Week 16:
This week I got Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 15:
This week I got a haircut, and it was cut pretty short... so I decided to look up how long it takes hair to grow. While I was searching, I thought about how hair even grows... and I could hardly remember! So as I looked it up, I found that it grows from the roots, not from the ends, like fingernails. And hair forms in a pouch-like structure below the skin called a hair follicle. What we see of our hair is actually the hair shaft, which is the hardened tissue that grows from the hair follicle. It grows differently depending on, well... everything! I thought that was pretty intereseting, and decided to share it for my weekly blog!
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 14:
This week when it was rainging really hard, and very windy, I heard loud thunder outside! I had no clue what made thunder, so I decided to find out. What I discovered was that thunder is the sound that lightening makes. So I thought, 'Wow, sounds pretty simple... but why does lightening make a sound?' So I kept searching. I found that any sound you hear is made up of vibrations, the vibrations travel through the air as waves until they reach your ear... which means lightening must cause some kind of vibration!
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 13:
This week has been very rainy out, and then i realized... I hardly even remember the water cycle! So I decided to review & think about it... so here is the water cycle!: The cycle is made up of 4 parts:Evaporation, Condesnsation, Precipitation, & Collection. Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.Condensationis when water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation. Precipitation is when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow. Collection is when water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land. When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the “ground water” that plants and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts all over again!
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 12:
This week I was buying some ice cream from an ice cream place, and I was thinking about how ice cream was made. I wondered how ice cream got the chemical energy to feed and power our bodies like other food. Then I thought about it and realized that the main energy source-- not just for food, but for basically everything-- is the sun! So this how ice cream gets it energy: The sun gives it's energy to plants to make them grow, then the cows eat the plants which gives them enough chemical energy and power to create milk, then our mechanical energy (that we get from the sun that gives our plants energy to grow and give us chemical energy) is used to milk the cows, then there are machines and other things used to create the ice cream from the cow's milk which is electrical energy, and a few other kinds (lots of simple/complex machines are used there), then it is shipped out to the ice cream parlors and stores and gives us chemical energy to move and think!
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 11:
Today I walking to school and it was freezing outside! I decided to rub my hands together because they always got warmer for some reason when I did that. I found out they were warm because the sliding friction creates heat/thermal energy and it warms your hands up.
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 10:
Today I was walking around my house then I touched a doorknob to open the door and leave. I had gotten shocked, and then I realized that only seconds earlier I had walked on and dragged my feet across a carpet. This is related to science because when you drag your feet on the carpet, not only does it create friction, but there is also a transfer of static electricity/energy from the carpet to you. Then, when you touch a metal doorknob, (a conductor) you get shocked because of the electricity.
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 9:
So this morning I was straightening my hair, and I wondered how does the heat make my hair stay straight? So i decided to look it up. I found that is straightens your hair becausework by breaking down the hair's hydrogen bonds found in the hair's cortex, which cause hair to bend and become curly. Once the bonds are broken, hair is prevented from holding its original, natural form, though the hydrogen bonds can re-form if exposed to moisture. I didn't think straightening my hair could be so scientific and complex!
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 8:
We have been studying simple machines this week, so I decided that one morning I would wake up and just think about all of the simple machines I used or saw the whole morning. I noticed lots of things; Doors (lever), Shoe laces (pulley), The milk lid (screw), My spoon for cereal (lever), Sink (inclined plane), Eyeliner sharpener (wedge), etc. It was very cool to realize how much we use simple machines.
(WASN'T IN SCHOOL FOR WEEKS 6-7!)
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 5:
On the news lately, I've heard a lot about some cars' foot (gas & brake) pedals not working, or locking. I wondered, how would the car stop if the brake was locked or didn't work? Would it ever stop? And if so, when? I know I'm 2 years away, but I want to know these facts before I start driving. Then I realized, "Wow, I can even do this for my science blog!" because, hey, everything has to do with science, right? :) Haha, anyways, I realized that eventually the car would stop if you took you took your foot off of the gas pedal, because it would get effected by rolling friction. It may take a while, but it would be a shorter wait to stop if you were traveling 20 mph, as to if you were traveling 60 mph. Rolling friction would be the main effect on the car stopping, but if you crashed into something, it would stop faster, (but probably not the way you'd like it too) it would also have to do with the Newton's Law that states "an object in motion will stay in motion, unless an unbalanced force acts upon it." That was my week 5 Science in The Real World journal! Thanks for reading!
