Space: Human Ingenuity

Sputnic

How has human ingenuity during the space race affected our world both positively and negatively?

Space Race Beginning

NASA Space Race Spinoffs

Space Debris

Transpiration Homework Help!

1. Students are expected to find a set of leaves and cover them in an air tight clear bag.

2. Record observations of the plants over six set times such as: 0 hr, 15 hr, 30 hr, 45 hr, 60 hr, and 75 hr. Pictures should be drawn or taken.

3. The last observation should include an explanation of transpiration and statements of how you believe transpiration takes place.

4. What is the value of transpiration to living organisms?

Links:

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Transpiration

http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeoglos/t.html View: Transpiration Definition

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/trsp.rxml

Water Homework Help!

Web-links:

1. All about Water

2. Leading types of Water Pollution

3. What can we do? Hamilton Government

4. Kids Site Covering Water EPA

5. Careers in Water

6. Careers: Work in Water

Do you know the pH, temp, and status of bacteria in our creeks? We do!

Mary Beth Sutton of Caribbean SEA join us today! Thanks for your help.

Enrichment students collecting samples from Connor Creek. Ask one of our sixth graders what they learned while testing the waters.

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Ecological Succession

What type of succession is being shown?

Interdependence Review Link

Internet 4 Classrooms

Vocabulary

1. Adaptation (Animals, Birds, Fish, Plants)

2. Succession (Primary & Secondary)

3. Biosphere: Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Lithosphere

4. Ecosystem, Population, Community, Habitat, Niche

5. Biology, Ecology

6. Symbiosis: Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism

7. Biotic & Abiotic

8. Interdependent & Interdependence

9. Freshwater & Marine Biomes

10. Organisms: Producers, Consumers, Scavengers, and Decomposers

11. Consumer: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quaternary

12. Energy transformations

13. Extinction

Adaptations

Platypus

Adaptations Definition

Animal Adaptations

Aquatic Adaptations

Why so many kinds of plants and animals?

Basic Marine Adaptation

Adaptation Game

Online Textbook: How to login?

Online book URL: http://my.hrw.com/

Temporary

User Name: sciencebook6

Password: a7z3t

Talk with Mr. Swafford or Mrs. Smith for your own password.

Click on: "Go to online textbook"

Use the orange labs to navigate the textbook.

Use the eActivities tab for the online audio.

What does data look like? Part I

Science Data

What does data look like?

1. Who is your science teacher?

Swafford

2. Class Period

A-1

A-4

B-1

B-3

B-4

3. What is your height in meters?

AVE: 1.51

4. What is your foot length in centimeters?

AVE: 24.8

5. What is your eye color?

Brown – Blue – Green - Hazel (Brown & Green) - Other

6. What is your mass in kilograms?

AVE: 42.3

7. Are your right or left handed?

13 students are left

8. What is your gender?

Boy 50

Girl 70

9. Do you pick your nose?

Many times a day =2

A few times a day =4

Once a day =5

Never =??

.

Caving Trip!

Thanks for a good day all!

After

Before

UTC Science Methods

UTC Science Methods Class

Thanks for letting me be apart of your class.

If I can be of any help feel free to contact me.

swafford_christopher(at)hcde(dot)org

Summer Caving Trip!

When: July 9, 2009

Leave time: 10:15 AM Bi-Lo at the foot of Signal Mountain

Return time: About 5:00PM -Everyone will call home when we start the ride home.

What: Caving trip to an area cave about 1:30 minute drive from the base of the base of Signal Mountain.

Who: Chris Swafford, Doranne Lane, and members from the Chattanooga Grotto are inviting confirmed students from SMMHS --Call Chris Swafford at 423-236-forty-nine forty-five

Cost: $6 donation for use of the borrowed helmets/lights

Items to Bring:

1. Helmet (provided)

2. Lights (bring two and one will be provided on helmet)

3. Long Paints & Long sleeved shirt

4. Gloves: Gardening gloves with thick rubber will keep your hands warm and minimize cuts and scrapes.

5. A large plastic trash bag

6. Knee Pads

7. Lunch Snacks & Water

8. Large mouthed Gatorade bottle: Crush-proof container for human wastes -Pack it in, Pack it out!

9. Boots with lugs (cheap ones can be bought at Wal-mart)

10. A small, strong, lightweight pack

11. A new set of cloths and shoes to wear on the ride home.

12. Money for fast-food

13. Each person on the trip will need to provide parent contact info, health info, and carry an insurance card. This is so we will not need it!

