Science in the Real World. . .
Through Allyson's eyes
Saturday March 27, 2010||Blinds
Every day I open up the blinds so that I can look at the moon. The blinds are a pulley. When you pull down on one side of a cord it opens the blind. If you pull down on the opposite side of the same cord it closes it. If you pull on the other cord then it makes them go left, when you pull on the opposite side it makes it go down. Friday March 26, 2010||Dead Flowers
Dead Flowers need water and it is better if you cut them then pick them. This is because some of the plant had jagged edges causing it to bring things that are not needed. It is also good to put food in their water, so that they act like they haven’t been cut. Dead flowers are easy to tell when they are dying. Gravity pushes down on them because they run out of food. They take food with them when they are cut, but it doesn’t last forever.
Thursday March 25, 2010||Im not Alice in Wonderland
I am no Alice in Wonderland. When I was little I watched the Animated Walt Disney Alice in Wonderland. I put a key in an outlet suspecting to see the world of Alice. All I remember is that my two great uncles were playing a card game under a bright light. Also my mom was on the phone. Then the bright light went off and my mom stopped talking to the person she was talking to on the phone. My mom came rushing over to me, and the whole Motel 6 was out. I think I may have gotten electrocuted. The power went off because the key was a conductor and the electricity went through and since the electricity was connected to all the outlets it was suppose expect some electricity back since it was an alternating circuit, since it didn’t all the power went off - this is what I think happened, it may not be true.
Wednesday March 24, 2010|| Bridges
The structure of a bridge really matters. If you were to have to stones, and put a piece of bored on it , and then put a toy truck the board would go down, and turn flimsy. A stronger bridge would be better with triangles underneath. The triangles allow wind to get through, and it holds up the weight it almost every place. Then there is also bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge were it is holds up by wire. This is able to hold up all the weight because the wires are being hold back. If the wires were to be let go then everything would come to the middle because that is where the weight is and then the weight from the sides would come down to the middle because they are on a incline plane and gravity is pulling them down. There is also bridges that were used in Rome (Rome is awesome), they were supported by arches. How the stones are able to hold your weight up is if you were standing on the middle stone, than that stone would be pushing the others ones keeping it in. You can try it, and they don't have to be glued to keep your weight up. If you were to take out the keystone or the middle stone than the bridge would come tumbling down. If you were to take out any stone than the bridge would come tumbling down. Bridges staying up also matters on the material. Something really funny, a 1 pound of noodles can hold up your weight! This is science because you use a force to hold back strings. Or when a bridge comes down it is because gravity. It normally falls during storms with the help of wind. Also because they experiment (the people who make bridges) with a model. They give it some wind, rain and see if it lasts. If it doesn't it then they start to make the bridge If they do fall then they try to mak it better. The Golden Gate Bridge uses two type of qualities of making a good bridge. The wires, and the triangles at the bottom to support in every place.
Tuesday March 23, 2010|| Bubble Gum
Bubble Gum is made of the same materials as rubber bands. The difference is the other materials. Bubble gum has food coloring, and sugar. Bubble gum is made of 80%. Bubble Gum can make bigger bubbles than just regular chewing gum. This is because bubble gum is made with more stretchiness.
Monday March 22, 2010|| Rainbow
Yesterday my mom and my brother saw a rainbow. I was in the car when my brother said “oh look a rainbow” “Where, I don’t see it”-Me “It was on your side”-mom “But I didn’t see it, it would been perfect to blog about”-Me. So I decided why not blog about even though I didn’t see it. A rainbow is made when light and water meet. Sometimes you can see it when you’re watering your lawn and it is a sunny day.
Sunday March 21, 2010|| Vibrations
Today at church I was listening to the preacher when something started to shake the benches that we were sitting on, or whatever you call them. My sister was erasing something on her paper. She was erasing so hard that she began to make vibrations. These vibrations began started with her and the pencil, flowed through the paper, through the book she was using for something hard, through her lap, down to the bench and the farther you were sitting from my sister the smaller they were. This was because there was many obstacles in the way, it was a greater distance, and most of the energy from the vibrations would go to the things that were closes to her.
