Glogster

marble motion

Guiding Question: Does the mass of a marble affect the way it moves?

Hypothesis: Yes, it does; i think the heavier the marble or item the harder it will be to put in motion.



Materials:

• Straw
• Tennis ball
• Small Marble
• Big marble
• Golf ball
• Large Styrofoam ball
• Notebook
• Desk
• Pencil

Procedure:

• Get a straw
• choose a item
• Choose a partner to run the test
• Blow
• Draw a diagram of the directions and length the item rolled
• Include in the diagram how hard you blew or just write it

Data Analysis :

From my data you can conclude that the mass of a item does affect the way it moves. The way you blow through the straw does affect the direction the item moves. The largeness doesn't matter because a item can be huge but as light as a fly. Such as the Styrofoam ball it was much bigger than the large marble but was light because it was made of Styrofoam.


Conclusion:

At the start of my blog i had a guiding question which is  " Does the mass of a marble affect the way it moves?" My hypothesis was "Yes, it does; i think the heavier the marble or item the harder it will be to put in motion." Do i think my hypothesis is correct? Yes, as a matter of fact i do. Everything turned out the way i thought it would. The heavier the marble was the harder it was to move. Another thing i had noticed was that the harder i blew the more control i had. When i blew hard the ball would go straight depending where i placed the straw but also because i blew hard the breath would last longer but when the air stopped putting the ball in motion the ball would row left.

Measurment lab

Guiding question: What is the importance of having an International measuring system? How accurate are old measurement using body parts?

Hypothesis: I think it is important having a international measuring system because not everybody has a ruler of some sort and you always know that you have a measuring type with you at hand or at foot.


Materials:

• Ruler/ Measuring tape
• Science book
• White board
• Lab table
• Hallway
• Peep
• Crayon Box
• Obren/my partner
• Pace: 1 meter - 1 yard
• Fathom: 6 feet-180
• English yard: 1 yard- 90 cm
  
•  Span: 9"- 20 cm
• Finger nail: 1/2 inch - 1 cm
• Palm: 8 cm - 3 inch
• Egyptian cubit: 40 cm- 18"

Procedure:

1. Make a data table in your notebook with 7 columns and 7 rows.
2.  Choose one of the six objects or distances you will measure.
3.  Determine what form of measurement you will make with the first object. (For example: Length  of  the 6th grade hallway with paces, book with palm or hand, fingernail for crayon box, etc…)
Measure it with the determined form of measurement 3 times, and then find the average.
Measure it with the meter stick/or measuring tape and find the actual measurement.
(IMPORTANT!!!!! BE SURE THAT THE UNITS OF MEASUREMENT STAY THE SAME, either inches
or centimeters or yards or feet or meters and the average needs to be in the same units)
Repeat the same for each of the five objects that are left and measure it with a different type of
measurement, 3 times, find the average and again the actual measurement.
Compare class data results. Find the average of these results.

Record and Analyze :

 

From my analysis i can see that the measurements that we made with the "Body Part Measurement" are actually very accurate to the actual measurement with a real ruler. On the last 1 you cant really see but the measurement was done with a finger nail and was 9 finger nails long and the actual measurement was in fact 9 inches which is exactly the same to the finger nail( each nail is worth 9 inches)

Conclusion: 

  In conclusion the english forms of measurement are very useful and accurate compared to the measuring tape and ruler. The importance of having a international measuring system is that you can always have a accurate "ruler at hand" or at arm or foot. Not all people have rulers or measuring tapes with them or don't have access but these people might have to measure something so they can have a pretty memorable and accurate measuring system. My hypothesis is very similar to my conclusion now, if you recall it was "I think it is important having a international measuring system because not everybody has a ruler of some sort and you always know that you have a measuring type with you at hand or at foot". To me i think the most accurate type of measurement was the finger nail and the easiest object was the crayon box. The reason why is because in our graphing, a lot of the objects were un even. For example a white board is 6 feet and 1/3 while the crayon box is simply 9 inches. The finger nail measurement was the most accurate, it was the only one that had the exact number to the actual. Also usually finger nails are the same size while on the other hand arms can be all sorts of sizes.

Further Inquiry:

My partner and i made no serious mistakes at all. Our only thing that we could have done better from my perspective was make the graphs a bit neater. This is the only thing i think needs improving.

Forces and Motion

I know a little about forces and motion. I know that gravity is the force that keeps our feet on the ground. I also know that motion is what we do when we walk we are in motion.


I want to learn everything about forces and motion. For example if we are hanging is gravity a force that makes us feel so heavy? I want to learn all the technical stuff the interesting and extreme things.

The way i want to learn is by learning in a fun way, in a way that i know mrs. will do. I want to learn by doing field trips, by doing experiments, by doing projects. No reflections, i am positive that if the unit is fun people will tell others and obviously reflect out loud to other people.

