Lab - Tides 12-8-11

* How does the moon affect the water in the oceans on Earth?





* Why are tides a cycle?





* How long is a tide cycle?





* How do tides affect Earth?





Mrs. Rollins

Lab - Seasons/Day & Night 12-6-11

Seasons





* Why do we have seasons on the Earth?





* How are seasons in the Northern Hemisphere alike and different from those in the Southern Hemisphere?





* What is the difference between rotation and revolution?

Lab - Reflection/Refraction 11-17-11

Reflection:

How is light reflected?

How would you demonstrate reflection?



Refraction:

How is light refracted?


How would you demonstrate refraction?



Reflection/Refraction:

How are reflection and refraction alike and different?

Mrs. Rollins

Lab - Light 11-10-11

What is light?





How does light travel?





What happens to light when it hits an object?





Describe "concave"?


Describe "convex"?





Mrs. Rollins

Lab - Sound - 11-8-11

1. What is sound?





2. What causes sound?





3. How does sound travel?





4. If you were in a room and talking to a friend, why would someone outside not hear you talking?





5. Why does sound travel better through a a solid than a liquid or gas?





Mrs. Rollins

Lab - Electromagnet 11-3-11

Electromagnets





Can a nail be turned into a magnet?





What else could you change to affect the number of paper clips your electromagnet picks up?





Could you use something else to make an electromagnet besides a nail?





Name something in your home that uses an electromagnet?





Mrs. Rollins

Lab - Electrical Energy - 11-1-11

Electricity is a form of energy.
Electric Circuit is a circuit with a closed path through which electrical energy travels. The electric circuit can be a simple circuit, a series circuit, or a parallel circuit.

1. Why are the wires in a circuit made from metal?

2. What would happen if one of the wires was cut?

3 What do you think of circuits?

Mrs. Rollins

Lab - Conductors & Insulators 10-27-11

Today in lab we talked about conductors and insulators.....

1. Tell me the difference between a conductor an a insulator? Give examples....

2. What did you think about the spoons? Was your predication correct?

3. Look around your house do you see anything that is a conductor or insulator?

Lab - Thermometer in Sun & Shade 10-25-11

Solar Energy is energy from the Sun.

1. What examples can you give that the sun powers? Give at least three.

2. Today's experiment Sun and Shade - which one heated up the fastest and why?

3. If you were going to buy a car - what color car would you buy? White or Black and why?

4. What did you think about the "solar glasses"?

Welcome To The Science Blog

Welcome

This is where you will write your "reflection".
If you blog you do not need to write a reflection in your journal.
You will answers the questions on the blog.

So, let's give it a trail run.

What has been your favorite lab so far and why?

Post your comment.......

Mrs. Rollins

Lab - 04- 19 - 11 Oxygen - Carbon Doxide Cycle

1. What do you exhale?

2. What do you inhale?

3. What do plants give us?

4. What do we give plants?

5. Did you like hugging the tree today?

Created by: Samantha Holmes and Valentina Martinez !!!

Lab 04 - 14 - 11 Environmental Changes

Eagle Cam: http://http//raptorresource.org/falcon_cams/index.html 1. How do animals modify their environment? Give an example? 2. What was your favorite part of lab today? 3. What is your favorite animal that goes through a complete metamorphosis? 4. List the stages of a complete metamorphosis? Created by: Katie Magee & Gianna Pariani

Lab - 04 - 12 - 11 Parts of Flower

1. What do you think the most important part of a plant is? 2. List three parts of a flower? 3. What is your favorite type of flower? Created by: Nathan Graber

Lab - 03-31-11 Food Webs

1. What were you in the food web today?


2. Were you a producer, consumer, or decomposer?


3. Did your meal worm hatch into a bettle? What did you think?


4. What is the difference between a food web and food chain?

Created by: Clayton Morris and Jimmy Smith - Happy Birthday Jimmy!!

Lab - 03 - 29 - 11 Food Chains

• Which would you rather be and why: Carnivore - Omnivore - Herbivore

• Is this correct or incorrect: Prey eats the predator

• Put the food chain in order: Grass - Fox - Sun - Bunny

• Make a food chain using at least five organisms.

Created by: Emma Shields

Lab - 03-24-11 - Cookies & Worms

1. Name the three different types of consumers?

2. Name a scavenger?

3. What is a scavenger?

4. Are decomposer good are bad?? Why?

5. Explain the cookies and worm lab?

Lab 03-22-11 Predator and Prey

1. What is the main source of the food chain?

2. Were you a predator or prey today?

3. What predator or prey were you?

4. Give an example of a food chain in the the correct order?



Created by: Phillip Rowe

Lab - Inherited and Learned Traits - 03-10-11

Do you have a widows peak?
Do you have a hitchhikers thumb?
Can you roll your tongue?

