Hello science group
Last week we looked at these possibilities for life:
This is the solution I showed you last week and the candle flame we observed. Are they living?
Your Living List:
Living things can die
Living things reproduce
Living things grow
Living things change
Living things eat
Living things defend themselves
Living things have cells and organs
Living things have souls?
Your Not-Living List:
Non-Living things do not reproduce
Non-Living things do not die
Non-Living things do not move, unless caused to
Non-Living things do not grow
Non-Living things do not have cells
ASSIGNMENT:
1. Please explain (write in your journal AND if you like, post an email) why or why not they behave in one of the ways below by stating your answer like this:
“The solution is Living (or Non-Living) because________”.
“The flame is Living (or Non-Living) because________”.
2. HOW CAN YOU TEST YOUR ANSWER? Can you test for all the things on our lists? Do we need to adjust our definitions (lists)?
3. Make sure the above 2 lists are written in your journals as well as the assignment today please, and check the blog again by the weekend for more.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
FOR JANUARY 29
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Science Co-Op for January-March, 2008
Tuesdays, starting at 11am and going until 12.
Information may change about field trips, please read this often. Also, lets start a conversation on additional classes, trips or presentations to add.
Make notes in your journals about science you like, we will discuss it Tuesday! ALWAYS BRING YOUR JOURNAL and a pencil!
Here is my suggested schedule:
Jan. 15: BIOLOGY: What is life? Living exploration I
Jan. 22: BIOLOGY: What is life? Living exploration II
Jan. 29: BIOLOGY: What is life? Living exploration III
Feb. 5 : BIOLOGY: What is life? Living exploration IV
Feb. 12: WyEast Labs field trip and presentation
Feb. 19: PHYSICS: Electricity learning cycle special guest Mark Dane
Feb. 26: CLASS DISCUSSION and Field Trip to The Oregon Zoo for a 7pm presentation about Climate Change and Oregon's Spotted Frog, we would need to leave here by 5:30pm
Mar. 4: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: Mealworm or Pillbug behavior studies learning cycle
Mar. 11 ECOLOGY: Bone exploration and Owl Pellet lab
Mar. 18 ECOLOGY: Food web of Barn owl, owl report, keying of rodents in pellets
Do you have lessons like these you want to do instead?
PHYSICS: Tonal variation, electromagnetic spectrum and visualizing sound
ECOLOGY: carbon sinks and global warming
ENGINEERING: Technology from INSITU
LANGUAGE SCIENCE: Linguistics
ECOLOGY: Forestry Museum--Martha
ENGINEERING: HoodTech--Erika
ENGINEERING: LEGO Robotics
MEDICINE AND HEALTH: Tissue slides, dissection with special guest Dr. Brent Sholar
ASTRONOMY: Explore moons orbit and Google Moon contest:F-Sun at 2pm field trip to Goldendale to see sunspots
CHEMISTRY: burning exploration or dry ice exploration
I am hoping by March to have all of you attached to research of your own that you may share with all of us!
Call/mail me for further questions!
Jules Burton
541-387-3586, cel: 399-1160
Snowday graph of your data!
This is the result of several of us measuring snowfall around our homes on January 8, 2008.
This is our data from January 29 around our homes.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Hello!
Welcome to our blog! We are a homeschooling co-op based in the Columbia Gorge (Oregon). We will all be posting here from time to time so stay tuned!
