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Oregon Trail Reflections

5/28/2015

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Picture
We had a gun explode on Mars! Good thing we made a teleporter!

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Museum of Science and Industry

5/27/2015

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I was absent.
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Finding Bodies of Water on Maps

5/20/2015

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Reflection Questions

  • What bodies of surface water did you find while examining the three maps?
  • Were there any types of surface water on the Arlington Heights map that you weren’t able to find on the Illinois map? If so, why?
  • Were there any types of surface water on the Illinois map that you couldn’t find on the United States map? If so, why?
  • What are some names of the bodies of water in Illinois and Arlington Heights? What bodies of water did you identify?
  • We found bay's and a lot of others. And I learned what a inlet was and there was this lake but it connected to another body of water so it was also called an inlet.
  • We couldn't find any of the small lakes. Like the Arlington Heights Lake Golf Club. Because it was smaller so we couldn't find it on the Illinois map.
  • We found the Chicago river and we didn't find it on the United States map. We could not find it the small river on the maps because it really tiny.
  • There is the Chicago River in Illinois and in Arlington Heights lake Golf Club in Arlington heights. We identified straits, bays, rivers, lakes seas, oceans, and inlets, channels, and sounds.
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Watery Earth Lesson

5/5/2015

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Click the word HERE Below to view. It doesn't work otherwise.

HERE


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The Phantom Tollbooth

5/1/2015

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  1. What type of person is Milo?
  2. Do you think Milo is a good student? Why or Why not?
  3. Why do you think Milo acts the way he dose?
  4. Is Milo someone you would like to be friends with? Why or Why not?
  5. Describe a time when you felt grumpy and disinterested.
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My Water Molecules Journey

4/30/2015

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I was just sitting in the Ocean, when a Whale was swimming by! It was speeding so fast. And can you guess what was behind it?!? It was a Fisher Boat! It was chasing me! Than my “friend” Nick didn’t look and got crushed by the whale! Than slid off and got crushed by the fisher boat! Than he got Evaporated! Right before I got hit by the whale, I evaporated! I evaporated so fast that I beat Nick into the cloud! Nick could not join, and he got hit by the whale again.
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Watery Earth LessonĀ 

4/28/2015

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Surface

Prediction

Actual

  1. The Sun (tape)
  2. Roof of a House (Foam)
  3. Buds of a Tree
  4. Part of a  statue (aluminum foil)
  5. Flower
  6. Part of the Slide (paper)



  1. I think that the water will almost make a hole through the tape. I also think that it will slide off.
  2. I think that the water will just slide off. I also think that  some of it will sink in the foam, but just a little.
  3. I think that it will make it droop even more. Also it will just slide down.
  4. I think that it will just stay on it but it will fall off.
  5. I think that it will droop the petals. Also it will make it "grow".
  6. I think that there will be a hole in the paper.
  1. The thing that happen is that my prediction cam true.
  2. My prediction came true.  The water did slide off, but it mostly stayed on the foam.
  3. My prediction came true! I think that it just went through the tree buds. i think that the pressure from the water made it droop.
  4. What happens is that If I did it in the middle, nothing would slide off. But I did it to the side and because the eye dropper was full, it was a lot of water and some slid off. I also tapped it which made it slide off.
  5. My prediction was incorrect. Because the eye dropper was filled all the way, and the flower was so small, the water spilled out.
  6. What happens is that the paper was on the top of the cup, so when the water was on it, the paper fell off the cup. It did not make a hole in the paper, there for, my prediction was not supported.

Reflection

  1. Which materials surprised you the most? Why? 
  2. Which materials do you still wonder about? How do you think water will respond to that material?
1. I was most surprised by the paper. I was surprised because when I have a piece of paper and it is raining, it usually makes a hole.
2. Rubber and Tape (on the sticky side). For the rubber I also think that the water will just roll of of it because of it's materials. And for the tape on the sticky side I think the water will stay on it and keep on collecting on top of it.
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Hanna's Science Fair

4/25/2015

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Previous Science Fair
I'm glad that I recorded my Science Fair project video before the real Science Fair because...

  • I practiced if I would say too much, or too little
  • Either if I would like to halve certain stuff out or not out.
New and improved Science Fair Video
By the time Science Fair was older, my video was much better because...

  • I had talked to little kids so I didn't sound so too goobly-gook. 
  • I had done it in smaller time because kids were passing by and I said it faster.
  • I had a better display idea for what to bring (like the computer)
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5th grade Mentors with Miss. Cory's kindergarten class.

4/10/2015

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My experience with Melody was very fun. We first played the game "That's me and That's not Me". I said that I like drawing and we started to draw. I asked how to spell her name and I made a cool bubble letter drawing of here name! I than asked her if she liked jump rope. We watched double dutch video's. Than she left and we had a great time!!

I think she did. I not really sure because she did not have a facial expression. But when she did have a facial expression, it was happy.

I think that I should they to have more fun next time. Since they are 2ed graders, than I will connect more. I think that I should have more excitement as well.
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Watery Earth Lesson 5-How Meteorologists Use Water

4/10/2015

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Meteorologists use Rain Gage to measure how much water has fallen. A Rain Water Gage stays outside when it is raining to collect water. When the rain stops, they bring the Rain Gage inside to see how much water has fallen. Meteorologists also use a Sling Psychrometer. A Sling Psychrometer is used to measure the humidity,which is vaporized water.
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