weekly blog (5/6/16) Trash to treasure

This week in class we were supposed to take some stuff we were going to throw away then turn it into something useful. I made a set of drums out of used cans, a balloon, a jar, and lids for stuff.

Weekly blog (4/29/16) Trash

     This week in class we are supposed to make a useful product out of only things we are going to through away. So Far I have no idea what I'm making but I can't wait to make it. 

     Every day about 143,500,000lbs of trash are being thrown away and that trash just goes 

in piles all around the U.S., also a lot of the trash goes into the ocean killing see animals. And 

most of that trash can be recycled.

Weekly blog(4/8/16)Magnetic forces

This week in class we learned about magnetic forces. Magnetic forces are what makes magnets work. This picture is showing how all magnets have a north and south and how they react. (Opposites attract and likes repel). Those lines are how the magnetic forces would look if you could see it.

Weekly Blog(3/27/16)Electricity current

     This week in class we learned about electricity current, what it is, and how it works. Electricity current is the flow of electrons through a light bulb's filament, for example.  The filament is a resister so that creates friction which as you know makes heat and if metal (or anything) gets hot enough, it glows.

     So this week in class we tested out certain safe circuits to see if they would work or not and why.

Weekly blog(3/19/16)electricity

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     This week in class we learned in class we learned about the dangers of electricity, electricity is very dangerous, did you know that there is enough power in a home outlet to stop your heart? Well there is. To warn us about this my teacher, Mrs. Garcia, gave my class a bunch of stories of dangerous electricity situations. In this project I learned not to make short circuit and why.

Minerals (3/13/16)

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     This week in class we learned about minerals and how to identify them. We did a project where we had to study a certain mineral and write about it, I chose obsidian. Obsidian is an igneous rock (rock that forms from lava). Obsidian is made when lave meats water.

weekly blog (2/28/16) Atoms

     This week in class we learned about atoms. All atoms have electron(s), proton(s), and neutrons(every atom but hydrogen). The protons have a positive charge, the electrons have a negative charge, and the neutrons, of course, have a neutral charge. If an atom has more protons than neutrons, like this image, it is radioactive. This is a beryllium atom, number four in the periodic table, it is in the same family as radium. The periodic number is the number of protons.
     In class we did a project where we had to do a baby book of a certain atom, mine was ununseptium. The baby book was like those books where you write down the new born infants name, length, weight, and you show a picture of what the baby looks like.