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Take a stand podcast

6/4/2019

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Harrison and Oscar had a Debate/Talk show about foreign interventions witch one is better. 
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Transferring Heat energy

2/14/2019

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Reflection Questions: ​

  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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They both were had water that were difent temputure. They also both had energy.
It rose to 68 degrees fhaianhieght. From 27 degrees fhairanhieght.
It fell to 72 degrees fhenenhieght. From 150 degrees fharinhight.
My graph showed the cup of warm water fell.  My graph also showed the cup of cold water rised.
After 15 minutes the cold water cup rose. Also after 15 minutes the hot water cup fell. 
   So the room temputure was hot and it made the cup of cold water rise. Also time made it rise.
So the room temputure was cold and it droped.   Also time made that happen.
I perdict that they will mege in one minute. I perdict that because one was at 66 degreess and the other one was at 72 degrees.
The heat energy rose up. Because heat energy rises.
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Energy Transfers

2/8/2019

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These four videos represent my best explanations of energy transfer.

STAMPER motion to motion to elastic.
SOLAR MOTER electrical to light to chemical to motion to motion. Byproduct of heat.
MASEGE FAN electrical to electrical to motion to motion to electrical. Byproduct of motion.
HAND BOILER Heat to motion to gravatational. Heat to motion.
  1. What was your favorite station? Why? My favorite station is the energy ball. The energy ball is my favorite station because it shoots out energy. 
  2. Which object was most difficult to figure out?  Why was it so hard to figure out the energy transfers in this object?      The hardest object to figure out was the energy ball. The energy transfers where hard to figure out because it was very small.
  3. Why did you choose the four videos above? What criteria did you use to select those? I chose those 4 videos because I talked and explained things a lot in those videos. The criteria I used was I selected the ones where i talked the most. 
  4. Was it always possible to know for sure what kinds of energy transfers occurred.    It wasn't always posable. Because some times you might think its one thing but its the other.
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Eight Forms of Energy

1/16/2019

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  • Where is energy found energy is found every where.
  • What forms of energy are easiest to notice? The easiest to notice is a electric.  Which ones are hardest to notice? The  hardest is chemical. 
  • Do some items possess more than one energy. Yes a example is the sun.
  • Why is energy important Because without energy the world would be a mess.
  • Describe how your group worked together. We tried to compromise and we helped each other   Were there any challenges? One challenge was to figure oout where to go.


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Energy in action vs. stored energy

1/8/2019

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Energy in action​

Stored energy

  • Based on my examples above, my best definition of "Energy in Action" is energy thats currently doing something.
  • Based on my examples above, my best definition of "Stored Energy" is energy thats currently doing nothing.
  • The hardest part of this activity was making the slide show.


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World Kindness Day - 11/13/1711/13/2017

11/13/2018

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TryEngineering Together

11/8/2018

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  Questions: 

  1.   Why might TET be a good editen to our classroom?
  2. How might this classroom help me learn?
 It will be a good edition by helping us learn new things.
  It will help me learn by teaching us new things.
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October 11th, 2018

10/11/2018

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Reflection/Synthesis Questions:
  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?











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  1. A rellistick river that's natural. 
  2. We put playdough and clay and mixed it.
  3. It demonstrated a real-ish water river.
  4. Getting the suplis and doing it.

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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:

  1. How do glaciers form?
  2. Where in the world are glaciers usually located?
  3. What makes glaciers move?

Answers:

  1. Glaciers form by snowfall and coldness.
  2. Glaciers are usually located in cold areas.
  3. Glaciers move slow when slipperry and downhill and retreat when its hot.
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