Color Lab: Graduated Cylinder Practice

We used the concept of mixing primary colors to practice reading graduated cylinders. Here are some pictures: 

Trying to create the color of Sperry's 

Recreating the rainbow

Science Tools

There are many important tools that scientists use to measure data. This week students have been working with triple beam balances, graduated cylinders, and rulers. Here are some websites to practice reading and using triple beam balances and graduated cylinders.

Triple Beam Balance Website

Graduated Cylinder Practice

Different Types of Measurement Practice

Here are some pictures from our lab we did this week on growing gummy bears and worms. Some of the vocabulary words and concepts we discussed during this lab were:

length
width
height / depth
volume
mass density

Before and After

 Before and After

 

 

Where is the gummy bear? 

 

5 Themes of Geography

The five themes of geography were created to help study the world and its history. The five themes are:

Location
Place
Human Environmental Interaction
Movement
Region

There will be a quiz on Wednesday on the five themes. The students have a study guide to follow and notes in their spiral notebook as well. Here are a few more resources that may help.

5 Themes Rap:



5 Themes Video with Students:

5 Themes Quiz:


Flash Card Help - This link will take you to online flash cards on the five themes of geography.