Convection, Radiation and Conduction This week we learned about heat transfer. Radiation is when your body is giving off heat and you are not touching anything. Conduction is when your body is touching something and the heat is going into the colder object. Convection is when there is hot air that rises and when it rises it gets colder, then drops. This happens in a convection oven for example. The cycle repeats. We watched a Ted Ed and leanred that snow is a good insulator and ice is a great wind breaker. Langevin Island This week we have been designing our Langevin Island in our journals with what we want on our island. We will be making it out of cardboard. We have been in groups of K,1, 2 and 3 and we are thinking about what we should add to langevin island. We had to sort one component of our island into groups. So if you had trees you would put it in a nature group. We did sticky notes and we were trying to sort them. Each class sorted their own. After that we made nine categories. We had a lable in our agenda and we had to pick our category. You chose one category that you want to build in. Exploration At exploration we are doing exploration challenges the stages are design a plan which consists of many different things, the next stage is build/create then come experiemtn then evaluate and assess then test the last three are a cycle. In Laim’s exploration challenge he has been working on a plan. He will be designing and building a cardboard pinball machine. He was inspired by some other people who were building things using cardboard and ping pong balls. He plans to build and test his plan next week. Previously on Spiderwick...
We have been reading book two, The Seeing Stone. Jarod and Mallory were trying to look for Simon because Thimble-tack said that goblins took him. The problem is, Jarod can only see the goblins when he is looking through a special stone that has a hole in the middle of it (like an old fashion eye glass made of stone). The author is using very juicy words called adjectives to make the story sound interesting.
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