Science « Magnificent Max

Science #2

by mfenton26

Today in class we had science. In science we were mixing substances. The substances we mixed were colored sugar and oil, colored sugar and water also colored sugar and vinegar.

The first thing we did was make the colored sugar. The color of the sugar was purple. We put food coloring in the sugar and then the sugar got kind of sticky. The first mixture we made was colored sugar and water. My groups hypothesis was if we mix colored sugar with water then the sugar will dissolve but the sugar would not be purple anymore and the water will be purple. Our hypothesis was confirmed. The water was purple and the sugar sank to the bottom and dissolved.

The next experiment we conducted was mixing colored sugar and oil. My groups hypothesis was If we mix oil with colored sugar then the oil will become a light purple and it will take longer to dissolve. Our groups hypothesis was confirmed. I think the oil was the most dense materiel.

The third and final liquid we used was vinegar. My groups hypothesis was if we mixed colored sugar and vinegar then the sugar will not dissolve. We thought that because we thought that the vinegar would be more dense than it was. Our hypothesis was denied. The sugar dissolved more in the vinegar than in the oil.

As the time went by my groups communication got much better.

5th Grade Science

No Comments »

Science Centers

by mfenton26

In class my group started a new science unit, it is mixtures, solutions and compounds. On Wednesday and Thursday May 22nd and 23rd my science group and I did some science activities.

The first thing we did was read about Mixtures Solutions and compounds. A mixture is a combination of two or more substances, for example a salad is a mixture. A solution is a mixture in which one solution dissolves in another, for example lemonade is a solution. A compound is made up of molecules and atoms of different elements.

After that we did an activity called create it. For that station we got a cup of beads with letters on it in different colors. the first thing we had to do was sort them by color. After we sorted them by color we had to write down the physical property’s of the beads. After we wrote down the physical property’s we had to mix them back together. We were asked the question did the physical property’s change. They didn’t because it was the same beads as before.

The next station my group and I did was called sort it. In that station we were giving cards that said a mixture, solution or compound we had to sort it on a sheet of paper.

After that we did a station called match it. In that station there were cards with a definition and a card that matched the definition.after we matched the cards we had to write the definition on our worksheet.

The next thing we did was a station called explain it. We were given a page to write on and a lemonade recipe. We had to make observations on the page and then we had to answer the question why is lemonade a solution not a compound.

The final station that we did was watching a video. The video was about elements and compounds. after we watched the video we had to write down vocabulary from the video, then we had to take a test about what we watched.

5th Grade Science

No Comments »

Rube Goldberg 6

by mfenton26

My group finished all of our work in presented it to the class today. My group and I are really proud of all the work we’ve done. I have learned some much and had so much fun doing this project. I have learned to work well with group mates and learned not to get frustrated and I have learned you have to be patient when something isn’t working. Another thing I learned is that you can always make things better and improve them. This relates to my group because we could not use one of our steps, and even if we didn’t change the step our machine would still not be as good, and it would not have worked because the step was not made for what we were trying to do. Here is my groups video:

5th Grade Science Writing

No Comments »

Rube Goldberg 5

by mfenton26

My group had a meeting on Friday 3/1/19. During that meeting we made our final video. To make that video we used wevideo because that was a site all of knew how to use. Today we just had to add music and edit some points so we did the rest over FaceTime it was a good call. We finished our video. We added images of our sketches and music. In our video we included an overview of our machine, three fails, our success, slo-mo of our success and 1st and final sketches.

5th Grade Science Writing

1 Comment »

Rube Goldberg 3

by mfenton26

My group and I just had another meeting on Monday 2/25/19. We had a problem with one of our steps so we had to change most of our machine. The change was good because I feel that we are using the different materials better. My group is going to meet today. Today we will be fixing one step of our Rube Goldberg and trying it. Our newest revision has similar steps from the first one but are in different places and order. We had also changed our sketch and made it a little bit neater. This is our materials list:

Materials

2 golf balls, Slide, Ping pong table, Chair, Water, Orange juice bottle, 3 cardboard boxes, 2 marbles, Marble run, Train tracks, Fire truck, Tunnel, Jenga pieces, nok hockey board, 2 Tennis balls, 124 magna tiles, Roll of tape, Poster board, Red light alarm buzzer

Maybe: weights, Hardcover book

Here is a picture of our sketch:

5th Grade Science Writing

No Comments »

Rube Goldberg-2

by mfenton26

Me and my group had another meeting today, it was good my group added another four steps and finished our sketch. My group has also built our machine and tested a bunch of times. We had not gotten past our 5th step yet and we made some adjustments in between the 3rd and 4th step but they didn’t help. What we did to adjust it was to change the angle of something. We realized that we were getting father when it was the first way we had it. My groups is going to have to change a step and clean up our sketch a little bit, but for changing the step my group has some idea’s about what we are going to change it to. We are going to confirm the ideas at our next meeting Here is a picture of our sketch now:

5th Grade Science Writing

No Comments »

Rube Goldberg Project-1

by mfenton26

Our newest assignment was to make a Rube Goldberg. A Rube Goldberg is a machine with a lot of steps that uses a chain reaction that does a simple task. I am in a group with 3 of my friends. our simple task was to get a ball into a goal. We are almost done in our sketch my group and I are meeting today to finish. We have 6 steps we are going to add 3 more. Our Rube Goldberg is going to have multiple steps and levels. Here is a picture of our sketch so far:

5th Grade Science Writing

No Comments »

Issac Newton Biography

by mfenton26

Here is my Isaac Newton Biography.

I hope you enjoyed it.

5th Grade Science

No Comments »

Isaac Newton Infographic

by mfenton26

Here is my infographic about Isaac Newton:

I hope you enjoyed it.

5th Grade Science

No Comments »

plant observations #3

by mfenton26

My controlled plant has done very good my manipulated plant has still not grown. Maybe if my group had given it water earlier it may have grown. My group are still giving it three drops of water everyday. If the plant has grown my group would have pollinated it.

My controlled plant is doing very well. We pollinated our plants. The have pods. The plant has seven pods. The pods are yellow. They are at the top of the plants. Some of the stems are purple. One of the plants died. My group Thinks that the plant had to be pollinated earlier. After the plant Makes a seed it dies.

When we pollinated our plants we touched each flower and then we touched the next plant and the pollen went on the stigma. The pollen was yellow it was small. After the plant got pollinated it started to die. The stems were getting purple. The plants were wilting a little bit. The plants were losing color.
I think the controlled plant is going to have more pods and the pods will grow bigger also I think the plant will die a little bit more. For the manipulated plant I think nothing will happen to the plant.

This picture was taken on May 31:

Controlled plant

This picture was taken on May 31:

Manipulated Plant

3rd Grade Science

No Comments »

Magnificent Page With Magnificent Writing