Friday, June 11th: PTA
My mom is going to school to be a physical therapy assistant right now and when she was studying I was something in her book that reminded me of science in the real world. The book talked about a scenario where the patient was getting some type of electric shock nerve therapy. Then it asked what component on the machine the therapist should adjust if they wanted the patient to receive more waves. One of the answer options was frequency, and I knew that was the correct answer becuase frequency is the number of waves that pass through a point (or a nerve) in one second. I was able to apply something I learned this year in science to a real life question.
Friday, June 4th: Gravity
When I was watching the space video, it made me realize how one of the most basic science forces affects me all the time. When I wam eating, sleeping, running, playing soccer and sitting, that same force is always affecting me. Gravity is everywhere, it's the reason that I am not flaoting around in space when I do all of the things I mentioned above. Gravity holds me in place around the Planet Earth so that I can stay put. Without gravity, I would be like the guy in the video up in space. He was floating around, he didn't have to walk. I realize that gravity really majorly affects everything on Earth.
Friday, May 28th: Stapler I saw a stapler. It is science because its a lever. More specifically, it is a third class lever. The fulcrum is the hinge that the top part rotates on. The effort is my hand pushing down. The load is the top part that contains the staples. I put my hand, the effort, in the middle making it a third class lever. When I push my hand down, the load hits the paper the pushes back, creating an unbalanced force. That force releases the staple into the paper. Then, once I release my hand, the effort, the load returns to its original position.
Friday, May 7th:Soccer
Since I have spent a lot of time with soccer this past week, I thought I would try to think about the science in the state championship I played in. First of all, when I walked into the gate of the stadium it was a wheel and axle and a lever. Then, I was drinking out of a Nalgene water bottle at half time. The screw on lid is a simple machine, its a screw! When I took a corner kick, the ball was going in basically a straight line until gravity pulled the ball down at the exact right time. It bounced off of a players head, hit the goalie, came back to my team mate and then she kicked it in the goal. During that moment, (it was the best moment of my life :) ), a lot of things were happening. Inertia was happening until a new force, or new player, would change the direction of the ball. Finally the ball went in the goal, and the force of the net stopped the ball.
Friday, April 30th: Shadow
Yesterday morning I was in my room and the sun was shining through my window. It made it so that everything casted a really long shadow. I was thinking about how this relates to science. Things have really long shadows in the morning because the sun is just on the horizon. The Earth is at the stage in its rotation where we barely get sun, and the light is shining at an angle so that an object blocks out a LOT of light in the space behind it. So, anytime theres a shadow, it has to do with orbiting, rotation and other science.
Friday, April 23rd: Sound Waves
Yesterday sitting at my house I noticed science in the real world. I was upstairs at the piano and downstairs the front door was open. Even though my mom was outside and around the corner, I could hear her talking. This is because of diffraction. The sound waves of her voice traveled out in circular waves meaning that the waves go everywhere and go through doors and around corners. If it wasn't for diffraction I wouldn't hear my mom unless I was standing directly in front of her, facing her, in the path of her sound ( compressional) waves.
Friday, April 16th: Light Waves :)
Science happens all around me when I use my eye. When I glance around the room I'm in, I see a purple book. That means that the book absorbs every color of the spectrum except for purple. The same for everything else purple, or any other color. Science light waves are everywhere. Another piece of science I noticed in the real world also has to do with light. I was at Target and I saw a CD case cover that I know I have seen countless times before. I only just now realized what it was. It was a glass prism with a rainbow streak through it, so that makes it the Electromagnetic Spectrum! So thanks to our last science unit, I can identify pictures on CD cases...
Friday, April 9th: Cell Phone
After watching the cell phone video in class, I was thinking about how I use cell phones and science, more specifically waves. One time I was talking to my dad on my cell phone when I drove past Tiger Mountain. Suddenly the call was lost. I wasn't sure why it happened but I think now I know. It must have been because the cell phone was transmitting a signal to the tower (or the other way around) and the mountain interfered. The mountain must have blocked the path of the waves, breaking the connection between the phone and the tower and my dad. The lost connection/lost signal made the call end.
Friday, April 2nd: Electricity
I was thinking back to something that happened to me in October and I realized that it was actually scientific! It involved electrical currents and conductors. When I was doing the laptop 1-1 hand out, I was plugging in laptops to charge and got electrocuted. It happened because my finger was touching one of the metal prongs, and then I connected the plug into the outlet. When I plugged in the charger it completed the circuit causing electricity to flow through the metal prongs, including the one I was touching. The prong served as a conductor and the electricity flowed through the metal and into my finger causing me to jump and scream!
