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Take a Stand Podcast

6/4/2019

Adrian and Molly had a discussion on whether or not high school students should be allowed to bring digital devices to school, specifically cell phones.

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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?

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Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

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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?
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?

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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 in Action vs. Stored Energy

1/8/2019

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Energy in Action

Stored Energy

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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...

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Follow the directions in class to create a RIVER TABLE that demonstrates how water finds its own path based on gravity, obstacles, and how easily things in its way erodes.

For the blog post, insert a photograph or video of the activity (from Mr. Solarz) and answer the questions below as thoroughly as you can. Remember, most answers need two or more sentences to be complete!

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

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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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Global Goals Week

9/28/2018

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

Take screenshots from here: sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300

Tweet this phrase & two pictures...

Sustainable Development Goal #4 is in my TOP 5 #GlobalGoals because without education how would we train all of the doctors, scientists, teachers, and world-savers so that our world remains amazing!
- By: Mr. Solarz

#GlobalGoalsWeek #SDGs #WGLeads

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Glaciers Change Landscapes

9/21/2018

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Embed your video that you created showing your Play-Doh activity.

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International Dot Day!

9/14/2018

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Add photos to your blog post of both of your projects. Take them from here or the ones you took with Photo Booth.

That's it for now.

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Abrasion Weathers Rock

8/30/2018

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Create a new blog post on your ePortfolio entitled, "Abrasion Weathers Rock."
Grab a photo of you and your partner from the activity. (Drag it onto your desktop.) (If you want to include more than one photo of you, you can put them into a slideshow like I have above.)
Embed it at the top of your blog post (Drag in an "Image"). Turn on "Lightbox."
To the right of the picture, embed a video that you create & upload to YouTube that explains what you did during this activity and what you learned.
Answer the Reflection Questions below with complete sentences. Each answer must have multiple complete sentences that explain your answer.
When you've finished answering the questions, take a picture of your worksheet from yesterday's investigation (front and back) and post them at the bottom of this blog post. Use PhotoBooth to do this. Turn "Lightbox" on both photos.

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

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Do mountains last forever? Explain why with as much detail as you can. What causes them to last forever or not last forever?
Explain at least two ways that solid rock can break into smaller pieces naturally?
How are rocks at the top of a mountain different than the ones at the bottom? What makes them that way? How did our experiment demonstrate that?

Mountains do/do not last forever because...
One way solid rock can break into smaller pieces naturally is by ___________. This means that... Another way solid rock can break into smaller pieces naturally is by ___________. This means that...
Rocks at the top of a mountain are... Whereas rocks at the bottom of a mountain are... The rocks at the bottom become this way by... Our demonstration showed us that by...

Here is a photo of my investigation sheet:

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Transferring Heat Energy

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Energy Transfers

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Eight Forms of Energy

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Energy in Action vs. Stored Energy

Energy in Action

Stored Energy

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Erosion and Deposition

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Global Goals Week

Glaciers Change Landscapes

International Dot Day!

Abrasion Weathers Rock

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