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Colonizing Mars - Voki - Shaquille Keim

5/29/2013

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In class we are doing a colonizing mars unit and we all had to pick a profession and mine is a translator from Jamaica. I am really excited for this unit and can't wait to start!
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SciTech Museum - Kelly and Erin

5/23/2013

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When our class went to the SciTech museum we got to look around at a bunch of cool things that they had their. And in this video you will see me blowing into a bubble wall. And you had to blow very delicately and gently to get this kind of tornado bubble that was awesome and it was really fun to do. 
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Kelly - WEX State of Nature

5/23/2013

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Water Reflection - Kelly

5/20/2013

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I made this goanimate to show everyone and teach everyone about how water gets into the ocean and which regions have the most amount of water and least amount of water
Water Reflection - Kelly by d25kelly9434 on GoAnimate
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Kelly - Science Fair

5/20/2013

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Kelly - Science Fair

5/17/2013

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The Water Cycle 

5/15/2013

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Today in class we made a Thing Link about the water cycle. On the Thing Link the buttons will tell you about evaporation, condensation, participation, and percolation.

I had a fun time with my partner (Erik) making this Thing Link.
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Watery Earth - Lesson 6

5/7/2013

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Water gets into glaciers by snow falls.



The frozen water in a glacier is fresh water because it comes from melted water off of a mountain.



Humans can easily use water from a glacier because the water is fresh water and that water is melted snow that flowed off from mountains into a body of water.
Water gets into polar ice caps by





the frozen water in polar ice caps is fresh because when water freezes it gets rid of the salt



I think that it would be hard to get water out of polar ice caps due to the fact that is in freezing water







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Water gets into floating sea ice by small nee



Sea ice is not as salty as ocean water beneath it because when water freezes, the tiny particles of salt are pushed out of the ice.


I think that is would be nearly impossible because it is in water thin sheets pf ice and you would have to get water out of them one at a time






the frozen water in ice bergs is fresh because when water freezes it gets rid of the salt




I think it would be easy to get water from ice bergs because they are big enough to stand and extract the water.






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April 26th, 2013

4/26/2013

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    Body of Water

               
               Ocean

              
                 River

                 Lake

              

 

               Reservoir
 





       waterfall
               
                 Bay

              
               
           

    Examples on         World Map

                Pacific Ocean
               
               
  Mississippi River

               
              Lake Okeechobee

                


Barnett Reservoir





           Niagara Falls


Chesapeake Bay






                   

Chesapeake Bay





Erie Canal

    Examples on         City Map

None


  Illinois River

  
   Lake Arlington


































                   
                   

                  
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I took this screen shot while using Google images
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Kelly's WEX Fictional Narrative Podcast

4/26/2013

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In WEX we all had to write a story about a mundane situation and make it so much more interesting than a plain old situation like brushing your teeth. We had to make it believable and realistic at the same time.

My story's mundane situation is brushing your hair. And the characters in my story is Piper and she is the main character, Patty (Pipers younger sister), and Pipers mom. Their is also Pipers twin brothers but they don't make an appearance in this story. The main idea of the story is that Piper has a lot of trouble doing one of the easiest things in the morning, brushing your hair.

I really had a fun time writing this story because I remember Mr. Solarz saying "Okay it is time to rap up your story, but we will have time tomorrow to write it!" And I was literally in the "zone" and I would not stop writing until I got to the end of my train of thought. And I would already have been five minutes into my lunch period. But I really didn't care as long as I thought that my story was good enough for me, and I hoped that everyone else would like it too. Turns out, as I was reading my story to some of my friends they where smiling and giggling. So that made me keep my hopes up and telling me that my story was a really good story all at the same time too. 
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