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Colonize Mars

5/29/2013

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This is my voki. We made this for colonizing Mars. As you can see my name is Stephanie Bello. I found this name on the web. I live in Madagascar, Africa. I picked this place because I thought it was cool when I saw it.
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My Science Fair Project

5/23/2013

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Which scent produces the most positive reaction?

    This is my Science Fair Project!!!

    This project was not that hard, but not that easy because I had to get all the slides done, get all the materials, get the people who volunteered to smell everything and put the results in to my Google spreed sheet. So when it was the actual Science Fair, I wasn't that nervous about. I felt pretty confident before and during the Science Fair. During the Science Fair, I was talking lots and lots. So, after a while, my throat started to hurt, but we were aloud to get water from    
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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, Corinne 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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Watery Earth - Lesson 6

5/7/2013

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Glacier 

If there is leftover snow each year, snowfields will form and the snowfields may turn into glaciers. How does a place wind up with leftover snow?—It has to receive more snow than melts away every year!

Glacial ice is made of frozen fresh water (not salt water); glaciers contain the largest reservoir of fresh water on Earth. Glaciers contain about 75% of the fresh water on earth and cover about 10% of the land. During the last Ice Age (which ended about 10,000 years ago), glaciers covered almost a third of the land.

Humans can use the water from glaciers because glaciers have fresh water. For example, humans can drink the fresh water from the glacier. Another example, humans and pets can bath in the fresh water from the glaciers.  

Polar Ice Caps 

Polar ice caps form because high-latitude regions receive less energy in the form of solar radiation from the sun than equatorial regions. This results in lower surface temperatures. Seasonal variations of the ice caps will take place due to varied solar energy absorption as the planet or moon revolves around the sun. Additionally, in geologic time scale, the ice caps may grow or shrink due to climate variation. See ice age, polar climate.


The water in polar ice caps have fresh water


Humans can use the water from Ice Caps because ice caps have fresh water and we drink and wash ourselves in fresh water.







Floating Sea Ice 

As the ocean water begins to freeze, small needle-like ice crystals called frazil form. These crystals are typically 3 to 4 millimeters (0.12 to 0.16 inches) in diameter. Because salt doesn't freeze, the crystals expel salt into the water, and frazil crystals consist of nearly pure fresh water.



Floating Sea Ice Is Fresh water.





Humans Can use the water from Floating sea ice because floating sea ice is made out of fresh water so we can drink the water in floating sea ice.

Icebergs 

Glaciers form on land as a result of an accumulation of snow over thousands of years. Successive layers compress earlier accumulations until, at depths below 60 to 70 metres, glacial ice is formed. Glaciers “flow” or “creep” outward under their own weight like a viscous fluid. When the edge of a glacier advances into the ocean, the pieces that break off are what we call icebergs.



Icebergs form as a result of two main processes, producing a freshwater iceberg:
  1. Ice that forms from freezing seawater typically freezes slowly enough that it forms crystalline water (ice), which does not have room for salt inclusions. These ice floes are not truly icebergs, but they can be extremely large chunks of ice. Ice floes typically result when polar ice breaks up in the springtime.

  2. Icebergs are "calved" or form when a piece of a glacier or other land-based ice sheet breaks off. The glacier is made from compacted snow, which is fresh water.


Humans can use the water from an iceberg by drinking it. The water from the iceberg is fresh water and we can bath in it.


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Water Reflection - Kelsie

5/6/2013

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Water Reflection - Kelsie by d25kelsie1672 on GoAnimate

Animation Software - Powered by GoAnimate.
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Kelsie's WEX Frictional Narrative Podcast

4/29/2013

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    This lesson inspired me to use garage-band more because now i know how to fade out and make my voice sound cooler than it already is.
      This lesson was kind-of hard because I had to be more creative and make somethings funny up (which I do a lot). For example, I made up the problem and the mundane situation which was weird 
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Bodies of Water

4/26/2013

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Body of Water

ocean

creek

delta

stream

bay

river

lake


Example on U.S. Map

Pacific Ocean

none

Mississippi Delta 

Horseshoe Falls 

Mobile Bay

Walker River

Lake Eerie 

Example on City Map

none

Weller Creek

none

none

Shannen Bay  

Arlington River  

Lake Michigan 
Picture
Horseshoe falls
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Arbor Day 

4/25/2013

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Arbor day is about loving trees. Arbor day was made by J. Sterling Morton (Julius Sterling Morton). On the first Arbor day there was actually an estimated of 1 million trees!!!! J. got into the the Nebraska Hall of Fame because of making Arbor day. 
   J. Sterling Morton is awesome and cares a lot ab
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Earth Day 

4/24/2013

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    Earth Day is about loving the Earth.
        The humans of the Earth are cutting down lots of trees. Animals are losing their homes. Especially the monkeys, apes, and the rare orange orangutans. We also need the trees to get oxygen. And forests are fun to camp in.
        Some people need to care about the Earth. I mean, this is where we live. We will probably live here for the rest of our lives.    
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Raindrops on Different Surfaces  

4/19/2013

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Picture
This is a picture I drew. The blue drops are rain.

Surface

Sand











Water






Concrete








Prediction

I think that when the water hits the sand, then the water will make a dent and the sand will absorb the water.




I think when water hits water then the water will ripple out to the sides.


When the water hits the concrete, I think the water will just splash back up.




Actual

When the water hits the sand at a close distance, the sands just absorbs the water. When the water hits the sand at a little farther, the sand gets a dent from the water.


The water didn't ripple out. The water just splashed.



When the water hit the concrete, the water didn't splash up. The water just spread out by itself. 

Reflection

I was just messing with the sand when it was close I didn't now it wouldn't get a dent.







I was surprised that the water didn't ripple out like I thought.


I thought that it would splashed back up. I was surprise that it didn't.



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