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Rube Goldberg Inventions

9/29/2014

My drawing is sharping a pencil.

"The numbers in this graphic organizer connect to the numbers in the drawing on the left."

1. What was the most surprising thing you learned about energy during this entire unit? Why was it surprising?

2. What was your favorite part of this energy unit? Why was it your favorite?

3. Where is energy found?

4. How would you define energy?

1. The most surprising thing for me was the by products. I thought that this was surprising because I did not know that energy could have by products.
2. My favorite part of the unit was the energy transfers station. It was my favorite part because we got to experiment with the objects.
3. Energy is found everywhere. Some examples are schools, playgrounds, houses, etc.
4. I would define energy saying that, energy is something that is everywhere and people use it everyday.

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Insulated Bottles

9/26/2014

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What was your maximum temperature (use your Data Chart, not the picture)?
What was your minimum temperature (use your Data Chart, not the picture)?
What is your range? If you had any penalties or gifts, include those in your total.
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?
What are some materials that you didn't choose? Why didn't you choose them?
Explain any blips on your graph (if you have them). Why do you think it did that?
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. Our maximum temperature for the insulated bottle experiment was 111.4.
2. Our minimum temperature for the insulated bottle experiment is 49.4.
3. Our Range for the insulated bottle experiment is 62.0
4. The materials that we used were first we used carpet insulation, second 3 pieces of foil, third 2 pieces of wax paper, fourth polyester, fifth nylon. We chose the materials that we chose because they had a good testing score.
5. We did not choose regular paper, wool, bubble wrap. We did not choose these things because they had a low test score.
6. On our graph we had lots of blips. We think that the blips are when you move the thermometer the data moves.
7. All insulators are different. it depends on what kind of insulators you are using. If you use thin insulator it may not work as well as a thick insulator. So really you could have a good or poor insulator it just depends on what you are using.

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Conductors of Heat

9/24/2014

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1. Wood/Bamboo
The butter on the wood did not fall.

2.Aluminum
The butter on the aluminum slid 2nd 7 seconds into the project.

3.brownish/red Copper
The butter on the copper slid 1st 2 seconds into the project.

4.Brass
The butter on the brass slid 3rd 85 seconds into the project.

5.Plastic
The butter on the plastic slid 4th 2640 seconds into the project.

I predict that brass will slide first because brass, copper will slide second, aluminum will slide third, plastic will slide fourth, and wood/bamboo last.

How did heat energy transfer to the butter in this experiment?
What connections can you make between this experiment and yesterday's experiment? "Both today's experiment and yesterday's experiment... The main differences were..."
How did your results compare to your predictions?
Which of the tested materials were the two best conductors? What is your evidence?
Which of the tested materials were the two worst conductors? What is your evidence?
Do you think water is a good or poor conductor? Why? Can you think of any evidence to support your answer?
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 transferred from the cup warmer to the water to the stick to the butter.
2. Both today's experiment and yesterday's experiment had heat energy transfer from water. The main differences were today the heat came from the cup warmer to the water and then to the stick and then to the butter. Yesterday the heat came from the warm water and transferred through the cup to the cold water.
3. My predictions were close. My first three were wrong, but my last one was correct.
4. The two best were copper and aluminum. The evidence was the the butter slid off the copper first and the aluminum second.
5.The two worst were plastic and bamboo. The butter stayed on the plastic for a long time and it never came off the bamboo.
6. I think that water is a great conductor. Because water can make energy or take away energy.
7. It matters because you would want to know what materials would get hot or not. We use conductors when we cook on the stove, to keep our lunches hot or cold or when we want things to stay hot or cold.

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Transferring Heat Energy From Warm to Cold Water

9/23/2014

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What happened to the temperature of the cold water over time? What about the warm water?
What happened on the graph to show what happened with the water temperatures?
What did you notice happened at the end of the experiment?
How did the cold water get warmer? How did the warm water get colder?
Did the water go through the red Solo cup? How do you know?
Which direction did the heat energy move?

1. The cold water started to get warmer. Then after we waited a little longer the warm water and the cold water started to become the same temperature.

2.The hot water line started to move down and the cold water line started to move up. After a while the temperature line of the hot and cold water intersected. Then the hot water line and the cold water line were almost at the same temperature.

3. I noticed that at the end of the experiment both of the waters were almost the same temperatures.I also noticed that the almost all of the ice that was in the outside cup had melted.

4.Cold water got warmer because the heat from the warm water transferred into the cold water which made the ice cubes melt also.The warm water got colder because the heat was leaving the warm water.

5.The water did not go through the red solo cup. I know because there were not any holes in the red Solo cup.

6.The heat energy moved straight out of the cup into cold water.

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Energy Transfers

9/19/2014

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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?
Which three stations do you feel very confident that you figured out correctly? Describe one and explain what made it so obvious.
Was it always possible to know for sure what kinds of energy transfers occurred?
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 Galileo thermometer because Payton and I got to see the Galileo thermometer move. I also thought that it was fun making the video and experimenting with the thermometer.

2. The most difficult to figure out was the drinking bird because you couldn't see any of the energy sources.

3. The 3 easiest were the energy ball, domino's, pull back toy car. The pull back toy car was obvious because you pulled it backwards and then when you let it go it would shoot forward. It was obvious because it was elastic and elastic is anything that stretches and springs back. The toy car would stretch when you pulled it back and spring forward when you let go.

4. No. Because you could not tell sometimes because they were hidden and hard to identify.

5. Chris and Mike. Drinking bird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YygJQ0H0wlg

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Finding Eight Forms Of Energy Around Westgate

9/9/2014

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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?

1. Energy is found everywhere. Examples are outside,westgate ,inside and in classrooms.
2. Motion energy is the easiest to notice. The hardest energy to notice was the Elastic energy.
3. Yes, some items do posses more than one form of energy. Like if you jump it can posses motion and gravitational energy.
4.Energy is important because if we did not have any energy you would not be able to do everything that we do. Like Gravitational energy we could not stay on the ground we would be floating.

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Rube Goldberg Inventions

Insulated Bottles

Conductors of Heat

Transferring Heat Energy From Warm to Cold Water

Energy Transfers

Finding Eight Forms Of Energy Around Westgate

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