MESSAGE FAN- Chemical to Motion to Motion and Chemical to Light (Motion and Sound as Byproducts)

ELECTRO LAMPS- Electrical to Motion to Gravitational and Electric to Light(Heat is a Byproduct) 

ENERGY BALL- Heat to Chemical to Electrical to Sound(Motion is a Byproduct)

PULL BACK CAR- Motion to Sound to Gravitational and Sound to Motion(A different Sound energy is a Byproduct)

1. Where is energy found?
2. What forms of energy are easiest to notice? Which ones are hardest to notice?
3. Do some items possess more than one form of energy? If so, which ones?
4. Why is energy important?
5. Describe how your group worked together.  What collaboration happened?  Were there any challenges?

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1. Energy is found everywhere. For example, in a person's body or in a computer that is on. Also energy can be in food but it is stored energy.
2. The easiest type of energy to notice is electrical energy and light energy because electrical energy is in cars, food, electronics, and more. Also light energy is easy to spot because light is all around us. The hardest type of energy was chemical energy, or elastic energy. Chemical energy was one of the hardest types of energy because you really have to pay attention to find it. Also, elastic energy is hard because there is not a lot of elastic energy around us that you notice easily.
3. Some of the objects me and Alexis came up with can posses more than one form of energy. For example, a computer can be electrical energy, light energy, or sound energy. Another example could be my headband because if you let go of it when you're stretching it it will go flying across the room so it could be motion energy or elastic energy. And those are a couple of the objects we had the posses more than one type of energy.
4. Energy is important because we use it in our everyday lives. For example, we use energy to drive, to keep us awake, and to keep us warm in our house and in our car. Energy is also in a TV, iPhone, and in a iPad. In addition to that if energy wasn't around we would not live because energy is in food and you can't survive without food. And that is most of the reasons why energy is important.
5. My group was Alexis and me. But Matthew and Adrian worked with Alexis' mom and so did we so you could say we were all a group. So me and Alexis worked really well together. In addition to that we finished all of the boxes and it wasn't too hard. Also me and Alexis I felt were pretty creative. The only challenges we really had were coming up with ideas for the sheet we had to complete. And those are 

 

1.A natural and realistic model of a river at the starting.
2. On the first try we used clay and on the second try we used play-doh. The play-doh worked better because it was easier to erode. I think it was easier to erode because the clay was starting to dry out and the play-doh was still soft and squishy. Another way we improved the second try was by changing the amount of rocks we put in the tin. The first try was a little bit more flat and the second try was more hilly because of the way we organized the rocks and the play-doh\clay.  On the first try the clay was very flat and on the second try the play-doh had a big bump in the middle of it. And we also put more rocks around the hole of the tin on the second try. But on the first try we just put the rocks in between the smushed sticks of clay. In this experiment the second try always worked better than the first try. We also took away two books so that the tin wasn't on too big of a slant. And on one of the tries we also added more dirt.   
3. Question 1:
The model demonstrated how a river needs to have bumps and it needs to erode to become a real river.
Question 2:
 In my opinion I think nothing went wrong and everything worked out perfectly. And I can't answer the next question.  
​4. I think I would have had trouble thinking of all the awesome ideas we came up with as a whole class.