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 4:
This week was really windy, and so I started wondering about how wind was made and why. I know we studied that a little last year, but i wanted to get more in depth. So i looked it up on google, and one website said, "Wind energy is a form of solar energy, created by circulation patterns in the Earth's atmosphere that are driven by heat from the sun." That didnt make much sense to me, until I looked at a few other websites. I finally found out (and understood) that the sun's radiation heats different parts of the earth at different rates- most notably during the day and night, but also when different surfaces (for example, water and land) absorb or reflect at different rates. This in turn causes portions of the atmosphere to warm differently. Hot air rises, reducing the atmoshperic pressure at the earth's surface, and cooler air replaces it, which results in wind. That was my science lesson I learned about wind!
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 3:
So you've probably heard about the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti that happened tuesday afternoon, I sure have! At first I felt pretty bad (i still do!) but then I realized that this would be a great topic for my science blog! Earthquakes have to do with science because when the two plates slide past eachother, it causes the foreshock, mainshock, and aftershock. The mainshock is the biggest earthquake, and the foreshocks and after shcoks are tiny earthquakes before and after the mainshock. Earthquakes are also measured in seismograms, and scientists use seismographs to measure the earthquakes. Earthquakes are very unpredictable, and most likely always will be. Scientists are also the main people that study earthquakes. Those are just the main ways that earthquakes have to do with science.
labeled fault
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 2:
This week, I've noticed lots of scientific things happen around me, and it was hard to pick one as the most interesting. Then finally, I found it!... When I jump onto my couch, or sit on it forcefully, it slides backwards. (The couch is pretty light!) I noticed how that had to to with forces, energy, and sliding friction. First, the couch started with gravitational energy, keeping it on the ground. Then, when i would jump into my couch, fall into it, or sit into it (the force of an unblanaced object acting upon it, like in Newton's Law Of Inertia) and it slid backwards, it began having kinetic energy & sound energy (because it moved and made a sound). It also experienced sliding friction, which then brought the couch to a stop to when is again had gravitational energy. That was what I noticed science in in everyday life!
Science in The Real World! By: Amanda Dideon
Week 1:
A few days ago, I was riding my step-sister's skateboard and I thought about how it had to do with the subject we're working on in science right now, which has to do with energy. I also thought about how when you push off with your foot, thats forcing you and the skateboard to go forward. And also, when the wheels roll on the ground, it slows you down, which is called rolling friction. That was what I noticed science in in everyday life!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 16:
This week I got
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 15:
This week I got a haircut, and it was cut pretty short... so I decided to look up how long it takes hair to grow. While I was searching, I thought about how hair even grows... and I could hardly remember! So as I looked it up, I found that it grows from the roots, not from the ends, like fingernails. And hair forms in a pouch-like structure below the skin called a hair follicle. What we see of our hair is actually the hair shaft, which is the hardened tissue that grows from the hair follicle. It grows differently depending on, well... everything! I thought that was pretty intereseting, and decided to share it for my weekly blog!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 14:
This week when it was rainging really hard, and very windy, I heard loud thunder outside! I had no clue what made thunder, so I decided to find out. What I discovered was that thunder is the sound that lightening makes. So I thought, 'Wow, sounds pretty simple... but why does lightening make a sound?' So I kept searching. I found that any sound you hear is made up of vibrations, the vibrations travel through the air as waves until they reach your ear... which means lightening must cause some kind of vibration!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 13:
This week has been very rainy out, and then i realized... I hardly even remember the water cycle! So I decided to review & think about it... so here is the water cycle!:
The cycle is made up of 4 parts:Evaporation, Condesnsation, Precipitation, & Collection. Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air. Condensationis when water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation. Precipitation is when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow. Collection is when water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land. When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the “ground water” that plants and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts all over again!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 12:
This week I was buying some ice cream from an ice cream place, and I was thinking about how ice cream was made. I wondered how ice cream got the chemical energy to feed and power our bodies like other food. Then I thought about it and realized that the main energy source-- not just for food, but for basically everything-- is the sun! So this how ice cream gets it energy: The sun gives it's energy to plants to make them grow, then the cows eat the plants which gives them enough chemical energy and power to create milk, then our mechanical energy (that we get from the sun that gives our plants energy to grow and give us chemical energy) is used to milk the cows, then there are machines and other things used to create the ice cream from the cow's milk which is electrical energy, and a few other kinds (lots of simple/complex machines are used there), then it is shipped out to the ice cream parlors and stores and gives us chemical energy to move and think!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 11:
Today I walking to school and it was freezing outside! I decided to rub my hands together because they always got warmer for some reason when I did that. I found out they were warm because the sliding friction creates heat/thermal energy and it warms your hands up.
