PaytonKonekScienceMethods

1.  What did you do in lab today?                In lab today, we used candy to make rocks. In order to do this, we used Starbursts. We started by slitting them into tiny pieces and then forming them together into a ball. After forming a ball, we placed the starburst ball into some tinfoil and heated it up with a butane torch. After heating up the tinfoil ball and the starbursts, we added pressure to the tinfoil by squeezing it with our hands for about a minute. Then, finally, we let it cool off in some cold water for a couple of minutes before unwrapping the tin foil to reveal our crystallized rock.          2. What was the big question? What happens during the stages of the rock cycle?          3. What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion?      The tectonic plates move because of convection cells underneath the earth's surface. As the lava in the mantle heats up and coo...

  1. What did you do in lab today? In the lab, there was a long, thin piece of paper that wrapped around at least one of the sides of classrooms. The paper represented the 4.6 billion years that the Earth has been around. Initially, we were tasked with placing when humans appeared, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, when animals appeared, when plants appeared, and when the moon was created. The moon was created first, then animals appeared, then plants, and finally humans. The big takeaway was that, in relation to Earth’s history, life on the planet is relatively young. All of these events (except the moon being created) occurred in the last quarter of Earth's timeline. Especially humans, which would barely be visible on the timeline at all. Then we explored a website where we could look at geological events in Earth's history, and pick some to add to the timeline. The added events confirmed the hypothesis that life was relatively new on Earth. At least in terms of what we general...

 Week 8          1. What did you do in lab today?      Before lab this week, our table groups had to create a presentation on a topic that we had selected the previous lab and teach the class. Our group chose to make our presentation about galaxies. Other topics that groups presented on included: the origin of the universe, the lifecycle of stars, the origin of the earth, black holes, and the exploration of space: past, present, and future. Below is the link to the presentation that our group created. link:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ahip69h_kRc-wdi3_9CYkh3_qW6OV2VdBWiQpP8IqPM/edit         2. What was the big question?     What is in our universe, and how did it come to be?          3. What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion?      In lecture this week, we esentially redisscussed the topics that we presented over in lab and filled in any gaps. First, w...