Science Fair Blog Post: Week 5

Science Fair Blog Post: Week 4!

This week in the amazing science fair, we have been working on out Interim Report. We have filled it with everything we have done so far. Our, research, question, variables, and bibliography. 

We completed out hypothesis we think that If the recyclable material is plastic then, the sound waves that penetrate the soundproof wall will go slower, because the plastic bottle contains air which is a gas, and gas makes sound waves travel slower. 

We decided that we will be using wool, plastic, and wood to build three walls. One with wool, one with wood, and another with plastic bottles.

 Our next step is to gather all the materials and resources we need and start to build each wall. Can't wait to begin!

Mesopotamian Drawing!

This is my drawing of Mesopotamia. It is a village of people doing jobs of everyday life. There are people chopping down trees with axes. Egypt had no trees so they had to use mud brick from the Nile to build homes and building. Mesopotamians built wood houses with trees. Down by the lake is a man scooping up water for the crops with a bucket. The lake provided water, fish, and transportation. Egypt had used the Nile for the same reasons. Mesopotamians built canals to bring water to their village. Farmers had to work hard to feed families. They made lots of foods like vegetable stew, fish, and fruits. To the right there is an animal pen. Cows were used for milk and meat, pigs were used for meat, and chicken were used for eggs and meat. There are dirt and rocky roads because cement was not invented at the time. My drawing shows many details of Mesopotamia that relate to Egypt and there are also differences between the two.

Science Physics Roller Coaster Post!

In science class I made a roller coaster out of tubes, and used tape and string. My coaster has a big drop then it shifts over to a loop then rolls around a stool and has another dip and then lands in a cup. I chose it because I thought it was fun, I would enjoy it if I was on it. I would probably change my place I constructed it. It was hard to build and some things got in the way like walls and boxes. My knowledge of kinetic and potential helped me with this project. In fact, I couldn't have done it without it. Because if I started down low then the marble wouldn't have enough kinetic energy to go up the hill. So I started up high to give it potential energy, which means if I put a big drop then it will give the marble speed/kinetic energy to go up the hill and loop.

I ran into a lot of problems. First my loop was too small so it made it have kinks. So I had to get clammers and put them where the kinks were. And then I put a nail in the wall at hooked a piece of string in the hose and tied it to the nail. The string kept on falling off the nail. I didn't do much to fix it. When it fell off I made the whole bigger with scissors in the tube and I would tie the string through the tube. Having a budget made it a little more intense. It kind of made it harder because I wasn't permitted to get what we needed and go! I had to keep track of how much money things were and what I bought. It took time off of building the coaster. But I feel like it did keep us organized because if we got what we needed then I would probably have a big mess. Friction had an impact because when I didn't have enough kinetic energy and add friction on to that I had to raise the hill higher and that would change the rest of the coaster. Argh, friction! I had to make a couple modifications. First the marble didn't have enough kinetic energy to go up the loop. So I made the loop smaller and it didn't get any kinks so it was a success. Then, the other mishap was the marble just flew out of the hose. So I put a cup to have it end and not go all over the place. So in the end it all worked out fine and dandy!

Here is my prezitation of my project.

Science: Skate Park Assignment!

When distance changes then the kinetic and potential energy will decrease or increase. When you are going down then there is more kinetic energy because the skater is moving faster. When you move up then you have more potential energy because you are changing the distance from the ground. Kinetic and Potential energy interact with each other when potential is at it's greatest and kinetic is at it's lowest (or the opposite). Imagine a car going up hill it has more potential energy and then the car goes down a steep hill then it has a lot of kinetic energy. Energy can be transformed into the real world by a roller coaster, when the coaster going up a hill it has lots of potential energy because it is changing the distance from the ground (getting higher and higher). When it drops down then it the coaster goes fast because it has lots motion/speed. Friction affects the motion of objects by the surface the object is on and the object rubbing against each 


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Social Studies: My Fantastic & Breathtaking Roanoke Poster!

Poster 1

Poster 2

In this project we had to create a poster for the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Nobody knows what exactly happened but I had to use what I knew to make a theory. 

I took a big sheet of paper with boxes that looked like a comic. Then I wrote my captions and drew my pictures. Then I checked for grammar, spelling, ect. Then I colored my images and beautified my poster.

I feel great about my poster coloring and image wise but I forgot include the main part in the project. (Maybe next time) I liked this project because sometimes in projects you just have to read books and answer the questions but here we got to color and write out the poster. It was still learning but had a fun touch to it.

Language Arts: My Crazy Awesome Blackout Poem!

"The Ringmaster"

The ringmaster has been fooled. He was the sickest ringmaster. 

Nobody laughed low.

He could style big sheets of wrapping paper and black paint.

For this poem I tore out a page in a old book and then I circled words that were going to be my poem and then blacked out the rest of the words to make a blackout poem. 

I feel like my poem is hard to read because I colored too much of the words.

Language Arts: My Super Sweet Book Spine Poem!

"Waiting For"

Waiting for Norm

 Harriet the Spy

Wolf Rider

Dragons Milk

Gentlemen

In this assignment we had to make a poem out of book spines.

What I did to complete this task was to grab 10 books and then rearrange them make them sound nice. After that I edited my poem by taking some away and then put them in a order that sounds nice. 

I feel like my poem is hard to understand because it's just a bunch of words put together, but it is supposed to be a really long name.