Saturday March 20, 2010|| Shadows
I saw my shadow and maybe even other people’s shadows. How shadows work is the placing of the sun. When the earth spins, and the also spins around the sun is how it moves. Why it moves that is a good question. A good thing about shadows is that you can tell time by looking at the sun or shadows which is easy. A basic one is, if your stepping on your shadow then it’s time to eat because it’s lunch time. You can also tell when spring is. Well you need the help of a ground hog if they see their shadow then it is a certain amount of weeks left until spring and you try again. If a lady is singing and there is a spotlight on her, then she will have a shadow, because that is what light does, when it sees an object in the way, it just goes around it, and the place were you're in front of it, is darker because the light had to go around you. Well thats how I think shadows work.
Friday March 19, 2010|| 2012 earthquakes
Many of you have probably seen the movie 2012 where the world is suppose to end by flood. In the movie there are several earth quakes. Earth quakes happen when heating up from inside the earth then spreading or shifting of plate tectonics. In the movie the continents moved and they were not in the same spot as they are right now. This is how Pangaea happened. Land was all together but then plate tectonics moved the plates away with whatever is on them, causing the shape of the lands to look different and look how they are right now.
Thursday March 18, 2010||Baking in the Summer
My mom does not like to bake in the summer. The reason why is because it heats up the whole house. I finally figured out why it does this. I figured that it was because some of the heat from the stove gets out into the room, and the room wants to get the same temperature which is how the house heats up. So now I am going to bake more in the winter!
Wednesday March 17, 2010|| leftover pizza
Pizza leftovers, 1:30 beep-beep-beep; all done. I take a bite and the next thing I know it is super hot! I figure out that it is because of the sauce. It takes a while for it to reach the same temperature as other things like pop, soda, lemonade, Kool-aid, etc. It takes more energy to get it at the same temperture as the items I listed. So when I figure this out, my brother takes a semi-big bite into his leftover pizza, the first thing he does like always is says its hot, its hot, with a cry that he burnt the top of his mouth. I laugh and then say well we just cooked it in the microwave so what did you expect it to be, Cold? Then I say blow on it, and then he does, one time and takes another bite. I then think in my mind it’s going to take more than one blow to cool down the sauce. I then say you big baby and tell him just to put it in the fridge to cool it down for a while. We do this every night with leftovers, boring! I realize something also, when I put my pizza in with pineapple and Canadian bacon on it that the pineapple slices were a nice size, but when I took it out of the microwave they were smaller. I thought this was because the pineapple had juice in it which was made of mostly water, so the water part got evaporated from the heat, so not only the sauce was hot but the pineapples just not as hot because there were only a few pineapples on. The crust was soft to chew, but the closer I got to the end it go harder I thought this was because the heat was making it soft, but as the room temperature tried to make the pizza and the room have the same temperature it made it get cold, so it started to hard. I hope I didn’t make you hungry, bye for now.
Tuesday March 16, 2010|| Needles
Believe it or not, I know how to knit. While I was knitting I was thinking about sewing, crocheting, and all those other women project that use a needle type, and string or yarn. A needle is a wedge, parting a little whole between materials so that you can hold it together with the string/yarn. The string/yarn is a pulley, If you pulled on one of the sides than it will tighten it and make all the parts come together and look wrinkly sort of. If you pull the other end then it loosens it. The material has a texture. You can’t see it with our naked eyes, but if you zoomed up on the material than you can see a pattern, and zoom even more and there is a pattern with in the pattern.
Saturday March 13, 2010||Day light savings
Day light savings time. Today while I was reading my IRP book it turned dark all of a sudden. It grabbed my attention away from the book and started wonder why this happened. While I was looking at my window –blinds down- I saw the light come back. Then it faded out again and came back. I then thought that maybe this was because the earth was spinning, and circling around the sun. I then thought that maybe it is because of Daylight savings. What do you think?
Friday March 12, 2010||Heat Thief I was eating breakfast at school today. Since it was raining almost all the tables were full. I sat down by my friends because there were spots open. I then took off my jacket so that my food wouldn’t get on it. “One of my friends then says aren’t you cold?” Then I responded with a “No”. I was then thinking that maybe it was because everyone else was warm with their jackets on, and they were giving off heat to me.
Thursday March 11, 2010||Mac 'n' cheese
Yesterday me, and my mom’s fiancé cooked too much Mac ‘n’ cheese. Well he actually did most of it. Today I cooked some, and added some hotdogs to it (sorry but the hotdogs have nothing to do with what I’m going/trying to say). I cooked it, and ate it all up. I then added some more of leftovers, I was about to put it in the microwave when I forgot to take out the fork. If you have ever really done that (I have). Then you know that it takes forever for your fork or silverware to cool down (oh my fork is made out of metal). It reminded me of what we learned today in class, that it takes more energy to heat up objects and it takes a long time for those things to cool down.
