Gravity & Density Egg Experiment

Last week we did an science experiment  that is called 

 Egg Float,it was really cool because we had an egg, a rock,

some salt, and water.We followed the dirctions to tell us what to do. 

First we put  waer in both of the cups. Next we put the eggs and the rocks in the cups of water 

and we had to do it very carefully so the egg would't crack and the dirctions say we have to be

carefully so the experiment can work.Then we put the rock in and they both sank to the bottom the first time. Then we relized that we didn't add enough salt and water to the cup with the egg in it, so we added more water and salt and stired it  until the salt disolved then the egg slowly floated to the top.After thart, everyone was so happy because they got it we were even racing each other to see who got it nto the top first!

-Avree

Hot Wheels

Alasha, and conner testing the car.

alison measuring how far the car went.

     Today we did an amazing/fun "lab"to teach us about force, motion, Gravity, and friction. It was pretty cool. I think this is cool because we learned about it and got to have fun.

   

holly, addi, and danni hiring the ramp.

cydnee, and averee's car fell of

•     first we taped 2 yard sticks together.
•     then we piled our books and put a yard on them like a ramp.
•     next we put the car on the ramp.
•     after we watched the car roll down the ramp. It took 3 times per book.
•     we measured how far the car went of the ramp in centameters.

Spencer and Kelsey with their Red car.

               After that we got our average we did _ +_+_/ 3=_. It showed us a car will move down a ramp if you give it force. Then gravity will make it go down to the floor. After that friction will make it stop because the wheels are rubbing against the carpet.

Danni, Addi, and Holly working on hot wheels

This was a fun way Mrs. Sims let us learn about force, motion, gravity, and friction we learned a whole lot! (;

Science supplys that our class needs

Mrs Sims class needs every thing for science . Mrs Sims is a science nerd she is coocoo for science supplies. All we need is a 3 ft by 6 in wooden board ( 1 in. wide ), also a long by 3 or 4 in wide ( 1 in.thick ) piece of wood cut into a wedge on one end like the pic below.

               

  Pic of wedge

We also need screw drivers (+&-),and a spool,and 10 clear plastic 12 ounce cups,and 1 cup of table salt. Sooo much stuff .She really is coocoo for science stuff. 5 uncooked eggs ,also 5 sheets of 12*12 of different types of paper . Wooden block ( something large enough  for us kids to use a screw driver to put screws into it,) sand paper.

we will also need to borrow 2 power drills with battery pack during the week of 9/15-9/18,that is all Mrs Sims is coocoo for science supplies.

Thank you Avree, Allison, Nate, Holly, Jazzy, Isaac, Conner, Spencer, Leighton, Liam, and Danni for all those things that you gave Mrs Sims class.

We still need the other stuff. Thanks for reading this blog post.

                       

 The science paper that Mrs Sims class got. 

                                                                                      BY: DANNI

Fingerprint Science

Fingerprint Science!

   

       Today in class we were working on lifting our fingerprints

The materials we used were 2 post it notes a pencil and a 

piece of clear tape. We had so much fun. The first thing

you do is take your pencil make a big bloch of lead on the

post it note. Then you rub your finger print all over the post it 

note. Now you should have a shiny metallic finger. Next you

take a clear piece of tape put your fingerprint on the tape.

Now take off the tape from your finger then you have to put

the tape on the clean post it note. Enjoy!

                                                     By:Addi 

Launchers

               

    We made launchers with parnters, in science with popsicle sticks. 

and launched them with diffrent items like noddles, beans, cotton balls, puff balls, and gum balls. It was a fun day. some of us had to go out in the hall way and shoot becauase there was not a lot of room and we kept running in to each other. But the supplies we used were popsicle sticks, hot glue, rubberbands, a plastic spoon, and a sharpie to write how far they went. We put names on it after we were done we had to graph it on a line graph. It was reallly fun!

It was to teach us about mass and how far something will go if it has less mass or more mass. After our expieriment we got to compare our results with other peoples to see how well we all did.  In my opinion we had a lot of fun doing fun expieriments with Mrs.Sims because we get to have fun and learn at the same time. I love doing experiments like that because they are more hands on than just reading it out of a book and doing a work sheet. We got to take home our launchers so we could do our own experiments and play with them. Overall, everybody enjoyed building launchers and doing the experiment.

Circuits

A couple of weeks ago we got to make simple circuits that involved one battery, a lightbulb, and two wires. We learned that for a circuit to work you must have a complete loop. It was very fun to learn about circuits and how they work. Some people struggled at first but eventually everybody knew how to complete a simple circuit.

It helped us learn about and how to make circuits when we actually got to make them ourselves. It's a lot more fun to learn science when we get to do a lot of hands on stuff like making circuits. We also learned about complex circuits and how they work. I think making the circuits helped people learn.

Once we completed the simple circuits we were given a couple different items and we learned about insulators and conductors. We got to see which items conducted and which items insulated. Most wood and rubber stuff insulated and most metal stuff conducted. It was a lot of fun.

Celery Experiment

Coolest expeirement ever!

Ok, so what we did was we took blue die and stuck the end of the celery stick inside the test tube with the blue die colored water and sit there for two days and took them out and broke them as you can see. Plus the little tubes that sucked up the water sucked up the blue colored water so when we broke the celery the tubes had blue die in them!

 

This is gage he is now testing his hypothisis!

This is Landon  and Dawson they just broke and as you can see the tubes are blue and the closer you broke it by the leaves the darker the tubes were! 

Here is   Kylan and Emma notice the blue on the napkin you could literally use the celery like a pen!

