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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Last Day of Red Worms

How did your red worm habitats change over the course of these last few weeks?  What can you conclude about the role of red worms in our ecosystem?  If we used the soil from our jars in a garden, what would you predict would be the results of plants grown there?

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Sand...close up!

How did your description of each type of sand change when you were able to view it with the dissecting microscope?

Flat Stanley Visitors

Thanks Ariana and Anica for sharing your Flat Stanley visitors with us today.  I hope they had a great time and have a fantastic adventure to share with everyone when they get home...

Graham Crackers vs Vanilla Wafers

What were you able to conclude about sugar content from today's experiment?

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

First Bath!


Temperature and Enzymes Lab

"Love that tasty liver"

In our liver and hydrogen peroxide lab, how did temperature affect the rate of the reaction? 

Weathering Investigation

Very loud, amazing work today making your homemade sand!  What similarities and differences did you notice between the beach sand and your homemade granite sand?

Monday, September 8, 2014

Welcome Roger!!!

What should we feed Roger?  Why is humidity important?  What happened to the spikes on the iguana in the video?

Friday, September 5, 2014

Raffle Prize Winners

Congratulations to our first raffle winners of the year!  You rock!!!

Devin
Maddie
Kaitlin
Brooke
John

Stream Table Lab: Erosion

What were our findings in regard to erosion in the stream table investigation? What other variables could we have tested in order to learn more about erosion?


Thursday, September 4, 2014

Yeast Investigation

Great work today!!!  My apologies for being so rushed, but don't fret scientists, you will also have tomorrow to experiment with the yeast.  Were the results you observed what you expected?  What variables would you like to change tomorrow?

Stream Tables

What land features did you notice forming in your stream table?  Which particles moved farther and faster...sand or clay?  How would you vary today's experiment in order to learn more about erosion?

Water Labs

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Water Labs

What IS so special about water anyway?  How did your predictions vary from your observations in today's labs?  Why were you able to put so many drops of water on the surface of the penny before it overflowed?


Yeast Investigation

How do you plan to break yeast's dormancy?

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Sorting Earth Material...AWESOME 6th GRADERS!!

How did the wind affect the sand and gravel? How did the large rock affect the rate and pattern of erosion?


Friday, August 29, 2014

Sorting Earth Material

How did you sort and group your earth mixture?  What characteristics did they share? 

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Red Worms: Day 7

Great observations today 5th grade!!!  What is the importance of red worms in the ecosystem?

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Acid Test: Grand Canyon Rocks

Explain why the acid only reacted with 4 of our 10 rock samples.  What reaction did you see?  Where did the reaction come from?  Would the results of this test change the way you categorized the rocks?

Friday, August 22, 2014

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Woods Ecosystem

Today we discussed food webs.  Discuss how energy flows from the sun to coyote in the woods ecosystem.

Biology and Society Reading

Homework tonight...
Read p 16
Summarize
Answer questions 1-3
Answer research and decide questions from p. 16
        Links to read for research and decide
 
 

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Replicating Procedures Lab

What did you find difficult today about writing directions for your super unique, 9 block Lego structure?