On Monday of this week we continued our discussions about seismic waves by creating homemade seismometers. A seismometer is a device that measures motion in the earth; however, the seismometers that we created were designed to measure motion of a table (downscale). Our seismometers consisted of very simple materials that included a shoebox, paper, plastic…
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As our unit on electricity and magnetism mercifully comes to a end, we are now gearing up to start a new unit on sound and light. The past two days we have been focusing on the properties of waves to gain a basic understanding of how they work. On Monday we focused on two types…
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Today we spent some time talking about how you can turn electrical energy into mechanical energy. Students were asked to build a simple electric motor using Play-Doh, paper clips, copper wire, and a battery. The video above is from my two of my first period students identifying the parts of their motor.
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After missing Tuesday due to yet another snow day, on Wednesday we moved forward with our conversations about electricity. Today I introduced to my students electromagnetism; we learned that there is a relationship between electricity and magnetism. By running an electrical current through a circuit you can actually create a small magnetic field. The picture…
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Students, the Worldle above contains all the vocabulary words that we have covered to this point in our studies of electricity. Mr. McClung
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Series circuits explained Today my students took a further look at circuits. We focused on two different types of circuits, series and parallel. Today we discussed how these two circuits are built then my students spent sometime constructing their own circuits. The video above is from one of my students explaining a series circuit. Parallel…
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As we continue to talk about electrical currents, today we held a class lab to demonstrate the affects diameter and length of an electrical wire have on a current. To demonstrate this we used a balloon to simulate our voltage source, our rubber tubing served as our conductor (wire), and the air inside the balloon…
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Caden & Gaddy explaining our lab activity from today. Today in class we continued our conversations about currents and creating circuits. Today we explored what type of materials serve as good conductors and what materials do serve as good insulators. Students were asked to create a circuit, much like the one from last week, then…
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Recently both my Arkansas history and science students completed projects using a website called Glogster. Glogster is a website that essentially allows you to create an online poster board. Check em’ out… Abbove is an example from my 4th period Arkansas history class…this student’s city was Little Rock, Arkansas. In Arkansas history, my students were…
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