Category: Science

Science Blog

 

In the goo investigation, we were told to make inferences and observations about the goo. An Inference is what you think will happen based off of numbers and data. One inference made during this experiment was the goo would break if you threw it really hard at the ground because when we lightly dropped it, it almost broke. An observation is making a guess on something but only using what you see. One observation that was made was the goo would break at a certain point from stretching it. In the next experiment we talked about the different states of matter, gas, solid, liquid, and plasma. In this experiment we chose a material to test if it was a non Newtonian fluid. We chose to make goo. It is a non-newtonian fluid because it acts like a solid and a liquid. We tested this by seeing how long a weight would take to sink into the goo.

Jack Anderson

Science For Change

For our Science For Change project we discovered that landfills are filled with 31% of paper. What our group realized is that paper is a very versatile material and that we can do many things with it. We then thought that if we found a way to make paper a sturdier material then we could do more things with it. So we tested different shapes of paper the shapes were, honeycomb triangle, and circle. We realized after tests that the circle shape is the sturdiest. So to further test this we decided to make a paper stool to test this and the result: it could support a human. Something we learned is that paper is a very versitale material.

 

Science for change

I think this project is interesting because we are actually taking action in a cause that we care about. I think our group is making good process with our research. I think sometimes our group gets off focus but then one of us brings it back together. I think our group is going really well.