Egg Capsules

Students stuffed their capsules with their materials and placed their eggs inside.
Students also found more measurements ie. mass, density.
Students received a blank drawing of their capsule which they need to complete for homework.

Egg Capsule

Students in all periods except for 2nd brought in bottles and supplies so they began the next step in capsule building. Students in Period w worked on unscrambling words and then matching them to the appropriate definition. All words and definitions had to do with forces.

Egg Capsule

Students turned in their Spaghetti Tower sheets including drawing, data table, graph, and conclusion.
Students then took notes on the Egg Capsule.
At this moment in time we are NOT going to do the egg capsule because I have had so few students bring in their 2 liter bottle. I do not want to spend the rest of the year struggling with the the students to bring in their supplies. If the 2 liter bottle is not brought in tomorrow we will NOT do this activity

Spaghetti Tower Graph and Conclusion

Students calculated weight to strength ratio by dividing actual weight held by tower weight.
They then ranked them in order.
Students then graphed tower weight vs  weight held.
Lastly, students wrote a conclusion on the back of their graph.

Over the weekend, if you drink any pop from 2 liter bottles and have empty bottles please save and bring them in. We need them for our last activity of the year!

Spaghetti Tower Smashing

Students weighed their towers and then added weight until their tower collapsed.
Tomorrow we will graph and write conclusion for our Spaghetti Towers

Spaghetti Tower Drawings

Students drew their own Towers in 3D and labeled the parts and the forces.
This is homework if not finished.
Tomorrow we will do some tower smashing.

The Cosmos

Due to the fact that there were so many students gone today we watched a movie "The Cosmos"
Students will continue work with their spaghetti tower sketches tomorrow.

Spaghetti Tower Forces

Students drew top and side view sketches of a tower indicating the forces that act upon it.
They will use this to refer to when they sketch their own models of spaghetti towers on Wednesday.
There is no homework.

Spaghetti Towers

Students continued work on building a spaghetti tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows. The idea is for students to build a lightest, strongest tower that will hold the most weight.
There is no homework

Spaghetti Towers

Students turned in their Mini-rocket assignment.
Students then began work on building a spaghetti tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows. The idea is for students to build a lightest, strongest tower that will hold the most weight.
They will have today and tomorrow to work on this in class.

Mini Rockets wrap up

Students created two graphs. Graph 1 is their trials and height. Graph 2 is the class data - trial 1 and trial 2 vs the class groups.
Conclusion must be written on the back of the graph.
This is homework if not finished in class.

Mini-Rocket graph and conclusion

Students created two graphs. Graph 1 is their trials and height. Graph 2 is the class data - trial 1 and trial 2 vs the class groups.
Conclusion must be written on the back of the graph.
This is homework if not finished in class.

Mini Rockets

Students tried to duplicate their best height from last week.
They had two trials to get their rocket the highest.
There is no homework.

Mini Rockets

Students continued experimenting with their mini rockets trying to find the best formula to shoot their rocket the highest.
There is no homework.

Mini Rockets

Students worked on collecting data in an effort to shoot a mini rocket as high as it will go.
Their task is to mix vinegar and baking soda in the best combination to make their mini rocket go as high as possible.
They will be working on this tomorrow as well.
There is no homework.

Egg Drop Graph and Conclusion

Students graphed results of the egg drop.
Students then looked in their spirals under September 8  on their notes on how to write a conclusion.
They used that outline to refer to to write their conclusion on the egg drop.
This is homework if not completed in class and due tomorrow.

Egg Drop

We finished dropping eggs today. Students then worked on calculations.
Tomorrow students will graph and write a conclusion.
There is no homework.

Egg Drop

Students dropped their egg capsules today and wrote down their data of egg survival and time.
Tomorrow we will finish with the egg drops and work on calculations.