Hey 6th graders-- Last week you learned a lot about a variety of science concepts. Your blog assignment for this week is to write a great paragraph ( and you KNOW what a paragraph is!!!) about one concept that you learned about during last week's many science filled activities. Be sure your paragraph is just about one concept. Be sure it is about what you learned not what you did! Have fun! Thanks for sharing with others all the great things your are learning in your science experiences!
Maeve
1/7/2011 06:20:48 am
An animals footprints can tell how it walks, where it lives, and what kind of food it eats. There are four different ways an animal can walk: diagonal, pacing, bounding, and hopping. Each way of walking can be read in the animal's tracks. Where the tracks start and end can show what kind of area the animal lives in. Where the animals tracks are can also show what kind of food it eats. For example, raccoon tracks can often be found near water because it eats fish and washes its prey in water. You can tell a lot about an animal by looking at its tracks.
Ben
1/8/2011 06:45:52 am
There are many things we as humans use on a regular basis that are mimicked from animals in a study called biomimicry. For instance, we use a slotted spoon for picking things out of a liquid just liked a pelican. Or for transportation trains are curved in the front to make it easier for the air current. This mimicks a kingfisher diving for fish beacause it makes only a little ripple. These are only some examples of how the study of biomimicry improves our life.
Adam
1/8/2011 07:12:13 am
Birds migrate south for the winter because if they don't they will die. Most birds go to southtern USA but some birds go to different continents. When the birds are migrating they fly a long time without resting. Some people say that hummingbirds ride on bigger birds backs. That is not true. Some kinds of hummingbirds can fly up to 100 miles before resting. Sometimes birds stop places every year but sometimes they don't make it or a new building was built in their resting spot. If that occures they find a new spot. Some birds don't make it and most of the time they die a dramatic death.
Lorine
1/9/2011 03:04:40 am
I have gone walking in the woods before and I have seen animals and there signs. Half the time I didn't know I was looking at animals signs until I entered this class called Skat, Scrapes, sticks'n stuff. We learned about rubes which is when bucks rub their antlers on a tree to get his antlers off. If you find skat, and you look at it you can tell what the animal has been eating or doing. Bones show when another animal eats it, what happened to it or what animal did it.
Lilly
1/9/2011 03:26:41 am
Animals that aren't asleep in the winter have many intresting ways to live during this cold season. These animals aren't always the same during the winter. An example, would be that the weasel is normally brown in the spring, but in the winter it turns white except for the tip of it's tail to avoid it's preditor from spotting it's head or body. Animals can also change their way of living in the winter, for example deer. Deer normally just walk where they please, but in the winter they choose to walk in trails of other deers tracks. They do this so it's easier to walk through the snow. The techniques of animals living in the winter is truely fascinating.
Risa
1/9/2011 10:13:30 am
A bird's beak can tell you what the bird eats. On Tuesday, our class went to a building on campus where we learned about birds beaks and how they affected a bird's diet. The hummingbird has a beak like a straw and uses it to suck up nectar. The hummingbird mostly eats nectar because its beak isn't shaped for anything else. And the eagle uses its beak to pick up small animals. An eagle's beak is shaped like a staple remover. To test this out, we used tools and figured out which tool is easiest for which bird food. Next we matched the tool to the bird beak. The staple remover was easiest for little plastic animals like the straw was with the liquid. I learned a lot about birds' beaks.
matt
1/10/2011 09:57:15 am
At Science Rocks, I learned a lot about Bison. Bison injured the most people in the plains. When the white settlers came to hunt them, they almost wiped them out. They can charge at 30 mph. Now Bison live on Ranches. They weigh more than a Slug Bug. Bison are dangerous animals, so never really get close to them.
kyra
1/11/2011 08:03:54 am
Science Rocks was spectacular! I got to do so many things, but my favorite was looking at a real pigs heart and dicecting it, as I may of told you in class. A pigs heart is very much like ours though there isn't as much fat on the outside. The right side is bigger than your left for good reasons, too. One is the fact that the right has to pump the blood through the WHOLE entire body. A very interesting fact is that your heart beat is so strong that if it was stabbed it would shoot a stream of blood ten feet in the air. Another is it has to be stong so that it can pump blood to the places needed. Say you scraped your shin, it needs to go a longway from your heart to your scrape, if it wasn't fast your scrape would become infected. Now the left may be small, but our bodys depend on it for good reasons to. The most important may be to get oxegen in the blood stream so your mucles can work and not die. The only reason its small is because it doesn't have to pump very far from the heart to the lungs and back. as you can see I had alot of fun lerning about the heart.
