, dodge falling bricks and try not to get punched by giant foam balls that push you down into the pool of lava.

Jake got to his starting position and got ready to start running. There were 5 levels you had to get past. On the 5th level there was a red button you had to press to get qualified for the next event. GO!!! Everyone started to run but some people already got crushed by the falling bricks (that were 16 feet wide and 5 feet long) And others got pushed by the foam balls into the lava. Soon only 75 out of 100 people were left in the games. Jake was on the second level, then third, then fourth! He was in 14th place out of the remaining 75 people. Some people were so desperate they started to push other people into the lava but luckily Jake avoided them. Finally Jake press the button hard and ended up in 10th place with hands covered with blood and feet that felt like they were on fire.

Jake had qualified to make it in the second round! He and his brother both made it and were happy they were still alive and not in lava.

Survival Olympics Volume 1

In a world far far away, there was a planet called Deminos. Every four years there would be the Olympics, like we do as well. But in their Olympics one-hundred people enter, three people leave...

Wake up Jake! Today's the Survival Olympics tryouts! If you don't go everyone will call you a coward for not entering the tryouts! This was true, especially considering that Jake is the most athletic person in the school by far. He had been training for this day for months. If he didn't make it in, he would die, which is quite common for people this young because they can't take the pressure.

When Jake arrived at the fairgrounds it was already packed with tons of people that were ripped, muscular and fast. Jake thought that he stood no chance against them but he remembered that strength isn't everything, you need smarts as well to win. So he signed his name and went to the first event.

The first event was the giant boulder toss. Some people got crushed into smithereens when the tried to lift the boulder. Jake was in first place ahead of everyone because his boulder was in the lead of the mountain. But soon it slowed down and halted to a stop. His boulder was pushed down to 5th place. The first twenty people in the lead went on to the next challenge. While the others were left there to die.

The second event was about speed and reflexes. You had to run to the finish avoiding items that are thrown at you by the judges. Jake was in last place but since some items were thrown other people in front of him got hit and when they got hit they got eliminated. Now this was easy for Jake because the remaining people were giant and 12 of them got eliminated from the items. Soon only 6 people remained. Jake was in 4th place trying to get to 3rd so he wouldn't get eliminated from everything people were throwing.
At Jake's last step the was in 3rd place now because the person in front of him gave up.

The remaining three people walked out of the tryout stadium and were going home for a giant feast hosted by the makers of the Olympics. The three people who made it in were Jake in 3rd place, Jake's brother in 2nd place and a man named Davis Crupp.

The Mysterious Bird

Prompt: During your summer vacation you see a pigeon that sits on your window and always holds a weird looking branch. Everyday during summer vacation the pigeon continuously for one hour when you relax after lunch like it wants to say some thing to you. For 6 days its gone but on the 7th day it returns with an injured wing. Write a story about what happens with your encounter with the bird.


Why is that pigeon holding always holding a branch? Don't know don't care. Wait... I do care! I think he is trying to tell me something! [Builds Pigeon Translator 2000] Okay I'm going to try it on this pigeon. The pigeon says," YOU ARE ONE OF THE ALI..." NO!!! MY TRANSLATOR HAS NO MORE POWER!!! Just then, a truck comes and kidnaps the pigeon and I.

                                                   (5 Hours Later...)
Where and I? It looks like the pigeon is with me, too. There is a sign that says "^#@^". What does that mean? Nobody is here but me and the pigeon. I rip off the sign and threw it in the ocean making a large" SPLASH" sound. We're on an island! The pigeon gives me the branch it was holding and suddenly it transforms into a large stick. I make a house and survive on this dull island. I hunt animals for food and made a bed to rest in. Soon I even made my own silver ware. There is a pond full of fresh water. Another day passes by when I mark another tally on a piece of wood that I keep track of how many days I've been here.

                                                        6 Years Later
I am 16 years old now. I have been surviving on this island for 6 years. The pigeon has kept me company for all this time period. Suddenly the pigeon flies away and brings me back a basket full of cooked fish. I ate them all because I was tired of eating wild boar. I hear a ship! I make a smoke signal to the ship to make them come here. The crew welcomes me and the pigeon and brings me back home.

Pollution

Pollution is one of the most important things that is destroying the world and mankind. We have to try to conserve our materials or the following will happen, world destruction, humanity will disappear and (possibly) robots will take over the world.

The world will disappear from all the trash and other nasty things that we've created and threw away. Also the amount of trash we throw into natural water sources is bigger than the state of Texas! This is very bad considering that out of the world's water, only 1% of the water is what we can drink and survive on.You can help the Earth stay healthy by recycling, throwing your trash in trash cans (not littering) and pick up trash that fell or that someone put it there.

If pollution grows super severe our mankind might disappear! Trash might destroy water sources by polluting the water so it turns into a dirty trash color water that will probably poison us when we drink it and kill us. Also air pollution is made by factories producing smoke or just smoking a cigarette. This puts smoke in the air that can harm people, animals and make the world a darker place. To help prevent this from happening, don't smoke cigarettes, they have a drug in it called nicotine that creates addiction between you and a cigarette.

If the world becomes too populated with trash we will need robots to survive. If you ever seen the movie "Terminator" robots take over the world and try to destroy mankind. To stop this from happening we shouldn't litter and try to protect our planet by picking up trash, recycling and other thing that protect the Earth.

If we have too much pollution weather will change with us as will. Instead of normal rain that is just made out of water we will have acid rain that can harm humans' because it is made out of acid. Also global warming will continue quicker so the world will become a hotter place and there will no longer be glaciers, ice caps and snow because we need to burn the extra trash for more space which will create greenhouse gases that can make the world too hot for us to live in  or destroy everything.

After all these consequences the lesson i'm trying to teach here is that we need to help the Earth. We can help it by doing many things like recycling, or using renewable energy sources that don't release greenhouse gases into the Earth so we can live in a better place.