 

                                                                     Minerals reflection
Rock are valuable because they contain minerals. Every rock has a different type of mineral, so they have different values. Rocks are not only valuable because they have minerals, but because they are used for things that we need. Such as our buildings and the asphalt that we drive on.

I think it fits because Minerals are part of the environment and Minerals are mined which effects the environment.  We are surrounded with minerals, in our cars, in our cereal, in our computers, you get it.

I think that i understood almost everything about minerals, of course there is a lot more to learn. Some of the activities that we had to do that i remember was Making a ad about a mineral(i chose dolomite) and conversing in groups about oceans minerals. In these activities i was co-opperative and i made what i had to say clear.

I didn't learn any new skills, but i definitely know more about minerals than i ever did. I had no idea that you had togo through steps to be able to identify minerals and i was clue less about minerals properties and many more. For skills i guess i learn't better research sills and animating skills.

I found the fact that rocks include 2 minerals inside very interesting. Finding this fact i came up with a question. "Do all rocks have minerals" if they do will i be able to crack a rock in half and find a minerals? Out of all the properties a mineral need to have to be a mineral i think the luster was the coolest property.

My favorite part was doing the animation. Because i love making cool animations and it reminded me of 5th grade. My least favorite part was................nothing really i loved all of this unit.

For this unit to tell you the gods honest truth i wouldn't change anything about this unit.

          SCIENCE

• Magnesium, salt, copper, nickel, titanium, tin and iron ore.
• They are used to make crude oil and very rare.
• The countries closest to the oceans and the countries that have the biggest needs. The countries closest to the minerals should export them to countries in need if those countries are far away from the ocean.
• That in mining in the ocean they use oil and so they pollute the ocean and kill marine life. Also when fish get diseases they might be caught by people and then eaten, so the diseases might get on land.
• Mostly the neighbouring countries of the ocean
• They have the rights to mine in the ocean but only with permission of the leaders.
• Elena does because we need them for a daily life. Stefan does because we need them and are beautiful. Sofia does not agree because we are polluting the ocean and can get some of the minerals not out of the ocean. `Sofia believes that just because there are places in the world that are not polluted doesn't mean we have to pollute them.

We think that people should use less pollutable materials when extracting minerals from the ocean. Try to cover up the holes they dug and be a lot more careful when extracting the minerals.

In this discussion our group asked questions and tried to answer them, in our own opinion. I think that our group worked great! we had assigned our position within seconds got right down to work. I have nothing to complain about this time. I think doing individually wouldn't be a problem at all with finishing the work but we wouldn't be able to discuss. So we wouldn't have different opinions.

Minerals in My Country

Petroleum is Argentina's most valued mineral resource. Oil fields that are found in Patagonia and the Piedmont, produce a fare amount of  the country's oil needs.  These fields also hold natural gas.  Petroleum also contributes to providing electric power.  (www.wikipedia.com)
A network of pipelines send new product to Bahia Blanca, center of the petrochemical industry, and to the La Planta-Buenos Aires-Rosario industrial belt. The exports of petroleum are about 10% of the exports. One of the most well known companies in argentina in charge of extracting petroleum is YPF(Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales).  This company was founded in 1922. Argentina in many ways depends on their minerals that are found. Many minerals such as petroleum do bring in lots of money for he economy.




All Information found in www. wikipedia. com

Oceans minerals

Many countries are landlocked and may not have the oceans right on their beaches. This can cause many problems for land locked countries.  Many times countries fight for minerals for resources to become more developed. The land locked get into fights with the neighboring countries that have oceans.Because oceans contain minerals so those countries that are land locked want a piece of that, which cant always turn out in a very positive way.

Occasionally countries that are rich in one resource, compromise in with a other country that has a resource that they want and don't have the resource that they are rich in. This process is called trading! Sometimes countries that are rich from their resources give money to neighboring un-developed countries.

One example of a ocean that has many country surrounding it is the Atlantic ocean. The Atlantic Ocean is located between Africa, Europe, the southern Ocean, and the Western Area. The total length of the Atlantic Ocean is 76.762 million sq km.  Many Minerals are found in the atlantic such as titanium, Zircon, Monazite, Tin, Iron Ore, salt. Occasionally manganese, copper, nickel, iron, and cobalt deep in the ocean. A few of these are used to make crude oil.

