All Shook Up

Found some great information about earthquakes on the USGS (United States Geological Survey) website. This is a website that updates constantly throughout the day and gives the most recent earthquake activity in the entire world. You can look through several maps and check out any earthquake activity (big or small) in the past hour, day,…

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P-Waves and S-Waves

In class we have been studying about earthquakes and the different types of waves that can occur during an earthquake. In this post you will notice two different types of waves demonstrated (P-waves and S-waves). Both of these waves are considered body waves. In our experiment, we had one person moving the slinky while the…

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Lets get it started….

This will be my first blog ever in my attempt to catch up with the rest of the blogging nation. The main focus of this blog will be to share information and happenings in our sixth grade science classes. By doing this I hope that I can keep everyone “in the know” about what is…

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