Today and yesterday's lesson is working on more 21st century skills. My skill is working hard. Working hard is when you do your best to finish the project that you started. Lots of people work hard and do their best, but I want you to encourage people that are not working hard to work their hardest.

This is a picture of the u.s.a and it means the votes from all the states combined and the total votes of Romney and Obama the new president for the next four years is Obama cant wait to see the next election in 2016 but i am not going  get into that today thanks bye.

The above & below are graphic organizers for our energy debates.  We were put in groups, and we are researching our energy source.  For example, my group is wind energy.  These organizers are for an opening essay that every group will read.  An organizer like this one will help me understand my energy source for our energy debates by teaching me the good things and reasoning behind them.  I might use a graph like this when I am older and I need to write a persuasive essay.

This organizer helps you understand the concept of Wind energy because it shows you what we're talking about when we say wind energy.It shows you What we are talking about and what you might think we are talking about but we are not.I for one might use this in the future in the actual debates so it could give us boosts on arguments.

The green color of leaves throughout spring and summer comes from chlorophyll, a pigment vital to photosynthesis. As we get closer to autumn and some parts of the planet get fewer hours of sunlight, trees respond by stopping the food-making photosynthesis process and slowing the production of chlorophyll until, eventually, they stop producing it altogether and the green color of the leaf fades. Yellow and Orange: Along with chlorophyll, there are yellow and orange pigments, carotene and xanthophyll, inside some trees’ leaves. For most of the year, these pigments are masked by chlorophyll, but as the chlorophyll breaks down and the green color dissipates, the yellow to orange colors become visible.
Red: Another class of pigment that occurs in leaves is the anthocyanins. Anthocyanins, unlike carotene and xanthophyll, are not present in leaves year-round. It isn’t until the chlorophyll begins breaking down that the plant begins to synthesize anthocyanin. Why do trees begin producing a different pigment in leaves they’re getting ready to lose? The prevailing theory is that anthocyanins protect leaves from sun damage, lower their freezing point, allow them to remain on the tree longer, and buy the tree more time to recover nutrients from its leaves. The colors that anthocyanins produce are dependent on the pH of the leaves’ cell sap. Very acidic sap results in a bright red color, while less acidic sap leads to a purplish red.
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Today we went on a field trip to Olive school to see what it was like in 1776 the first person is Angus McClain he's a militia. The second lady is Christina Johnson the news maker. The third person is Kathrine Caird the school mistress. I did not know it  takes so much trading to get food,weapon's, and even just wigs. Did you know all men wear wigs that are made from real human hair? That's gross!!! They even pull teeth. You wanna know who pulls the teeth? THE WIG MAKER!!!! Now that's weird. I would not like to go to school back then because if you got something wrong you would get wacked with a wooden stick. In school you have to learn in a barn or a tent that would be really distracting.

Today at science class, we did an expirement about insulators.  All of us were given partners and we were told to use any materials we could bring in to keep a bottle full of hot water hot in an ice bath.  The layers we put on our bottle had to fit inside a gallon sized plastic bag.  I thought it was an almost impossible task!  My partner brought some materials from home and we used some of the stuff Mr. Solarz had kindly set out for our use.  Of course, he bought everything from garage sales.  Anyway, our insulators did a fair job.  The top temp on the above graph did not change much, indicating that we had kept the bottle warm.  We could have stuffed the bag full of materials like scraps of paper and felt like some groups did.  Although we didn't do that, we did the steps right. 

We did an experiment about heat transfer we put a plastic cup into a big plastic bucket by taping them together and we put hot water in one and cold water in another. Then, we put temperature probes into the cold water and in the warm water. We thought that the warm water would cool the cold water up but, it just cooled to room temperature and stayed like that. I was surprised to see that they went to room temperature instead I thought that the warm water would stay the same and the cold water would get really warm. I also was surprised that at the end of the experiment they crisscrossed a little bit because the warm water got colder and the cold water got warmer.