Jake Jenson
1/11/2011 08:39:08 am
Biomimicry
Finn
1/11/2011 08:46:29 am
There is a certain code that is used for robot programming. It is made up of a bunch of ones and zeros. It can tell the robot when to go and stop. This is how robot programing used to work. In my class, I learned tha it is easier and you can drag movements in. The computer then takes the drag and drop bits and turns them into the code of 1's and 0's. That is how the program get's into the robot. I think that it is really cool how the different codes can program the robot.
Salma
1/11/2011 09:35:07 am
There are many dangers in our space. But one of the most dangerous among them are blackholes. From a distance a blackhole is not seen, it is invisible. However you can know from the other objects in space. If there is a blackhole somewhere near most likley the stars around it will rotate faster until they reach the blackhole, then they will sling around it and back out into the wide open space. One of the biggest blackholes known is the one in the smack-dab middle of our galaxy( the Milky Way) is about 3 million times bigger than our Sun!! Physists still strivve to learn about the center or the bottom of a blackhole. All they know is info about the outside and the beginning of a blackhole. If anyone or thing comes near ther's no turning back. It's like kayaking in a slow flowing river and then suddenly, the water moving faster and faster, and then you find yourself falling into a whirlpool but instead getting sucked in. The object will get broken into halves and in the center it will be entirley demolished. I wonder if it would tranport you to another universe or time? Now that would be SWEET!! But, i think for now i'm happy with my life, and i don'y intend to willingly lose it by getting sucked into a blackhole unless it was something DEAD serious.
Ella
1/11/2011 11:01:56 am
Zebra mussel, along with other invasive species, are bad for the lakes and fish species of Minnesota. Not only are they not native to Minnesota, but they harm and eliminate the natives. Not all lakes contain them, but they can be spread from lake to lake by boat or connecting waters. They reproduce very fast, which makes it hard to get rid of them. Invasive species have harmed many Minnesota lakes, and have become a big problem.
Alex
1/11/2011 11:07:52 am
There were many things we did. My favorite was the Rev'ed up Robots which we saw these codes that were ones and zeros. Then are teacher showed us the power sign on the computer and then show us how it looked as if a one was going through o zero. Then we looked at more codes and then we finally got to program it. the robot we got to build and program did many interesting things and we it went form going forward to going as long as it could till it hit a shadow. That was my experience in the science rock field trip.
Ryan
1/11/2011 09:48:25 pm
This week we did some stuff with sarah. I really liked when we went out side to look for animal's tracks and see how they surive the winter. Matt, Jake, and I found this really cool spot were deer were before. There was scat, uran, and bed of when the deer were laying down. I thought science this week was the best this year.
Patrick
1/12/2011 04:59:42 am
Of all the matter in the Universe, Air is the most valuble to us humans. Air like all things is made of molecues. It is made by trees all types of trees. It is not only valuable to humas but to every thing.If we didn't have air our whole plant would surly die
Gwyneth
1/12/2011 09:26:14 am
Soudan was an iron mine until 1962. It goes down 600ft more than the Sears Tower goes up. Marvin Marshak built the lab. First, Soudan 1, then Soudan 2,and finally,Minos,in 1998. The lab is under ground because 2 cosmic radiations enter a hand per second. Only 1 would enter while underground. Neutrinos are sent to Soudan from Illinois. Only 1 or 2 are detected a day. Soudan has been a lab since 1980.
Rose
1/13/2011 12:46:39 am
At Science Rockes there were many exciting things! One was learning about water properties. A man taught us about density in water. I found these facts very interesting. He also talked about baloancing things on water. Buttons were the easiest of all, but paper clips and pins were really hard to balance. It was like trying to teach an elephant to balnace on one foot. Although some things were hard. Overall, I had fun. Comments are closed.
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AuthorThe authors of this blog are the 5/6th graders at St. John's Prep School. Some entries are created by their teacher, Mrs. Anderson Archives
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