Elementary Science Methods 2 Blog Aleah Tenpas

Lab Jigsaw Activity- Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation: This foundation is a non-profit organization that is prioritizing protecting and restoring Iowa's land, water, and wildlife. This organization was founded in 1979, and wanted to ensure that things like woodlands, prairies, wetlands, and wildlife were not lost but instead protected. To protect things like this, this organization relies on volunteers, donations, and partners to help protect Iowa's natural places. Volunteers were known to donate their time to help keep prairies, trails, and rivers in good condition. The donations helped bring in more resources to have good help on sites across Iowa and things we are trying to protect. This foundation prioritizes many different things. The first is looking at Land, Water, and Wildlife Protection. Another thing this foundation looks at and considers is creating multi-e trails. Multi-use trails are paths or routes designed to accommodate a variety of recreational activities and ...

Lab : (Climate Science: Before the Flood)  What are the primary points in the video?  This video talked about the big issues of climate change and in what ways humans have an effect on climate change as well. That is a lot of the big things that I wrote about and spoke on. What are the major issues?  The major issues that the video talked about is just how big of an issue climate change is on the world around us recently and how to bring more awareness to reduce climate change. Another issue is just the ways in being able to reduce the carbon emissions and change to renewable energy. What question:  How to bring more awareness to climate change among people? How can we teach students to learn more collaboratively with each other to really understand the climate change topics? You are a teacher how would you like us to teach you:  Collaborative small group research or activities to collectively learn more on climate change. *Our Group chose SWICC, which is in Cre...

What are the primary points in the video? This video talked about the big issues of climate change and in what ways humans have an effect on climate change as well. That is a lot of the big things that I wrote about and spoke on. What are the major issues? The major issues that the video talked about is just how big of an issue climate change is on the world around us recently and how to bring more awareness to reduce climate change. Another issue is just the ways in being able to reduce the carbon emissions and change to renewable energy. What question: How to bring more awareness to climate change among people? You are a teacher how would you like us to teach you: Collaborative small group research or activities to collectively learn more on climate change.

(Earth Space Science Quiz Thursday 4/17.) Lab -  Law of superposition : Older stuff at the bottom newer stuff toward the top layers. Layers typically are horizontal. Some layers are not straight due to plate convergent. Stuff at very bottom is oldest because it is closest to bottom. Layers of the earth :  1. Beach 2. Dune 3. Beach 4. Beach 5. River 6. Dune 7. River 8. River beach 9. Beach 10. Beach  Textbook Notes : Rocks and the Rock Cycle From the weekly textbook reading, I learned all about the rocks and the rock cycle this week. There are three main types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. It was most helpful to see how all of these rocks are actually classified. Igneous forms when magma cools. Sedimentary forms when small particles called sediments are compacted together over time. Then metamorphic rocks form when existing rocks undergo heat and pressure. LAB :  Water Displacement Lab experiment summary :  Things more dense than water will sin...

Lab : Our goal should be about relearning in coursework, not simply about how good our grade is. The earth has 5 layers of the earth. The Core and the Mantle are in the inner crust and those two are both very hot, which leads to a convection in the mantle. The core goes back to the surface. Along the surface, things need to be turned and ripped apart. We then used starbursts, and different heat sources to hopefully represent the different rocks in the rock cycle. The three we attempted to meet are Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic. It was fun to try and do different things and different kinds of melting to represent different kinds of rocks. Lecture : Today we touched base and discussed the different layers of the earth again. We touched on the four main parts crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core. They are all set at different points and have different purposes and structures that have different goals. The Hawaii Hot Spot shares how the plate motions are shifting over time and...

Lab Notes : Creating a timeline. We also looked at the earth viewer simulator. We came across 5 different time period events. One of them that really stood out to me was the Permian Extinction this one happened 251 million years ago. I also found the snowball earth glaciation to be interesting which took place 715 million years ago. This is what spread ice around the globe and I found that fascinating. Lecture : We took the space quiz in lecture! Textbook: I thought reading about the space race was very interesting information as it also went into things extensively on also how the full process worked. I learned about when this was all kicked off and what the timeline entailed. I thought it was very helpful seeing the timeline and dates laid out for what year all events occured. I would like more information on what people did to educate peers that were confused or struggling on topics.