lit. poems

Hans
Caring, helpful, and loving
Who loves to help and bring joy
Who feels hatful about the war
Who needs to know his family is safe
Who shares his home and everything he has
Who fears the Nazis finding Max
Who'd like to see his best friend again
Who dreams of the end of the war
Who ends up loosing almost everything he loved

Himmel
average boring
working surviving earning
bleach poor rich luxury
spending living having
big beautiful
Grande Strasse

Aquarium

In order to expand our knowledge of water dwelling cnidarians and anthropods our class took a visit to the aquarium. The aquarium was our first trip so far this year but it was so much fun that it was worth the wait. Our group had a lot of fun looking at fish and just hanging out, plus it was cool to not do ant school work. We had a great time and had some cool experiences toughing sharks and jellyfish. The shark tunnel was a really cool thing to walk through. The whole trip was great from the small interesting creatures to just being with people who accept me. I only wish we had more time to see all that the aquarium had to offer.

The Aquarium

Recently my class took a visit to the aquarium to expand our knowledge of cnidarians and anthropods that live in the water. The aquarium was quite fun and was also very worth my time. My group and I had a great time pointing out cnidarians and other aquatic animals. I had a great time hanging out at the aquarium with my friends.

Collapsing Can

A soda can can collapse in cold water if this activity is done right. Boiling water needs to be in the can then the can needs to be inverted and placed in cold water. This should make the can collapse, but why? The water vapor in the can pushes the air out of the can, then when placed in cold water the water vapor condensates. That doesn't make the can collapse however, the air pressure on the outside of the can does, the water vapor condenses and becomes a liquid, a liquid's molecules are closer together than a gas, which the water vapor was. Since the water condensed there was unfilled space in the can and the air crushes the can.
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Is Air There?

Air is there, this can even be proven by a simple experiment. I had the chance to try this easy and very interesting experiment. The experiment is a jar with a plastic bag over it and a rubber band holding the bag to the jar. When you press the bag down it resists because the air pressure inside is increasing as stated by Boyle's law. Boyle's law is pretty much when pressure increases the density of the gas increases. Air is a gas and your hand in this activity is the pressure. Because air is there you are not able to press the plastic bag in without pushing the air out of the jar, pushing air out is only possible because the the jar and bag are not air tight.

poppin' corn lab

This week in science we are learning about the weather, to help us understand we are doing different labs and activities. One of these activities is popping popcorn in a microwave. The lab showed radiation which is one way for heat to travel, the microwave sends microwaves to heat the objects inside the machine hence the name microwave. Heat causes little traces of water in the kernel to move around really fast, because the heat energy is making the water molecules to move around. The water needs more space to move around in so it makes the kernel explode and the outer shell of the kernel breaks.

Weather!

So I was sick for two days and came back to school to find we had jumped from biology to weather. One day we were taking a frog practical then a weekend and two sick days later i was learning the hydrological cycle. I'm not sure if I missed anything important like learning to tell the difference between two clouds, but I'm sure I didn't miss too much. For the start of the water cycle part of the weather unit we watched a Bill Nye video, which was educational and humorous. I didn't get much from the video because the water cycle is pretty basic. All in all, I am pretty happy about starting the weather unit.