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This week in science, we did our Land form Detective project. The land form we decided to choose 

was the Grand Prismatic Spring. I learned that the Grand Prismatic Spring is the largest one in all of Yellowstone National Park. I also learned  how the Grand prismatic spring gets its rainbow colors. The image shown above is how the spring looks like.

Backwards Looking

I had no prior knowledge to the Grand Prismatic Spring before we did this project. In fact, before this project I didn't know very much about Yellowstone National park itself. However, before this project in class, we have been learning about land forms. what we learned about was the different types there are, what they do to the earth, how they are formed etc. In what we have been learning, springs didn't really show up often. so with my group we decided to do the Grand Prismatic Spring.

Inwards Looking

In this project, I feel that we did pretty good job on explaining the Grand Prismatic Spring, and defining the details of it. I particularly like how we did our slide presentation and our presentation all in one. There may have been a couple of errors, but I liked how everyone maintained eye contact and good grammar. What I disliked most about the project was the model. The model looked very nice in the beginning, but overtime got damaged, and the clay had a lighter look to it, not what we expected. I enjoyed the work and effort put into the document and slide presentation and divided equally amongst ourselves. 

Outwards Looking

I would grade this project a B+ or an  A-. I decided to base this grade on the presentation, information accuracy, and model. I would give it this grade for the following reasons, my first reason is for the presentation, I feel like we did alright on it. I think this because everyone made good eye contact, had good grammar/punctuation most of the time, and everyone had a fair share of talking. However, there were some mistakes on the presentation. I felt like everyone did fair share on the research and gave accurate information.although at the end, I felt like we were missing something that has to do with how it was tectonically formed or something in that manner.

Forwards Looking

What I would change in this project if we were to start over again would have to be the model and giving further information on the tectonic plates. I feel this way because in my opinion, I think the model wasn't quite 100 there. I just overall think that it's not as good as I expected it to be. I also think we shoul provide further information on the tectonic process of the spring, to elaborate on that a bit more because I have noticed that other groups had more details in that particular subject.

10/19 Weekly Blog

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This week in science, I learned a lot about plate tectonics and how the earth works. I also learned about seafloor spreading, and how that affects the earth. Sea floor spreading, is basically a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, that forms new ocean floor by pushing the old one back into the mantle. Also new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. Plate tectonics also cause the ridges and they keep the world together. When these plates rub against each other or slide past, they make earthquakes occur. We also started our project about plate tectonics. My team and I decided to choose land form detective.The labs we did this week are snack tectonics and seafloor spreading activity. 

SP2: Developing and using models

I have made a model demonstrating how plate tectonics move and what happens when they do. I went through a series of different tests to show how the plate tectonics are essential to the earth. I understood how plate tectonics make earthquakes when I had the 2 graham crackers (plate tectonics) glued next to each other by frosting, and one being moved down and one up, to understand what happens during an earthquake. also learned how mountains are formed by mashing the soggy graham crackers together.This model was all educational, fun, and tasty.

Weekly Blog (9/28-10/1)

This week in science, we mostly learned about tech-tonic plates and viscosity. Tech-tonic plates are plates of the earth that move and cause earthquakes. They cause earthquakes when they move because they are basically holding the earth together underneath and when they slide against each other, they cause a disturbance above. The other thing we learned about this week is viscosity. Viscosity is basically the thickness of a liquid or how easy it is to get through. The Viscosity of a substance can range from high to low. We also popped our volcano and saw how high or low the viscosity of the magma was.

SP2: Developing and using models
This week we also popped our volcanoes. This allowed me to see the viscosity of the magma and got to experience different types of viscosities for each magma. I understood how a volcano works and how it builds up after it hardens better with this model.