Saturday March 6, 2010||Sound Waves
Yodeling next to a mountain with snow, Chopping down trees then yelling. I realize something when I was beating the side of my bed to the music I was thinking of. I realized this when something came down that was hanging from the top part of my bed, It then reminded me of Gabby’s skit. That sound wave can cause things to move. Examples are when a person is yodeling or even being loud and causes snow to come forming an avalanche. Then there is also when someone is cutting down trees. Then they shout timber, after that the tree comes down. It’s because the sound waves make vibrations, then the vibrations cause things to move depending on how large/loud the sound was and how big the vibrations were. Sunday February 28, 2010||Manny uses a lever
Today I watched Ice age 2 with my brother. If any of you haven’t seen it, or forgot what it’s about ill refresh your memories. The ice is cracking, and the flood is coming. Sid the sloth, many or Manfred, and Diego run into some other animals, another mammoth, who thinks she’s a possum, and her two brothers crash and Eddie. Many is surprised that he isn’t the last mammoth any more, but she doesn’t realize that she is a mammoth. When many tell her that they should save the species they get mad at each other, they argue on the way to the boat. When they almost get there they get into another fight. Causing crash, Eddie, and Ellie to go a different way, Ellie then gets trapped into a cave. Manny comes back to her and tries to get her out by using a lever. He sticks a medium size stick (compared to him). He then uses the sick and puts it into a crack between two of the rocks trapping Ellie. He doesn’t have the strength to get the rocks out, and the water brings two mean characters. Combined the two mean characters, and Ellie is saved.
Friday February 26, 2010||Water
Do you ever quench for thirst or water? Well I always do! People call me a fish because I do. Don’t call me this! I hate Seafood! I was drinking water, and I was so thirst that I drank water for 25 seconds or more. That is a long time for drinking water, or at least it is for me. I then stopped to take a breath, and breathed into my water bottle. When I was finished drinking (water) I closed the lid. I realized that because some of my air was in there, it had been suffocating. Its oxygen had been cut off. I think that this why it leaves those little tiny drops of water. (Note I am writing about this on Satday but I noticed it on Friday)
Tuesday February 16, 2010||PB & J Sandwitch Peanut butter jelly sandwich, I had one today. I used a wedge to spread on the jelly, and the peanut butter. I also used the wedge to cut the sandwich. I mixed three ingredients to make a new thing; this is NOT a chemical change, it is a physical change but it would be hard to get all those items back, the same way they were. Since peanut butter sticks to almost everything, jelly also.
Monday February 15, 2010||Jack & Jill
I was reading some poems online looking for examples of literary device when I notice that Jack and Jill, the poem had science in it. Jack and Jill, have you heard of the poem? Well it goes like this… Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack falls down, and breaks his crown. And Jill comes tumbling after.
When they say that Jack and Jill went up a hill, they are going up an incline plane. When they say that they were going to fetch a pail of water, they would use a fixed pulley. When they say falls down, gravity is pulling/pushing Jack down the incline plane.
Sunday February 14, 2010||Setting
I was tossing my bowl that I made in art lab up and down as I was walking to my room. The bowl would sometimes go more left or more right. This reminded me of volleyball. Ms. Collins said that to set a ball you don’t want to push more with one hand then the other, that you want to hit the ball with both of your hands at the same time. I thought that this had to be because you are applying more force with one hand then the other,
Saturday Febrauary 13, 2010||Arms are lever
I have a cup of water every morning. Today when I was drinking the water I realized that my hand and the cup of water was a lever. The load would be the cup of water, the force would be my muscles, and the fulcrum was my elbow. This is an example of an third class lever.
Thursday February 4, 2010||Inclined Plane
I have yearbook for my elective, and my elective is in the A building. Most of the classes are upstairs in the A building unless you are in Ms. Gordon, Mr. Romine, Ms. O’Connor or someone like that. So to get up to my elective I have to go up an Incline plane. There are so many simple machines around us, even if we don't know it!
I went to Azteca yesterday, to celebrate, me doing well in the play. I put a straw into my sprite cup. The bubbles/fizz were making the straw float up. Another reason why this might have happened is because of the density. I have a hypothesis that the straw density was lighter/lower than the sprite. I think this because object float in liquids when there density is lower than the liquid.
