Mixtures & Solutions ( Science )

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! Today we will be talking about mixtures and solutions.

A mixture is the process of combining two or more substances that can be easily separated. A solution is the process of one substance dissolving into another substance that cannot be easily separated. A compound is a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements.

On day 1, we worked with salt, gravel, water, and diatementous earth. We combined the substances to see if they were a mixture or solution. We tested six combinations.Three were mixtures and three were solutions. Some of the things we combined were, salt and gravel, water and gravel, water and salt, salt and diatementous earth, and diatementous earth and water. It got messy quickly. We had measuring spoons to measure everything out, 1 ml, 2 ml, 5 ml, 15 ml, and 25 ml. To measure the water we had a measuring cup made out of plastic with all of the different measurements on them.

On day 2, we worked with cards and sheets of paper. We had a few activities, they were called, Match it, Explain it, Sort it, and the last one was called mixtures. This one really had all the information on it was mixtures. We had time to play mixtures and sort it. In mixtures, you had a cup filled with multicolored letter cubes. There were instructions, and the next step was to separate the cubes by color, and put the blue and green back in the cup, and found out that they were not easily separated. The sort it game was different. Their were cards and categorized sheet to sort the cards on. The categories were mixture, solution, and compound. Some of the words on the cards were salt and water, sand and water,  sand and iron filings, soda, water, air, and more. We sorted the cards into the correct location.

On day 3, We also combined colored sugar with water, vinegar, and vegetable oil. We had to make hypotheses at first. For our first experiment of combining the colored sugar with the water. Our hypothesis was, “ If we mix 1 tsp of colored sugar & 25 ml water, then it will dissolve and turn into a solution. “ Well it did dissolve and it turned into a solution. When we first dumped the colored sugar into the water, it didn’t really dissolve at first. But then after we kept mixing, it all dissolved. Our hypothesis was confirmed.  For our second experiment of combining colored sugar and of oil. Our hypothesis was, “ If we mix 1 tsp of colored sugar and 25 ml of oil, then it will dissolve slower.” I didn’t really dissolve since the oil was thicker, so clearly thicker substances do not dissolve solutes. We mixed it around but still nothing happened. Our hypothesis was not confirmed. For our third experiment of mixing colored sugar with vinegar. Our hypothesis was,” If we mix 1 tsp of colored sugar and 25 ml of vinegar, then the sugar will dissolve into the vinegar just like how it dissolved until the water.” Sure enough, the colored sugar did dissolve. When it first came in contact with the vinegar, it sat there before dissolving with the sugar.

That’s it for this post folks!

Feature Article Podcast Reflection. (5R)

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! Today I am going to reflect about my podcasting experience so far.

Being able to craft our own podcasts that could be published on IOS one day is magical… I really enjoyed spending time on this project. We got to use microphones to record our voice for the final result of all. After the recording progress, we had sophisticated editing that had to be done.  The editing part involved a lot more than I ever imagined.

That’s it for this post folks!

Philadelphia Trip ( 11/9 )

Hello and welcome Andrew’s Articles! Today we are going to talk about my Philadelphia Trip.

On November 9th, 2018 at approximately 5:35 AM  5th grade students started to arrive at the front of Heath-cote school, waiting to board the coach buses for there annual Philadelphia trip. Around 6:10 AM, all students and chaperons we’re loaded onto the buses to headed towards Philadelphia.

According to Vivian Robert and Christine Boyer, the way their was extremely chaotic and loud. the adults were at first unable to control wild behavior from rear of bus on the way there.

They Arrived at roughly 9:00AM in Philadelphia after a Long Bus ride. They claimed they were relived to exit the bus.

