Nicolas Reed Science Blog

Coriolis Effect Image        This week in science we went more in depth with weather for example we learned about temperature, floods, tornadoes, air pressure, and the coriolis effect. What I learned was that there is three scales for temperature before this I only knew of celsius and fahrenheit but I now learned of Kelvin. Another thing I learned was what gives wind its mass which is air molecules. I also learned that regular tornados only last for a couple minutes. One other thing I learned was that hurricanes form in the summer and hurricanes are placed on the Saffir-Simpson scale that rates them from 1-5 based on their wind speed. Another thing I learned was last year California was at a exceptional drought now only some places in California are in a moderate drought. The last thing I learned was tornados can occur at anytime but they usually occur around 3pm - 9pm. S&EP 6_Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions-      This week I did a lot of creating soluti

      Summary: Link      This week in science I learned about wind, storms, and weather by watching a video and taking notes on it. What I learned about wind is that wind is caused by the rotation of the earth. Also that without wind there would be no weather so no wind, no weather. One other thing I learned about wind is that cold air sinks and contracts while hot air rises and expands. What I learned about weather is that when there is low-pressure weather it is cold and stormy and when there is high-pressure weather it is sunny and warm. The last thing I learned was about storms and that storms are created by hot and warm air coming together.     S&EP 6 _ Constructing explanations and designing solutions:      This week I had to explain a lot and I did this because we had three assignments that all had you explain most of your answers. For example, in one of the assignments you had to explain what the coriolis effect causes and how wind is created.

Summary: Link      This week in science we completed our penguin project, what we had to do is make a house for an ice cube (that represents the penguin) then we had to build a house or structure for it to stay cold in the sun for a while. What I learned from this project was styrofoam is very good at keeping things cold.  Another thing I learned is aluminum foil is good at both keeping things hot and cold. The other thing I learned was that when you are doing an experiment you should use things in it that you have researched so you know that it should work. The last thing I learned is that you should use a bigger house when doing this project, based off of the different houses the bigger ones did better. Backward-Looking:      What I knew about the project before I started it was that aluminum foil and styrofoam are pretty good at keeping things cold (what I didn't know until after is that styrofoam is actually very good instead of pretty good). Another thing I knew was

Link This week I learned a lot about heat, I learned how it moves and some examples of it by taking notes reading articles and doing a couple of assignments on it. I learned there are three forms of how heat moves conduction, convection, and radiation. Conduction is the direct transfer of heat when one thing (substance ) and another are touching each other. For example, when you are on the beach and it's a hot day the sand is making your feet hot because of conduction. Convection is the transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid and hot air rises and cool air sinks like shown in the picture. Radiation is the direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves. For example, when you go outside and it is hot the sun heat's your face because of radiation. S&EP 2_Devoloping and Using Models- This week I created a model by making a foldable that showed what each form of heat was and a picture to show it. This is creating a model I created something that showed different