OOTM reflection!

The best part of our performance according to the judges was : The best part of our performance according to the judges was our creative scene change in which we spun our set around on wheels.

The best pam'oll'3cdrYZfr4ert of our performance according to me was : My favorite part of our play is when Trea's character Jeff flexes.

Or weakest score was : Our weakest score was how the main characters were depicted being weird.

I think we could have improved the most with: The overall clarity of our theme.

Here are some things I learned from the experience: I learned that the judges are stricter than they appear. As well as the fact that you need to stick to the overall point of the play and don't get to off track.

Something I would do differently next time would be: Next time we do OOTM I will include more comedy elements to our play.

Science, january 17, 2012

I think that the reaction between the baking soda and vinegar is caused by the reaction between the carbon in vinegar and the sodium in baking soda.


I observed that the CO2 stayed in the cup when they poured in on the candle. I also observed that the excess baking soda/vinegar solution stayed on the bottom of the cup.

Why did the carbon dioxide stay in the cup when cooper poured it in? What is the melting point of pure sodium?


things I didn't know:
-80% of the air is nitrogen
-pure sodium explodes in water
-rubidium explodes in water
-potassium explodes in water
-electrons "don't exist"
-anything with only one electron reacts with water

Myth busters, january 14, 2012.

The myth we watched today was if CDs would shatter if they spun too fast. The myth was busted because CDs are strong enough to resist household CD drives and would have to go over fifty thousand rpm to shatter. I think that I would have tested the phone-gas station explosion myth with more variables. I think that they should test if you can melt anything.

Google time minecraft project, november 30, 2012

Today for google time I made a monitor and one program for it and also started working on a disk drive:

Odyssey of the mind reflection, november 28, 2012

What I accomplished today:

-Made a skit about the Newton's Second Law involving all of our partners

Self rating: 4/5

I think that we did very well and stayed on task and accomplished our goals.

Barriers: 

-Slightly distracted

Odyssey Of The Mind project plan

story: two towns; girl town and boy town. one person from each town (frances and greyson) get lost in the woods and meet eachother. they think each other are weird while their trying to find their home and eventually make it back to their own towns and are accepted again. After they make it back to their own towns they decide that they don't like anymore and they make a new one called anyone town and eventually everyone decides to move there. THE END!

Myth busters Ep. 2, november 5, 2012

1. What myths were presented in the video?
 The myths presented were the fireball-stungun myth and the sky-rocket chair myth.2. What do the words busted, plausible and confirmed mean?
busted means not possible, plausible means possible, and confirmed means it works.
3. Which myths were busted, which were not?
Fireball stun-gun is plausible, sky-rocket chair is busted.
4. What would you have done differently in any of the experiments.
I would have used more powerful rockets in the sky-rocket chair myth
5. What myth would you like them to bust?
The myth that if you load a gun, you can catch on fire from gun-powder particles in the air.

Myth Busters Ep. 1, November 5, 2012

The myth's presented were the Archimedes Mirror myth and the car punch myth.
The word plausible means possible, the word busted means not possible, and the word confirmed means that it will work.
Both of the myths were busted.
If i were testing those myths I would have got more people to aim mirrors and on the other one I would have used a piston to punch the car.
I would want them to test if you can actually hit two birds with one stone.

Cars Vs Planes

http://prezi.com/zntxlrjwwd5y/edit/#0_3474286

My own battery

The three main parts of an atom are

Here is a drawing of an atom

A works by using acid and metals to move

Here is a battery I made called a voltaic pile.

Here is what happened after I made my battery.

Evolution and natural selection

Evolution is the process of a species changing over time by means of natural selection. Natural selection is when a certain variation or mutation of a species survives better than normal or different varieties of the same species. This process causes that variation of the species to reproduce and thus slowly fading out the original variation of the species over eons. The process will repeat itself over and over and slowly creating an entirely new species.

actual egg drop

Today (april 18, 2012) we did an egg drop. An egg drop is where we each make a device that stops an egg from breaking. Lots of the designs worked. My design was a small 8x8x12 cardboard box with an egg suspended in the middle of the box with rubber bands, it worked. My favorite deign was Lawson's, He had a small pouch attached to a bunch of balloons, it worked also. It was a lot of fun building the devices, plus my design was a lot of people's favorites.

egg drop

1. My guess for the height of when an egg will break from a fall is 85 cm

2. The actual height of when an egg will break from a fall is 13 cm.  T_T

3. My guess for how many paper towels needed to save the egg from breaking from a cm fall is: 40

4. The actual amount for how many paper towels are needed to save the egg from breaking from a cm fall is: 10   T_T

forager bees

Forager bees main job is to forage for pollen nectar and blooming flowers. The forager bees main source of food is nectar and honey. If food in not available they may have to be fed, this is an important thing to keep in mind for beekeepers. The forager bees can venture up to 2 miles away from their hive.

Genetics

Recessive - b

Dominant - B

Homozygous - bb or BB

Heterozygous - Bb

Homozygous Dominant - BB

Homozygous Recessive - bb

Genotype - code

Phenotype - color

Experiment

list of steps of the experiment that you do

how to play Minecraft
-1. find computer
0. turn on your computer
1. go to Minecraft.net
2. make a Minecraft account
3. buy Minecraft
4. download Minecraft
5. open Minecraft and log in
6. make a new world
7. punch a tree
8. make a wooden house
9. go outside and kill a few sheep
10. go back inside and craft a bed
11. sleep in the bed until day
12. make a crafting bench and make wooden tools with planks and sticks
13. go outside and go crazy o a bunch of animals (make sure not to lure creepers need your house)
14. go mine cobblestone
15. craft stone tools with cobblestone and sticks
16. build a bigger cobblestone house
17. go mining for iron and coal
18. craft furnace
19. smelt iron with coal
20. craft iron tools with iron and sticks
21. make a mine by digging down diagonally
22. mine diamonds
23. go back to surface
24. make diamond tools
25. build a castle with excess cobblestone
26. BE AN AWESOME MINECRAFTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how to play Minecraft: http://www.minecraft.net/game/howtoplay

Caudata vs Anura

1 Anura, tree frog

2 Caudata, tiger salamander

3 Caudata, Hellbender

4 Anura, Bull frog

5 Caudata, japanese giant salamander

6 Caudata, Tadpole

7 Caudata, Siren

8 Caudata, Axolotl

9 Caudata, Amphiuma

10 Anura, Purple frog

red= wrong

green= right

 = Anura, White's tree frog

= caudata, Warty newt

Science words of the day

Neoteny: axolotl

Biological indicator: eastern tiger salamander

Hypothesis, Theory and Laws

Hypothesis:

I think that adding neutrons to plutonium will destroy Rhode Island

Scientific Theory:

Theory of relativity

Law:

Law of physics

State The Problem

Does sugar make kids hyperactive?

Is caffeine bad for you?

If you have blonde hair and it gets in chlorine does it turn green?