Megan - Elementary Science Blog

  What did you do in lab today? This week in lab we got to discuss the investigate the different types of rocks and how they are made. We got to use starbust and a small blow torch to form and shape the different rocks. The picture below shows the different rocks we made and two of the rocks at different stages of theri formation. We also talk a lot about our exam that we jsut took and went over those ideas as well.  What was the main lab question? How are rocks formed? What did you learn in Thursday's discussion?  This week in lecture, I learned about plate tectonics, and how pangea happened. The idea of pangea shows the reason while plate tectonics conintue to move. We also learned about ridges and how the ridges tell us how old it would be on the coastline.  Online Textbook: What did you learn? Something that I learned was the was about geode.  A  geode  forms when a cavity forms in a rock, which can occur in different ways. I didn't what this event...

  What did you do in the lab today? In lab this week I learned about how long ago big events happened that shaped how our Earth came to be. My group had 2000MYA - 500MYA which was really interesting because I thought more was gonna happen during this period, but there were only a few major events that did happen. I didn't realize when different things, like when plants were created, were closer then I thought, so it was really interesting.  What was the main lab question? History of the Universe What did you learn in Thursday's discussion? EXAM WEEK Online Textbook: What did you learn? One this that I learned that was very interesting was the idea that humans only have come at the very end of the clock reference, we are considered 11:59:40, which is really crazy to me. I feel like humans have been here for so long, so the idea of this is something that I learned from reading this textbook.  What was most helpful? One most helpful things was the refresher on what Pangea me...

  What did you do in lab today? In lab this week, we all presented about our different topics about space. My group presented on the idea about black holes and were they came from and facts. Talking about galaxies were something that intruigued me this week. It is so crazy to think about the idea that there are an insane amount of planets and we are probally not the only humans or living things on a planet. What was the main lab question? What are the different parts of the universe backgrounds? What did you learn in Thursday's discussion? In lecture this week we talked about the idea of the orgin of the unverise. We also when over the other topics that were discussed in lab, but the orgin of the universe is so intersting to me becuase there is so much that is unkown.  Online Textbook: What did you learn? One thing that I learned that I didn't know before this class was that the Milk Way is a large spiral-shaped galaxy. I had no idea there where different types of galaxies adn...

  What did you do in lab today? In lab this week, we started off by discussing the orbit of the moon with a question and then we went into discussing the video we had watched for homework. After that, we got to work with our groups and discuss how big out solar system is and make a scale model. This was really complicated because we had to figure how much we wanted to scale down, but also how much we can scale down without having to make the different planets small and the distance short enough. Problem solving and teamwork was really important during this idea.  What was the main lab question? How big is our solar system? What did you learn in Thursday's discussion? In lecture this week, we learned about how the moon was created and this is something that I never knew. There are many theories with this and how the moon was created and got to be apart of the moon. We also talked morea about your shadow and how that if you never left the United States, your shadow would always ...

What did you do in lab today? In lab this week we got to investigate different ideas about the Earth and things that happen becuase of the Earth's rotation. We got to investigate why seasons happen and got to work with our partners to figure out the answer to why seasons happen. We also got to investigate why lunar eclipse happen. My group got to use the moon and Earth that was provded and we got to relearn about the difference between solar and lunar eclipse. I thought it was really fun learning and being hands-on in class.  What was the big question? The big questions were, how the phases of the moon occur, what causes the seasons, and what causes a lunar eclipse? What did you learn in Thursday's discussion? In lecture on Thursday, we talked about the moon phases and we had multiple questions about what part of the moon would you see if it was a certain time during the day. I was very confused at first and then after discussing this idea, it was started to make more sense to ...