What's going on in Mr. Solarz' Class? - 20

Take a Stand Podcast.

6/4/2019

Nick, Molly and Inti made a pod cast about if kids should have to wear school uniforms or not Molly and Nick say that you should not and Inti says you should.

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Reflection Questions:

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

Answers:

One of the cups had really cold water and the other one had really cold water. Because we added an ice cube.
The cold water got kind of warmer over time.
It got cooler a lot quicker than the cold water because it has more energy than the cold water.
The graph shoed that the cold water got warmer and the hot water got colder until they will soon reach the same temperature.
Yeah they where starting to get closer to each other bit by bit.
We just left it to sit there for a wile so it will get warmer.
We also let it sit there and they got very close to being the same.
I would choose an hour for them to get to the same temperature. They look pretty close to each other on the graph. I would choose this time frame because they look very close.
The heat looked like it was going down.

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These four videos represent my best explanations of energy transfers:

Dominos = Motion to Gravitational to sound
(Sound is the byproduct.)

Electric ball = Electric to light to heat to sound
(Heat and Sound is the byproduct.)

Pull back car = Elastic to motion to sound
(Sound is the byproduct.)

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

What was your favorite station? Why?
Which object was most difficult to figure out? Why was it so hard to figure out the energy transfers in this object?
Why did you choose the four videos above? What criteria did you use to select those?
Was it always possible to know for sure what kinds of energy transfers occurred?

Fan = Electrical to Light to Motion to Motion
(the byproduct is Motion.)

Answers:

My favorite station was the energy ball that made noises when you touch the two metal lines. Because I like that if you touch it and your partner touches it then it doesn't work.
The Galileo thermometer. Because it had a lot of energy in it so that was hard to figure out.
I chose the four videos above because they where the ones that I thought and my partner did the best on.
I think NO because it would be very hard to figure out exactly what energy would be in it unless you where a super scientist that new all about energy.

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Reflection & Synthesis Questions:

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

Answers:

1. Energy is found everywhere on earth. Most energy comes from the sun and it is in food.
2. For me electric energy and heat energy.The hardest are elastic energy.
3. Yes. Mostly chemical energy.
4. Because without energy we wouldn't have light or fires.
5. Are group worked together by switching off taking pictures. We collaborated by sometimes we took pictures of us having energy. The only challenges were
when we started running out of ideas of what to take pictures.

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January 08th, 2019

1/8/2019

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Stored Energy

Reflection Questions:

Based on my examples above, my best definition of "Energy in Action" is:
Based on my examples above, my best definition of "Stored Energy" is:
The hardest part of this activity was...

Energy in Action

Answers:

Energy is things that if it burns it has energy in it.
Energy that is contains the energy and it is not being used.
This part.

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TryEngineering Together

11/8/2018

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Questions:

Answers:

1. Why might TET be a good edition to are classroom?

1. It will help by teaching us how to learn new skills.

2. how might this program help me learn?

2. By teaching you how to right back to are pen pals.

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Erosion and Deposition

10/11/2018

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Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

What were you trying to create in today's lab?
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.
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?
What would have been challenging for you if you were asked to do this entire lesson on your own?