FYI: We will be in water so warm clothing will be a very good idea. I'm planning about four hours in the cave. Getting food on the way home will keep us out longer than 5 PM. Everyone will be asked to call home after we get out of the cave to let parents know when we plan to return.

Information on Caving pdf

Links:

Cave Info 1

Cave Info 2

Cave Pictures

Exams! Are we going to finish?

Student's working on their exams!

160 minutes in the Media Center

Are you Finished?

Exam Help: Links

1. Endangered Species in Tennessee: Remember to answer why it is endangered.

4. Safari Montage (Works at School only) -User Name: Student -Password: Student

5. Food Web: Your food web must be specific and not have generic names such as "bird" but "Eastern Blue bird." Every organism in your web must come from the biome you selected. All food webs need to be in your handwriting not a print-off from the web. Here is a great website to help you build a food web. Caution it may have generic name.

6. BrainPOP -Weathering

8. Temperature Conversion

11. Golden Apple Award

Level B Work

Dichotomous Key Examples

Recycling: Basics of Recycling - How to setup

Extinction Overtime

Level A Work

Pro/Con Nuclear Power -This is a link for school.

Important Scientist -100 Scientist Who Shaped World History

Space Junk -This is a link for school.

Wikipedia Muppet -Example of fun creatures.

Student Council: Ropes Course & Leadership Training

Just Back from a Good Day of Actives: Low Ropes Team Actives, Pamper Pole, and Giant Swing at SAU.

Thanks for a Fun Day!

Cookin' Up S'mores: Solar Cookers

Object: design and build a solar cook to produce the hottest temperature

Vocabulary: reflect, insulate, capture/trap, absorb, celsius, fahrenheit

Congratulation to our top two cooker!

Griffin at 122 degree Celsius

Mila at 104 degree Celsius

Do you want to know their temperatures in fahrenheit?

C=(F-32) 5/9

or

Online Temperature Conversion

Grading Scale:

The temperature of your cooker will make or break your grade! The temperature will determine one of the two grades you will receive on this project.

2009 2010

A = 125 degrees plus! 220 degrees plus!

B = 91 -124 degrees 120-219 degrees

C = 76 – 90 76-119

D = 70 - 75 70-75

F = No project No project

Higher temperature would have been required this year however our thermometers maxed out at 120 and popped at 130! Wal-Mart has cheap oven thermometers that will be used next year.

Written Assignment: Solar Cooker Essay

--Use three different internet sources

About My Planet - Solar Cooking.org -Places of Use - These are just two I used.

--MLA citation of sources at bottom of the page

–use citation machine:http://citationmachine.net

--One page that answers:

What is a solar cooker?

How does it work?

Who uses it? Give real examples (two) you find in your research.

Where (what places) is it used?

Why is a solar cooker used?

--Make sure you underline/highlight the key words- who, what, when, where, why, and how in the paper.

--Paper can be typed or neatly written.

--Include pictures (drawn or printed) of two different types of solar cookers.

Due: Friday, May 1

Bad Hatch!

Silky Bantam

What happened to the Egg?

--they got cool on the way to our school

--they needed to be turn in the evening

We know the eggs smelled very very bad when cracked open!

Learn more about Silkie chickens or photos.

Building Solar Cookers

Can you design and build a hot solar cooker? Our plan is to build a cooker, test it making s'mores, and enjoy learning!

Build Day

Solar Cooker are used around the world to help individuals cook their meals. For more information and pictures about cooking projects see Solar Cooker Review.

Watch the video link to see the basics of how a cooker works, why cooker are important, and how government officials are being encouraged to support their use. ASAP Video: Importance of Solar Cookers

What Happen Here? Earthquake!

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Have You Built a 2 Meter Freestanding Newspaper Tower?

Objective: Use the design cycle.

Goal: Design and build the tallest freestanding tower possible using only tape, newspaper, and your creative prowess.

Investigate: Scrutinize fundamental shapes, lofty towers, and crafty bridges for design ideals to help your team build the tallest newspaper tower. Try building a preliminary small tower.

Plan: Construct design drawing for your tower. Demonstrate in drawn form what the tower will look like before it is built.

Create: Engineer your group's tower!

Evaluate: Judge the tower fir freestanding height.

Earthquake Building Construction Tech Ed

Tech Ed students extend their learning about earthquakes by constructing building. Ask one of these students who's building withstood most seismic activity. 

Lab: Convection Currents

Objective: Discover properties of heat. Investigate how the properties can cause movement of rocks on the surface of the Earth.

Magma circulates via convection currents, causing the lithospheric plates to move.

Vocabulary: 

Geology 

Conduction

Convection

Radiation