Week Of December 14th - 20th
On one of the VERY cold nights last week, I had a some soup. My mom took the soup in its container and set it outside. In the morning my sister brought it and showed me what happened over night. All of my soup that was left over was frozen solid. It made me think of are phase change animation project. Going from a liquid to a solid state.
Week Of January 4th - 8th
A way I use science in everyday life is at cheer practice. When were preforming a stunt we throw a girl up and in the air then catch her. When the girl is falling down after being thrown the molecules in the air agianst her are causing friction and slowing her down. Also the girl would keep falling if she was not acted upon by in outside force. The outside force being our arms. This relates to Newton's first law of inertia "objects at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by in outside force, and objects in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by in outside force."
Week Of January 11th - 15th
Jumping on the trampoline is the way I used science in everyday life this week. While I was jumping I was thinking about inertia. Once I've jumped I would continue upwards if there was no gravity, and no friction from the air molecules. Also once I am coming down from the jump I would continue if their was nothing to stop me. So in this situation the trampoline is the outside force, it is sending me up and stoping me from falling. "objects at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force, objects in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force.
Week Of January 18th - 22nd
While my brother was home from college I was laughing a lot. When we were in the car I asked my brother, "why do people laugh?". He thought that was a really good question, so this is what I'll be writing about. Laughing was passed down through evolution. If you were to tickle an ape they wouldn't laugh but they would make a panting sound. Their gentics changed and as we became more evolutionized the panting became laughing.
Week Of January 25th - 29th
When I'm taking a shower and I don't leave the fan going when I get out there will be water all over the mirror. I though 'there must be something scientific about that.' And it is. The surface of the mirror is cooler then the water vapor that is coming out of the shower. When the water vapor rises out of the shower and towards the mirror it condenses into water droplets on the mirror.
Week Of Febuary 1st - 5th
This past week I've been baking choclate chip cookies! When I was mixing all the ingredients together it reminded me of a 'mixture' (a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together). Also when I put my mixture of ingredients into the oven to bake it changed from a liquid form to a solid form under the heat. Which reminded me of what we learned earlier this year, states of matter.
Week Of Febuary 8th - 12th
This week my mom made tea, I tried to take a sip but it was to hot. I decided to put some ice cubes in it to cool it down. When I placed the ice cubes in the water they started out as solids. After a few minutes in the hot tea the ice cubes dissolved into the water. It reminded me of this year earlier in this year.
Week of Feburary 15th - 19th
Right now we are studying simple machines and I can see them in use everywhere. For example I was at my friends Baileys house and we decided to go on a walk around her neghborhood. I walked past a house that had a ramp over the stairs (this is an inclinded plane). I thought of how someone at the house must be in a wheel chair, and much easier it must be for that person to use the ramp then having to find away to get up the stairs.
Week of Febuary 22nd - 26th
I used science in the real world this week when I drank out of my water bottle. I use the cap on the waterbottle to make sure that water doesn't escape from the bottle. The cap is a screw which is a simple machine.
Week of March 1st - 5th
This weekend I was at my friend Bailey's house, she has a trampoline so we went outside to jump on it. We were jumping for a while when i accidentaly touched her hand and we both got shocked really hard. It reminded me of this week in science when we touched that machine that shocked us.
Week of March 8th - 12th
This friday I went on a field trip to WWU, on the bus ride back I was super hyper and started thinking about science and how we learned where energy comes from. We had stoped at McDonalds and I ate some fries which come from potatoes which grow from sunlight which comes from the sun!
Week of March 15th - 19th
On monday Kayla and I walked home to my house from school. To get to my house we had to walk up James. While we were walking I noticed that the hill was like an inclinded plane! If there was no hill and it was just straight up it would be so much harder to get home! :)
Week of March 22nd - 28th
In the mornings when I straighten my hair I used to straighten it in the bathroom down the hall, I would turn the flat iron on and then go get ready. But in the bathroom the light has to be on for power to get to the flat iron, and my dad would always walk past and turn the light off so I couldn't straighten my hair. So I tried moving the flat iron to a outlet in my room and I no longer had that problem, the light could be off and the iron still got heated up. This reminded of science when Ms. Piehl talked about outlets and how turning them on and off stops and starts electrons.
Week of March 29th - April 4th This past weekend my brother flew in from college he brought along with him a real photo camera (not digital). He started explaining to me be about his photography class, he told me how after they take the pictures...they get them on negatives which they then transfer on to big pieces of paper, but the images don't actually appear until you stick it in some sort of solution...or something along those lines. I'm guessing that somewhere in that whole process, there has to be SOMETHING scientific (so I'll go research more about it, and let you know)...Heres what I found out, when your transfering the picture from the negatives to the actual piece of paper you are shining light waves through the negatives which REFLECTS onto the piece of paper. So technically in a world with out reflection...there wouldn't be any pictures? How weird.I/LOVE/REFLECTION.
