Book Review

Just finished The Hunger Games Series and loved it. Have you read it? Would love to hear your thoughts.
About the book: Twenty-four are forced to enter. Only the winner survives.

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. Each year, the districts are forced by the Capitol to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the Hunger Games, a brutal and terrifying fight to the death – televised for all of Panem to see.

Survival is second nature for sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who struggles to feed her mother and younger sister by secretly hunting and gathering beyond the fences of District 12. When Katniss steps in to take the place of her sister in the Hunger Games, she knows it may be her death sentence. If she is to survive, she must weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

Simple Machines

We have covered quite a bit over the last few weeks in simple machines and how they make work easier for us. I would like for us to shift over to our Social Studies Unit on Early Civilizations and think about some specific ways that simple machines have changed our life from the lives of The Early Hunter Gatherers.

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Simple Machines

Our Energy Unit Continues.
We continue to explore energy by learning about Simple Machines.  Today we are learning about Levers.  

Building Our Cars

Today we build our cars!  It was crazy.  After we build our cars we began to do our investigation.  First, we wrapped the rubber band around the axle three times (added potential energy) and launched our car.  Once the car stopped we measured how far it went.  We did this three times, then we wrapped the rubber band 6 times and measure the distance it rolled.  (Kinetic energy)  We ran three trials of this as well, then we move on to 12 times and recorded our data.  Tommorrow we will graph our data. 
Qustions to consider:  When you released the car, what kind of energy did it have?
In which trial do you think the car had the most energy?

Building Our Cars

Today we build our cars!  It was crazy.  After we build our cars we began to do our investigation.  First, we wrapped the rubber band around the axle three times (added potential energy) and launched our car.  Once the car stopped we measured how far it went.  We did this three times, then we wrapped the rubber band 6 times and measure the distance it rolled.  (Kinetic energy)  We ran three trials of this as well, then we move on to 12 times and recorded our data.  Tommorrow we will graph our data. 
Qustions to consider:  When you released the car, what kind of energy did it have?
In which trial do you think the car had the most energy?

Building Our Cars

Today we build our cars!  It was crazy.  After we build our cars we began to do our investigation.  First, we wrapped the rubber band around the axle three times (added potential energy) and launched our car.  Once the car stopped we measured how far it went.  We did this three times, then we wrapped the rubber band 6 times and measure the distance it rolled.  (Kinetic energy)  We ran three trials of this as well, then we move on to 12 times and recorded our data.  Tommorrow we will graph our data. 
Qustions to consider: 

When you released the car, what kind of energy did it have?

which trial do you think the car had the most energy?

is your evidence that the car had the most energy?
which trial did the car have the most kinetic energy?

In which trial did the car have the most potential energy?

In Time

Just saw the movie In Time with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.  Interesting movie.
In the future, genetic alteration has allowed humanity to develop a system where individuals stop aging 25 years after birth. Due to over-population concerns, time has replaced money as the standard currency and people must acquire more time through labor and commercial means after turning 25 years of age, or die within a year. Each social class lives in a different area called a 'Time Zone'. The poor live in the ghettos of Dayton and work each day to earn a few more hours of life, which they must also use to pay for everyday necessities. The rich live in the luxurious New Greenwich, and can live for centuries to millenia based on how much time they have accrued.


Would you want to live forever if you could?

First Day of Conservation of Energy

Today we started our Conservation of Energy Unit.  The bowling ball video was pretty cool.  I would love to try that in our gym!!  

Here is your Take Five Question for today.  Please use the white box for post a comment to answer the questions.  After you type your answer in the box, click the button that says post comment below the box.

1.  What does the Law of Conservation of Energy State?

2.  What are the two kinds of Mechanical Energy, giving an example of each.

First Day of Teaching Conservation of Energy Unit

Today we began our new unit.  The bowling ball video was pretty cool.  I would love to try it in the gym of our school. 
Here is your take five question for today.  Can you tell me the two kinds of mechanical energy?  Give an example of each.

Energy

This week is the begining of our new unit, Energy.