Friday, June 10, 2011

EXPERIMENTS TO TRY AT HOME

I hope you are enjoying your summer vacation. I see that some of you are still keeping up with our site. We have had guests to our site from seven different countries.

If you are bored, check out this site to find some cool science experiments.

http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/index.php

See you in August.
Ms. Weatherhead

Monday, May 2, 2011

We're Engineers

Designing Roller Coasters 


First Period

Winners:

1st Place: Kristy, Ana, and Michayla
Speed = 77"/second
Fun Factor = 5/5
Total Score = 10

2nd Place: Colton, Montel, Jamal, and Elliott
Speed = 72"/second
Fun Factor = 3
Total Score = 8

3rd Place: 4-Way Tie

Christian, Cheyanne, and Jeremy
Clay, Alex, and Aaron
Ahmed, Abel, Franklin, and Aurora
Romny, Taylor, and Madison



2nd Period

First Place: Carlos, Anthony, and David
Speed = 83"/second
Fun Factor =6
Total Score = 9

2nd Place: Walker, Michael, and Andrew
Speed = 69"/second
Fun Factor = 4
Total Score = 8

3rd Place: Kami, Angelica, and Araceli
Speed = 44"/second
Fun Factor = 2
Total Score = 6






4th Period
1st Place: Austin and Hokuto
Speed = 113"/second
Fun Factor = 5
Total Score = 12


2nd Place: Winston, Noah, and Tyler
Speed = 88"/second
Fun Factor = 5
Total Score = 11


3rd Place: Jade, Brandon, and Liseth
Speed = 77"/second
Fun Factor = 5
Total Score = 10




5th Period

Winners

1st Place: Tied for first - Subaru and Abad, and Jack, Sam, and Terrance

2nd Place: Tied - Darius, Traezon, and Anthony, and Gerson, Josue, and Yovany

3rd Place: Andrea, Anahi, and Alicia

6th Period

First Place Winners: Markell and Triston

Second Place Winners: Dakota, Kaitlyn P., and Courtney

Third Place Winners: Tied - Soraya, Allyssa, and Gaby, Henry and Mario





We're Making Electricity Games



We made our own wires.





We designed our game card.



We wired our game.



We will finish making our games tomorrow.