Through the course of this semester I have learned quite a few topics in my chemistry class. One thing that really changed my perspective was when we learned about the food plate. I never new that that was exchanged with the food pyramid. The reason that this changed my perspective was because I new that implementing particular foods was needed for a balanced diet, but I never new about the health risks/benefits regarding our daily intake in food. We were taught that if you intake a particular amount of calories that you needed to exercise X number of hours of a certain exercise to burn all those calories. Originally when we went through this lesson I was a little set beck, because that's not necessarily the truth. During summer I watched a documentary on Netflix and I'm killing my self that I'm unable to find it as a way to to show my evidence, but it addressed this issue. There are many things that you have to take into account when loosing calories. One element is that all body types are different and some people might have to exercise more then others to burn the same amount of calories. And two if you drink a can of soda that has the same amount of calories as a large salad then the amount of time to burn off the sugar from the soda is much different then burning the same amount of calories from the salad. I later addressed this to miss, Dalya and she cleared that miss communication to the class. I was most proud of the lab that taught about the Lewis Symbols, because I never new how to draw out elements on the periodic table. I learned that elements loose, gain, or, share elements in order to get 8 valence electrons, which is how many an element needs to be happy. If I am given two different elements from the period table I needed to know how to draw them out in a way were they both would be happy if you took or shared there electrons properly. For example if I was given Sodium and Fluorine, Fluorine had seven valence electrons and sodium had one valence electrons so if I drew out the symbol there would be eight dots surrounding the symbol. To make it a bit more easier to understand I will place my worksheet down below. My goals for chemistry this coming semester are to stay focused and continue to ask questions to challenge myself. I love chemistry class and its very important for me to be able to grasp all the concepts entirely. I as well want to further my learning outside of the classroom by taking concepts we learned in class and dig a little deeper through research on my free time. Other then that theirs not very many other goals that I hope to accomplish. One thing that I might add is that I am supper thrilled with the way the class is being taught. I love all the concepts that were covered and I love the fast pass that the class carries. I feel like I have have learned a lot in just a semester. These two examples above are most likely unreadable, but in regards to them in chemistry we learned about genetically modified foods. I have grown during this topic, because I gained a lot of perspectives and opinions based off group discussions and documentaries. Based of the Vice save your seeds documentary I was able to learn about the seed bank in Norway which really grew my perspective. We had had an open group conversation about the fact that if we had just one perfect seed and that seed perhaps got a disease, then we would loose all of our produce for our growing population. I actually put my self in the shoes of someone who would be in charge of handling this devastation if it did occur and I respected how much work seed producers had to take on.
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