Bill Nye: Chemical Changes

We will be watching this Bill Nye after we finish and get started the chemical changes in the Potato Lab.

Science at a Glance this week (09/29 to 10/03/2014)

Class,

The Elemental characters for the Periodic Table are looking really good. I already have eight people finished with their elemental cards , and they are ready for lamination.  We will be wrapping up the project on Friday, October 3.

Tomorrow, we will be reading our Jurassic Park book, and we will be at Isla Nublar, where they land on the Jurassic island. We will be reading four chapters tomorrow and one long chapter on Thursday called Control.

We will also be having our Unit 3 Exam on Thursday over Elements on the Periodic Table. This project will help you guys be familiar with the elements as we will be talking about compounds on Friday in Unit 4.  We will be looking at some common compounds in nature.

Periodic Table

We are going to watch this video on Tuesday September 16th.

Killer Animal Species

Can you identify some of these killers?

Jaguar and Caiman

This is an awsome video of a jaguar stalking and catching a caiman (crocodile). You have to see this video...it is unbelievable!!!!

Massive Female Great White Shark

This is a huge female Great White Shark.....an awesome sight.

Supercladeras in Yellowstone

This video is about the supercaldera in Yellowstone National Park. We watched this video about 2 weeks ago but I wanted to put it on the blog for all to see.

Colliding Plates

We watched this documentary last week, but it is here on the blog so that you all can view it at your leisure.

Deadly Volcanoes

This is a great video that deals with some of the results of plate tectonics.

A travelers guide to the planets

This is an awsome film on qualities and facts about each planet in our solar system.

Solar Flare under different spectrum light

A huge solar flare

This is a huge solar flare that has burst from our Sun. This natural phenomenon is a beautiful part nature's fury.

Black Holes

Class,

We watched this movie this afternoon, since we are moving into Unit 8 on Monday which deals with Space. I am putting this on the blog for those of you that thought it was interesting and would like to view it again. Enjoy!

Pulleys

This is a cute little video over simple machines and how they work. Be prepared to watch this one tomorrow afternoon.

The Lorax is a great little cartoon movie, with a great message and lots of persuasive techniques in it. Watch it and see if you can find the persuasion techniques. The following are some of the techniques used:

1. Bandwagon strategy
2. The appeal strategy
3. Sentimental Strategy
4. Misleading Statements
5. Scarce Tactics

Bringing space agricultural techniques to earth

This article is pretty interesting, since it talks about space techniques for growing crops and how they could benefit Earth.

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/f_fertilizer.html

Convection box lab

Class,

We did the convection box lab in class today; wasn't that a cool lab. I really enjoyed showing you all how convection works and being able to show you a concrete example of convection that you could observe first-hand. Let's see how the whole cycle looks when we get to class tomorrow. I cannot wait to do the conduction lab tomorrow with the chocolate chips.

I also liked showing all of you the prehistoric sea creature fossils I found up in New Braunfels over the weekend. It is just proof that there was a shallow ocean here in the heart of Southwest Texas. I will be going up to the site where I found these over the holidays, and I would like to collect enough to give each one of you a fossil.

Just 1 1/2 more days of school everyone! Yipee!!

Radiation, Conduction, Convection Hip Hop Song

This is a snappy little youtube over the three types of heat energy transfer.

Convection

This is a neat little 3-D simulation of convection in the earth's mantle. This is a great way to see and understand convection. Be prepared to write a shortwrite over this video in class.

Convection Currents

This is a good example of a convection current. This is a type of heat transfer, which we will be talking about in class this week.