We all had great times at the national constitution Center In Philadelphia. We had so much fun learning about all the different exhibits. For example, Hamilton,  George Washington so much more. At approximately 11:45 a.m. the students went down to the National Constitution Center cafeteria where they ate their lunch. some of the chaperones offered to get the teachers Starbucks. After lunch, The teachers gave us and assign partner from the national constitutional Center, in groups of approximately 7. The tour guide took us on us for all around Philadelphia well, in the local area. After the tour guide finished her tour, She took us to Independence Hall where we got to see what real court rooms looked like and much more.  after that I sent to her, she took us to Independence Hall where we saw the cracked Liberty Bell. then the teachers went with the tour guide back to the National Constitution Center where we loaded back up onto the buses to go home.The ride home was crazy. my partner, who is sitting next to me on the bus ride home, wasn’t feeling so well. When I finally made it home, I felt so relieved. my mother greeted me at the bus door and took me home.

That’s it for this blog post folks!

Adobe Spark II

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! Today I will be talking about Adobe Spark again.

Well, I just created a info graphic. I had so much fun making it. As spark says,” If you can dream it, Spark can do it. ” It’s really gets a breath on using spark.

Anyways, I would greatly like to show you my created Info_graphic.

 

My latest creation on Spark! The link in bottom part of the Info_graphic. This is the video of my Rube Goldberg.

Spark can be used for a lot. Some of the things it can be used for is, Instagram posts, flyer’s, stories, videos, and just about everything else you can think of.

That’s it for this post folks!

Adobe Spark

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! Today we will be talking about a new platform called ” Adobe Spark “.

We got introduced the platform on March 6, 2019. This platform can be used to create videos, social posts, graphics, and so much more.

I first made a Instagram post, it was fun. I thought it was pretty easy to use. I would like to show you the Instagram post.

Here it is:

I found it fun and interesting to make. If you would like to use Adobe Spark, please visit, ” spark.adobe.com “.

That’s it for this post folks!

Rube Goldberg – Final Reflection

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! today we are going to talking about my Rube Goldberg.

Over the weeks we have completed our Rube Goldberg. We have finished the video, the contraption, and this is the last blog post. I’m happy to finish it, but at the same time kind of sad its

I ended up doing 8 blog posts instead of 6. The reason why, well, I wanted explain more, but not cram it into one post, instead of spreading it out. My Rube Goldberg was mainly physics, small, way smaller then anyone else. I wanted to keep it simple. Me thinking that, simple was small. I WAS wrong.

This turned out to be the most complicated project I think I could have done! It took 93 tries before the whole thing worked perfectly. The 92nd time when it did work, I did something very lame. VERY, VERY, VERY Lame. I put the ball down the run, It fell backwards, I caught it. My hand then hit the wooden run, and activated the rest of the contraption.

The one time where it works, is where I mess up. Then the next time It did work, fortunately. I totally regret doing something as complicated as this. But, at least it worked, and at least it’s different. When it finally worked, I felt all the stress leave me at once.

I realized way to late, that maybe making a bigger contraption would have been better and cooler, but I forgive myself.

Anyways, I feel proud of my work. I would like to show the video for my contraption in this final post.

This is the end of the Rube Goldberg series.

Here is our video:

That’s it for this post folks!

BTT ( Bash The Trash )

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! Today we are going to be talking about the Bash The Trash assembly that took place at Heath-cote Elementary School.

The main purpose of the assembly was to teach the kids how to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle clean ” Garbage “. A secondary purpose was to teach the kids that garbage can also be turned into musical instruments.

During the show, there were 4 performers, Katelyn, Roen, Ryan, and Ean. Each of them had a talent. For the commencement of the show, Katelyn and Ean both had different instruments, Katelyn had a barrel, used as a drum. Ean had a garden hose attached to a ketchup bottle to create some kind of horn. They categorized that instrument as the French Horn. 

The point of this show was to teach us about loops. They had to tell about the science behind it, then . . . things were pretty elemental. We enjoyed hearing what you can make of trash, and learning the 3 R’s meaning.

That’s it for this post folks!

Rube Goldberg – Collaboration With A Partner

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! Today we are going to be talking about collaboration with my partner for Rube Goldberg.

