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Wind Erosion

May14

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In science class we made models of different erosions. My group had wind erosion. We first had to look up what happening during wind erosion and look for at least seven different words that we different know before to use as vocabulary. Our seven words are ventifacts, loess, abrasion, via, creep, saltation, and suspension. Ventifacts are rocks that are formed in different shapes because of wind erosion. Loess are cliffs with jagged edges of rock that can be different sizes and it is formed be wind erosion. Abrasion is  the wind blowing through rock making it erode and grow smaller. Via is sand that has been moved by the wind and placed somewhere else and gets uplifted. Creep is big rock particles that are moved along the ground because of the wind. Saltation smaller pieces of rocks or pebbles that are moved or bounced along the ground because of the wind. Suspension is when very small rocks or pebbles get blown up into the wind and are taken somewhere else in the air. Once we got all of our words, we made a model of wind erosion in the desert. The picture above is our model. In the models we had to have mountains or hills, river or stream, valley or coastline. The model on the right is our before wind erosion and the model on the left is after wind erosion. After making our models each group presented their model of erosion and explained their seven vocabulary words.

Science Volcano

Apr16

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In science class we made groups and each group got to make a volcano. My group and I decided to make a shield volcano, after the Mana Loa Volcano. We made our volcano out of homemade play-dough, pant, a plastic cup, a bottle cap, and used tape to label different parts of our volcano. We labeled the side vent, the main vent, the crater, the pyroclastic flow, aa lava, pahoehoe lava, the pipe, the magma chamber, the magma, the hot spring, and the lava flow.

 

Egyptian Museum

Mar14

In our Egypt group we mad a “garden”. It really doesn’t look like a graden sadly, but we did our best. We also made a a mummy. What we did is, we took a babydoll wrapped it in tissue paper. Then we put the babydoll in a shoebox and painted it. Our group worked very hard at making a tree. What we did is, we used cardboard to make the leaves and trunk of a tree, then we painted it green and brown. We let it dry, then we put of clementines on it. We made a lot of posters. One of them had hieroglyphics on it. Another had a social structure on it, and the last one talked about a pharaoh and have they ruled. All these things were made so we could present a museum.

One of my favorite parts of the museum was making the mummy. What I liked about it is when we wrapped the babydoll up in tissue paper, then trying to put it in it’s “coffin” or box. Another one is our garden. In our garden we have sunflower seeds, cucumber seeds, cron seeds, carets, and potatoes.

 

Science

Mar14

A couple days ago we took crayons to school and used some tools like, potato peelers, pencil sharpeners, scissors, and cheese cutters. We took the crayon shavings and put them in a bag. Once we got a lot of crayon shavings we put it in some tin fiol. Each table group got a tin fiol with crayon shavings in it. Then we had to look around the school to find a good heavy place to put the crayon shavings in. We left the crayon shavings in the tin foil under a heavy place for hunders and thousands of minites. Our group put our crayon shavings under a printer. Three and a half weeks later we took the tin foil out and unwrapped it to see if we had any crayon shaving rocks. My group only had little pieces of “rocks”. Know we are almost doing the same thing but we are adding heat to the crayon  shaving.

The What If Project

Mar13

Our school has been working on a project called “What If?”  The teachers of 6th grade split all the 63 kids in three different design groups.  Our group went to Haworth and Disher Design.  The city has asked us to design a park to take the place of a 11 space parking lot for our community.  We have been brainstorming how we could make the park be accessible for the special needs kids and adults, to make water beautiful, entertainment, and refreshment, we also had many more thing to brainstorm as well.  We sketched the ideas we had brainstormed then voted on the ones we thought were the best. It feels really good brainstorming off of other peoples ideas, because they came up with a good idea then you are basically adding on to their idea to make it better, and safer.  A great idea Mikaela had was to have a bike trail in the park we are designing.