Author Archives: awayt
2 Chainz DNA Project 2013
What the Books Don’t Teach
Schools use dissections in class so that the students can learn about the body of animals hands on. Text books can tell you about the inside of the animals, but only dissecting them do you actually learn about what is inside. It is proven that most people learn better with hands on activities, so dissecting an animal gets the students to pay more attention, and it’s just plain fun. i know from experience that I myself am a hands on learner, so dissection helps me to understand what the books can’t teach me.
The Big Drop- Abby and Makenzie’s Semester Project
This semester my friend Makenzie and I did an experiment about which ball bounced the highest when dropped from 3 feet. The balls we used were a basketball, a golf ball, a volleyball, a bouncy ball, a racquet ball, and a tennis ball. We bounced on 3 different types of floors, terrazzo, carpet, and concrete. the results were as following: On the terrazzo floor the golf ball bounced the highest, and on the carpet and concrete the racquet ball bounced the highest. I learned….that in some cases the smaller the ball the larger the bounce, and that golf balls can bounce rather high. I liked….that we got to test which floors were easier to bounce on and that we got to test out something that we wanted to know more about. I wish I knew more about…. if the distance dropped was a higher distance would how high the ball bounced also be higher.
Mount Rushmore
Everybody knows Mt. Rushmore as the mountain with the presidents on it but it is actually an up warped mountain. An up-warped mountain is formed when forces inside Earth push up blocks of Earth’s crust. Eventually when the mountain erodes the softer part of the mountain will crumble away leaving behind the hard crystalline structure.The faces will eventually were down to round blobs in the side of the mountain.
Mount Rushmore an Up-warped Mountain