During the course of Rube Goldberg, Madeleine and I enjoyed collaborating together on the project. We both liked the idea of working in a pair.

Well, I feel working with a partner made life a heck of a lot easier. First, you don’t have to be responsible for everything with the contraption. Secondly, you can construct your project quicker because they’re four hands assembling the contraption, instead of two. Most of all, being solitary means you have to think of the whole contraption. In this case, I found it so much easier to be with a partner .

We also found that gathering materials was much easier. I did get more of the materials than her. The contraption was built at my house, so that did leave more of the responsibility on me. I knew it would be at my house, but I hoped she would take it.

I ended doing the majority of the project, the video, building it, taking documentation, uploading lots of photos and videos. That’s about all.

Overall, I think our project is good. Not the best, but I like it.

I feel like I got taken advantage of somewhat.

That’s it for this post folks!

 

Rube Goldberg – The Ending Of Our Simple Machine & Video Work

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! Today I am going to be talking about The Ending of our Rube Goldberg Machine.

The ending will feature dominoes putting momentum towards a marble, which will travel down a tube, also a (pipe). The pipe / tube will complete the contraption. Well almost, It will directly put the marble into a plastic cup which will be waiting at the bottom to receive the marble. That is the actual ending.

We didn’t really come up with a very complicated ending, we wanted to make sure things were kept simple.  The ending might change, but this is our current plan. We are very satisfied with what we managed to complete.

Now for the video. We have to create a detailed video to show to our class and teacher as the Rube Goldberg assignment. We have to create a video explaining the design process, and how we worked in partnerships, what methods we used when our machine failed, because we can’t bring the contraption into class.

The video will explain all about the contraption, the task, trial and error (if occurred) and the steps of our machine, leading up to the task which it is supposed to complete.

The video has a limit of 5 minutes. We have a lot of work done of it so far. So far, our video is 2 minutes and thirty seconds, and we’re trying to make it at least four minutes maximum, so we still have a lot of work to do. 5 minutes tops, as you can see, we have very high expectations in our project.

Our video also includes video clips from our machine tests, fails, and accomplishments, and we have captions that explain what’s happening in the video.

In the beginning, we added in pictures of our sketch and a few pictures from the first stages. Lots of captions and especially lines of writing to tell about all of the captions we put in.

Also in the video, we explained just how if one step didn’t work, the whole contraption wouldn’t work. This is because Rube Goldberg machines is corresponding to ” Chain Reaction ” and ” Simple Machine “.  A chain reaction and Simple Machine is basically, one thing does something to another thing, which does something to another thing, which completes the task that the Rube Goldberg machine is supposed to complete.

We only included the clearest video clips, the ones that had detail to the contraption working and not working. Only the ones that demonstrated the exact clips in precise ways.

That’s it for this post folks!

Rube Goldberg – The Sketch Museum

Hello and welcome to Andrew’s Articles! Today we are going to talk about my Rube Goldberg Machine Progress. Mainly, the sketch museum, that took place on 2/14.  We finally finished our sketches! They took ”Forever”.

On 2/14, Our Class, 5R, decided to have a sketch museum.  Everybody in the class had to have a drafted sketch by 2/14.  During the time, I, Andrew, and all the other classmates went around viewing other kids sketch’s for there own Rube Goldberg contraptions.

After we analyzed them, we left comments. The comments were to tell the person kind feedback and things they could possibly improve.

When we visited the other persons, we had to see whether it was clear, if it contained step numbers, if you could tell the beginning from the end,and of course if the contraption made sense.

Some of the sketches were curled, so we had to tape them down. We used pencils to adjust the sketches minority, just for any last minute verification.

At the end of the sketch museum, we looked through our comments and thought about them to see if they were accurate. We put them into our science notebook and went on from there.

At the end of the day, all the sketches then got collected, and checked by our teacher. We all hoped for a good grade on them!

That’s it for this post folks!