Weekly blog 5/13/18

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Summary: This week we learned about how stress from natural disasters and normal stress affects people's brains. Stress can have long term effects on people like PTSD, anxiety, zoning out, and making mistakes you normally wouldn't make. PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a problem that has to do with your mental health where you can become depressed, have nightmares, remember the trauma, anxiety, etc. But stress can also be a good thing because it can help you become more resilient if the natural disaster happens again. Stress also helps by but a community together to rebuild and get back to normal life.

SP6: Constructing explanations and designing solutions
The goal of science is the construction of theories that provide explanations about the natural world.  explanatory power.

Did you explain something through your work?

(This may be when you researched something)

Yes this week we researched about how stress can affect the brain. Then we had to answer questions about the stress from natural disasters. The articles we read explained that people who experienced a natural disaster could have a lot of stress and some can experience PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), shrinkage of the brain, Alzheimer’s, and forgetting to do simple things. But in one of the articles it explains that it could be a good thing to experience a natural disaster because when scientists did a test 15% of people had better mental stability. Natural disasters can also bring people together to repair their community. People will also be more prepared if a natural disaster happens again.