Tuesday February 2, 2010||Sliping on Ice
My mom forgot something in the house today, so she said that since she is dying faster for me to go up and get what she forgot. I got what she forgot, and came back down. I was running because I had to be at school early because of the play. I was running down a hill because we live in a apartment, and my mom parked down bellow. So I was running, and I slid on something that I didn't know of. I came to a stop as soon as I could. My heart was pounding super fast. Four things came to my mind when this happened.
1. I should blog about this
2. The Nervous system, the nervous system is like a telegram. It travels up your spine, and tells you what to do. So when I was sliding fast (for a short time period) , My nervous system told me to stick my foot out and stop!
3. Friction, that I slid because of friction. That it would be hard to slide on the sidewalk unless there was ice on it. It would be easier to slide on ice because of the smoothness friction. It would be harder to slide on the sidewalk because it has a harder/rougher friction.
4. Last but not least, Newton's third law. That when an object is in motion it will stay in motion unless acted by an unbalanced force.
Monday February 1, 2010||Balloons
Yesterday, my neighbor had a birthday party, and they had balloons. The first time I saw the balloons, they were up in the air. The second time i saw the balloons, they were dead, not flying anymore. The third time they were back up in the air. It wasn't that far apart that I saw the balloons. For a second I thought that they put up new balloons, but they were tied up in the same place, the same way. Then I thought that maybe that when it rains, since it was raining yesterday that it made the helium from the balloons sink out faster. I also thought that when the rain has stopped pounding on it, that it got its strength back since the heavy rained drops weren't on it anymore. Also balloons are gas.
Wednesday January 2010||Gymnastics
It is/was the last Meet for Gymnastics. Have you ever done a handstand? Have you ever done a handstand on the beam? I have and it’s kind of hard with a gravity pushing against you, but then again there is also a gravity pushing you up. What's funny is that the reason that we always fall is because gravity is pushing down on us. I find that fuuny.
Tuesday January 19, 2010||Chicken Noodle Soup
During Martin Luther King’s Birthday Day off or whatever you want to call it. I got a fever so I had to stay in bed, and my mom left me at home. It was pass noon and i was getting hungry so i got up and walk to the kitchen. I poured noodles into a bowl then some water. I broke the noodles into smaller pieces. Oh I am making Top Ramen. I put it in the Microwave. Beep-Beep- done burning hot. So I use oven mitts to take out, I set it down at my table. Once I put in the seasoning I realized that I made a mixture (Water, noodles, Seasoning). Also some of the water isn't there, because the heat evaporated some of it and turned some of the water into heat vapors, or steam.
Tuesday January 19, 2010||Mudslide
Did you hear about the Mudslide? There was a Mudslide on Highway Eighteen, if you were heading to Federal Way. I told my mom before she read the article how it happened, and I didn't hear about it till she told me the headline. A Mudslide happens when a lot of water creates friction with soil on a hill. It was a good thing that my mom didn't have to go to Federal Way! :^) Monday January 18, 2010||Popcorn
I was watching a T.V. Series with my mom it’s called Lost ever heard of it? No then go google it, it is like the most interesting show ever! Have heard it before? Good for you, you earn a star. Don't like it? thats ok! Well my mom paused the movie/show (we were watching it online) because she needed to use the bathroom so I went to the kitchen to pop some popcorn. When I was waiting for it to get done I realize as the temperature raised kernels got popped, and as the more kernels got popped the bigger the bag got, and the more the bag started to look like it was breathing. When the popcorn was done, I was holding the same matter that I did when I put it in the microwave, but the popcorn was mostly air so that’s why, also the kernels have so much in their so compacted that the heat made it escape and made it grow. This is a chemical change because of the heat. When I was typing this up, my sister who is in 11th grade was wondering how popping popcorn was a chemical change, when there was no chemicals involved. Then I told her what Ms. Piehl told me when I was wondering how heating something up was a physical change. So tip for you don't type infront of your siblings you might give them a headace like I did.
Monday January 18, 2010||How does Popcorn work?
Popcorn how does it work? In popcorn there is 14% water in it. When the heat heats the kernel up the water turns into steam and then there is too much pressure in that little kernel that it explodes. It would blow into a thousand pieces but they are attracted together. Sunday January 17, 2010||Friction with wet grass Friction, it has been freezing all week! I was running late to school and I didn't want to be late. So I cut through the grass because if I didn't then I would have taken longer. I was running and I slipped on some ice I think, which reminded me of Newton's third law, an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted by an outside force.
