Hello my name is Jake Hayward. I am a 11th grade student at High Tech High North County. My three major classes are Biology, Math and Humanities. All this information on this page is mainly on Biology.
This is my pieces of me art piece. This art piece is connected with the document above.
This is my group disease presentation
My SIDE of the TRAIL
Jake Hayward
“Now when I am older I can look back to when I was in highschool and see what a great accomplishment this hike was.”
The San Dieguito watershed is around 72 miles and is a very beautiful trail. When I first heard about this trail, it was from our teachers. They told our class that for one week a group of students will have the amazing opportunity to hike it. Our teachers had us chose to either do a one week hike or a math project with Mr. Hensley (math teacher). My Biology teacher, Mr. Leader gave us the choice to do a one week hike of the San Dieguito Watershed. He told us that we would learn all sorts of new information about this Watershed. We were informed about a lot of new animals and plants that survive off of the San Dieguito Watershed. I chose to pick the one week hike because I felt that this was a better choice for me. I already knew that I wanted to learn all the information I could about the San Dieguito watershed so it was perfect. Also, I wanted to be part of the first group of students to hike it and felt it was going to be a memorable hike.
When I first heard about this one week adventure, I was really excited and pumped for the hike. I remember all of the teachers telling our class about how difficult and long this hike was. I was not fazed by that and instead, very eager about it. I knew how long the hike was, which was around 72 miles, I had never done a hike that long but I still wanted to do it and was really excited that I was able to be in this school hike.
Before we started the hike, My classmates and I already started to learn all of this new information about the surroundings, animals, and plants all around us. I would sometimes walk with Mr Leader. During the hike, Mr. Leader would talk to me about all of the different life that is surviving from this watershed. Later on during the hike, I would run into a lot of fascinating and new plants/animals during this hike. When I would find a new plant I would usually go up to either our tour guide or Mr Leader and ask him what plant this is. For example, on one of the days of the hike, I ran into a snake. I had never seen this snake and was interested in what kind of snake it was. I then asked our tour guide and he told me it was a two striped Garter snake.
On every day of this hike I would learn something new and exciting. Some days I would discover some kind of new animal I had never seen before or even some new plants. For example I was walking down the trail and then saw a lot of plants off to the side of the trail. I walked over to those plants and then asked Mr Leader what type of plants are these? Mr Leader then told me that those plants are Poison Ivy and that I should stay away from them. I then talked to Mr Leader for a little longer about Poison Ivy. I started to ask him all sort of questions and then he would talk to me about the plant and more information about it. Examples like this would happen a lot more during the hike and I felt that Mr Leader helped me learn so much more about the San Dieguito Watershed. Throughout this entire hike. I felt it has taught me so much and I now know so much about the San Dieguito. I felt this will always be one of my best hiking memories and I now love hiking. The San Dieguito Watershed is a beautiful and amazing trail, other students from other schools should be able to hike it also.
This was around a 72 mile hike and we were the first groups of students to hike it! This was an awesome hike and why wouldn't you want to be the first group to hike this Watershed? This hike has taught me so much more about the San Dieguito watershed and I felt l this was a great learning experience and I will never forget it. Since the hike our class will now be the first group of students to ever to hike it and it was on the news. Now when I am older I can look back to when I was in highschool and see what a great accomplishment this hike was. Not only can I say I was one of the first people to hike the San Dieguito Watershed but I also learned so much information about this watershed. If I had to choose to do this one week of adventure, I would choose the hike once again.
Biology reflection(exhibition)
Jake Hayward
Period Ducks
This project in biology I felt was by far one of the best projects I have ever created. This project I think was to teach us how to become more professional, organized, and to create beautiful work. There are two parts of this project I felt that stood out from the rest, the pieces of me and research paper. The pieces of me part of this project was great. We had to create an art piece displaying us in a picture. I chose to paint a portrait of my self playing golf because of my love for the sport. I felt like I took my time on painting and also felt that it was the best painting I have ever made. Another part of the project I felt that I created beautiful work on was the scientist research paper. This was one of my first research papers I have created, and I felt I created a amazing paper. I took a lot of time to create this research paper, I also put my full effort into it. Exhibition was awesome, I felt that this was favorite and best exhibition I have ever done. I felt that I was able to demonstrate every part of this project to the guest. I was able to talk to individual and groups of guest about what I learned and my work I created. I felt that I did great on this project and it was by far the best project I have ever created.
I learned so much from doing this project that will help improve and maintain my health in the future. Recently I have now figured out that I need a certain amount of food and protein a day to help maintain my mental and physical health. Some health changes I have a made recently is to exercise a certain amount of time a day. For example I want to play some kind of sport for around 30min to an hour a day. Also another health change I have made is eating better. For example I have started to eat at least 2-3 fruits a day. Over this Christmas break I thought of a couple things from the project. One was monitoring what foods I was eating everyday, I also have started new diets. For example I have recently started a diet to not drink soda for 30 days, and then see after what changes it made to my body.
From this project I now have actual view on healthcare. I still am a little confused about health care but I do not fully agree with everything that goes along with it. I can now see the positive and negative impact that health care now has on the people. If I were to become a doctor I would want to become a family doctor. I would choose to become a family doctor because I would not really want to become any other doctor. What else I want to learn about human biology is why people do the things they do, why,(genetics), how we are made, etc? I want to learn more into the psychology behind biology.
Jake Hayward
Period Ducks
This project in biology I felt was by far one of the best projects I have ever created. This project I think was to teach us how to become more professional, organized, and to create beautiful work. There are two parts of this project I felt that stood out from the rest, the pieces of me and research paper. The pieces of me part of this project was great. We had to create an art piece displaying us in a picture. I chose to paint a portrait of my self playing golf because of my love for the sport. I felt like I took my time on painting and also felt that it was the best painting I have ever made. Another part of the project I felt that I created beautiful work on was the scientist research paper. This was one of my first research papers I have created, and I felt I created a amazing paper. I took a lot of time to create this research paper, I also put my full effort into it. Exhibition was awesome, I felt that this was favorite and best exhibition I have ever done. I felt that I was able to demonstrate every part of this project to the guest. I was able to talk to individual and groups of guest about what I learned and my work I created. I felt that I did great on this project and it was by far the best project I have ever created.
I learned so much from doing this project that will help improve and maintain my health in the future. Recently I have now figured out that I need a certain amount of food and protein a day to help maintain my mental and physical health. Some health changes I have a made recently is to exercise a certain amount of time a day. For example I want to play some kind of sport for around 30min to an hour a day. Also another health change I have made is eating better. For example I have started to eat at least 2-3 fruits a day. Over this Christmas break I thought of a couple things from the project. One was monitoring what foods I was eating everyday, I also have started new diets. For example I have recently started a diet to not drink soda for 30 days, and then see after what changes it made to my body.
From this project I now have actual view on healthcare. I still am a little confused about health care but I do not fully agree with everything that goes along with it. I can now see the positive and negative impact that health care now has on the people. If I were to become a doctor I would want to become a family doctor. I would choose to become a family doctor because I would not really want to become any other doctor. What else I want to learn about human biology is why people do the things they do, why,(genetics), how we are made, etc? I want to learn more into the psychology behind biology.