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Our reading Essential Question this week posed: How can advances in science be helpful or harmful?  I asked the students to blog about advancements they know of on either side of that question.  Here is what they came up with today:

I think they could be  helpful because gm foods could save world hunger and cure eyesight they are getting advanced and it’s good and bad I told you the good stuff now I will tell you the bad if they make a mistake and say they accidentally put the chemical that’s on gm food on weeds it would be horrible the weeds would take over the garden and kill all the crops and keep growing and you can’t kill it because it has the chemical in it so you can’t that’s how it could be helpful and harmful. by Brandyn

Some advancements in science I think have been helpful are cars. I think they are helpful because they go faster than a horse and buggy did. Other advancements in science I think have been helpful are medicines. I think they are helpful because they sometimes keep us from being dead. Some advancements in science I think have been harmful are pesticides. I think this because they bugs didn’t do anything wrong. Other advancements in science I think have been harmful are fertilizer. I think this because fertilizer could get in your water sources. By Christian

One way advances in science be helpful is that scientists can make a cure for something that doesn’t have a cure to.One way that they can be harmful is that something could make a huge explosion.My last reason that science can be helpful is that to find new things out like a different kind a dinosaur and then we can find out if it’s extinct. Which it probably is.My last reason why science is harmful is that something could go wrong.Like one cure gets mixed with another cure something could go wrong.                   By: Victoria

Some adavacments in science are that gm foods are keeping away the bugs But is the chemical safe for you and but it keeps germs . And it feeds more people It takes longer to harvest. By Michael

Some ways advancements can be harmful is when scientists are creating new chemicals because it might cause pollution in the water or in the air. Another way is when they are making GM food or BT corn, it can cause fish to die because the chemicals and it can take away air in the water. Scientific advances can be helpful because it can save money to grow food and to grow more food for the world. It can also be helpful because it can find more ways to cure illnesses like cancer and other illnesses. It can also be helpful because they could breed different animals so we can have more food producers.  By Aiden

I think some advances in science are helpful because some make farmers job easier because they don’t have to protect crops any more because we have pesticides that protect plants for them but some of those pesticides end up in our food and water so they could be harmful if we have to much pesticides. Another advance in science is fertilizer they could be helpful because farmers don’t have to move every year. They could be bad because they end up in our food and water.  Bradley

Some advancements in science that have been helpful are bt corn it helps so bugs don’t eat all the corn. Another thing that is helpful and harmful is investive farming it help so it is cheaper for people to buy. But it’s harmful because the fertilizer gets in the water sources. Also when scientists invent new medicine it helps people how are really sick like leukemia how my friend is recovering from leukemia but is doing really well.by Benny

Some ways that science can be helpful is when the farmers or scientists keep bugs off the crops. Another way they can be helpful is if they can produce more food. Some ways they can be harmful is if they kill the food by trying to kill the bugs. Another reason they could put poison in the foods. Those are some ways advancement in science can be helpful and harmful. By Natalie

I think some advancements in good like Bt corn because Bt corn has a gene that causes worms and bugs that want to eat the crop won’t. Also I think GM foods are good as well because one of the GM foods (a different kind of rice) has less symptoms of blindness. I think they are bad because Bt corn we don’t know if it’s healthy or not. The pesticide gene in the corn could really be harmful to us humans. -Sophia R.

Science can be helpful and harmful. The thing that is helpful is learning more new things in science that I never knew about like we write some things in our journal everyday and we write down some things that are new to me.Things that are harmful to me are when we write something down in my journal ‍‍‍it does not look right to me .         by Mia

Some advancements in science are bad because poison could get in the lakes and rivers and when bears and birds drink the water the animals will die of sufacation.It is helpful by making farming easier than it is now and less work. By Gavin

In advances in science can be helpful by, medicine can help cure sickness New nuclear power the energy can last for a really long time.The new Electric and Hybrid cars do not produce any pollution in the air.They are inventing new ways to protect crops,make crops grow bigger.In the ways advances can be harmful is medicine some of them have really bad effects on a person.Nuclear power is super dangerous as well.The electric cars costs a whole lot of money the battery is 10,000 dollars. The new ways to protect crops the spray they put on themis making the waters and lakes die with the fish.Making bigger crops may not be healthy the GM foods have not proven or have evidence that it’s bad. By,Braden.C

Some advancements in science that are helpful to me are advances in science have changed the way farmers grow corn.these advancements have also made consumers think about what they eat.what are some things that have been harmful to me is that  yet farmers have been marketingthem to fast because the corn is supposed to take longer to grow.By:Ava

Some advancements in science that have been helpful are keeping the bugs away from the crops and changing the way the crops grow in a good way. Some ways advancements in science can be harmful are the ways some crops roots are bad from the pests that are hurting the plant.   By Madison