Friday January 15, 2010||Percipitation
It’s raining its pouring the Old Man (Ralph) is snoring he went to bed and bumped his head (actually Ruby hit him) and couldn't get up in the morning. Yep its raining, which means that the water cycle is happening. Precipitation, Water Cycle. :z <- Ralph hahaha!
(Payback)
Thursday January 14, 2010||Typing
Frustrated at first but when I asked Ms. Piehl about it she solved my problem. So if you need help you should defiantly ask her even if you think she is scary sometime like me, but she's cool. I mean once you get to know her she is Awesome! She is so funny at times, and she reminds me of someone I know. Back to the blog, Figuring out how Google sketchup works, just go to Google and type in Google sketchup tutorials. Click on the first link that you see. Click on New to Google sketchup, then when you see this at the top of the page...Click on the headings to expand each section and see the video tutorials within.
Having trouble seeing our videos? You can download them to watch offline. Click on the download them, then when you see this…
If you're having trouble viewing these videos on YouTube, they're now available for download. You can get the ZIP files at the Google SketchUp Videos site.
Click on Video site. Then at the bottom it will say New to SketchUp Videos, click on it. Click the download, and you are done no more stressing.
You could do that or just go to Ms. Piehl's workspace, and Liana should have put them their and you wouldn't have to download them. You don’t get in trouble if you download though. Experiment/ScienceRealLife:
Needing to type what I just type I will try to say the energy chain to do what it takes to do type down information like that.
There is a sun, and the sun gives the animals and plants energy, which is called heat energy. When a human eats animals and/or plants it takes the energy that it had, the energy goes into the muscles, and when the human touches the keys it is using sound energy, when it touches the keys it makes a sound that the finger has touched, an electrical energy when you see the letters that are being pressed are showing up on the screen, and a potential energy because it is in motion, the keys and the fingers. One thing that I learned few days ago, everything comes from Heat Energy!
The three energies we learned about yesterday are Sound energy, Heat Energy, and Electric Energy. I think there is another one but I don't remember what it is.
Tuesday December 22, 2009||Basketball
Today in P.E. we were playing basketball, when someone from my second period said that we needed a blog before Friday, I remembered that everything is science! So I thought what I did today, I guess all I did today was go to P.E. and type on a computer, I thought that P.E. would be more cool to write about so I started to think what does basketball have to do with Science? I remembered about Newton's first Law, the one about an Inertia that an object will keep moving unless acted upon another object. Basketball is getting acted by two other forces, the floor and the person’s hand. Then I also thought about the force that you would need to use when you make a shot. Then there is all that math, to make a perfect basket. There is also the force that your body gives you. I did a little experiment, that when I shot a basket and didn't bend my legs or jump. It was hard! I didn't make it in though. I barely moved the ball. When I shot again, bending my legs I was closer to makeing the basket. So if you bend your legs, or jump when you are shooting a basket, you will get a more umph out of your shot.
Friday December 18, 2009||Magnets
Locker, I don't use my hall locker, because my mom drops me off late most of the times, like she did today. I forgot my Hall locker; there is nothing inside of it though so that’s good. I remember last year I used it, then I stopped, but I had this mirror, and it had magnets on the back, that's how it would stay. So powerful some magnet can be, and when you have two magnets in your hands and they are sticking together, if you flipped both of them, it would be hard to make them stay. Sometimes if you weren't holding on tight enough to the magnets, they will flip on you, and stick.
Thursday December 17, 2009||Wind Energy
I remember this summer when I was driving out in the country and the window was rolled down and I felt the wind rush on my face, through my hair. So much Energy rushing by myself and I didn't know it. This was a way to make energy, wind. Wind can produce energy. Wednesday December 16, 2009||Shower
When you are taking a shower and it looks like its raining and the water falls down in drops. Why? Because the gravity is shaping it and pressing down on it. So next time you take a shower or see rain (which should probably be tomorrow), you can see for yourself. Also do you ever notice that your mirror is fooged up when you come out of the shower? Well I think that this is because you are breathing to heavy when your in the shower, or because the water changes the temperature to make the room temperature either cooler, or hotter. Then there is also because hot water creates steam and then the steam sticks to your mirror.
Science in the Real World. . .
Through Allyson's eyes
Saturday March 27, 2010||Blinds
Every day I open up the blinds so that I can look at the moon. The blinds are a pulley. When you pull down on one side of a cord it opens the blind. If you pull down on the opposite side of the same cord it closes it. If you pull on the other cord then it makes them go left, when you pull on the opposite side it makes it go down.