Are these learned or inherited traits?

Give two examples of learned and inherited traits?
Not the ones given above.......


Created by: Collin Merrill

Lab - Adaptations - 03-08-11

How do you feel about your terrarium project grade?

How do you think you could have improved your grade?

How do you think you did on the growth of your terrarium?

Adaptations - help animals survive.
Can you give some examples of animals and their adaptations......



Created by: Blake Stroube

Lab - Nitrogen Cycle - 03-03-11

1. Did your plants grow?
2. Did you regret anything you put in your terrarium?
3. Did you enjoy playing with your meal worms? earthworms?
4. Did you pick up the worms?
5. Did it poop on you?
6. What do you think about the nitrogen cycle?



Created by: Blair Abernathy and Kelly Hendricks

WE ROCK THE BLOG!!

Lab - Photosynthesis - 03-01-11

Photosynthesis

Look at the picture and describe how this process works.......





How did your terrariums do?

Lab - Terrariums - 02-24-11

Today we made a terrarium......

1. How do you think yours will do?

2. Did you use enough water?

3. What would you have changed - now that you think about it?

Lab - Animal Cracker Biomes - 02-17-11

Biome is a large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region.

What biome would you live in and why?

If you lived in that biome what animal would you be??

Created by Michael Breuer

No Lab Today:( - Science TAKS Benchmark - 02-10-11

Today you took the Science TAKS Release Benchmark.

1. What did you think about the test?

2. How do you feel you did?

3. What do you wish you would have known before taking the test?

Lab - Water Cycle - 02-08-11

What are 5 facts you know about water? List them.

List the 3 stages of water.

Describe the water cycle.


Water Cycle Boogie - Thursday at lunch!!

Lab - Weather & Climate - 02-03-11

What is the difference between weather and climate?

What is your favorite weather?

What is your favorite climate?

Lab - Natural Resources - 02-01-11

Natural Resources are things found in nature that people use.

What are some renewable resources?

What are some nonrenewable resources?

Recycling is the process of turning something old unto something new.
What are things you recycle at home?

Lab - Fossils - 01-27-11

What are fossils and how are they formed?



What could have caused the formation of a fossil?



Name some fossil fuels......

Lab - Rock Cycle - 01-25-11

The Rock Cycle.....

Describe the three rocks....

Sedimentary

Igneous

Metamorphic

Lab - Soil - 01-20-11

Soil is a very important natural resource. It is made of a mixture of nonliving and once living things.



So, tell me some nonliving things as well as some living things that could be in the soil.





Soil can be classified on their texture which affects a soil's ability to hold water and support plant growth. Which soil do you think holds water the best? Why?

Date: January 20, 2011

Obj: Earth Science

Activity: Describing Soil

Notes: Study Guide – page 57
· Clay – holds water best
· Sand – course texture drains water fast.
· Silt – has a fine texture can hold water & air
· Loam – mixture of silt, sand & clay
· Humus – decaying matter from plants, animal wastes that break down into the soil.
· Soil – is a very important natural resource mixture of once living and non living things.

Lab - Flood - 01-18-11

Today in lab we set up a stream table for "FLOOD".


Flood is a very heavy flow of water, which is greater than a normal channel flow.



What did you think about the first flood we did?



What did you think about the slope flood we did?





Did you learn anything about floods today that you did not know?

Lab - Stream Table Set Up - 01-13-11

Today in lab you set up a stream table.

What neat things did you see when you added water to your stream table?

What type of weathering occurred?

Weathering - Erosion - Deposition - 01-11-10

Weathering - rain falls on a cliff and breaks away the rock into the river.



Erosion - the river carries the broken pieces of rock to another location.



Deposition - the dirt, broken pieces of rock, is deposited in one place and a new landform is being constructed.



Give me an example of weathering, erosion, and deposition..........

Lab - Layers of the Earth - 01-06-11

The Earth is made of Crust, Mantle, and Core.

How did the apple relate to the Earth's layers?

Scientist believe that all continents were once connected as one super continent.

This was called Pangaea.

What do you think about Pangaea?

Welcome To The Science Blog.......

Before we start our reflections let's try a test post.
The question for this post is.........

1. What has been your favorite lab so far?


You will need to use your notes from science class to help you post your comment correctly.
I will be checking off to see who posted a comment correctly.

Good luck and have fun!!