Look at the peace of celery on the right see the blue.

If you peel the skin it looks really cool!

Simple Machines

                  The Wonders Of Simple Machines!
 So we had fun doing these stations to see what simple machines can realy do. As you can see we had these simple machines lever,screw,gears,pully,wedge,wheel and axle,incline plane.
We spent two days working in these stations. Personlly my favorite was the screw because we had screws and little screw drivers. Any way it was alot of fun!

                                                                                                  By: Landon Wall

Celery Cells

Hi my name is Jaedha and I'm going to talk about the day that we did a celery project! We enjoyed learning more about celery aperently celery has veins and so the class and I put dye in water and left it there for a couple of days and later after it turned a little bit blue we opened it up and looked at the veins it was so cool. The veins were blue so we could see them 😀. That project was amazing I think I'm going to try it at home too! -Jaedha 😝

A "hot" experiment

A "hot" experiment

Today we did an experiment using hot wheel cars and two taped meter sticks, it was pretty fun just playing with cars during science! 

The first day we talked about friction, which is the force that makes things stop when they go on a different surface which makes the two rub together and slow down. We also talked about Gravity, the force that holds us down on the earth. Then we taped the meter sticks and made a hypothesis about if the number of books would effect how far the car rolls. 

The second day we did the experiment by stacking books to put the meter stick on and rolling the car down the sticks. 

And after we did all that we calculated the averages and made a bar graph showing our averages. So we had an awesome time doing and learning about force and motion in this fun way.

 By:Archie

Science Supplies Needed

For our upcoming unit is Science we will be studying force and motion as well as simple machines. I would like to plan an inventions activity for the students but will need a few specific items.  If anyone has (or has the ability to make) any of the items below and would let us borrow/have them it would be much appreciated!

Thanks!!

        

• ·       3 foot by 6 inch (1inch thick) wooden board
• ·       2 feet long by 3or4 inches wide (maybe 1 inch thick) piece of wood cut into a wedge on one end
• ·       Wooden block (something large enough for the kids to use a screw driver to put screws into it.)
• ·       Screw drivers (+ and -)
• ·       4 - 2Inch screws (same length but with different threads)
• ·       12 matchbox cars
• ·       Bag of marbles
• ·       Spool
• ·       3 gears
• ·       1 large piece of thick cardboard
• ·       3 pushpins
• 1 unopened can good
• ·       1 bag of rice
• ·       3 empty thread spools
• ·       20 pennies

Science Expirement

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What we did here is we made our own version of (weathering) and erosion In sience!

Rain water and rocks break down rock and soil. This is (weathering.)

Plant roots break apart the rocks and the soil. This is (weathering.)

Rain water dissolves soil and carries it away. (Erosion)

Rain water breaks down the soil and carries it away. Which is (erosion.) 

What erosion is ,is when it gets worn from natural causes like rain snow sleet or hail.

What weathering is, is anything that breaks rocks into smaller sediments.🔩🔨 NAILED IT !

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                                                         Good job 5-th grade!

Water Cycle

Today in science we learned about the water cycle. We learned what the water cycle is and what it does. We also made our own water cycle using a water vapor maker. Everybody got to touch the vapor and learn how it was made.

In the video on top you can see us talking about water vapor.Water vapor is the gas version of water.

In the bottom left we are trying to show how the water cycle works with steam. Steam and vapor are kind of the same, but aren't the same thing. 

Steam is a gas. It is hot and happens when water particles escape from boiling water. When it cools it will condense into water drops again. That's why the top of stove or coffee make sometimes has water drops on it, because steam escaped but got cool again. 

Vapor is a gas that is the same temperate as the air. It is particles of water that have "dissolved" into the air. It can condense again too, like on the side of a glass, because water in the air condenses when it gets cooler. 

In the botton right video we filled the turtle tank with water vapor and left the heat lamp on. We are giving the turtle a steam bath and also when we opened the door we got to feel the humidity.  What we learned from this is that there is water vapor all around us, and when we feel "humid" we are feeling the vapor. Even though most of the time you can't see it. 

-Mackenzie & Jenny

Moth in Action

(Above Photos by Jackson L.)

 

 

Today Mrs.Sims class released a beautiful moth called Polyphemus! Before we released it had to go through a cycle called metamorphasis. The Polyphemus moth spends most of its life as a caterpillar! A cocoon is like a dressing room for the moth, about a month later, it turned into this beautiful moth like we thought it would. First we kept it in a big butterfly inclosure for a day so it would get used to its new body. The next day, (today) we let it go in our school garden with gorgeous flowers. We had a little trouble getting it out of its inclosure, but it finally let Mrs.Sims pick it up, it then fluttered on a flower and looked comfortable. Mrs.Sims class went inside and started learning again.  8) 

 

 

 

(Video & Video Editting by Anna R.)

 

 

 

         

                                                             By:Emma B. 

Fingerprint Lab

Yesterday in Mrs. sims class we did a expeirement to see what kind of fingerprints we have. We needed 2 sticky notes, a piece of tape, a pencil and a microscope. First we shaded are pencil on a sticky note then rubbed are finger on the sticky note, after that we pressed are finger on the piece of tape then put the tape on the next sticky note to see what kind of finger print we have. The fingerprints are Loop, Arch and a Whorl.

                                                      

This is Jayden Y and he is looking at his finger to see wich one his fingerprint is.

These are the fingerprints.

This is one of the things we had to do to complete the expeirement.

This is final bar graph that we did to see what had the most fingerprints loop had the most. Loop had 11, Arch had 6, and whorl had whorl.

                                                                By: Paige M.