Dead Flowers need water and it is better if you cut them then pick them. This is because some of the plant had jagged edges causing it to bring things that are not needed. It is also good to put food in their water, so that they act like they haven’t been cut. Dead flowers are easy to tell when they are dying. Gravity pushes down on them because they run out of food. They take food with them when they are cut, but it doesn’t last forever.
Thursday March 25, 2010||Im not Alice in Wonderland
I am no Alice in Wonderland. When I was little I
Wednesday March 24, 2010|| Bridges
The structure of a bridge really matters. If you were to have to stones, and put a piece of bored on it , and then put a toy truck the board would go down, and turn flimsy. A stronger bridge would be better with triangles underneath. The triangles allow wind to get through, and it holds up the weight it almost every place. Then there is also bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge were it is holds up by wire. This is able to
Bubble Gum is made of the same materials as rubber bands. The difference is the other materials. Bubble gum has food coloring, and sugar. Bubble gum is made of 80%. Bubble Gum can make bigger bubbles than just regular chewing gum. This is because bubble gum is made with more stretchiness.
Monday March 22, 2010|| Rainbow
Yesterday my mom and my brother saw a rainbow. I was in the car when my brother said “oh look a rainbow” “Where, I don’t see it”-Me “It was on your side”-mom “But I didn’t see it, it would been perfect to blog about”-Me. So I decided why not blog about even though I didn’t see it. A rainbow is made when light and water meet. Sometimes you can see it when you’re watering your lawn and it is a sunny day.
Sunday March 21, 2010|| Vibrations
Today at church I was listening to the preacher when something started to shake the benches that we were sitting on, or whatever you call them. My sister was
Saturday March 20, 2010|| Shadows
I saw my shadow and maybe even other people’s shadows. How shadows
Friday March 19, 2010|| 2012 earthquakes
Many of you have probably seen the movie 2012 where the world is suppose to end by flood. In the movie there are several earth quakes. Earth quakes happen when heating up from inside the earth then spreading or shifting of plate tectonics. In the movie the continents moved and they were not in the same spot as they are right now. This is how Pangaea happened. Land was all together but then plate tectonics moved the plates away with whatever is on them, causing the shape of the lands to look different and look how they are right now.
Thursday March 18, 2010||Baking in the Summer
My mom does not like to bake in the summer. The reason why is because it heats up the whole house. I finally figured out why it does this. I figured that it was because some of the heat from the stove gets out into the room, and the room wants to get the same temperature which is how the house heats up. So now I am going to bake more in the winter!
Wednesday March 17, 2010|| leftover pizza
Pizza leftovers, 1:30 beep-beep-beep; all done. I take a bite and the next thing I know it is super hot! I figure out that it is because of the sauce. It takes a while for it to reach the same temperature as other things like pop, soda, lemonade, Kool-aid, etc. It takes more energy to get it at the same temperture as the items I listed. So when I figure this out, my brother takes a semi-big bite into his leftover pizza, the first thing he does like always is says its hot, its hot, with a cry that he burnt the top of his mouth. I laugh and then say well we just cooked it in the microwave so what did you
Tuesday March 16, 2010|| Needles
Believe it or not, I know how to
Saturday March 13, 2010||Day light savings
Day light savings time. Today while I was reading my IRP book it
Friday March 12, 2010||Heat Thief
I was eating breakfast at school today. Since it was raining almost all the tables were full. I sat down by my friends because there were spots open. I then took off my jacket so that my food wouldn’t get on it. “One of my friends then says aren’t you cold?” Then I responded with a “No”. I was then thinking that maybe it was because everyone else was warm with their jackets on, and they were giving off heat to me.
Thursday March 11, 2010||Mac 'n' cheese
Yesterday me, and my mom’s fiancé cooked too much Mac ‘n’ cheese.
Saturday March 6, 2010||Sound Waves
Yodeling next to a mountain with snow, Chopping down trees
Sunday February 28, 2010||Manny uses a lever
Today I watched Ice age 2 with my brother. If any of you haven’t seen it, or forgot what it’s about ill refresh your memories. The ice is cracking, and the flood is coming. Sid the sloth, many or Manfred, and Diego run into some other animals, another
Friday February 26, 2010||Water
Do you ever quench for thirst or wat
(Note I am writing about this on Satday but I noticed it on Friday)
Tuesday February 16, 2010||PB & J Sandwitch
Peanut butter jelly sandwich, I had one today. I used a wedge to spread on the jelly, and the peanut butter. I also used the wedge to cut the sandwich. I mixed three ingredients to make a new thing; this is NOT a chemical change, it is a physical change but it would be hard to get all those items back, the same way they were. Since peanut butter sticks to almost everything, jelly also.
