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Take a Stand Podcast

6/4/2019

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Molly, Nick, and Inti made a pod cast discussion on if students should have to wear school uniforms. Nick and Molly think they should not have to wear school uniforms and Inti thought that they should. 
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February 14th, 2019

2/14/2019

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​Reflection Questions:

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  1. How did the temperatures of the water in the two red Solo cups compare at the beginning?
  2. What happened to the temperature of the cold water over time?
  3. What happened to the temperature of the warm water over time?
  4. How did your graph show what happened? Explain carefully!
  5. After 15 minutes, what did you notice about the lines on your graph?
  6. What happened to make the temperature of the cold water get warmer?
  7. What happened to make the temperature of the warm water get colder?
  8. Use your line graph to predict when the two lines would merge. Describe. Why did you choose this timeframe?
  9. Which direction did the heat energy move?
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Answers:

1. They had a pretty big difference hot one was 104 degrees and the cold one was like 34 degrees. They started out pretty different!
2. The cold water got to 64 degrees at the end, it really went up fast. The air made it get more like room temperature.
3. The warm water got down to 80 degrees. The air was also trying to make it like room temperature.
​4. The graph showed that the water got colder and warmer depending on what it started at. The blue and red lines represented hot and cold water. The lines started going straight and than they started moving to the middle cause they were changing.
5. I only got a glance but I saw about 40 degrees for the cold and hot was 98. It didn't change much.
6.  For the cold it tried  to make it warmer like the air. Because it was so cold.
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 For the warm it tried to make it colder like the air. It did it because the water was so warm.
8. I think that they would merge in about 15 min. I think this because if you break down the time it was about that much to get that amount.
9. I think that the heat energy dropped cause the air wouldn't make it warmer.

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Energy Transfers

2/8/2019

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These four videos represent my best explanation of energy transfers:

FOUNTAIN- Electrical to Motion and light(Gravitational and sound.)
POP-UP TOY- Motion to Elastic to Motion to Gravitational (Sound is a BP) 

​Reflection/Synthesis Questions: 

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  1. What was your favorite station? Why?
  2. Which object was most difficult to figure out?  Why was it so hard to figure out the energy transfers in this object?
  3. Why did you choose the four videos above? What criteria did you use to select those?
  4. Was it always possible to know for sure what kinds of energy transfers occurred?
LOVE THERMOMETER- Heat to Chemicals to Motion to Gravitational

Answers:

  1. My favorite station was the love thermometer. I liked it because  it was so cool how when you put your hand on it the red stuff went up.

  2. The most difficult thing was energy ball because we did not know what was inside of it and how the inside worked. 
  3. I picked the videos above because they were the most fun and interesting out of all of the videos displayed. 
  4. No, because sometimes it was hard to identify the energy transfers and if it was a byproduct or not.
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Eight Forms Of Energy

1/17/2019

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 Reflection & Synthesis Questions:

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  1. Where is energy found?  Energy is every where! It is in the sun, in electricity and in us.
  2. What forms of energy are easiest to notice? I think that electricity is the easiest one because it is all full of wires and beeping lights. Which ones are hardest to notice? I think that gravitational energy is the hardest because it is not really visable. 
  3. Do some items possess more than one form of energy? Yes they all of them can do that. If so, which ones? I think all of them.
  4. Why is energy important?
  5. Describe how your group worked together.  What collaboration happened?  Were there any challenges?
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Helping Project

11/13/2018

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Try Engineering Together

11/8/2018

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Questions:

It will be good because we are trying new things 
It will be good because we will be learning new things 
Why might TET be a good addition to our  classroom?
How might this program help me learn?
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Erosion and Deposition

10/11/2018

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​Reflection/Synthesis Questions

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  1. What were you trying to create in today's lab?
  2. What improvements did we make to the model from trial to trial? After you list each improvement, explain why we made that change and explain if it helped or not.
  3. What did the final model demonstrate for us? Was there anything that didn't work out? If so, what were we not able to demonstrate?
  4. What would have been challenging for you if you were asked to do this entire lesson on your own?

Answers:

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1.Today we where trying to demonstrate a how river it is erodes away and creates the river.We used clay, rocks and dirt. 
2. We put more rocks at the bottom and we added play-Do instead of just clay.    
3. The final model was good but it did not flow as well as the first one.
4.It would not be to challenging but it would be a little hard to find all the supplies 
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Global Goals Week

9/27/2018

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Glaciers Change Landscapes.

9/19/2018

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Reflection/Synthesis Questions:                     

​Answers:

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  1. How do glaciers form?
  2. Where in the world are glaciers usually located?
  3. What makes glaciers move?
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  1. Glaciers form...when more snow falls than melts. 
  2. Glaciers are usually located In cold areas like Antarctica.
  3. Glaciers move...When the land is not exactly flat they flow  down hill if there is weight on the top of the glacier and the Ice on the bottom melts.
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International Dot Day

9/14/2018

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