What's going on in Mr. Solarz' Class? - 7

Take a Stand Podcast

6/4/2019

My partner and I Adrian, had a discussion on students whether or not kids should have digital devices in class specially cell phones

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Transferring Heat Energy

2/14/2019

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Reflection and Synthesis 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?

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At the beginning, the two water cups where different. One had a temperature of 104 degrees and the other one had a temperature of 30 degrees.
The water in the cold cup, slowly started to rise in temperature. It came closer to the temperature in the warm cup. At the end it came to 64 degrees instead 34 degrees like before it when up.
The water in the warm cup dropped down more than the cold cup when up. The warm water started at 104 degrees and ended and about 80 degrees.
The graph showed what happened over time with the water. It showed how the temperatures compared overtime. It also showed how much and when the temperatures dropped.
After fifteen minutes, nothing much had happened. The temperatures had dropped a few degrees but it changed the most when it was 30 min.
I think it changed because the temperature around it was different. For instance the room is 72 degrees and the water changed from cold to getting warmer because it was warmer around the cup.
I think it dropped in temperatures because it was colder around the cup. It was again 72 degrees in the room. Having something colder around it makes temperature change. So it dropped in temperature.
I think the lines would merge 30 minutes after the time stopped. That would merge at 1 hour and 30 minutes. I believe because they were pretty close when an hour stopped. But, it takes longer to go up as it goes closer in temperature. The temperature I think it would get to 72 degrees because that is the area around it temperature.
I think they heat energy went down. Because heat has more energy than cold. So, it would go down in energy.

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Energy Transfers

2/8/2019

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These four videos represent my best explanations of energy transfers:

MESAGE FAN: Chemical to Motion to Motion and Chemical to Light
(Byproduct Sound and Motion)

ENERGY BALL: Heat to Chemical to Electrical to Sound
(Byproduct: Motion)

ELECTRO LAMP AND BALL: Electrical to Motion to Gravitational and Electric to Light
(Byproduct Heat)

PULL BACK CAR: Motion to Sound to Gravitational and Motion
(Byproduct: Sound

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?

My favorite station was the electro lamp and ball. It was my favorite station because it was so cool when you touched it because the light strands would connect to your finger and it was really cool to watch
The hardest thing to figure out was the energy ball. It was hard because, you didn't really know what it was. Also, it was hard because when just you put your fingers on the ball it worked, but when you and someone else used it and didn't touch, it didn't work.
I choose these videos above because me and my partner put a lot of thought in to those. We put thought into the other ones to, but I believe that those items we put one of our best efforts in those because they were harder. I also chose them because I thought they were right too.
It wasn't always possible to know witch energy transfers were right. I mean it was possible if you could take it a part. But, in are case we couldn't take it apart because other groups needed to use them. For example, the fan had something spinning in the motor but you couldn't see it.

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Eight Forms of Energy

1/17/2019

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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?

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Energy is found almost everywhere! But, some specific things are the sun, a rubber band stretching, and ice.
Energy that is easiest to notice is light energy because you can usually see it. Heat energy is the hardiest to notice because their is not very many types of heat energy.
Yes, somethings do possess more energy. For example some light energy possess more energy than sound energy.
Energy is important because it helps us do everyday things. For example, energy helps drive a car or watch tv.
My partner and I worked together by finding things that fit into sections.For example we looked for things in the heat energy section together.

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Energy in Action vs. Stored Energy

1/8/2019

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Energy in Action

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...

Stored Energy

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Energy that is being used. For example, a car that is driving or a power line that is being used.
Energy that is not being used but that is being saved up. For example a battery is stored energy or a phone being charged.
Finding the pictures for the slide shows. It was hard because we could not use the words energy or action and also stored.

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November 13th, 2018

11/13/2018

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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" by Unkown

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TryEngineering Together

11/8/2018

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Questions:

Answers:

Why might TET be a good addition to are classroom?
How might this program help me learn?

I think TET will be a good addition to are classroom because it will help understand STEM more with one on one pen pals. With being one on one with someone they can go at different payses. Also, it will help people understand better.
This program will help me learn to understand STEM better.

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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?

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Today in the lab we were trying to create a portable and realistic river out of play doah, dirt, water, books, one tray with a hole at the bottom, a tray without a hole, rocks, clay, a bottle with holes in the cap, pea pebble, tape and sand.
On our first trial (we didn't use all the in materials on the answer above) we used dirt, water, books, a tray with a hole and a tray with a hole at the bottom, a tray without a hole at the bottom, tape, clay, rocks, a bottle with holes in the cap and sand. Before we started we grabbed are materials Our first step was to get books and stack them. Our second step was to put the tray with a hole at the bottom and lay that at a slant on top of the the books and tape the sides of the tray with tape on to the table. Our third step is to put the tray without the hole below the tray with the hole so the water that comes out does go all over the floor. Next, we got to pieces of clay and flatended the to pieces of clay. Then, we put one of the pieces of clay at the front of the tray in the middle, and the other piece of to the right side in the middle of tray. The the fifth step, we took the dirt and put it between the clay pieces. Then, we put rocks on top of the dirt and spread them out. Next, we took sand and put it the bottom by the hole. Are final step, was to take the bottle and fill it with water. I think we did a pretty good job. Better we changed some things too. Are first change was to put the rocks and the dirt into the same bag and shake that together and then lay it out on the top and the middle parts of the tray. This helped with laying out the rocks evenly. Then we swithched out the sand with pea pebble this helped make a delta like mouth. We took out the clay and put in a small play doah wall in the middle this helped to make a tributaery river. Also we took out one book this mad e the water moved slowly to make it look more like a river.
The final model demonstrated a river that was in the desert that was created by rain. One thing that did not work out qwas that there was places that had lots of water and some places ahad little to no water. I think we could now demonstrate this because some places that had a lot of dirt and rocks and some places did not have alot.
Something that we be challenging is getting the materials. I think there would be a lot of comotion because there would only be a little bit of each material. Also when you do something as class you can't think as creativly, there was alot a lot of great ideas that I would not be able to think of.

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Global Goals Week

9/27/2018

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These are the five Sustainable Development Goals that I feel are most important.

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Glaciers change Landscapes

9/19/2018

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Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

How do glaciers form?
Where in the world are glaciers usually located?
What makes glaciers move?

Answers:

Glaciers form when more snow falls than melts. when snow stays all year long.
Glaciers are usually located on tops of mountains or in really cold places.
Glaciers move if the ground is even a little bit tilted or if it ways tons of pounds.

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