Weekly Blog 1026/1030

Summary: This week we filled out these sheets that were about a kind of sever weather. What we had to do on it is what kind of sever weather it is, what it is, where it likely to occur geographically, what it needs to form, links to the websites we used and a picture of the USA that we had to color the top areas it happens in. What I found out from all of the research is that in the USA California is the top state prone to wildfires. I found that a hurricane can let off 2.4 trillion gallons of water! One of the other things that I found is that hurricanes happen on the south side of the USA.

S&EP: SP2: Developing and using models

 This week we colored in some places of the USA. The places that we colored in are the places that had the most of a kind of sever weather. The reason that we did this is because we are trying to find the safest place in the USA. For example for wildfires we had to find the top places in the USA with wildfires and color them in with a bold color. For wildfires in the USA the state with the highest amount of wild fires is California. For hurricanes it was harder because we had to color more about edge on the south of the USA. So this week we colored parts of the USA.

Project Blog 1018/1025

This is our model so it has no website    :  D

Summary: 
What we did for this project is we made a model and a IGNITE presentation. In order to o this we had to find pictures and do some research.  What I found from this project is that The Siberian traps caused the extinction of 96% of marine animals and 70% of land animals. Another thing that I found out during this project is that The Siberian Traps is 67 degrees north and 90 degrees East. The most interesting thing that I found from this project is that "traps" in Siberian Traps means stairs in Swedish because it has a stair like feature. What I did not find out is what size it is. I also did not find if people could visit it or if it has animals living around it. I found a lot of things but some things are undiscovered.


Backward-looking:
In what ways do you think you need to improve?
Some ways that I need to improve on is doing things about 2 or 3 days before it is due so that I do not have to worry about doing it all at the last minute because I waited and then had to do it at the last minute. Some other things are that when I can not figure things out I get mad and leave it to do it last which makes it worse. I need to have more of a plan for the model before we start because we had trouble but then my mom gave us a suggestion to use dirt instead of paint. I really need to improve on time management.


Inward-looking:
How do you feel about this piece of work? What parts of it do you particularly like? Dislike? Why? What did/do you enjoy about this piece or work?
I fell good about how it looked when it was finished. I particularly liked getting to make the model because it was fun to smear glue on the model and throw dirt on it. The reason I liked doing this is because I got to do it with my best friend that made me smile and helped. I did not like that we had to finish the presentation the day before it was due. I did not like this because I was stressed I would never get done. I enjoyed all the nice comments that people had like how big it was and how it was better than all of ours.

Inward-looking:
If you were the teacher, what comments would you make about this piece?
If I were the teacher I would have said that we should have been a little louder and more organized. I also would have said that I liked that we used natural resources and nor paint or clay. I would have commented that maybe we should have had everyone talk. I would have said that I liked our slides. Overall I would have said that I did good and that next time I could see if I could have made it a little better if you had one more person to help to.

Forward-looking:
What would you change if you had a chance to do this piece over again?
If i had to re-do this I would want to change my time management. Another thing that I would change is to make sure that if you do jobs you should make sure that they do it as soon as possible. I would have changed the presentation by speaking louder and giving everyone a chance to speak. I would have changed the model by using less hot glue because it all clumped up. The last thing that I would have changed is making sure that the script sounded right because some sentences were wrong.

Weekly Blog 10/12-16/15

Summary: 

This week we worked on our land form project. What we did for the project is we worked on the research, IGNITE presentation and our model. When we did this I realized that the Siberian traps helped cause the extinction of a lot of marine animals and land animals. I also found that the Siberian traps were formed about 250 million years ago. I was looking for the location of the Siberian Traps and I found that it was 67° N, 90° E and that it is in Siberia, Russia. I thought that the most intresting thing that I learned is that it was a volcano that caused a lot of damage but it curently it is a mountain or close to a mountain.

S&EP:

This week we made a model of the Siberian Traps. What we used for this is cardboard, poster paper, glue, hot glue, dirt, moss, fake snow, and powdered sugar. What we did is we formed the shape of the mountain and after that we put glue and dirt on the mountain section after section. What we did after that is we hot glued the moss on and put the fake snow and the powdered sugar on the mountain. The closest thing that we did to this is we created our volcano model. When I started this I thought that it would not look good but it turned out to look really good.

Weekly blog 10/ 5-10 /15

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Summary:
This week we re-exploded our volcano and we pinned some things on a map. Re-exploding the volcanoes taught me that some volcano can get something to plug the top so that the magma can't get out. What this taught me is that when it does get plugged up the pressure inside of the volcano builds up and causes the volcano to blow the plug off. When we were pin pointing things on the map I realized how many volcanoes there are.  Another thing that we did is we started to figure out what we are going to do for a project. The two choices for the project were earthquake country and land form detective but everyone in the class did land form detective. What we did for this is we started to research about the Siberian Traps but I did not find much.



S&EP:
This week we created a model of a lava dome. What we did is we used our existing volcano model and we placed a tube of powder into the hole of our volcano. After we placed the tube in we got some liquid and poured 1/3 of it in the hole then put a cork on top of the tube and waited. After a few seconds the cork flew off of the volcano and the liquid flew up a little. If the cork did not fly off, you had to shake it and it would fly off because all the pressure built up. We got to do this three times with the same tube and the liquid each time we only used a little so we kept using that. The closest thing that we did is we exploded our volcano . The similarities is that we used powder, our volcano models and liquid. The differences are that this time we used a clear liquid not one with color, that this time we only used 1/3 of the liquid and not the whole thing, and that we had to put a cork on the tube after we were done.

Weekly blog 9/28 - 10/2 2015

Summary:

This week we erupted our volcanos that we made. All the things that we made the volcano explode with smelled like food. We learned things about volcanos like how they die and form. Volcanoes  form when a plate moves over a hot spot causing the earth to form a volcano. Volcanos die when the plate moves away from the hot spot so that they can not erupt anymore. We also learned about when the plates move what it is called. We did a experiment to represent the plates moving and hitting each other. 

SP2: Developing and using models:

This week we exploded our volcano model. What we did is we had to put a tube of white powder in a hole of our volcano. After we put one of the tubes in we put one of the liquids that represented magma and stirred the powder and liquid so that the magma would start to flow. All of the magmas smelled really good like candy. We also made a model of when the crusts plates move and interact with other plates.