Science Methods II

 Formative Assessment: What is a Rock? Activitymania Discussion: - A bunch of activities that is step by step that has a wrong answer at the end. This allows no room for creativity and using your own form of problem solving. We do this because it is easy for teachers to prepare and kids love it due to a lot of activities. -Assessment Discussion: We spent time talking about what assessments are to us. We talked about what kind of assessment was our last exam. We spent some time as a group discussing what we think the "curve" would be for our exam. Activity: In today's lab. we had to model the rock cycle. We had to melt starbursts representing 3 different kinds of rocks; Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks. Below are the 3 rocks that we had to recreate.

 March 21st We started today's class with a map of the south following with a question: How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline? Predictions: Hypothesis when you think these things first happened on earth? 1. Humans appeared 2. Dinosaurs ruled earth 3. First land plants 4. First land animals  5. Moon was created:  My group ranking:  Moon, plants, animals, dinosaurs, humans Fun facts: T-rex live closer to humans then stegosaurus we got to take a look at this earth website to see how different the earth billions of years ago. After looking through the website we got to find fun facts and place it on the timeline around the classroom.  Convection Cells:  a self-contained convective zone in a fluid in which upward motion of warmer fluid in the center is balanced by downward motion of cooler fluid at the periphery. Convection Video:  https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd5gaG6s/

Today's class was very interesting and kind of fun. We had student presentations for the whole class. My group talked about the life cycle of stars. Other topics were black holes, origin of the universe, galaxies, origin of the earth, and exploration of space. This was a fun class to see our peers present and it was a fun change for today's lab. There was not a lot to write for this blog since it was mostly presentations