Monday February 15, 2010
I was reading some poems online looking for examples of literary device when I notice that Jack and Jill, the poem had science in it. Jack and Jill, have you heard of the poem? Well it goes like this… Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack falls down, and breaks his crown. And Jill comes tumbling after.
When they say that Jack and Jill went up a hill, they are going up an incline plane. When they say that they were going to fetch a pail of water, they would use a fixed pulley. When they say falls down, gravity is pulling/pushing Jack down the incline plane.
I was tossing my bowl that I made in art lab up and down as I was walking to my room. The bowl would sometimes go more left or more right. This reminded me of volleyball. Ms. Collins said that to set a ball you don’t want to push more with one hand then the other, that you want to hit the ball with both of your hands at the same time. I thought that this had to be because you are applying more force with one hand then the other,
I have a cup of water every morning. Today when I was drinking the water I realized that my hand and the cup of water was a lever. The load would be the cup of water, the force would be my muscles, and the fulcrum was my elbow. This is an example of an third class lever.
I have yearbook for my elective, and my elective is in the A building. Most of the classes are upstairs in the A building unless you are in Ms. Gordon, Mr. Romine, Ms. O’Connor or someone like that. So to get up to my elective I have to go up an Incline plane. There are so many simple machines around us, even if we don't know it!
Come look at Allyson's and Gabble’s vocabulary page!
Transformation of Energy
Alloy
I went to Azteca yesterday, to celebrate, me doing well in the play. I put a straw into my sprite cup. The bubbles/fizz were making the straw float up. Another reason why this might have happened is because of the density. I have a hypothesis that the straw density was lighter/lower than the sprite. I think this because object float in liquids when there density is lower than the liquid.
Tuesday February 2, 2010||Sliping on Ice
My mom forgot something in the house today, so she said that since she is dying faster for me to go up and get what she forgot. I got what she forgot, and came back down. I was running because I had to be at school early because of the play. I was running down a hill because we live in a apartment, and my mom parked down bellow. So I was running, and I slid on something that I didn't know of. I came to a stop as soon as I could. My heart was pounding super fast. Four things came to my mind when this happened.
1. I should blog about this
2. The Nervous system, the nervous system is like a telegram. It travels up your spine, and tells you what to do. So when I was sliding fast (for a short time period) , My nervous system told me to stick my foot out and stop!
3. Friction, that I slid because of friction. That it would be hard to slide on the sidewalk unless there was ice on it. It would be easier to slide on ice because of the smoothness friction. It would be harder to slide on the sidewalk because it has a harder/rougher friction.
4. Last but not least, Newton's third law. That when an object is in motion it will stay in motion unless acted by an unbalanced force.
Yesterday, my neighbor had a birthday party, and they had balloons. The first time I saw the balloons, they were up in the air. The second time i saw the balloons, they were dead, not flying anymore. The third time they were back up in the air. It wasn't that far apart that I saw the balloons. For a second I thought that they put up new balloons, but they were tied up in the same place, the same way. Then I thought that maybe that when it rains, since it was raining yesterday that it made the helium from the balloons sink out faster. I also thought that when the rain has stopped pounding on it, that it got its strength back since the heavy rained drops weren't on it anymore. Also balloons are gas.
Wednesday January 2010||Gymnastics
It is/was the last Meet for Gymnastics. Have you ever done a handstand? Have you ever done a handstand on the beam? I have and it’s kind of hard with a gravity pushing against you, but then again there is also a gravity pushing you up. What's funny is that the reason that we always fall is because gravity is pushing down on us. I find that fuuny.
