Friday, December 17, 2010

Urbas - Science Weeks of Dec. 17 - Jan 3



Students in class are in a festive mood as the holiday break looms. Here class is finishing a project in which they are building a conveyor system using the LEGO kits.

We are wrapping up the unit and when students return next year they will start shaking up the world studying Plate Tectonics and earthquakes!

Stay tuned.


Friday, December 10, 2010

Urbas - Science Week of Dec. 10 - 16



Students continue to work on machines using their LEGO kits and this week evaluated pulleys and gears. For fun Friday, they built a car with the idea of seeing who could make theirs go the fastest. See the pictures below.






"The 54 gram weight has to help make it go faster!"















Ready to measure!

Monday, December 6, 2010

Urbas - Science Week of Dec 3 - 9

This has been a short but busy past week at Lakeview. The students pictured below have studied pulleys and cranes and evaluated mechanical advantage of various machines.
This week they will work with gears and determine what combinations work best for different applications.









Concentration is the key.











It worked and didn't fall down!















The class is demonstrating rotation.