We struck oil...pictures!

Preparing their pan to strike for oil.  The balloon represents oil.

Covering the "oil" with sand.

We struck oil!!

Aaaaahhhhh!  Its an oil spill!  J/K :)

We struck oil today!!

And spent a lot of money doing it!!  Pictures to follow later!

See Friday's post for what's due tomorrow.

Due on Tuesday

309-I forgot to tell you this.

On Tuesday you AND your partner will need to have the following done:

Purpose

Procedure

Materials

We already discussed PURPOSE, so look back at the notes you took if you forgot.

For Materials, make a numbered list of the materials used (not in a paragraph)

For the Procedure this is where you list of the steps taken to complete the experiment, also written in a list format.

Have a great weekend and remember if you need to do anything that will take a while, you need to start THIS WEEKEND!

Lots of Vocab! Here are the rest of the words

Independent Variable

Inquiry

Kinetic Energy

Natural Gas

Nonrenewable Energy Source

Observations

Peat

Petroleum

Prediction

Renewable Energy Source

Reservoir

Scientific Process

Seal

Solar Energy

Tar Sands

Turbine

Variables

We started our new notebook today

The new notebook is only for Vocabulary.  If EVERYONE does their homework tonight, we'll have a working day tomorrow.  That means you will be able to work all day on your science fair projects.

Here are the words you needed to define in the notebook:

atmosphere
biomass
biosphere
chemical energy
coal
control
data
deoendent variable
earth system
electric energy
evidence
fossil fuel
generator
geosphere
geoscientist
heat energy
hydrosphere
hydroelectric power

Tuesday

Today we learned about how to write a purpose and hypothesis for our science fair projects.  MOST students have come up with three ideas and many of you had your ideas approved by me.  If they weren't approved by me, we will be working on them again tomorrow.

Remember your Science Vocabulary notebooks for tomorrow!

Monday. Happy November!

If you did NOT do your Science homework over the weekend (coming up with three ideas for the science fair project), please make sure you have the ideas ready tomorrow morning!