Monday, November 29th, 2010

Welcome back after a long Thanksgivng break, I hope y'all had fun. This week we are continuing our discussions of Weathering, Erosion and Deposition by learning about the slow changes that can occur to landforms and the rapid, or quick changes that occur. Today in class we discussed the formation of caves, and in the computer lab you watched the glaciers and mountains video.

Caves: stalactites, stalagmites, columns, cave pools

Glaciers change "V" shaped valleys into "U" shaped valleys:

In your response, describe how a cave forms, tell me something new you learned about glaciers and something new you learned about mountains.

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Last week and today in class we briefly discussed maps. During this discussion we will read from our Landforms book that will be accompanying us during our investigations and experiments next week. We learned that maps can have many different uses, and that there are many different forms. Two very important types are political maps, and physical maps. Political maps give information such as streets, cities, populations, city/state lines etc. Physical maps show us "physical" features of the Earth such as landforms, bodies of water etc. Click on the linked words to see examples of each. We learned that cartographers, are also known as map-makers, and that we would be "becoming" cartographers this week by making a map of the back of our school.




Also, this week we will begin our discussion of Weathering, Erosion and Deposition. Today in the computer lab the students watched a video called Erosion on Brainpop.

Below please comment on something new your learned from the video on erosion today and tell me something that you included in your map of the school.

Monday, November 8th, 2010

This week in Science we are reviewing forces such as gravity, friction and magnetism. We are also reviewing Light. Today, we discussed the words opaque, translucent and transparent, as well as transmit and absorb, while using mirrors, transparency paper, wax paper, aluminum foil, cardboard, the surface of our desk etc.

Tomorrow we will continue our review of these terms, Wednesday we will do a formal review for the milestone. Thursday we will take our Milestone and Friday we will go over our Milestone. Hopefully we will even begin Earth Science this week.

Today in the computer lab you watched a Brainpop video on Electric Circuits. Please tell me something new you learned from the video AND in class today!!!

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Welcome to a new unit. We are currently discussing Force and the different types of forces. Today, we made a Circle Map, thinking map, of a list of different examples of things that are pushed and pulled. The three main types of forces that we discussed and went in depth on are Gravity, Magnetism, and Friction.

Today in the computer lab you watched the Brainpop video on Forces as well. After you have watched the video come back here and answer the following questions:

What is something new you learned today either in the classroom or from the Brainpop video? Please explain what Gravity, Magnetism and Friction are.

Good luck, Mrs. E