Riccardo's Science Blog

http://goo.gl/huAWzb Summary This week we continued our research on plate tectonics. At the beginning of this week we had to create a clay model of the earths layers. But since it's clay we could use it for experiments right away we had to let it dry a bit. So in the middle of the week we learned about a man named Alfred Wegener. We learned that he was the first person to ever believe that the earths continents were once all bunched up together,but no one believed him and said he was crazy. Then near the end of the week we used our model that we had made and pushed them just a bit uneven so it would be what it looks like when their is an earthquake. Then we went around measuring all the gaps between where it was before and where it is now. S&EP I built my model as I learned about plate tectonics. Plate tectonics are a very interesting and important thing to know about.  Plate tectonics  is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several  plates  that g

Summary The rock cycle is one of the more interesting cycles. For our assignment this week we had to recreate the rock cycle but in cartoon form. So for us to make a rock cycle cartoon of course we have to learn a bit about the rock cycle, but I'll explain that later. Before we made our cartoon the class did an activity were we acted like rocks and went through the rock cycle.  By doing this activity it really helped us understand how the rock cycle is preformed and what affect it has on the rocks. I think that this little activity was a big help in the understanding of the rock cycle S&EP     I built my model ( Well I made a cartoon, but you get the gist.) as I learned about the rock cycle. Like I said before the rock cycle is a very interesting cycle. It is the cycle on how one specific type of rock can turn it to another one just like that. Just like all that needed to happen for a metamorphic rock  to change into an igneous r

Summary My assignment for this week (and part of last week) was to create a cartoon on the scientific method. We had to draw our own little people or characters using the scientific method to figure out their problem. For this assignment I decided that my characters question was going to be what dissolves faster in water M & Ms or Skittles. After my characters experiment he found out that skittles dissolved faster in room temperature water. Backward-Looking This week while I was doing my scientific method cartoon I had a few struggles. While drawing I was very stressed out because I wanted to maker it look the best it could be and I couldn't get work done because every time I did something I thought it could be better so I erased it and got nothing done. I fixed it by calming down and saying to my self I shouldn't care what other people thing as long I think I'm doing a good job. Inward-Looking Something that I found out about myself during