Sunday, December 20, 2009

Force

this week in science we learned about Newtons 3rd law. his law states that if you push on an object, that object will exert a force on you too. we did a lot of experamints to prove this. and then we learned the official term for it, which is Newtons Third Law.

Monday, December 7, 2009

force diagramssss

this week in science we did the following.

monday- ok well last week we finished kinamatics and stuff so its new unit time! we learned about forces and how they work. we learned that worce of certain objects is more forcelful than other objects. such as a basketball versus a bowling ball. a bowling ball has much more force on your hand than a basket ball, but the force isnt from the ball. it is from the earth. gravity is pulling it down. its not the ball thats forceful.

tuesday- today we learned baout force diagrams. we did many emaples and made a lot of force diagrams. force diagrams show the way that the force of an object is going. either if it is being pulled up, being pulled down, or not being pulled at all, which i dont htink is possible.

wednesday- on wednesday we did more exapmles and we clarified everyhting.

thursday- on thursday we pushed mr finleys car and we figured out taht even after you let go of the pbject, the force keeeps going.

fridayy- on friday we leaned more about that. we also leaned that friction of the objct onm the floor adds more forces. we made more advanced force diagrams aswell.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Motion yay............

ok so this week in science we did a lot with graphs and motion diagrams. yes, motion diagrams. on monday we realized that dot diagrams were unreliable and they could display the wrong messgage. they could be going one way and not represent the right thing. so, we learned about motion diagrams. motion diagrams display velocity, direction, positive and negitives, adn more! how greattt.
on tuesday we leaned more about how to make a moition diagram and why they are better than dot diagrams.
okay so now on wednesday we drew motion diagrams for marbles rolkling down a hill. we also learned about path legth which is the distance that u travel. and we learned abuot displacemembt which corrisponds with velocity. on thursday and frieday we did wkrosheetyse

Monday, November 9, 2009

Motion 3 day week!

this week was a 3 day week! yay!
we did indexes on monday because a lot of poeple werent getting it. of course i was one of those that do get it! hehehe. o and we learned that velocity is a fancy word for speed.

ok so now its tuesday. yay only 2 days left :D
so today we did a lot of homework reveiw and we drew graphs amd stuff.
we discussed a lot within the classroom about the unit that were doing now and so we made sure everyone understood :D

yayyy wednesday its the last day of the week!
OK SO TODAY.... we did more with graphs and indexes. mr finley drew stuff ( by stuff i mean graphs) on the board so we did activities with that durning class. what a wonderful short weeK!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

MoTiOn!i!i!i!

this week in science we made graphs! yay graphs!
on monday we cleared up the whole thing about movieng and people. since none of us understood, we do now!
on tuesday we did a lot online. we looked at the website and did like 4 worksheets on graphs and stuff. it helped understand more. we then finihed that for homework and more!
on wednesday we clarified the usage of trendlines and graphs. the trend lines do exactly what theyre called. they show the trends in the data. we also clasified the way that u draw graphs.
CONSTANT RATE- straight line, moving in one general direction, no curnve
SPEEDING UP- a curve in the line going up. not staaight.
SLOWING DOWN- rising and then a straight line.
NOT MOVNG- completely straight.
what a fun week!

Friday, October 23, 2009

Motion

This week in science we started a new unit. This unit is motion. We finally finished the light unit! On Monday, IT’S MY BRITHDAY!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! OCTOBER 19TH!! YAY! We learned about the point of orientation. Mr. Finley walked around the room and we had to keep our telescopes on him. We realized he moved but he said that we moved. We told him he was wrong but he disagreed. We found out that depending on where you stand and what orientation you have, you see different things moving. Happy birthday to me:D
On Tuesday we dissected cow eyes. It was fun….
On Wednesday we learned about rates and directions. We leaned positives and negatives, and we learned how the math grid relates to motion. We also leaned our north, south, east, and west. Of coarse I didn’t know that!
On Thursday we did a lab about the rate of cars and if they have a constant rate or not. We figure out all the information and we made hypotheses, predictions, and experiment plans before we started. Oh and Mr. Finley was absent.
On Friday Mr. Finely was out again. We finished up our experiment and we took a quiz. Happy weekend!

Friday, October 16, 2009

Wrapping Up Light

Guess what happens this week!
Yup, u got it. TEST. O what a joy. Ok so we did a lot of fantastical things. Including studying and learning and so much fun stuff like that. You’re so jealous.

Ok so on Monday we did more reviewing of what we had learned. We talked more about particle models and wave models.

Then on Tuesday we got 4 different models on the board and we had to say what was wrong with them and grade them with our rubrics that we made on Monday night. We went over them and picked out the wrong and right things of them all. Then we learned how to draw diagrams correctly and we took notes on it.

For homework we had to do the first 6 sections of the study guide... fun.

After Tuesday came Wednesday, shocker. We did more with refraction and prisms. And we had to do the study guide for hw… again.

Thursday, day before the test. Wahoo! I went to the study session with mr.finley. yay bagels. It really helped me understand the concepts more so I am happy I went. In class did the prism thing where we found out how it refracted and stuff. We saw the reflections of the rprism and the refractions of the prism. It was pretty cool that we predicted exactly what happened.

Friday. Dreaded test.