Week April 5th -11th During spring break I went to the mountains, Crystal mountain to be specific, with my sister. And since Ms. Piehl says that there is science everywhere..why not at the best place on earth (the mountains)? I'll write about the simplist and most obvious thing that anyone immediatly when someone says "SNOW resort"...(if you didn't get the captilized SNOW) it is usually snow. So where does snow come from? Well it starts out up high in the sky as rain, then the cloud gets heavy enough that rain will turn into droplets and fall to the earth. On its decent down towards the ski resort the cold temperature will start to effect those little dropplets. The cold condenses it and turns it into a form of ice...snow. We learned about this earlier in the year when we talked about the states of matter. So all I was really saying was the water is condensing and turning into snow.
Week April 12th - 17th
The other day I was thinking about what we learned about how some part in the eye flips the image around so we see it right side up. What if you only saw things upside down, would we get used to it? Is there people that see stuff upside down?
Week of April 19th - 23rd After recieving our APOD pictures I was excited to explore and see what other phenoms there are out in space. While I was looking through the pictures I realized that nebulas were probably the coolest looking, and decided to google them and find out more. A nebula is basically an intersteller cloud made up of dust, hydrogen gas, helium gas, and plasma. Nebulas were discovered before galaxies were.
Week of April 25th - 30th Last night I was looking outside at the stars and the moon, I was so glad that we were learning astronomy in science! Before when I had looked at the stars I didn't think of how far away they actually are. I used to think that they were in our solar system ar least, but when you learn that they are actually thousands of light years away its AMAZING! And I could finally tell what phase the moon was in just by looking up at the sky.
Week of May 3rd - May 7th
This week Ms. Piehl talked to Liana, Nina and I about how humans are made of star dust! I was really suprized it's such a weird concept to try and grasp, that at one point in time you were actually a star. There must be science behind this because stardust is in everything that is on earth.
Week of May 10th - 14th
This week Kayla and I were walking back from Mealyn's house, I saw a light post and thought "how cool would that be if I could just jump up there! like a super hero!". Of course I was just kidding because that would be impossible but, Kayla said "You couldn't because when you jumped down it would be to much force." Immediatly I thought I could use that as an example in my weekly blog. Early this year we learned about force and motion, and this is a perfect example. Had I been able to jump onto the light post, upon falling the force accumlated while falling would crush my legs or much worse.
Week of May 17th - 21st This week Bella and I did our experiment we measured different liquids into ice cube trays and then put them into the
Week of May 24th - 28th
On one of the VERY cold nights last week, I had a some soup. My mom took the soup in its container and set it outside. In the morning my sister brought it and showed me what happened over night. All of my soup that was left over was frozen solid. It made me think of are phase change animation project. Going from a liquid to a solid state.
Week Of January 4th - 8th
A way I use science in everyday life is at cheer practice. When were preforming a stunt we throw a girl up and in the air then catch her. When the girl is falling down after being thrown the molecules in the air agianst her are causing friction and slowing her down. Also the girl would keep falling if she was not acted upon by in outside force. The outside force being our arms. This relates to Newton's first law of inertia "objects at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by in outside force, and objects in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by in outside force."
Week Of January 11th - 15th
Jumping on the trampoline is the way I used science in everyday life this week. While I was jumping I was thinking about inertia. Once I've jumped I would continue upwards if there was no gravity, and no friction from the air molecules. Also once I am coming down from the jump I would continue if their was nothing to stop me. So in this situation the trampoline is the outside force, it is sending me up and stoping me from falling. "objects at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force, objects in motion will stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force.
Week Of January 18th - 22nd
While my brother was home from college I was laughing a lot. When we were in the car I asked my brother, "why do people laugh?". He thought that was a really good question, so this is what I'll be writing about. Laughing was passed down through evolution. If you were to tickle an ape they wouldn't laugh but they would make a panting sound. Their gentics changed and as we became more evolutionized the panting became laughing.
Week Of January 25th - 29th
When I'm taking a shower and I don't leave the fan going when I get out there will be water all over the mirror. I though 'there must be something scientific about that.' And it is. The surface of the mirror is cooler then the water vapor that is coming out of the shower. When the water vapor rises out of the shower and towards the mirror it condenses into water droplets on the mirror.
Week Of Febuary 1st - 5th
This past week I've been baking choclate chip cookies! When I was mixing all the ingredients together it reminded me of a 'mixture' (a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together). Also when I put my mixture of ingredients into the oven to bake it changed from a liquid form to a solid form under the heat. Which reminded me of what we learned earlier this year, states of matter.
Week Of Febuary 8th - 12th
This week my mom made tea, I tried to take a sip but it was to hot. I decided to put some ice cubes in it to cool it down. When I placed the ice cubes in the water they started out as solids. After a few minutes in the hot tea the ice cubes dissolved into the water. It reminded me of this year earlier in this year.