Friday, June 11th: PTA
My mom is going to school to be a physical therapy assistant right now and when she was studying I was something in her book that reminded me of science in the real world. The book talked about a scenario where the patient was getting some type of electric shock nerve therapy. Then it asked what component on the machine the therapist should adjust if they wanted the patient to receive more waves. One of the answer options was frequency, and I knew that was the correct answer becuase frequency is the number of waves that pass through a point (or a nerve) in one second. I was able to apply something I learned this year in science to a real life question.
Friday, June 4th: Gravity
When I was watching the space video, it made me realize how one of the most basic science forces affects me all the time. When I wam eating, sleeping, running, playing soccer and sitting, that same force is always affecting me. Gravity is everywhere, it's the reason that I am not flaoting around in space when I do all of the things I mentioned above. Gravity holds me in place around the Planet Earth so that I can stay put. Without gravity, I would be like the guy in the video up in space. He was floating around, he didn't have to walk. I realize that gravity really majorly affects everything on Earth.
Friday, May 28th: Stapler
I saw a stapler. It is science because its a lever. More specifically, it is a third class lever. The fulcrum is the hinge that the top part rotates on. The effort is my hand pushing down. The load is the top part that contains the staples. I put my hand, the effort, in the middle making it a third class lever. When I push my hand down, the load hits the paper the pushes back, creating an unbalanced force. That force releases the staple into the paper. Then, once I release my hand, the effort, the load returns to its original position.
Friday, May 7th:Soccer
Since I have spent a lot of time with soccer this past week, I thought I would try to think about the science in the state championship I played in. First of all, when I walked into the gate of the stadium it was a wheel and axle and a lever. Then, I was drinking out of a Nalgene water bottle at half time. The screw on lid is a simple machine, its a screw! When I took a corner kick, the ball was going in basically a straight line until gravity pulled the ball down at the exact right time. It bounced off of a players head, hit the goalie, came back to my team mate and then she kicked it in the goal. During that moment, (it was the best moment of my life :) ), a lot of things were happening. Inertia was happening until a new force, or new player, would change the direction of the ball. Finally the ball went in the goal, and the force of the net stopped the ball.
Friday, April 30th: Shadow
Yesterday morning I was in my room and the sun was shining through my window. It made it so that everything casted a really long shadow. I was thinking about how this relates to science. Things have really long shadows in the morning because the sun is just on the horizon. The Earth is at the stage in its rotation where we barely get sun, and the light is shining at an angle so that an object blocks out a LOT of light in the space behind it. So, anytime theres a shadow, it has to do with orbiting, rotation and other science.
Friday, April 23rd: Sound Waves
Yesterday sitting at my house I noticed science in the real world. I was upstairs at the piano and downstairs the front door was open. Even though my mom was outside and around the corner, I could hear her talking. This is because of diffraction. The sound waves of her voice traveled out in circular waves meaning that the waves go everywhere and go through doors and around corners. If it wasn't for diffraction I wouldn't hear my mom unless I was standing directly in front of her, facing her, in the path of her sound ( compressional) waves.
Friday, April 16th: Light Waves :)
Science happens all around me when I use my eye. When I glance around the room I'm in, I see a purple book. That means that the book absorbs every color of the spectrum except for purple. The same for everything else purple, or any other color. Science light waves are everywhere. Another piece of science I noticed in the real world also has to do with light. I was at Target and I saw a CD case cover that I know I have seen countless times before. I only just now realized what it was. It was a glass prism with a rainbow streak through it, so that makes it the Electromagnetic Spectrum! So thanks to our last science unit, I can identify pictures on CD cases...
Friday, April 9th: Cell Phone
After watching the cell phone video in class, I was thinking about how I use cell phones and science, more specifically waves. One time I was talking to my dad on my cell phone when I drove past Tiger Mountain. Suddenly the call was lost. I wasn't sure why it happened but I think now I know. It must have been because the cell phone was transmitting a signal to the tower (or the other way around) and the mountain interfered. The mountain must have blocked the path of the waves, breaking the connection between the phone and the tower and my dad. The lost connection/lost signal made the call end.
Friday, April 2nd: Electricity
I was thinking back to something that happened to me in October and I realized that it was actually scientific! It involved electrical currents and conductors. When I was doing the laptop 1-1 hand out, I was plugging in laptops to charge and got electrocuted. It happened because my finger was touching one of the metal prongs, and then I connected the plug into the outlet. When I plugged in the charger it completed the circuit causing electricity to flow through the metal prongs, including the one I was touching. The prong served as a conductor and the electricity flowed through the metal and into my finger causing me to jump and scream!