Another example is the Pacific ocean located between the Southern Ocean, Asia, Australia and the Western Hemisphere. Minerals that are found in the Pacific are Sodium Chloride, Bromine, and Mangnesium. Sodium Chloride (salt) is used for salt. Bromine is used for  food, dye, pharmaceutical, and photo industries. Magnesium is used for  industrial metal alloys, especially with aluminum; China has become the main site for its production. Magnesium is extracted by electrolytic process,

Input-output notes

When doing these Input - Output notes i learnt about rocks and minerals. Im going to share with you a few cool things that I learnt.  First you need to know how rocks are made, rocks are made of 2 minerals, and a special cycle called the Rock Cycle. The Rock Cycle is a model that describes the formation breakdown and reformation of a rock. There are also 3 different types of rocks, such as Igneous, sedimentary and metaphoric. Igneous rocks that are made of heat or fire. Sedimentary rocks are rocks that usually are layers of sand or mud at the bottom of oceans that have turned to rock. Lastly Metaphoric rocks are rocks that originally were sedimentary or igneous. To identify a mineral you can observe the color, luster, streak, cleavage, hardness or the specific gravity. Minerals are ofter made of molten rock that cools.

Thank you for reading my post i hope you guys learned as much as i did and understood. Read my next post!!!! 

Volcano reflection

Guiding question:
               Is there a pattern in the locations of earthquakes and volcanoes?
Hypothesis:  
             Yes, because earthquakes and volcanoes are both found in subduction zones.


Analysis and conclusion: 
    1. How are earthquakes distributed on the map?  Are they scattered evenly or concentrated in zones? 
Volcanoes an earthquakes are found in zones like in the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is an area where large numbers of earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.^[1]  About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. ( wikipedia, ring of fire)
                                                  
2. From your data, what can you infer about the relationship between earthquakes and volcanoes?
        I can infer that if there is a volcano and it erupts, the eruption moves the plates which can cause a earthquake or vic-versa. 


4. Suppose you added the locations of additional earthquakes and volcanoes to your map. Would the overall pattern of earthquakes and volcanoes change? Explain in writing why you think the pattern would or would not change. No, the pattern generally would not change because earthquakes follow tectonic plates, and volcanoes are usually in the same area.

                                              Reflection

I think i did alright not great though. I had great pictures on my power point good information great words, but i didn't have all the information to understand some of the words in my project. Also i was missing a game i had a game but sadly my server was not working at the time so i pretty much didn't have one. Out of 6 i think my grade should be 4 because i didn't know 2 words on presentation and my game and my computer wasn't working as it should have so technically i wasn't prepared. But i did have good eye  contact with the class and i had a creative power point and pics.

 During volcanoes i obviously learned about volcanoes, but i also learnt how people are affected by them. Like the Evacuation and their homes what happens to the land and about the peoples animals. Many of the people lose loved ones or their crops and homes are burned to nothin'. People are almost manipulated by these landforms that are created by another disaster. Volcanic ash can break a whole forest down. Learning about volcanoes created a question and the question for me was "can the ash from the volcano create holes in the ozone layer"?  So it caused me to researched and the answer was no it does not because the patterns do not match when testing.

Last blog post on Crystal Garden

This is the last blog post on the crystal garden, after two weeks of observation the crystals .............(drum roll) haven't grow as i expected. The view the i had was that the cotton would absorb the sugar and the crystal on the tree would kinda blow up and the cotton would look be fluffy but filled with beautiful crystals. The cotton on the floor i put the sugar on as lava grew a tiny bit and i loved the color but then i put Epsom salt and the crystals grew so well but the color of the lava didn't look right because it was to light. But on the bright side i did get more crystals with the salt so i look a bit better. The sugar wasn't very easy because it does grow very slow, sometimes ive seen that making it with sugar to make it look cool it takes a year or so.

The general observation is that when the any liquid is put in a puddle of its solution it grows faster. So if you want to make a crystal garden to be a bit faster putting the whole solution in a huge puddle.
 For example if you look at matija draskovics he has a puddle and he has amazing crystals.

All in all i loved this project and it was tons of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Theory of Plate Tectonics

This article of the theory of plate tectonics is very interesting and is a very good article that helped me with a lot of the things on my test. Plates are broken sections in the lithosphere, and the theory of plate tectonics is the theory that the earths are broken in to plates that move and slide every year which eventually create our mountains and valleys.  Geologists think that convection currents in the mantle are causing the plates to move! The thing that i found interesting is the the plates now have moved and created our continents but 225 million years ago the plates were together, a whole super continent this time was called Pangea.  Earth has three types of plate boundaries which are called Divergent boundaries, Convergent boundaries and Transform boundaries. What happens in divergent boundaries is when two plates move apart causing rift valleys on land but in water it causes the sea floor to move apart. In Convergent boundaries two plates come together causing mountain ranges. Lastly in Transform boundaries is where the crust is neither created or destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.

Day 1 of crystials

Toady i just set up my box and i made sure that i wouldnt fall apart. I did it with good timing.


