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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Windseekers!

Today we continued our experiment about what object in the classroom could produce the most amount of wind. We followed the scientific method.

Question:  What device creates the fastest wind?
Hypothesis:  I think...
Observations: What did you see happen?
Results:  Accept or reject hypothesis and why?

 Yesterday the students tested their hypothesis by attempting to blow a straw on a string, but there was very little success.  Today, we tested our hypothesis again with pinwheels (thank you Wendy Hall!).  Very interesting observations were made during this!  CH noticed that when she moved her folders side to side, there wasn't much wind, but when they moved up and down, it created more.  She believes it's because she was moving the wind away from the pinwheel the first way.  DS couldn't get his paper fan to move the pinwheel when facing forward, so he attempted to fan it from the side.  He then discovered that his object was not as effective for making wind as it kept falling over.  NB's result was that his paper ripped when using his number scroll and that was the problem for creating more wind.  AD and JE tried running, but AD felt his legs were creating the wind, and the pinwheel was up towards his chest.  JE thought they just needed more space to run and could create a better wind. They rejected their hypothesis and decided a fan was the best object.  Here are some pictures taken during their experiement.  Their experiment sheet will go home on Friday for you to look over.


Friday, February 4, 2011

A Map of Ourselves

We are SO lucky to have Katy come in and teach us to appreciate art, as well as learn art techniques.  We have done art associated with feelings and music.  This week, we did self portraits, incorporating our understanding about placements on maps, and introducing scale.  The medium used was oil pastels.  Enjoy!