Urbas Science Week of Feb 29 - March 7

The 6th grade classes finished the series of experiments on temperature based of a set of Marie Curie experiments and we have sent our results in via e-mail to the American Physical Society. We should be receiving the results and scores in April. The kids really enjoyed the experiments and the level of participation and interaction was high. Pictures of a few of the experiments are below.

Students setting up their thermometers.

Measuring the height of the internal fluid.

Measuring out the Hydrogen Peroxide.

Adding yeast the Hydrogen Peroxide to get a reaction.

Comparing levels of fluid.

Stirring the yeast for the reaction.

Cleanup of the lab station.

Urbas Science Week of Feb. 25 - 29

Sixth Grade students this week in Mr. Urbas's science class have been participating in the set of experiments called the " Marie Curie's Floating Classroom" sponsored by the American Physical Society. It is a group of four experiments that when completed will give clues to where Marie Curie's hidden classroom is located in Warsaw, Poland in the 1800's. Students have been working with the concepts of atoms, heat, and temperature to solve the experiments and successfully gain recognition for their class. More to come next week when they finish the experiments and submit their answer online Tuesday or Wednesday. Some views of the first two experiments are below.

Students working with different temperature water and chart dispersion rates.

Solutions are being observed at the beginning of the experiment.

Tablets are dropped in at the same time.

Testing the temperature of three examples of water.

Urbas - Science Week of Feb. 18 - 22

Students are working on their syudy of Color & Light at this time. They will be focusing on color and how different colors of light can affect what they see in real life. The site below is being used for the Friday lesson on Shadows.


http://bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes.shtml

Urbas - Science Week of Feb. 11 - 15.

The classes have finished their study of Earthquakes and several were actually successful in having their tower stand up to Mr. Urbas's Earthquake Machine. There are pictures of the classes below, check out what they did.

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Urbas - Science Week of Feb. 4 - 8

Students are continuing constructions of their Towers in the hope of withstanding an Earthquake by Mr. Urbas. Construction was set back one day because of the snow day Friday 2/1 so Towers are due Friday 2/8 for testing.

Student hopes that the snow will soften the impact is a faint hope but you never know.


Check out this link for earthquake info.



http://projects.crustal.ucsb.edu/understanding/others/other.html