Urbas - Science Week of Jan 29 - Feb 4

Students have picked their groups for the project
to build a structure like the one pictured to
withstand Mr. Urbas's Earthquake Machine. They will be constructing their towers this week and next week pictures will be posted of many of their constructions. Stay tuned.

Urbas - Science Week of Jan 22 - 28

Students have been working with the idea of how earthquakes are located using P & S waves. Next week they will actually find the location of an earthquake by using data and calculating the epicenter of an earthquake in the US. Shocking!

Urbas - Science Week of Jan 15 - 21

This has been a terribly sad week for the people of Haiti with their earthquake that was a 7 on the Richter Scale. The 6th grade has just started studying about Plate Tectonics and earthquakes and they have a real understanding of what occurs. The picture at left shows some of the devastation in Haiti this week from the earthquake.

Students next week will be learning how to find the location of an earthquake from the waves it produces and will become Lakeview's latest group of Seismologists.

Urbas - Science Week of Jan 8 - 14

Students have begun their studies on the Earth. They will be examining the Faults, Plate Tectonics and the basic structure and causes of earthquakes in the upcoming weeks.

They will also find out just "whose fault it is".