Weekly Blog 1012/1018

Summary:I learned that the plates involved in Popocatépetl are the north american plate and the cocos plate and that the cocos plate is subducting under the north american.Also the type of boundary is the Convergent plate boundary. Popocatépetl is located in Puebla,Mexico and is the most active volcano in Mexico.The Aztecs named Popocatépetl that name because it meant smoking mountain.


Sp2:Developing and using models.
I constructed my Popocatépetl model to represent the shape of the volcano and how it would look.I redid it as I learned more about it I because I made it skinny.But then I learned it was wide not skinny so redid it.

Weekly Blog 1005/1011

Summary:
The earth was formed about 4.6 billion years ago by debris from the construction of the sun. Granite was the type of rock that formed the first continents.The tectonic plates Alfred Wegener discovered float on the mantle. Heat escaping the core creates a convection current on the next layer called the mantle in which the tectonic plates float on.And lastly the worlds last supercontinent is called Pangea.

SP8: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information

I obtained my information when the class watched a informational science movie. And I wrote down all the notes that I could find or hear.I also wrote down scientific words that could help me in ways or just to learn more vocabulary.

Weekly Blog 9/28-10/2

                 Summary
There are many types of boundaries that I learned this week such as a Divergent Boundary which has a plate that spreads apart from it,A Convergent Boundary which makes the plates hit each other,and a Transformation Boundary which just makes plates slip past each other. And we also blew our paper maćhe volcanos.We also had to know that viscosity can be affected by composition and that the more heat there is the less viscous there will be.There a volcanos called shield volcanos.And they get their name because they are not pointy like other volcanos they have a half circle popping out of the ground ready to explode.

SP2: Developing and using models

I constructed a paper maćhe volcano and I blew it up to learn more about the silica,viscosity and how they are made. And the volcano was not a shield volcano it was a pointy one. I blew up the volcano 3 times and the third volcano came down quickly and hit the bottom after 5 seconds.And the number 2 went slow moving to the bottom in 12 seconds.

Weekly Blog 9/21-9/25

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                      Summary
This week we worked on the layers of the earth foldable and the continents.The foldable was about the layers of the earth we had to color the layers each a certain color and then label them. Then we had a contents sheet of paper and we had to color in the same plants or animals the same color(ex:crocodile colored blue other crocodiles are blue).Then we had to cut it out and glue them together.

SP2: Developing and using models

We made two drawing and cut them out because the earth foldable was a drawing that was going to be cut out.And the continents was a drawing slash puzzle because we had to color it sort of draw the cut it out and then match up the pieces.

Weekly Blog 09/14-09/18

       
Summary:
This week we did a rock cycle cartoon to show what we know about the rock cycle. We had to include good illustrations and no sloppiness. We also had to add some vocabulary word such as cooling,metamorphic,sedimentary,heat and pressure. And to know what our journey was our teacher named our table different places like cloud and rivers. And we would start out at our table and roll a dice that would tell us where we would go. Then the next day we would have to make a cartoon about it.
SP2: Developing and using models

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As you read this week we made a rock cycle cartoon that was a drawing that we used to describe the rock cycle.But we also made a Paper Maché volcano after which is going to be used to be exploded on monday or something!!

Weekly Blog 09/07-09/11

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                                                             SUMMARY

This week I worked on a Scientific Method Comic Strip.And what we had to do was make a comic strip about our version of the scientific method. Or it could be a science experiment that goes through the steps of the scientific method. Mine was a salt and sugar race based on a experiment I did. And I did a 7 strip comic.

BACKWARD LOOKING

I did not know much about the project the only thing I knew was drawing the comics and cutting squares. Things I knew about the experiment was that sugar was smaller and that salt was a little bigger. But surprisingly the Comics strip came easily because I thought that the description had to be super precise. But it had to be just a description.

INWARD LOOKING

I felt proud about my description on my comic because it explained what was happening in my illustration. And something I did not like was some of my drawings. Some of them were sort of weird and the people in my drawings had lopsided heads!

OUTWARD LOOKING

If I were a teacher I would give this a A. Because the description is exactly explaining what the picture is. And the squares are cut out nice and neatly with just small slants. Also the colors are not scribbled on its simply colored nice and neat.

FORWARD LOOKING

One thing I would like to improve on is the drawings because sometimes the drawings are sort of lopsided.But the way the textures are done is sort of weird for my drawing but I like to try new things.

   

Weekly Blog 08/31-09/06

          Summary
I learned that salt can dissolve faster in water than sugar. In each bottle I used about 100 milliliters of water and about half a spoon full of salt and sugar. And I mixed the salt and sugar at the same pace. Then once it all dissolved I would make a data table and set it up and record the times for both salt and sugar.

SP8: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information:
This week I completed the experiment and the experiment went like this.First we had a question "does salt dissolve faster than sugar?"
Secondly we came up with a hypothesis and said probably sugar because its more lighter in weight than salt and it comes in smaller chances than salt. Then we tested it and we put the salt and sugar in at the same time and we stirred it at the right pace.Last we put our data together and we concluded that salt dissolves faster than sugar in water.