Scientific Method

http://science-fair-coach.com/scientific-method/

 Wathc video here:

The SciShow

Bill Nye the Science Guy 
When heated, water vaporizes.  When cooled, it returns to liquid.  See can crushing experiement.

MATH and Moving: Why is it Important to Know Your Calculations?

Fallbrook to South Carolina:    2,400 miles

Scenario:  Driving a truck that gets 13/19 mpg (rate)

Take the average by choosing median (halfway between 13 and 19) which is 16mpg.

Then DIVIDE the total numbers of miles by the average miles per gallon (mpg):

2400/16= 150       150 is the number gallons of gas.

Now, MULTIPLY 150 (gallons needed to drive 2400 miles) X $4 (price per gallon of gas)

150X4= $600  $600 is the amount it will cost to drive 2400 miles.



Finally, the company will pay $.56 per mile. New problem! How much will the company pay us to drive our truck to South Carolina?

MULTIPLY:  2400 (the number of total miles) X $.56

2400 X .56 = $1356  $1356 is the amount CBI will pay us to drive the truck.

Now, if it costs us $600 in gas to drive the truck and the company pays us $1356, how much is left over?

SUBTRACT: Smaller from the Larger  $1365 - $600 = $756
$756 is how much extra money we will get to drive our car.

Please note:  When you drive a car or truck, it costs more than just gas.  You must consider that the tires get worn, the oil gets dirty, we pay insurance on the vehicle, and so on.

The New World

We are watching the new movie recently released, 'The New World'.  Very good so far with excellent cinematography- everything, well done.

This movie really helps you envision what it was like when the colonist first arrived to the Americas.  Imagine what the Natives thought.  How sad for them because the European arrival marked the end of their existence.

LIFE IN EARLY CALIFORNIA

LIFE IN A SPANISH MISSION: We did a free form study on the subject.

Life in Spanish Mission.  Exercises for kids to sample lifestyle of Monks as they live a day in a life. Organized schedule, tending to agriculture, prayer, hymns, cooking, cleaining, grinding grains,  etc.  Practice silence during tasks.  Link here for more info:  SpanishMission

“The monk’s prayer did not, however, end at sundown. The entire monastic community was awakened after midnight for the most de- manding period of prayer, which lasted for at least two hours. Much of the period was spent singing.”

Monks haircuts were done to symbolize their dedication to Christ.

CHANT:  Listen while you cover this lesson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye-HAS7NUrE
48 minutes of music including bells intro.
Les Cloches means Bells

‘In most monastic churches a choir helped lead the chanting of prayers. Until about the year A.D. 800, church music held to an early Christian tradition of being a purely sung, or vocal, music. This type of vocal music is called plainchant. It did not include in- struments and had a style that consisted of melody alone, without accompaniment. Sometimes plainchant is called “Gregorian chant”, after Pope Gregory I, a scholar and a church leader. Gregor- ian chants are very simple melodies sung in Latin, which communicate the beliefs of the church.’

San Luis Rey Mission

California’s ECONOMY and How it Changed When the Spanish Came:

Hunter-Gathering to Agriculture and Farming

Missions used the labor of the Native Americans and organized agricultural practices and produced food and goods not only to sustain themselves but also to use for trade.

Note the clothing style with Spanish and Western migration infuence.

Scholars believe there were 10-over 100 million natives in the Americas before Columbus came.  Then they started to die with the period sometimes called, 'The Great Dying' which occured when the Europeans (Spanish) brought diseases.  The Natives didn't have immunity to the sicknesses so millions died. 

Food Chains, Food Webs, and Bioaccumulation

Food Chains, Food Webs, and Bioaccumulation

This week we have been studying food chains, webs, producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores.  We did a project as a work sample here:

Snakes and school. We sure had to learn hard lessons owning this snake. He eats cute creatures. Anyone want a snake?


After school on Monday, we went to our favorite beach where we observed the tide pools.  We witnessed the food chain in action in everything including the Pelicans diving like Kamakazis into the water to fetch fish while opportunistic seagulls fought to steal their catch.  

So CUTE!!!!!

'You are so Beautiful! You are smart like Tuna!' That's what the starfish tell her. The are the true suck ups! But they only speak the truth. 

We saw octopus, many species of sea stars, and sea slugs, and ruffled 'things' that were indescribable!  We saw real sea monkies!  It is so amazing what one can learn from the world around them!!!

We are struggling in mountains of paperwork assigned by out school and it is eclipsing our ability to get out and learn the lessons found through hands on, real time interaction with the sources.  Though I TRYYYYYYYY!!!



OK.... so, instead of going over the same material, I decided to expand it by having the kids do a bioaccumulation activity.  Here is the link to the game:  TRACING TOXINS

This is what Niah does with hers. 

KookiDoo Cakes

Melted sugar poured over ice became sea weed. So beautiful. 

GRAND CANYON BOUND!

Click links for an interesting tour of the Grand Canyon.

The most comprehensive documentary ive found here: 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fGfPp-oOrNI

K12 Grand Canyon- ROCKS.  Different kinds of rock can be seen in the Grand Canyon.
Sedimentary, Igneous, Metamorphic


BLINK of TIME, Time Lapse Tour of GC

 National Geographic- Grand Canyon

Geological Formation of GC