Hovercraft Science!

WOW! What a class, it was uplifting and competitive.  Kudos to all competitors!  Next week we will look at pinhole photography.  Have a great weekend.

 

Tomatosphere Video...

Our day 1 tomatosphere video

Tomatosphere and Hovercrafts!

For homework, please think about how you will build a winning hovercraft.  Do you remember the code for the tomatoes?  V = clear and T= black

Tomatosphere and the Coffee lab!

Today we moved forward in our data collection for the coffee lab.  We now have 3 sets of good data to graph.  We also heard about the tomatosphere project which we will start on Wednesday.  Great class guys.

Graphing and Growing

We are smack dab in the middle of a couple of major projects; the greenhouse and the coffee lab!  Keep up the great work!

HS Planning

Today we visited Ms. Orianna in the library to learn what we have to do for our course selections for next year.  We had just enough time do do some real science and collect our data for our second coffee cup experiment.

Science of Coffee Lab #1

Great work today guys in your coffee lab #1.  Careful and precise data measurements are firsts steps in good science.  Tomorrow we will continue making our way in answering our question!

We are starting spring planting!

Today we started planting.  We learned the 7 essential conditions for plant growth:
- Light
- Water
- Nutrients
- Suitable pH
- Suitable Atmosphere
- Soil or other growing medium
- Suitable Temperature

We started off some seeds in peat pellets for day one of our planting.  Tomorrow we will be doing some directly in soil.  Should be a neat comparison.

The Burning Candle Lab!

Well, it wasn't a birthday party party, but we did burn some candles.  Actually it is Mr. Capobianco's birthday...Happy Birthday to our VP.

Today we worked with dependent and independent variables as we measured the ongoing height of a burning candle.  Safety was discussed, and graphs were produced.

First Science Challenge!

Today we completed our first science challenge. Congratulations to our Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists.  Ghafran, Muschi and Tyler.  We also wrapped up our penny lab. 

Drops on a Penny Lab

Today we completed the world famous Drops on a Penny Lab!  The focus was on variables and having fun.  Have a great weekend!

Getting our Blog On...

Great job on mini-blog assignment.  Tomorrow its drops on a penny!

Safety is Important!

It is hard to have fun if you are injured!  Today we discussed safety in the lab.  Respond to this post, with your top 5 safety rules!

Visiting Ms. Mantle...our Teacher Librarian!

It was another excellent trip to the learning commons today!  Ms. Mantle showed us the ropes of Google, and got us all ready to work in our online environment!  Thanks Ms. Mantle!  Tomorrow we are back to get our Blog on!

Observations Lab

Today we completed our Observations Lab.  Great job working on your qualitative and quantitative observations.  The teamwork on display was also very good!  Tomorrow we are off to see Ms. Mantle in the Library!

We start our science in the news presentations on Thursday!  Here is a link to a really interesting story that has some science angles to it.  I will use it today as an example for the presentations...


Survival at sea for a really long time!!!

First Class

Great first day.  For review you need to know the two main types of Observations!

Parent Letter

Please don't forget to bring the parent letter home.