Tuesday January 19, 2010||Chicken Noodle Soup
During Martin Luther King’s Birthday Day off or whatever
Tuesday January 19, 2010||Mudslide
Did you hear about the Mudslide? There was a Mudslide on Highway Eighteen, if you were heading to Federal Way. I told my mom before she read the article how it happened, and I didn't hear about it till she told me the headline. A Mudslide happens when a lot of water creates friction with soil on a hill. It was a good thing that my mom didn't have to go to Federal Way! :^)
Monday January 18, 2010||Popcorn
I was watching a T.V. Series with my mom it’s called Lost ever heard of it? No then go google it, it is like the most interesting show ever! Have heard it before? Good for you, you earn a star. Don't like it? thats ok! Well my mom paused the movie/show (we were watching it online) because she needed to use the bathroom so I went to the kitchen to pop some popcorn. When I was
Monday January 18, 2010||How does Popcorn work?
Popcorn how does it work? In popcorn there is 14% water in it. When the heat heats the kernel up the water turns into steam and then there is too much pressure in that little kernel that it explodes. It would blow into a thousand pieces but they are attracted together.
Sunday January 17, 2010||Friction with wet grass
Friction, it has been freezing all week! I was running late to school and I didn't want to be late. So I cut through the grass because if I didn't then I would have taken longer. I was running and I slipped on some ice I think, which reminded me of Newton's third law, an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted by an outside force.
Friday January 15, 2010||Percipitation
It’s raining its pouring the Old Man (Ralph) is snoring he went to bed and bumped his head (actually Ruby hit him) and couldn't get up in the morning. Yep its raining, which means that the water cycle is happening. Precipitation, Water Cycle.
:z <- Ralph hahaha!
(Payback)
Thursday January 14, 2010||Typing
Frustrated at first but when I asked Ms. Piehl about it she solved my problem. So if you need help you should defiantly ask her even if you think she is scary sometime like me, but she's cool. I mean once you get to know her she is Awesome! She is so funny at times, and she reminds me of someone I know. Back to the blog, Figuring out how Google sketchup works, just go to Google and type in Google sketchup tutorials. Click on the first link that you see. Click on New to Google sketchup, then when you see this at the top of the page...Click on the headings to expand each section and see the video tutorials within.
Having trouble seeing our videos? You can download them to watch offline. Click on the download them, then when you see this…
If you're having trouble viewing these videos on YouTube, they're now available for download. You can get the ZIP files at the Google SketchUp Videos site.
Click on Video site. Then at the bottom it will say New to SketchUp Videos, click on it. Click the download, and you are done no more stressing.
You could do that or just go to Ms. Piehl's workspace, and Liana should have put them their and you wouldn't have to download them. You don’t get in trouble if you download though.
Experiment/ScienceRealLife:
Needing to type what I just type I will try to say the energy chain to do what it takes to do type down information like that.
There is a sun, and the sun gives the animals and plants energy, which is called heat energy. When a human eats animals and/or plants it takes the energy that it had, the energy goes into the muscles, and when the human touches the keys it is using sound energy, when it touches the keys it makes a sound that the finger has touched, an electrical energy when you see the letters that are being pressed are showing up on the screen, and a potential energy because it is in motion, the keys and the fingers. One thing that I learned few days ago, everything comes from Heat Energy!
The three energies we learned about yesterday are Sound energy, Heat Energy, and Electric Energy. I think there is another one but I don't remember what it is.
Tuesday December 22, 2009||Basketball
Today in P.E. we were playing basketball, when someone from my second period said that we needed a blog before Friday, I remembered that everything is science! So I thought what I did today, I guess all I did today
Friday December 18, 2009||Magnets
Locker, I don't use my hall locker, because my mom drops me off late most of the times, like she did today. I forgot my Hall locker; there is nothing inside of it though so that’s good. I remember last year I used it, then I stopped, but I had this mirror, and it had magnets on the back, that's how it would stay. So powerful some magnet can be, and when you have two magnets in your hands and they are sticking together, if you flipped both of them, it would be hard to make them stay. Sometimes if you weren't holding on tight enough to the magnets, they will flip on you, and stick.
I remember this summer when I was driving out in the country and the window was rolled down and I felt the wind rush on my face, through my hair. So much Energy rushing by myself and I didn't know it. This was a way to make energy, wind. Wind can produce energy.
Wednesday December 16, 2009||Shower
When you are taking a shower and it looks like its raining and the water falls down in drops. Why? Because the gravity is shaping it and pressing down on it. So next time you take a shower or see rain (which should probably be tomorrow), you can see for yourself. Also do you ever notice that your mirror is fooged up when you come out of the shower? Well I think that this is because you are breathing to heavy when your in the shower, or because the water changes the temperature to make the room temperature either cooler, or hotter. Then there is also because hot water creates steam and then the steam sticks to your mirror.