Week of Feburary 15th - 19th
Right now we are studying simple machines and I can see them in use everywhere. For example I was at my friends Baileys house and we decided to go on a walk around her neghborhood. I walked past a house that had a ramp over the stairs (this is an inclinded plane). I thought of how someone at the house must be in a wheel chair, and much easier it must be for that person to use the ramp then having to find away to get up the stairs.
Week of Febuary 22nd - 26th
I used science in the real world this week when I drank out of my water bottle. I use the cap on the waterbottle to make sure that water doesn't escape from the bottle. The cap is a screw which is a simple machine.
Week of March 1st - 5th
This weekend I was at my friend Bailey's house, she has a trampoline so we went outside to jump on it. We were jumping for a while when i accidentaly touched her hand and we both got shocked really hard. It reminded me of this week in science when we touched that machine that shocked us.
Week of March 8th - 12th
This friday I went on a field trip to WWU, on the bus ride back I was super hyper and started thinking about science and how we learned where energy comes from. We had stoped at McDonalds and I ate some fries which come from potatoes which grow from sunlight which comes from the sun!
Week of March 15th - 19th
On monday Kayla and I walked home to my house from school. To get to my house we had to walk up James. While we were walking I noticed that the hill was like an inclinded plane! If there was no hill and it was just straight up it would be so much harder to get home! :)
Week of March 22nd - 28th
In the mornings when I straighten my hair I used to straighten it in the bathroom down the hall, I would turn the flat iron on and then go get ready. But in the bathroom the light has to be on for power to get to the flat iron, and my dad would always walk past and turn the light off so I couldn't straighten my hair. So I tried moving the flat iron to a outlet in my room and I no longer had that problem, the light could be off and the iron still got heated up. This reminded of science when Ms. Piehl talked about outlets and how turning them on and off stops and starts electrons.
Week of March 29th - April 4th
This past weekend my brother flew in from college he brought along with him a real photo camera (not digital). He started explaining to me be about his photography class, he told me how after they take the pictures...they get them on negatives which they then transfer on to big pieces of paper, but the images don't actually appear until you stick it in some sort of solution...or something along those lines. I'm guessing that somewhere in that whole process, there has to be SOMETHING scientific (so I'll go research more about it, and let you know)...Heres what I found out, when your transfering the picture from the negatives to the actual piece of paper you are shining light waves through the negatives which REFLECTS onto the piece of paper. So technically in a world with out reflection...there wouldn't be any pictures? How weird. I/LOVE/REFLECTION.
Week April 5th - 11th
During spring break I went to the mountains, Crystal mountain to be specific, with my sister. And since Ms. Piehl says that there is science everywhere..why not at the best place on earth (the mountains)? I'll write about the simplist and most obvious thing that anyone immediatly when someone says "SNOW resort"...(if you didn't get the captilized SNOW) it is usually snow. So where does snow come from? Well it starts out up high in the sky as rain, then the cloud gets heavy enough that rain will turn into droplets and fall to the earth. On its decent down towards the ski resort the cold temperature will start to effect those little dropplets. The cold condenses it and turns it into a form of ice...snow. We learned about this earlier in the year when we talked about the states of matter. So all I was really saying was the water is condensing and turning into snow.
Week April 12th - 17th
The other day I was thinking about what we learned about how some part in the eye flips the image around so we see it right side up. What if you only saw things upside down, would we get used to it? Is there people that see stuff upside down?
Week of April 19th - 23rd
After recieving our APOD pictures I was excited to explore and see what other phenoms there are out in space. While I was looking through the pictures I realized that nebulas were probably the coolest looking, and decided to google them and find out more. A nebula is basically an intersteller cloud made up of dust, hydrogen gas, helium gas, and plasma. Nebulas were discovered before galaxies were.
Week of April 25th - 30th
Last night I was looking outside at the stars and the moon, I was so glad that we were learning astronomy in science! Before when I had looked at the stars I didn't think of how far away they actually are. I used to think that they were in our solar system ar least, but when you learn that they are actually thousands of light years away its AMAZING! And I could finally tell what phase the moon was in just by looking up at the sky.
Week of May 3rd - May 7th
This week Ms. Piehl talked to Liana, Nina and I about how humans are made of star dust! I was really suprized it's such a weird concept to try and grasp, that at one point in time you were actually a star. There must be science behind this because stardust is in everything that is on earth.
Week of May 10th - 14th
This week Kayla and I were walking back from Mealyn's house, I saw a light post and thought "how cool would that be if I could just jump up there! like a super hero!". Of course I was just kidding because that would be impossible but, Kayla said "You couldn't because when you jumped down it would be to much force." Immediatly I thought I could use that as an example in my weekly blog. Early this year we learned about force and motion, and this is a perfect example. Had I been able to jump onto the light post, upon falling the force accumlated while falling would crush my legs or much worse.
Week of May 17th - 21st
This week Bella and I did our experiment we measured different liquids into ice cube trays and then put them into the
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