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HS Wellness Vision Board

June 4, 2025 / youzhe

Organization: I am happy with the way I organize my priorities, ensuring that I have enough time to dedicate to all the different aspects of my life.
Stress Resilience: I respond to changes in my life with a positive attitude.
Healthy Relationships: I am satisfied with the amount of time I spend with the important people in my life.
Rest and Play: I feel good about the amount of time I have set aside for healthy and fun activities.
Handling Emotions: I have a solid and healthy sense of confidence in myself.
Spirituality: I have a clear sense of meaning and purpose in my life.
School and Work: I am personally happy with my grades.
Care for the Body: I have positive feelings about my relationship with food (what I eat, why I eat, and how often I eat)

woop goal 2 reflection

April 25, 2025 / youzhe

In this unit we created another woop goal that was mainly focusing on the “Healthy Relationships” section of the wellness compass. For my woop goal, I chose the first statement, “I am satisfied with the amount of time I spend with the important people in my life.” I choose my woop goal o be to talk to people less which might seem weird but I think that talking to other people is lowering the amount of time with my studies and with my already numerous hours and games and such I think it would be more efficient to cut down the amount of time I talk t people.

First, I just tried going to places where there are less people during breaks such as the library and outside in random places and that seemed to work really well and I was getting a lot of work done so I continued to do this and yeah I think this strategy is really effective. There weren’t really any obstacles since talking to people is normal and I was next to people during my work time so I guess that.

Yeah that’s basically it.

Mental Health Reflection

April 8, 2025 / youzhe

The most important thing that I have learned throughout this unit is how to be aware of the stigmatization of certain groups of people, such as those diagnosed with OCD, PTSD, Bipolar Disorder, and other mental health conditions. Before this unit, I didn’t fully realize how often people make harmful assumptions or use these terms casually without understanding what they really mean. For example, saying someone is “so OCD” just because they like things neat, or calling someone “crazy” for being emotional, can actually contribute to harmful stereotypes and make people feel ashamed of their struggles. But now, I know these common mistakes people make and will try not to do them and tell others.

The above images are screenshots of our presentation for Bipolar Disorder.

Wellness App Review

March 3, 2025 / youzhe

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health thing

February 12, 2025 / youzhe

In this unit, we learned about mindfulness and FFF activation, as well as other things. The focus of this unit was to build stress resilience and learn how to. We learned that teenagers have more developed amygdalas than prefrontal cortexes, and that causes us to sometimes make irrational decisions in the moment. Some strategies to increase stress resilience and decrease distress can be to use the “breath anchor” strategy.

Ice Cream in Science!

March 30, 2023 / youzhe

On March 24, we explored phase changes in states of matter by making Ice Cream ourselves.

First, we grabbed some milk and put sugar and vanilla extract in it. This will be our “liquid ice cream”.

Then, Ms. Cutter grabbed some ice cubes and rock salt. This was put in a bigger bag.

Then we put the liquid ice cream in the ice cube bag, the smaller bag still sealed shut.

Finally, we shaked the bag to create ice cream.

How is this possible?

When a liquid turns into a solid, we call this freezing. Freezing is essentially removing thermal energy (heat) from the object to make particles move slower. As particles move slower, they get closer together and form into a big blob. This is now called a solid.

In this case, our object was the liquid ice cream and the thermal energy remover was the ice cubes.

You might ask, why did we add salt? This is because salty water takes a colder temperature to freeze. That means that if we add a lot of salt, the ice cubes won’t freeze at 0ºC. Instead they will melt more rapidly than before.
But the melting has to happen because of something, right? Where is it taking thermal energy from? The answer is the ice cream. So as the ice melts, the liquid turns into ice cream! Nice.

Race time!

March 14, 2023 / youzhe

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Context:

In Unit V: Ratios and Rates we learned about how ratios and rates are applied to both imaginary and real life situations. One of the activities that were in this unit was to build a “model car” that has to be feet-powered and race with it. The objective of this activity was to determine the speed of each person into a s/m rate, and then guess on what our time would be when the actual race begins. We have no idea how long the race is when measuring our speeds. You “win” by getting the most accurate rate of your predicted rate : your actual rate. Although we did not win, we still had a fun time.