Day 2



Today i finally got to put on the crystals on the things. I started out with making red lava for my volcano in the backround . Then i made my trees, I put green liquid on it so that it felt like i was in the forest. It was actually hard because the drops would just slip off the trees so i ended up dipping the trees in the liquid. I plan to make lava strings that are red and put more crystal trees.

Dynamic Earth

                                                            Mines
First i learned that all rocks contain water like serpentite. Water is a component of most rocks, water is stored in tiny pores in the rock. Roads are also made from crushed rock.

When sand and clay, start to make layer at the bottom of the sea it makes sandstone and shell. Pyramids in Egypt are made of lime stone, marble sand stone and granite that are cut shaped and polished.
                                            Inner Earth
                           
What i found really amazing about inner earth is that the core is hotter than the surface of the sun! Also when the hot heat meets with the cold outer space the plates start to move.  I also discovered from reading that we have 2 types of crusts, that make up the crust of earth the ocean crust which is made of basalt and the continental crust which is made of granite.  The outer core is made of molten which is also our dynamic magnetic field and the core is made of solid metal.  Our dynamic magnetic field attracts meteorites like yougedin which its inclusions are rich in carbon and sulfur, meteorites and asteroids actually formed earths and  reveal secrets of earths core. We learn about inner earth from periodites, Garnet periodite and spinal periodite give us clues to how deep the earth is. Basaltic magmas are made of melted periodite.  Now for the mantle ,a layer of earth, the mantle is made of solid rocks flowing like glaciers. Amazingly the mantle contains more water than all the oceans... but in minerals. P-waves are pressure waves of primary, they travel through liquids and solids, s-waves are shear waves or secondary, they only travel through solids.

                                                          Gems and Minerals
Diamonds name came from a Greek word that meant invincible. Labrodites, Moonstnes , sunstones all belong to the feldspar family that cover half of earths crust.  For a bit of history gems,Napoleon a french emperor lived from 1769-1821 gave his wife Marie Louise a diamond necklace and a
Diadem crown in the olden days gems were given to the royalty. To change a crystal to a gem you need to cut it then shape it with a abrasive wheel then grind its faces and lastly polish the gem with a rotating wheel!! Gems also tell you what gem you are for you month :

Jan: Garnet
Feb: Amythyst
Mar:Aquamarine
April: Diamond
May: Emerald
June: Alexandrite
July: Ruby
Aug: Periodite
Sep: Sapphire
Oct: Opal
Nov: Topaz
Dec: Turquoise

 Diffeent kinds of atoms (some trapped in impurities in chrystal atomic structures interact with light to tint minerals a virtual rainbow of colors and that is how minerals get their colors! what i found so amazing is that the electrons circling the atom capture light but the color that we see the gem as is not being touched by electrons so the gem is not really that color it is a different one!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                                                     

I want to learn about ............................

                                                                      Mining
I want to learn about mining because i would like to have knowledge of knowing all the minerals and rocks because then if i ever do become a miner i will know what is the most valuable and then i will be able to make a lot of money to support my life. I also would like to be a miner because my mother is a miner and i want to follow her path...... kinda. I also want to know about mining because then i will be able to see all the rocks before  they are cut.

What we have learned this week 1/14/2011

This week we learned about the Earths Crust and Caves from the Bill Nye videos. From the earths crust video I learned that the Earth has a core a mantle and a outer core and then the crust where we stand. The core has iron in it(this is what we predict)and then comes the outer core which is made of mixed metals and lastly comes the Mantle a hot and gooey layer. The crust is where we put our houses and where we stand. In the caves video I learned that caves can be under water, ground and even under ice! I also learned that the weather in caves never change which is what i found interesting because what if global warming happens the ice caves should melt. Stalagmite it the hardend minerals that starts to grow up to the ceiling and stalactite it the one that holds tight on to the ceiling. The animals that live in caves are Trogloxenes- cave visitors, Troglyphiles-cave lovers,  Troglodytes- cave dwellers. I learn't that limestone has calcium. 

Making Water Wetter reflection

The making water wetter lab was fun and but took sometime for Matteo and I. When we were doing the drops of water on a coin, we got some interesting results. I think its because me and Matteo are at different levels of dropping water on the coin. On the water i found it normal that the water would form a bubble and then the water would join the other water. But in putting soap on the coin i found it weird that the soap would form a bubble(normal) but then when the bubble grew up to about 1/2 a centimeter that after all the drops of soap would just slip off. The bubble was like it was un-penetrable.

Cooling race lab

This lab was very interesting especially doing it with Alex and being able to use a timer. It was really fascinating to see that the the crushed ice would change a little and then stay the same for 6 min. I found it fun to use the timer and the thermometer.  We co-operated well but we did have one difficulty, which is that the ice would melt and we wouldnt have anymore.