Riccardo's Science Blog

en.wikipedia.org Summary For this unit of volcanoes,plate tectonics,etc. we ended with a project this project involved us making a ignite presentation on a volcano/mountain of our choosing. Not only did we have to make/present an ignite presentation but we had to build a model of the mountain/volcano of our choosing. For my choice I did mt. Shasta. (the picture is a picture of mt. Shasta). Backward-Looking: To produce this piece of work I needed a bit of things. For the ignite presentation obliviously I needed to do internet research. For the model on the other hand it needed a bit more work than using just the internet. First what we did is we took a miniature plastic cup and placed it in the middle. Then we added some sort of paper to make it a cone shape. After that we covered it in wet newspaper. As soon as it dried we covered it in clay and the painted over it. Inward-Looking: Throughout this project I had my fair share of frustrating moments. I shall ...

www.blastr.com Summary :  In this science unit, we (the class) are learning about volcanoes. Volcanoes are usually formed from "hot spots" in the Earth's continental or oceanic crust(s). Those spots begin to grow and form. The magma inside the volcano has actually come from mostly parts of the Earth's mantle. There are four main types of volcanoes. There is Cinder cone volcanoes,Shield volcanoes,composite volcanoes and Dome volcanoes. As they are all volcanoes they all look different and erupt differently. Like a Dome volcano is one of the interesting ones (in my opinion) because  Dome volcanoes function in which their magma is pushing out of the volcano. That is because hardened magma is staying above the magma. Once the magma and other gases push hard enough, that pressure destroys most of the rock bits and flings them into the air. With the magma traveling upward, the volcano will seem to have erupted. Science And Engineering Pra...

                                                                                        Summary Viscosity, different types of boundaries, shield volcanoes and models made from sugar are just some of things that I did. I had the opportunity to make a model of tectonic plates that range from continental plates to oceanic plates. I know that viscosity means how thick something is and that the thing that makes something more viscous are the composition and the heat. Shield volcanoes are volcanoes that are usually made of magma that is not explosive and then looks like a dome, which gives the name shield volcano. Shield volcanoes are effusive volcanoes and they are one of the things that I learned this week.  S...

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 ...

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 in...

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...

                                                                                    Summary Image source:  www.texample.net The scientific method always starts with a question. There are many different orders in which it could be. The scientific method can help people figure out a question by following  many steps. It starts of with a question but then you must make a hypothesis, run an experiment, write down all of you data, write your conclusion, and then share your data. The scientific method has many steps but my favorite is the experiment I think it's the best because once you have your problem,question,and hypothesis you get to figure out how to solve the problem. SP8: Obtain, evaluate and communicate information T his week I completed the new scientific...