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SciTech Museum Field Trip

5/23/2013

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Our class went to the SciTech Museum in Aurora, Illinois, and we had fun pretending to be reporters broadcasting live from the museum.  We had lots of fun, and everybody took lots of videos.  My partner, Kelsey and I made no less than anyone else, but I figured it would be easier we just put one video by each of us on 
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My Science Fair Project!

5/23/2013

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In Mr. Solarz' class, we have a science fair, and my project was, surprisingly, about paper airplanes.  This is surprising because I usually prefer to read paper instead of making it into a paper airplane, but that was my project.  I used paper airplanes because I thought it would pretty easy to measure which material made the best paper airplane (best being goes the furthest), but I was wrong.  When I set up my experiment in our classroom, people kept pulling out chairs, which messed up the line of yardsticks I had to measure the distance my planes flew.  Therefore, I set up at home in my basement instead, which worked better.  I think this science fair was a really good learning opportunity, because we had to present all this stuff to a lot of people at our science fair, so that helped our presentation skills as well as the skills (mainly patience!) we had to have in order to do our projects.  Thank you, Mr, S!
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Another Post of my State of Nature WEX Story

5/22/2013

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My State of Nature WEX Story

5/20/2013

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My State of Nature WEX Story is a link.
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Watery Earth - lesson 6

5/7/2013

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Glaciers

...accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.









Fresh Water

Many glaciers store water during one season and release it later as meltwater, a water source that is especially important for plants, animals, and human uses when other sources may be scant.
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Polar Ice Caps

Snow accumulates year after year, then melts. The slightly melted snow gets harder and compresses. It slowly changes texture from fluffy powder to a block of hard, round ice pellets. New snow falls and buries the grainy snow. The hard snow underneath gets even denser.

Fresh Water

Glaciers and icecaps: Storehouses of freshwater
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Sea Ice

...top layer of water needs to cool to the freezing point. Convection of the surface layer involves the top 100 – 150 m, down to the pycnocline of increased density.






Fresh Water

Although the ocean is salty, the ice on top of the Artic ocean is fresh-fresh enough to drink.
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Icebergs

The first stage of iceberg formation occurs when part of a glacier or ice cap that has been pushed into the sea, begins to float on the water. Tides and wave action subsequently cause stress fractures, causing a piece of the glacier to break off and a new iceberg is born!


Fresh Water

If you melted an iceberg you would get drinkable fresh water after you killed any germs. Icebergs have never been used as a major source of drinking water because of the costs and risks associated with moving them.
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My WEX Story

4/30/2013

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For some reason, I've always thought that the idea of having a twin was cool, so I take every possible opportunity to write a story about twins. 
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Video On GoAnimate

4/30/2013

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Reflection For Water Activity by d25Corinne6137 on GoAnimate

Video Maker - Powered by GoAnimate.
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Bodies Of Water Examples

4/26/2013

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Body Of Water

 

Ocean

Lake

River

Creek


Gulf


Bay

Marsh

Lagoon




Examples on World Map


Pacific Ocean
 
Silver Lake

Mississippi River




Gulf of Mexico


Bay Of Fundy


Punta Piedra Volcanica Lagoon

Examples On Illinois Map




Lake Michigan

Illinois River

Weller Creek





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Earth Day!!

4/24/2013

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For Earth Day this year, we went outside and took photos of the earth.  The results are at the left.  Really, it makes no sense to have an "earth day" when every day, we use, require, and should reward our natural supplies.  I'm pretty sure a lot of my peers are writing stuff about how we should protect nature and such.  I'll just go "peer" over their shoulders, (get it?) hang on a minute... yep!  I was right. So I won't bother with that.  However,  I do think we could be just a tad carefuller with our resources.  Shouldn't be too terribly hard, right?  I suppose I shouldn't talk.
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Raindrops On Different Surfaces

4/19/2013

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Surface

Water





Umbrella





Ice




Rocks





Trees







Dirt







Jeans




Shirt













Grass

Prediction

I think it will just get absorbed into the larger body of water with a few ripples.


I think it will just slide off right away.




I think the drops will gradually melt the cube.



I think the water will instantly slide off, because rocks are round.



I think it will leave a trail like the rock did.






I think it will stay on the surface of the dirt.






I think the water will go through after a while.



I think the water will go through immediately, because there are lots of holes in my shirt










I think the water will stay on the surface for a while, then sink into the soil beneath the grass.

Actual

There were little circular ripples all around the place where the drop fell.


The drop stayed on the surface of the umbrella until we tipped it, then it slid off onto the floor.


I was right!  First time today.



I was 1/2 right.  The drop itself slid off right away, but it left a trail of wet behind, on the rock.

When you do it on the bark, the drop runs down in a trickle, and you can't tell it was there except for the spots where the water gets caught.

Wrong again.  Actually, the drop becomes invisible after about 5 seconds on the surface.  Then, the dirt in the place it fell becomes clumpier.

I was right!  Hooray!
(I used my friend's jeans because I wasn't wearing any)

The water drop stayed in its perfect, spherical form for the longest time.  When I looked in it, I saw my shirt magnified in just that miniscule bubble.  And then the water got through and I could feel the spot on my arm where it was.  There was a darker patch where it had been.

Right again!

Reflection

I didn't know such a small drop of water could pull so much water with it on the way up from the bounce.

I thought the drop would fall off right away, but it turns out the drop just stays there until tipped enough to fall off.

I was actually right, first try!  That's really interesting about the melting.

It's strange how there is this trail behind the water, like a snail or something.


It's strange how invisible the water ends up, except for the places where it gets caught on a piece of bark.



I never knew how the dirt changed textures, but now I do! Water makes it different!




This is only the second time I've been right.  Maybe I should start making better guesses.

I thought it was so cool with the magnifying thing!  Who would have guessed that such a tiny little drop could have magnified anything so big?







Isn't it interesting

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