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 10:
Today I was walking around my house then I touched a doorknob to open the door and leave. I had gotten shocked, and then I realized that only seconds earlier I had walked on and dragged my feet across a carpet. This is related to science because when you drag your feet on the carpet, not only does it create friction, but there is also a transfer of static electricity/energy from the carpet to you. Then, when you touch a metal doorknob, (a conductor) you get shocked because of the electricity.
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 9:
So this morning I was straightening my hair, and I wondered how does the heat make my hair stay straight? So i decided to look it up. I found that is straightens your hair becausework by breaking down the hair's hydrogen bonds found in the hair's cortex, which cause hair to bend and become curly. Once the bonds are broken, hair is prevented from holding its original, natural form, though the hydrogen bonds can re-form if exposed to moisture. I didn't think straightening my hair could be so scientific and complex!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 8:
We have been studying simple machines this week, so I decided that one morning I would wake up and just think about all of the simple machines I used or saw the whole morning. I noticed lots of things; Doors (lever), Shoe laces (pulley), The milk lid (screw), My spoon for cereal (lever), Sink (inclined plane), Eyeliner sharpener (wedge), etc. It was very cool to realize how much we use simple machines.
(WASN'T IN SCHOOL FOR WEEKS 6-7!)
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 5:
On the news lately, I've heard a lot about some cars' foot (gas & brake) pedals not working, or locking. I wondered, how would the car stop if the brake was locked or didn't work? Would it ever stop? And if so, when? I know I'm 2 years away, but I want to know these facts before I start driving. Then I realized, "Wow, I can even do this for my science blog!" because, hey, everything has to do with science, right? :) Haha, anyways, I realized that eventually the car would stop if you took you took your foot off of the gas pedal, because it would get effected by rolling friction. It may take a while, but it would be a shorter wait to stop if you were traveling 20 mph, as to if you were traveling 60 mph. Rolling friction would be the main effect on the car stopping, but if you crashed into something, it would stop faster, (but probably not the way you'd like it too) it would also have to do with the Newton's Law that states "an object in motion will stay in motion, unless an unbalanced force acts upon it." That was my week 5 Science in The Real World journal! Thanks for reading!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 4:
This week was really windy, and so I started wondering about how wind was made and why. I know we studied that a little last year, but i wanted to get more in depth. So i looked it up on google, and one website said, "Wind energy is a form of solar energy, created by circulation patterns in the Earth's atmosphere that are driven by heat from the sun." That didnt make much sense to me, until I looked at a few other websites. I finally found out (and understood) that the sun's radiation heats different parts of the earth at different rates- most notably during the day and night, but also when different surfaces (for example, water and land) absorb or reflect at different rates. This in turn causes portions of the atmosphere to warm differently. Hot air rises, reducing the atmoshperic pressure at the earth's surface, and cooler air replaces it, which results in wind. That was my science lesson I learned about wind!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 3:
So you've probably heard about the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti that happened tuesday afternoon, I sure have! At first I felt pretty bad (i still do!) but then I realized that this would be a great topic for my science blog! Earthquakes have to do with science because when the two plates slide past eachother, it causes the foreshock, mainshock, and aftershock. The mainshock is the biggest earthquake, and the foreshocks and after shcoks are tiny earthquakes before and after the mainshock. Earthquakes are also measured in seismograms, and scientists use seismographs to measure the earthquakes. Earthquakes are very unpredictable, and most likely always will be. Scientists are also the main people that study earthquakes. Those are just the main ways that earthquakes have to do with science.
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 2:
This week, I've noticed lots of scientific things happen around me, and it was hard to pick one as the most interesting. Then finally, I found it!... When I jump onto my couch, or sit on it forcefully, it slides backwards. (The couch is pretty light!) I noticed how that had to to with forces, energy, and sliding friction. First, the couch started with gravitational energy, keeping it on the ground. Then, when i would jump into my couch, fall into it, or sit into it (the force of an unblanaced object acting upon it, like in Newton's Law Of Inertia) and it slid backwards, it began having kinetic energy & sound energy (because it moved and made a sound). It also experienced sliding friction, which then brought the couch to a stop to when is again had gravitational energy. That was what I noticed science in in everyday life!
Science in The Real World!
By: Amanda Dideon
Week 1:
A few days ago, I was riding my step-sister's skateboard and I thought about how it had to do with the subject we're working on in science right now, which has to do with energy. I also thought about how when you push off with your foot, thats forcing you and the skateboard to go forward. And also, when the wheels roll on the ground, it slows you down, which is called rolling friction. That was what I noticed science in in everyday life!