Matthew

Criterion A One world For the rock journal we had to, as a group, choose three rocks and write a small summary about each rock like saying if it was Igneous, Sedimentary etc. Everybody in life see rocks and wonder, What kind is that? Or, Where does that come from? Rock are all around the Earth and have a big impact on it. Without rock we be missing a large part of the past. Rocks tell what happened on the past and when. To help us we used the science textbook and Google Earth to look up the coordinates in latitude and longitude the place we found are rock.

Criterion B communication For the Catalina Quilt we had to research an animal that is native to Catalina. Native means that it naturally comes from the island and has not been brought from other places. This fits Criterion B because it communicates to everyone the information of the plant or animal. I chose the side blotched lizard for the Quilt. I used the Catalina Conservancy website to research the habitat, size, scientific name, and picture of the red necked lizard. Criterion C Knowledge and understand The Moon Journal was a project that for one month, we had to record every night how the moon looked like. We were supposed to say when saw it, the date we saw it, and a little description of the moon. We learned the name of the faces of the Moon and learned words like waining and waxing. Also the Moon does not but the way we see it change. For this project I used [|www.observatory.tamu.edu], a pencil and a notebook.

Criterion D Scientific Inquiry For the Map in a Pan experiment we made a topographic map. A topographic shows the elevation of each object on the map. Our hypothesis was that if a climber wanted to know where was the best part to climb then he would likely use a topographic map. We took a bin and made clay mountains in it and filled it with water. Every inch we drew on plexiglass how the mountains were. Our materials were Blue water, clay, ruler, pan, plexiglass, and sharpie. Criterion E Processing Data For the 2011-2012 volcanoes and earthquakes we took turns recording volcanoes and earthquakes around the world. We collected the from the websites, like where did it happen. Then we recorded it in our journal so nobody else did the same on. Then we took a red or yellow sticker, depending on if it was a volcano or and earthquake, and posted it on the world map on the exact latitude and longitude. Criterion F Attitudes in Science For the Pheone experiment, in partners, read a sheet of paper and saw how much words we could read in one minute. The first step was too read five times eaach. Then we studied our score and saw how much we increased or decreased. Lastly we graphed a line graph in our science graph books. The lesson was that the more times you do something the better and faster you would get on it. We use rulers, our journals, and, of course, our mouths.