Group Members
Amethyst Albro
Brittney Saavedra
Cathy Ahiyite
Ben Vicuna
Arnold Trevino
Geography
There is more deep water south of the equator. Shallow water is close to land. More mountains in the East in North America.
Platetectonics
There are not many old plates. Africa is almost surrounded by new forming plates. We will eventually become one continent again. The rocks are alive!
Sizemology
New plates have shallow earthquakes. Europe has a large blob of shallow earthquakes. Japan has deep earthquakes.
Volcanology
Iceland has a lot of volcanoes or somewhere so tiny. North America has volcanoes lined on the East side of it.
Pacific Plate
On the rim of the Pacific Plate there is the most volcanoes and also has the most earthquakes there. There is new land forming in that area. There is also deep water but the floor is becoming new land. Hawaii is an old volcano.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Natural Science so far
I love the way the class is structured because I get to have fun but then sneakily teaches me the important information. When I don't start with the scientific words but use them to explain why something happened the words make more sense.
Newton and the Exploding Car!
https://prezi.com/secure/8d6c3a09a5ecd79a25c18312e9a558c44aca34d8/
People in the group
Amethyst Albro
Brittney Saavedra
Erin Barr
Our experiment was a failure but we could make predictions afterwards. Our predictions were that we had too heavy of a car so we needed a smaller car with less mass. We figured that out because the force was too small to move the mass of the car.
People in the group
Amethyst Albro
Brittney Saavedra
Erin Barr
Our experiment was a failure but we could make predictions afterwards. Our predictions were that we had too heavy of a car so we needed a smaller car with less mass. We figured that out because the force was too small to move the mass of the car.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Candle Experiment
Emily Kealy, Amethyst Albro and Jessica Gibson
Materials
2 glasses
1 candle
1 needle
1 lighter
1 knife
Forming a Question
We wanted to know why a candle would have a see-saw effect when lit on both ends.
Carry out the Study
On 2/15/10 we figured out what type of candle works with our experiment. The candle needs to be balanced on both ends. We tryed lighting one end of the candle then tapping the other end when lighting it. The candle did as expected and teetered just like the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u7OwGkWqrk
Then we tryed just burning one side to see if the candle would still teeter. As soon as we lit the candle it started to move by itself. We started thinking that the candle would eventually flip completely around on its own. We let it burn for 2 minutes and it never did a complete turn but stood straight up instead.
Next we tryed lighting each side without taping one end to make it go. Once we lit both sides the teetering began but it wasn't until 1 minute that it began to teeter fastly. Around 1 minute and 30 seconds it was almost standing up. We thought it would start to flip but it did not and slowed down around 3 minutes.
Materials
2 glasses
1 candle
1 needle
1 lighter
1 knife
Forming a Question
We wanted to know why a candle would have a see-saw effect when lit on both ends.
Carry out the Study
On 2/15/10 we figured out what type of candle works with our experiment. The candle needs to be balanced on both ends. We tryed lighting one end of the candle then tapping the other end when lighting it. The candle did as expected and teetered just like the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u7OwGkWqrk
Then we tryed just burning one side to see if the candle would still teeter. As soon as we lit the candle it started to move by itself. We started thinking that the candle would eventually flip completely around on its own. We let it burn for 2 minutes and it never did a complete turn but stood straight up instead.
Next we tryed lighting each side without taping one end to make it go. Once we lit both sides the teetering began but it wasn't until 1 minute that it began to teeter fastly. Around 1 minute and 30 seconds it was almost standing up. We thought it would start to flip but it did not and slowed down around 3 minutes.
To figure out why the candle acted in this matter we decided to measure the mass lost when teetering. The mass lost was 0.1 gram (approximately 2 drops of wax) to get the candle moving.
Articulating the Expectation
We found out that the reason for the see-saw effect was because of Newtons third law. "For every action there is an opposite and equal reactions." When wax drops off it creates a slight recoil reaction, similar to when someone jumps off a see-saw.
After Thoughts/ Little Experiment
We had an idea about the candle becoming a boat after buring for a longer period of time. We decided to test that and see how long it took to burn into that shape. After approximately 8 minutes the candle stopped moving. No boat was made. It just fell apart.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Changing Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
As a human being: Why have we kept the same type of education even though it has started to not work?
As an educator: How can I take that knowledge and use it to teach in a different way than how I learned?
As a scientist: What other types of learning and teaching has changed that can be modified for the age of technology?
As a human being: Why have we kept the same type of education even though it has started to not work?
As an educator: How can I take that knowledge and use it to teach in a different way than how I learned?
As a scientist: What other types of learning and teaching has changed that can be modified for the age of technology?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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