Today I noticed that my garden didn't change over the weekend and that it looks exactly the same but Im going to add some more transparent Epsom salt solution to see if I can get some more cool crystals growing.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
What I Did to My Crystal Garden Today
Today I added some Epsom salt to my crystal garden. I also noticed a bunch of salt crystals growing on one of my rocks and it was so cool they were hanging down like red stalactites. I am kind of disappointed because none of y other crystals are growing.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Today I Made Some More Crystals
Today I made some more sugar crystals, some salt crystals and some monoamine oxidase crystals. I cant see any crystals yet but I would really like to see some and find out the differences between them.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Rocks and Minerals
Rocks and minerals
(What I learned from the dynamic earth site)
“Earth’s history is written on pages of stone. Since our planets birth 4.6 billion years ago, rocks have been continually forming, and over time, changing from one kind to another. Every rock preserves part of this ancient and ongoing story”
Notes from:
“Rocks made to order”
To start, there are about 10,000 aggregate operations in the U.S alone, putting one close to every major city. We use about 3-billion tons of crushed stone, sand, and gravel every year, nearly half of all the earth-like materials mined in the U.S. Today, the concrete foundations and facades of homes, schools, offices, and stores are all built with with materials that are dug up from underground. An average new house in U.S is constructed with about 400 tons of quarried materials.
Did you know…
Roads are made from crushed rock, sand and gravel and they have many different layers.
“Gems & Minerals”
Minerals occur naturally and are made by heat and pressure, minerals can also be made chemically. Minerals all have crystalline structures meaning that their structures are all geometrical structures. Some well known types of minerals are quartz and crystal. The 88 naturally occurring elements of crystals are made of atoms of different sizes and properties that combine in many different ways to form crystals. The huge range of temperature on earth contributes to the crystals diversity in shape. But the variety is not endless: certain shapes or variations occur again and again.
Any of the nearly 4000 minerals could be cut into a gemstone-if a crystal of sufficient size and quality were found. But only about 15 kinds of minerals are commonly used for gemstones. They combine desirable colors, shapes or optical effects with hardness and availability.
Did you know…
Minerals make up the Earth, the Moon, and meteorites that come crashing into Earth from other parts of the solar system.
(What I learned from the dynamic earth site)
“Earth’s history is written on pages of stone. Since our planets birth 4.6 billion years ago, rocks have been continually forming, and over time, changing from one kind to another. Every rock preserves part of this ancient and ongoing story”
Notes from:
“Rocks made to order”
To start, there are about 10,000 aggregate operations in the U.S alone, putting one close to every major city. We use about 3-billion tons of crushed stone, sand, and gravel every year, nearly half of all the earth-like materials mined in the U.S. Today, the concrete foundations and facades of homes, schools, offices, and stores are all built with with materials that are dug up from underground. An average new house in U.S is constructed with about 400 tons of quarried materials.
Did you know…
Roads are made from crushed rock, sand and gravel and they have many different layers.
“Gems & Minerals”
Minerals occur naturally and are made by heat and pressure, minerals can also be made chemically. Minerals all have crystalline structures meaning that their structures are all geometrical structures. Some well known types of minerals are quartz and crystal. The 88 naturally occurring elements of crystals are made of atoms of different sizes and properties that combine in many different ways to form crystals. The huge range of temperature on earth contributes to the crystals diversity in shape. But the variety is not endless: certain shapes or variations occur again and again.
Any of the nearly 4000 minerals could be cut into a gemstone-if a crystal of sufficient size and quality were found. But only about 15 kinds of minerals are commonly used for gemstones. They combine desirable colors, shapes or optical effects with hardness and availability.
Did you know…
Minerals make up the Earth, the Moon, and meteorites that come crashing into Earth from other parts of the solar system.
Friday, January 14, 2011
This Week in Science-Class we learned about:
This week in science we learned about earth’s structure and caves.
First we brainstormed about the earth’s structure I wrote down some random notes for instance:
The Earth’s Structure
The Earth has different layers, it has a molten core of magma, it has natural resources, most of it is water etc. Then we watched a Bill Nye video about the earth’s crust and I found out some intriguing questions such as: the earth’s core is mostly made out of liquid iron, the earth has an inner core, an outer core, a mantle and crust, the earth’s inner core temperature is approximately one-thousand-five hundred degrees Celsius and the mantle is a mere twelve-hundred degrees Celsius, the continent of north America is move away from Europe by two inches every year.
Caves
We watched a Bill Nye video about caves I especially was interested about cave-dwelling animals and the so called adapted cave amphibians, fish, bugs and spiders and the cave visitors such as bats birds and snakes. I learned that most caves are eroded limestone that used to be under an ancient sea. Stalagmites and stalactites are form by mineral rich water slowly dripping to form strange formations that look like immense jaws waiting to close on unsuspecting victims.
First we brainstormed about the earth’s structure I wrote down some random notes for instance:
The Earth’s Structure
The Earth has different layers, it has a molten core of magma, it has natural resources, most of it is water etc. Then we watched a Bill Nye video about the earth’s crust and I found out some intriguing questions such as: the earth’s core is mostly made out of liquid iron, the earth has an inner core, an outer core, a mantle and crust, the earth’s inner core temperature is approximately one-thousand-five hundred degrees Celsius and the mantle is a mere twelve-hundred degrees Celsius, the continent of north America is move away from Europe by two inches every year.
Caves
We watched a Bill Nye video about caves I especially was interested about cave-dwelling animals and the so called adapted cave amphibians, fish, bugs and spiders and the cave visitors such as bats birds and snakes. I learned that most caves are eroded limestone that used to be under an ancient sea. Stalagmites and stalactites are form by mineral rich water slowly dripping to form strange formations that look like immense jaws waiting to close on unsuspecting victims.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Reflection on Grade about Cooling Race Lab/ Making Water Wetter Lab Cooling Race Lab
Reflection on Grade about Cooling Race Lab/ Making Water Wetter Lab
Cooling Race Lab
I think that my grade was decent and I did the best that I could do, however; I was not informed that I had to create graph so my grade was reduced to a five even though I created one later.
I gave appropriate information although I stuck with my original hypothesis and my original judgments other than making new ones to be correct and get a high grade.
For next time I will add a graph to my lab.
Making Water Wetter Lab
My grade was pretty good and I did well the only serious mistake I made was that I didn’t give as much detail as was required and I also forgot to add part D on my lab.
Next time I will follow all directions and fully answer the questions given.
Cooling Race Lab
I think that my grade was decent and I did the best that I could do, however; I was not informed that I had to create graph so my grade was reduced to a five even though I created one later.
I gave appropriate information although I stuck with my original hypothesis and my original judgments other than making new ones to be correct and get a high grade.
For next time I will add a graph to my lab.
Making Water Wetter Lab
My grade was pretty good and I did well the only serious mistake I made was that I didn’t give as much detail as was required and I also forgot to add part D on my lab.
Next time I will follow all directions and fully answer the questions given.
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