WSS Inquiry D003 Final

This multi-touch book is a compilation of the inquiry research that Grade 8 students at Westsyde Secondary School in Kamloops, B.C. did. Students in Grade 8 are “learning to learn.” They have been learning high school research skills and how to present their learning in an electronic book form.
Below in the table of contents you will see the students Inquiry questions and their chapters they wrote. We hope you enjoy reading and listening (some parts are multi-media content) to it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Table of Contents:

Ella S., “Do dreams connect to real life, and why do we have dreams?” ....P3
Sunny F., “Why is Sea World so bad?” ....P.11
Xander P., “Why do robots exist?” ....P.18
Mathew W., “How eating fast food effects you?” ....P.29
Harper B., “Why do people buy expensive clothing?” ....P.37
Riley S., “Could robots take over our sport teams?” ...P.46
Jules H., “Is an electric car healthy for the climate change?” ...P.52
Hailey R., “What do serial killers have in common? Do they h e certain traits or characteristics that connect them?” ...P.61
Ashlynn T., “Where did ballet originate and how has it changed throughout the years?” ...P.70
Tavian S., “Why are some clothes so much money?” ...P.81
Jonah M., “How does the sun keep us alive?” ...P.90
Elias S., “Is the Tesla truck better than gas and diesel trucks?” ...P.96
Philip B., “Why was basketball invented?” ...P.106
Tayah M., “Why is there night and day?” ...P.111
Jadon M., “Why were robots invented?” ...P.119
Endre H., “How do people think of ideas for video games?” ...P.129
Kadence D., “How has volleyball changed over the years?” ...P.133
Keaton B., “What is the evolution of the cell phones?” ...P.142
Hayden P., “How is basketball different today then back in the old days?” ...P.151

Do dreams connect to real life, and why do we have dreams?

By Ella S.

Dreams while awake

Being awake and having a dream is called lucid dreams. Lucid dreams seem free from irrationality and narrative disjointedness of not lucid state. When you “wake up” from a lucid dream you can usually remember what you dreamed about, some lucid dreams can be based off of what’s going on in the room or place you are in. Some dreams have nothing to do with what’s going on in your life or in front of you.

What makes a dream and where do dreams come from?

Some cultures belive dreams come from gods and whatever you dream about has a special meaning in behind it. Some dreams represent unconscious desires and wishes, which means that whatever you dream about is what you secretly want in life it might be so secret that even you don’t know you want. Dreams are sometimes made by consolidating and processing information gathered during the day, so that means sometimes the people you see in your dreams could be people you saw during the day.

What is a dream

There’s so many different ways to describe what a dream is to other people but some of the most common ones are that a dream is a story/movie that reply in your head when you sleep but you are the main character. Dreams are hallucinatory experience that occurs when you sleep, another way to describe a dream is known as each dream is a letter to ones self, it could mean to do something or not do something.

What part of your brain creates dreams

The whole brain is used during a dream. Every inch is used from the cortex to the brain stem. Most dreams happen during rapid eye movement sleep. The limbic system in the mid-brain deals with emotion in both waking up and dreaming. It includes the amygdala which is mostly associated with fear and is very active during dreams. The cortex is responsible for the content in your dreams, the correct makes the people and all the backgrounds in it.

Fun facts/things to know about dreams

Everyone in the world lives in 2 different worlds one where we are awake and things are real and one where we are asleep and everything is a dream and made up by our imagination

We don’t remember some dreams but people are thought to have 3-6 dreams a night and each dream is thought to last about 5-20 minutes

About 95% of dreams are usually forgotten by the time you are out of bed

A person with red green colour defect (can’t see red and green colour) see the same colours in there dream and awake

People who are born blind can’t see in there dreams most people that are born blind don’t have dreams, but people who were born with sight and then lost there sight in an accident can see in there dreams