Rube Goldberg Project

OPERATION CHURRO Steps of machine: Step A. The phone is called then vibrates down the binder hitting the dominoes. (The phone vibrating would be mechanical energy and it moving down would be the result of gravitational energy too. (The dominoes are moving based on mechanical energy. Mechanical/Gravitational to mechanical.) Step B. The dominoes go up […]

Traits/Making a child

Traits and Picture: Our child is a boy that has fine eyebrows, present widows peak, light blue eyes, short eyelashes, ear pits, and a small nose. Our child also has a round head, cleft chin, wavy hair, and white skin.   Questions: a. How does the coin flip relate to the probability of inheriting genetic conditions?  […]

Classifying Reactions

These are the illustrations and the examples of the chemical formulas for the 4 different chemical reaction types.   1.  Synthesis A+B -> AB Na + Cl2 -> NACl 2Na + Cl2 -> NaCl   2. Decomposition AB -> A + B H2O -> H2 + O2 2H2O -> 2H2+O2   3. Single Replacement A […]

Float Your Boat

Our experiment was to make a flotation device that could hold the most pennies before sinking using only a piece of aluminum foil, 2 marshmallows, 2 toothpicks, and a 15cm piece of masking tape. The challenging part was coming up with a design/plan the would work and float well with weight added. Ours was able […]