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Conductors

9/26/2013

I want to find how heat travels through these 5 materials.
1. Brass
2.Copper
3. Plastic
4.Aluminum
5. Wood
I don't think plastic will be a good conductor.
I think brass will be the best conductor.
I don't think wood will conduct at all.
I think aluminum will conduct heat, just not as much as metal.
I think copper will be an okay conductor.

The order they went down.
1. Copper
2. Aluminum
3. Brass
4. Plastic
5. Wood
Okay, I was not expecting the outcomes. I was really suprised.

Describe how the heat energy transferred from the hot plate to the butter.
How did the results compare to your predictions.
Which of the tested materials were the two best conductors? What is your evidence?
Which of the tested materials were the two worst conductors? What is your evidence?
Do you think water is a good or poor conductor? Why?
Why do you think it matters which material is a good or bad conductor? How do we use conductors in our life?

Answers:
The heat energy transferred from the heat plate to the butter by going through the water in the jar to the rod, then up the rod to the butter. This happened because the water and most of the rods are conductors. I don't know how the heat got up the rods that weren't conductors.
My predictions weren't right because I didn't think copper would be the best conductor, but it slid down first. I thought brass would be the best conductor, but it slid 3rd.
The copper and the aluminum rods were the best conductors because the butter slid down on them first. Those rods were the best conductors because the heat got through them the easiest.
The wood and the plastic were the worst conductors because the butter on them slid down last. this makes them bad conductors because it took a lot longer for the heat to pass through them.
I think water is a good conductor because the heat energy could pass through it no problem. It's like when there is a storm and you have to get out of the pool because there is lightning. You have to get out of the pool because if the lightning hits the water, it will pass through the water and electrocute you.
It matters what materials are good or bad conductors so you know if the heat will pass through it easily, or if it will be difficult, of if it will pass through at all. We use conductors all the time in our life. If you plug in a cord, that is conducting electricity, and we plug in a lot of cords everyday, so we conduct everyday.

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Patriots vs. Loyalists T-Chart

9/25/2013

Patriots

1. The king is taxing us to much.
2. We should be able to make our own laws.
3. If he taxes us this much, we should be able to have a say in what we get taxed on.

Loyalists

1. The king is taxing us so he can pay the debts for the french and indian war.
2. The king has worked so hard to build this country up, so the least you can do is pay the taxes.
3. The king is the leader of this country, and he helps it stay in good shape. He is taxing you to make the place you live in better.

I think the patriots side is easier to debate because it seems better to be able to have a say in what laws are made and who will be the president. It seems like a better country this way; a free country.
I think working on the computer made me learn more because it was more memorable that way. What I mean by that is that the experience was fun, so I could remember and learn what happened in 1768 Boston, better then when we did it on paper.

Transferring Heat Energy

9/24/2013

The tempature of the water in the bucket and the water in the cup were different at the beginning because one of them had very cold water in it, and the other one had really warm water in it. What happened to the tempature of the cold water was it got warmer over time, but the hot water did the opposite and cooled down. The graph showed what happened because it showed the cold water getting warmer, and the warm water started to cool down also. The lines started out really far away from each other, then over the course of fifteen minutes, they started to get closer together. What made the cold water get warm so fast was the fact that it was right next to really warm water. What made the warm water a little cooler was the fact that it was right next to cold water. After 20 minutes, I think the warm water would be 45 degrees ferinhight, and the cold would be 52 degrees ferinhight. The food helped because it showed me that the cold water doesn't get warm because the warm water goes through the cup and in the cold water, but because the warm water has heat around it. I know this because the cold water didn't have red die in it.

History Alive 11 Panel Debate

9/24/2013

Something we did good with our answers was we had correct answers and they made sense. We also talked together as a group before we said them, so it was a team effort. One thing we did bad was we didn't prepare at all, so we were all really nervous before the debate. Luckily we were able to come up with some good answers. In our preperation, we came up with all the answers to step two, but that took us a while, so we were falling behind the other groups. We weren't really ready for the debate,but we figured it out. One thing we did good in the preperation was we took a long time on step two, but they were really good questions. If that was all we had to do we would get an A+. Our behavior was pretty good. We did a nice job working together, but we got a little distracted no and then. Our final product was really good. We came up with really good answers, and they made a lot of sense. Our chat toataly could have gone on in 1768 Boston. It's hard to think of anything that was bad in the final product, but if I had to, I would say we didn't do very good with following the guidelines of doing answer, question, answer, question.
I was really worried about the panel debate for a few reasons. We didn't have a script planned out and we didn't have our name tag ready. We had the name on it, but we didn't have the slogan. Then someone came up with this awesome slogan, so we were almost ready. Then we just came up with the rest of the questions along the way.

Tax Colecters

9/19/2013

Today I got 4 pence from my boss for working so hard over the passed three weeks. It had been hard work. I stocked the shelves, cleaned everything;dusting, sweeping, mopping.It had been hard core1. I was expected to know what time to do everything, and fill in for my boss anytime he was gone. I can't believe I only got 4 pence for working so hard! Some of my other friends got 7 pence. Lucky them. Well, after I got my pence I was pretty excited. It was my first pay, and I realized that since we were in 1768, it was a pretty good deal. That was considered a pretty good amount of money. Anyway, I was walking through the street on my way home, a man in a red coat stopped me. Now these people are called a lot of things; soldiers, lobsterbacks, but I prefered to call them tax colecters. He told me that I had to pay the tax of wearing jewlery. I tried to explain to him that it wasn't jewlery, it was rubber bands, but he had no idea what I was talking about. He told me the tax was 2 pence, and I had to pay it, or I would go to jail. So of course I payed the tax, but I was furious! How dare he come over to me and just steal my money! I was no longer in the good mood that I was in earlier. Now I only had two pence! You could barely buy anything with two pence! From then on I knew I was a strong patriot.

Colonial Buildings in 1768 Boston

9/10/2013

My google doc script shows that I know what happened in the two events because it shows detail and what happened in these two events in a conversation. It explains what happened and how it happened, so if you had no idea what the Boston Massacre, or the Intolerable Acts, you would get a pretty clear visual.
The script also shows that we know what a loyalest and a patriot are because we made it clear that the loyalest was trying to defend the king when the patriot was saying how the kings laws had got out of hand and we needed to stop him.

What Caused the Revolutionary War

9/9/2013

The Stamp Act was one of the causes of the Revolutionary War because colonists did not like being taxed on the stamps that they had to have on every sheet of paper. This was a bid part in what led to the Revolutionary War because it made the colonists mad,so they protested and the King had to repeal the law.
The Boston tea party did not lead to the Revolutionary War because it only bothered England, not the colonists, so we did not make a big deal out of it, and therefore did not lead to the Revolutionary War.
I think America should declare independence from England because England can't make all the laws, and tell everyone what to do. I think we should be able to speak for ourselves, and not be ruled by England.

The 27 Most Important Event in U.S. History

9/9/2013

1. I chose to research about the founding of Jamestown.
2. I chose to research about the founding of Jamestown because we read about it in 4th grade, so I already had some background knowledge on what happened.
3. The Founding of Jamestown is important because it was the first successful English settlement in North America.

Energy Wheel

9/4/2013

The easiest energy to find was electric. We found as many forms of electric energy as we had to in a couple minutes.
The hardest energy to find was sound energy. We were looking and looking, but we couldn't find a second one, until someone had the idea to take a picture of me playing the recorder. Then we found the third one pretty easy after that. Our group worked together by talking to each other and taking turns using the camera. The collaberation that happened was we talked about what we should take pictures of and compromised. The chalenges were getting all the pictures we needed in the time we had.

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