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Insulated Bottles

9/26/2014

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  1. What was your maximum temperature (use your Data Chart, not the picture)?
  2. What was your minimum temperature (use your Data Chart, not the picture)?
  3. What is your range?  If you had any penalties or gifts, include those in your total.
  4. What materials did you use in your insulated bottle (type them in order from your first layer, second layer, and third layer.)?  Why did you choose the materials that you did?
  5. What are some materials that you didn't choose?  Why didn't you choose them?
  6. Explain any blips on your graph (if you have them).  Why do you think it did that?
  7. Is an insulator a good or a poor conductor of heat energy?  This is an important question, so really think before you answer it!
1. The maximum temperature was 112.3 degrees. At the beginning the temperature went up instead of down.
2.The minimum temperature was 49.9 degrees. The lowest was not at the end but in the middle.
3.The range was 62.4 degrees. I think that the median will be around 65 degrees.
4. We used cotton, fur, polyester, and aluminum foil. On the first layer we put aluminum foil, then we put on polyester, then we put on fur, and then we put on cotton.
5. We did't choose paper because it would not keep the water warm. Also we didn't choose Wool because it was't as good as we thought it was.
6. We have 5 blips on our graph. I think that it was sudden movements that created them.
7. An insulator is a bad conductor of heat energy. I know this because insulators keep the heat in and good conductors let heat out.

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Conductors of Heat

9/24/2014

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Types of rods
1.bamboo (wood)
2.aluminum silver
3.copper
(brownish red)
4.brass (golden brown)
5.plastic (white)
I predict that aluminum will slide first, brass will slide second, copper will slide third, plastic will slide fourth, and bamboo will slide last. I think that aluminum will slide first because aluminum is very smooth so the butter will slide quickly down and it is a conductor of heat. I think that wood will slide last because it is not a conductor of heat.
  1. How did heat energy transfer to the butter in this experiment?
  2. What connections can you make between this experiment and yesterday's experiment?  "Both today's experiment and yesterday's experiment...  The main differences were..."
  3. How did your results compare to your predictions?
  4. Which of the tested materials were the two best conductors?  What is your evidence?
  5. Which of the tested materials were the two worst conductors?  What is your evidence?
  6. Do you think water is a good or poor conductor?  Why?  Can you think of any evidence to support your answer?
  7. Why do you think it matters which material is a good or bad conductor?  How do we use conductors in our life?

1. The heat from the water used the poles that are conductors to go into the butter for it to slide down. I think that the best ones are made of metal.
2.Both today's experiment and yesterday's experiment involved heat. The main differences were that today we did stuff with butter sliding down and yesterday we did things with water temperature.
3. They were all correct but Brass slide first and aluminum slide second. I also thought that the first three would be very close but they were a little bit  apart. I thought this because metal is a conductor of heat.
4. The 2 best were brass and aluminum. They are because they are both really good conductors of heat.
5. The 2 worst conductors were wood and plastic. they were the worst because they were bad conductors.
6. I think water is a good conductor. I think this because lightning can travel through it.
7. It matters because both of them have different uses. We use conductors to carry electricity and to provide heat.
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Transferring Heat Energy from Warm to Cold Water

9/22/2014

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  1. What happened to the temperature of the cold water over time?  What about the warm water?
  2. What happened on the graph to show what happened with the water temperatures?
  3. What did you notice happened at the end of the experiment?
  4. How did the cold water get warmer? How did the warm water get colder?
  5. Did the water go through the red Solo cup?  How do you know?
  6. Which direction did the heat energy move?
1. The cold water went up over time. The warm water went steeply down at first the gradually went down over time.
2. The graph made the warm water going down on a extreme angle and then a low angle. The cold water went gradually up in temperature.
3. The cold water was over the warm water. I think it was condensation that made the water temperature rise.
4. The heat from the warm water traveled through the cup. Then the cold water obsorved it and it got warmer. 
5. It did not because the water on the outside did not turn red. What did happen is that the heat is going into the cold water.
6. The heat energy moved into the cold water.
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Energy Transfers

9/22/2014

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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. Which three stations do you feel very confident that you figured out correctly? Describe one and explain what made it so obvious.
  4. Was it always possible to know for sure what kinds of energy transfers occurred?
  5. Go to our classroom YouTube channel and spend a little time watching other students' videos of stations that you think you and your partner(s) might have gotten wrong.  Try to find a group or two that explained a particular station better than you did.  Which group do you want to give a shout out to for doing a good job explaining a particular station?  List their names, the station they explained, and the URL to their video so I can watch it!
1. My favorite station was the pop up frogs because they really surprised you when they jumped up. I also liked the energy ball.
2. The drinking bird was the hardest to figure out. The Galileo Thermometer was also very hard.
3. I think that we did very good on the Pop Up Toys, Wind Up Cars, and the Hand Held Electric Generator. On the Pop Up Toys we did: there is first elastic energy to sound energy witch is a by product and motion energy to gravitational energy to sound energy witch is a by product.
4. It wasn't always possible to know what kinds of energy occurred because on the Galileo Thermometer it could have been heat energy or motion energy. The drinking birds were also hard because it could have bean a lot of things.
5. My shout outs are to Mike and Chris at the Drinking bird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YygJQ0H0wlg#t=10
Also Payton and Madi at the Galileo Thermometer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqfIDWv_4DU

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Finding Eight Forms of Energy Around Westgate

9/11/2014

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Reflection & Synthesis Questions:
  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?

Reflection & Synthesis Answers:
1. Energy can be found almost anywhere in the  world. Except rocks, and anything that isn't moveing or being held.
2. The easiest form is motion. The hardest is sound because you have to hear it.
3. Yes a steam train has 2 because it is motion and sound. A bat is also 2 because it is motion and sound.
4. Energy is important because with out it we would be dead. There would be no sun, trees, air, or light.
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