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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.   My highest temperature was 115 degrees.


2.   My lowest temperature was 108 degrees.

3.   My range is 7 degrees.

4.   My group used aluminum foil, then wool, and then more aluminum foil.

5.   My group didn't get the fur because I am allergic and we tried to get some others but we couldn't get them.  We used almost all materials.

6.   I think there is a blip on my graph on the chart to the right because it starts at thirty two.  I am surprised it is there but I am not positive it is a blip.

7.   A insulator is a good conductor of heat energy because in our experiment it kept the warm water warm.  Without it, it would get cold.
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Conductors of Heat

9/25/2014

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1. Wood (Bamboo)
2. Aluminum
3. Copper
4. Brass
5. Plastic
    I predict that the butter on the copper will slide down first followed by the brass, the aluminum, the plastic, and the wood (bamboo) because I think the material will effect the butter.
What really happened:
  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 energy from the heat warmer when throw the water and up the stick, melted the butter, and made it slide down.
2.    I think that they were simalar because they both involved heat energy in the water.  However, there was not any cold water or butter melting down a stick.
3.   I was right about the butter on the copper moving down first and the bamboo moving last, but I was wrong about the rest because I mixed them all up.
4.   The copper and the aluminum were the best because they were the first to slide down to the water.
5.   The plastic and the bamboo were the worst conductors because they were poor conductors and took the longest to slide down.
6.  I think water is a good conductor because can do a lot o things.  For example, it can let anything go through it.  Also, it can support heat energy along with some others to.
7.  It matters because if it is to hot or to cold we could die and it conductors can make different temperatures and things like that, it can help us live.
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Transferring Heat from Warm to Cold Water

9/24/2014

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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 and the warm water slowly went opposite ways overtime but did not cross.  The warm water dropped a lot when the cold water only went up a little bit.

2.   Each thermometer had a line on the graph and if it got lower it was colder, and if it got higher, it got warmer.

3.   At the end of the experiment, both of the lines met and the temperatures were the same.

4.   The ice in the cold water slowly absorbed the heat energy to the cold water, which made the temperature equal in each section of water.

5.   The water didn't go through the red Solo cup because if it did, the cold water would turn pinkish and the water stayed the same color.

6.   The heat energy moved downward because the ice absorbed it and the temperature got the same.
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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 Hand Boiler because I thought it was super cool when the liquid went up when you put your hand on the bottom.

2.   I thought the hardest station was the Galileo Thermometer because I thought it was difficult to find out the type of energy because I didn't know how the heat made the little liquids inside move downward.

3.   I think the three stations were the Hand Boiler, the Dominos, and the Pop up Toy.  I think the Pop up Toy was easier because we knew it involved elastic energy, which really helped us.

4.   I don't think it was possible to find all the types of energy because some of the materials were difficult to figure out at least for my partner and I.

5.   I think Charlie and Kaela did a good job because they explained it well and I agreed with most of the things they said about the Galileo Thermometer.

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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?

Answers:
1. Energy is found all around the school.  Even outside on the playground.
2. The light were the easiest to find because if you just look up, you see some.  Also, outside there's the sun!!!
3. The sun has at least two different types of energy.  It makes heat, and it is light.
4. At the most, it would be very hard to live.  In fact, we couldn't!  Trees make oxygen and if there wasn't energy, they wouldn't be able to make it!

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