Author: harperf2021

So a few weeks ago we started working on our solar powered cars in science. Two years ago, (I Think) we made mousetrap cars. Thats what I think about when we work on the solar cars. They’re made out of thin Wood/Cardboard like pieces, Solar Panels, Wheels and a Motor. the only way to make these cars move, is by putting them in a place with sunlight and enough space. We did do a practice run down by the school’s office, it went pretty well…except for the fact that my friend/teammate Lucy, but motor on upside down… We blamed our other teammate andre.

Questions:

1. Will we be continuing this project soon?
2. What about the sun makes the car move?
3. Why does the motor need to be facing a certain way?

So as you tell by the title, we have no science today. We are in french at the moment. Your probably wondering why we have no science today. Well the reason we have no science is because the fifth graders have “the talk.” Now, you can probably guess what that is. Brings me back to last year when my class got “the talk” I personally knew everything already, so “the talk” for me, was more entertaining than educational. What I mean by entertaining was watching my classes expressions…It was hilarious! 

Questions:

1. Why didn’t we have science?
2. What class were we in instead?
3. Do you have any questions? if so ask Shane, she loves to answer questions.♦♠♥

So this is about a while ago, but I am just catching up on my blogs and have nothing else to write about. You may be wondering why the title is “Ph” and what that means. Well it it like the level of acid in our water. So we had to do an experiment, We would put a bunch of different things in a test tube and test the acidity of it.

QUESTIONS

1. What is a Ph scale?
2. What does a Ph test?
3. What did we do?

So today we are doing study hall, because of track. Sorry I should be more specific, I’m not in track. It’s just that everyone but me and Michael D is in track and therefore had to go to a track meet, leaving two of us in science class. So today since we can’t really start anything new because Shane will just have to explain all of it again to the rest of the class next time, and we can’t work on anything old because now were just counting down the minutes and probably won’t remember it. So now we are just doing study hall. I have blogs to catch up on so…Here I am.

QUESTIONS

1. what are we doing today?
2. why are we doing so?
3. what am I catching up on?

So as you can see from the title this blog is called fish. Your probably confused… Well my class has been helping out the second graders do an art project for Grandparents Day. Grandparents Day is a day at our school where all of the children bring their grandparents to school to see what the students have been up to lately. So the second graders did an art project where they have to construct a fish out of clay, marbles, glitter, markers, etc.. They were also required to create a background made of construction paper, markers, paint, etc… Our job was to create a Stop-Motion video with them, to make it look like the fish was moving and talking. An animation basically.

QUESTIONS

1. Who did we do this project with?
2. What class was this for?
3. What day will this be presented?

Tomorrow is tapestry. Tapestry is when all of the grades and faculty at Pathfinder sing and dance to a theme onstage in Traverse City. My class is doing a basketball theme. I think all of us are pretty stressed today, so Shane let us take a day where we got to choose what we wanted to do during science class. I didn’t have all my blogs done so… Her I am writing.

QUESTIONS

1. What is tapestry?
2. What is the sixth grade theme?
3. What did we do in science?

Glogster is a website that the sixth graders use to make a poster blog about an element.

On this website we must include who founded our element, how much our element costs, it’s atomic mass, etc….            My element is called Francium.  Francium is a radioactive element. If you have enough to hold in your hand, you’ll be a legend in the emergency room. If you get francium wet, it will explode. Francium is like a rock… an explosive, radioactive rock. 

QUESTIONS

1.  What is Francium?
2. Is Francium dangerous?
3. What is Glogster?
            

So this week we met up with the second graders and sifted compost to go in the garden.

So how we “sifted the compost” was by taking compost and getting all of the plastic, peanuts, etc…. separated from the dirt and worms. Once we had all of the dirt and worms in multiple buckets we carried the buckets from the compost area to the hoop house (garden). I had a really funny trip to the hoop house, I went with Michael D and we got tired immediately. So eventually we were dragging the bucket up the hill….

QUESTIONS

1.  What does it mean to sift the compost?

2.  What did we do with the buckets of dirt and worms?

3.  Who did we sift with?

The science expo was amazing. The sixth graders did the wax museum. Which means we dressed up in costumes, wrote and rehearsed scripts and made poster boards about scientists. I did a woman named Ada Lovelace. She was a mathematician who worked on the invention of the computer program.

Questions

1. What scientist did I act as?
2. What is a wax museum?
3. What did my scientist do for a living?

This week we did a project on gum. We had to know if the gum would increase or decrease in mass over time while being chewed, which means would it get bigger or smaller over time while being chewed. My friend Maddiem2021 was the one with the gum. I predicted that it would get smaller (decrease). A little bit of chewing later the gum did decrease.

Questions,

1 what does increase mean?

2 what does decrease mean?

3 what is mass?