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Reflection:

1. What math did you use for this project?

The math we used was some ratio/rate calculating. First, we took a 10-meter test of each person walking, and then divided the seconds counter by 10 to get your s/m rate. When the race day came, the length of the race track was revealed and we used our s/m of each person to calculate the seconds it took to finish the race by multiplying the ratio by [meter count] to get:

([meter count] x [seconds] seconds : [meter count] meters)

For example, if someone was walking at 0.9 s/m and the race track was 109 meters, we would get an estimated time of [109] x [0.9] seconds. That would equal 98.1 seconds which is 1 minute and 38.1 seconds.

2. If you could re-do this project, what changes would you make during your timed trials to help your prediction for the final race?

Actually, I think I would make the trials have more tries instead of just getting the first result. Because (obviously) humans cannot walk at the same rate all the time, we need to find the average of multiple runs, say 10 runs. We should also average out the total rate (the mean of all 3 rates) so that we get an idea of how long it would take if the distance of the race track was split evenly between the 3 people.

3. What units of measure did you use during your timed trials? How important were units in your process? What happened to groups that didn’t include units on their paper?

We used s/m instead of the standard m/s. This is because it is easier to calculate time given distance. Because s/m is an unit ratio for seconds, we can just multiply the [seconds] part by the distance you have to go. Units were very important because 1 second and 1 minute is a very different thing and can totally mess your calculations if you don’t remember. To be completely honest, I have no idea what happened to the groups who didn’t use units.

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And that’s all! Bye!

Penguinz R Us: Built to Beat the African Heat

March 9, 2023 / youzhe

African penguins are endangered because of several reasons. One of the main reasons is that humans have been disturbing their natural habitats. People have been building homes, roads, and other structures in the places where the penguins live. They are also stealing the penguins’ poop, also known as guano. Guano is a very good fertilizer for plants, so humans have been stealing it for the past 200 years. This means there are fewer places for penguins to find food and build their nests. Another reason is that people have been fishing too much in the areas where the penguins live. This means there is less food for the penguins to eat, which makes it harder for them to survive. Climate change is also having an impact on African penguins. As the oceans get warmer, the fish that the penguins eat are moving to other areas, which makes it harder for the penguins to find food.
But, we have a solution!

Through observations and tests, we have designed the best penguin nest to insulate heat, using two of the best insulators, wooden sticks and cotton sheets. We also used aluminum foil to reflect heat off the surface so that the penguins will be experiencing even less heat. Here’s our design:

bruh My Math Assessment

February 15, 2023 / youzhe

This is my end-of-unit assessment performance task for Unit 4: Statistics. The task was to persuade the audience that McDonalds is not unhealthy. We were trying to make a poster explaining why through a variety of graphs and explanations.

There is a very big difference between a performance task versus a test. A typical test is when you get a pencil and paper and write the answers. A performance task, on the other hand, is when you are asked to do something but you can do it in different ways, offering design variability. For ours, the task was to create a poster about something.

What I did well was I labeled where McDonalds was on each box plot and explained why it was in the lead / the healthiest for a certain categories. For example, in the “Lowest Sandwich” category, I provided explanation as to how McDonalds is actually the healthiest even though statistically speaking it is not.

What I need to improve is to minimize text but express more. One challenge that I had was that I ran out of space when I was typing the explanations, therefore it looks really awful. Because there wasn’t a lot of space in an A4 paper, I could barely fit anything on the paper.

By now I think it’s pretty obvious what my CARP choices were, but basically I used red and yellow for the box graph contrasts and I put red and yellow triangles in the left-up and right-down corners. I didn’t use alignment that much but I did group my graph and explanation to align. I used repetition to repeat the same style of box plot, and I kind of failed in proximity because there was too less space between each thing.

bruh PLEASE SAVE DA AXOLOTLS

January 20, 2023 / youzhe

Axolotls are these cute salamanders that live in the Mexican swamps. They are going extinct because people are eating them and using up their habitat.

Name: Axolotl
Status: Critically Endangered
Causes of Decline: Overfishing, Habitat Destruction, Predators
How population has been affected over time: When it was 1998 there were about 6000 axolotls per square kilometer, but after 16 years it shrank to only 20 axolotls per square kilometer.
How can we help save them? We can use all-natural products and use less trash
This graph shows the change in average axolotls per square kilometer over the years. I see that over the period of 16 years, the axolotls have decreased from 6000 axolotls/sq.km to only 20 axolotls/sq. km in the wild. This means that the axolotl population has decreased dramatically and they will go extinct very soon if we don’t do anything. This is because of the causes explained above. First, overfishing (for more than one reason). Second, predators, and lastly, the habitat destruction of axolotls.