Shalini's Earth Science Work
Open House
Earthquake PBL
The Earthquake PBL was one of my favorite science projects this year. Three other people and I had design a house made out of popsicle sticks, clay, staws, string, and toothpicks that was earthquake proof. We all had different postions in the project to finish all the requirements. The driving question that we needed to answer is, "How can we, as structural engineers, construct a two story house in California for Tony Stark that will withstand seismic activity?" Besides building, we had to find a place in California to put the house, and we drew maps and marked our location on where we wanted it. After we were done, we got to put all of our progress on hakui for everyone to see. I really liked this project because of the team work we all had to put in to finish it.
Earthquake PBL Supplies
We were only given a certian amount of materials for the project. If something got lost or broken we could not get more either. This taught our group to be careful with our supplies.
Earthquake PBL During Building
During the building stage, we had to take pictures and videos of our progress. One person in the group had the job of making sure we had enough videos and pictures for the project.
Earthquake PBL Final Testing.
To see if our building still stood during a earthquake, we were tested on a shake table. Thoug before the teacher tested it and we got our final grade, we got to use the table to see if we had to make any last minute changes.
Atmosphere 30 Hands Project
Our atmosohere 30 hands project was an independent project. We had to make nine slides using the Pic-Collage app. This project was for our global warming unit. The first was the title page, the second through eigth one was the question slides, and the last one was the work cited slide. The questions were about global warming and climate change. For each of the slides you had to have at least two pictures with captions and little information about the question we had to answer. We had to answer the question with narration using the 30 hands app. Since it was a indepentdent project, everyone had their own slide so none of them looked the same. I really enjoyed this project because it was indepented and all of our projects were different. I also liked how we had to learn on our own to get it done.
30 Hands Full Project: https://padlet.com/wall/a5e6qtxrer0r
Atmopshere 30 Hands Title Slide
For each slide we had certian things we had to do. For the title slide we had to put the due date, our name, our period, and title. I also added a picture with a borderer. Some people had different stuff throughout their project too.
Atmosphere 30 Hands Slides 2-8
For the second though eigth slides we had to answer a question about global warming. We also had to put a lot of pictures, captions, and small bits of information relating to the question. Most of the information would come form the narration.
Atmosphere 30 Hands Work Cited
For the ninth slide, we had to put our work cited. Ms. Chappas gave us many websites and articals to get our information from. We could also use our science textbooks and ISN's. We did not have to put a picture for the slide.
Invention Convention
The invention convention was our lastest project this year. We had to find a way to make fossil fules, sovling a enviormental p problem, using two of the three R's, and have a renewable energy source. We had to make a modle of our invention or innovation out of trash to we can have one of the three R's done. Our problem had to be a enviormental problem and our problem in our group was too many lamdfills in the earth. There was many steps in the process and we had ot make sure that we followed all the rules.
Invention Convention Finally Product
In our project we had to make it out of trash so one of the three R's done. We used cardboard, tin-foil, a straw, bottle caps, toothpicks, snd tape and marker. We put it together to make it look like a fan for our innovation. The fan is a part of a five step process that will help decrese landfills and make fossile fules.
Invention Convention Problem
Our problem was too many landfills on the earth. We reseached why too many landfills are a problem and how it effects the earth and the things on it. Landfills release methan in the air and that is a greenhouse gas. The more greenhouse gases the higher the risk for major climate change and global warming. Our innovation helps sovle this problem.
Invention Convention Steps
We had a five step process in our invention. Step one was to collect some trash from landfills. Step two is to use geothermal energy and send the trash down. It will get heated up and turn into ash. In step three we recycle the ash into metal. Step four is to turn the metal into a giant fan that will spin on solar power. Finally, in step five we get the artifical wind from the fan to spin a turbine that will generate energy. All of these step are possils but it will take a long time to make and billions of dollars to make.
My Favorite Unit in Science
My favorite unit this year was our global warming unit. In unit five, we learned about the effects of global warming and how it affects us today and in the future. We learned about the atmospher and the ozone layer and the rest of the layers on earth. We also learned about greehouse gases and climate change, and they are both very dangerouse things. I enjoyed working on the 30 hands project that we had to do in this unit. I think that the articls that the teacher gave us and we had to mark up was very helpful. That is why unit five was my favorite unit.
Unit 5 Cover Page
This unit cover page we got to draw pictures. If you did 3 to 4 pictures you got extra credit. Also you had to have around 8 to 10 words. Some of the words had to be in a different color because those are really the words that we learned after that unit. The ones in pencil are the ones that we knew before the unit.
Unit 5 Journals
In unit 5 we had a total of 12 journals. A hard question we have to answer was what happens what happens air or liquids are heated. Another question was to list eight signs of global climate change. We also had to define a bunch of words. For example, the words electromagnetic waves, radiation, greenhouse effect, weather, ozone layer, and atmosphere where words we had to define. My favorite question was the question does air have mass.
Unit 5 Candle Expiriment
The candle experiment was my favorite experiment we have to do all year. We had to get a hypothesis to find out how fast the fire will die out when we put a jar over it. We came to the discovery that the bigger the jar the longer the fire will stay, and the smaller the jar the shorter the fire will stay. At the end some of us have to change our hypothesis.