Electricity Mind Map

In the past I haven’t done too much electricity so I don’t know too much about the topics but here is my mind map that I made about the things I know so far:

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Mind Map

 

Questions:

The 4 main points that come out of the middle, are they the only things we will be learning about in this unit? Are they the biggest parts of electricity?

What is voltage, current and resistance and why are they all linked together?

What different ways do we use electricity?

Where does electricity come from?

Is there only two types of circuits?

How does static electricity work?

 

ADL App Review

Define: Find an app that will help me learn in science 9.

Here is an example of some words to find definitions

Here is an example of some words to find definitions

Discover: How do I find this app?

 

Will it help me learn?

Is it hard to use?

Dream: My dream was to find an app that could help me remember things. One of the things that I struggle with a lot is definitions and understanding them, and I often forget it. So I wanted to find an app that would help me remember definitions and put it in a simpler way to understand it.

Design: My plan was to find an app that could help me with remembering and understanding definitions

I chose to look at acid and some other words that relate to acid are in the list.

I chose to look at acid and some other words that relate to acid are in the list.

Deliver: The app I chose is called science glossary. It is pretty simple to figure out. All you do in the search section look up any word you want to know the definition to. It will give you a definition and there is also links to other related terms and lessons on the subject.

 

Debrief: When I started to look for apps I was looking more into the periodic table and atoms but I changed to a different topic because I knew I understood how atoms and elements worked so I looked into finding something that would be more useful to me.

 

SSEP1 – Microgravity in Space

Oakland, California

http://ssep.ncesse.org/communities/experiments-selected-for-flight/selected-experiments-on-ssep-mission-6-to-iss/#lightbox/1/

1.a)This experiment was created by grade 6 students in Oakland, California at the Urban Promise Academy, this experiment was sent into microgravity June 20th, 2014. The experiment they sent was if Eisenia Fetida (red worms) would compost food waste into soil in microgravity. If the red worms would compost the food waste that would mean, we could create fertile soil in space which could help plants grow including food and supply oxygen. This also means that this could help the astronauts and scientists on the ISS to decrease the amount of space that food takes up and how much we take up to space and its better for the planet and the economy and if we spend less money taking food up there would be more money for future exploring.

b) This experiment was about red worms composting in microgravity. The students researched the potential usefulness of red worms for composting eggshells in a container on the ISS. The students researched the positive effects that composting would have on the space station, for example fresh soil for plants, fresh oxygen ect. The students recreated the

Image result for red worms

http://www.redwormcomposting.com/buy-composting-worms/

experiment at their school with a soil tester to compare later when the test results returned.

 

c) The experimental control groups were to see if red worms would compost food into soil in microgravity. The control groups were to see if red worms would compost food into soil with gravity. The different was that one was tested with gravity and the other was tested without gravity.

2. We think this team from Oakland, California won because they’re experiment is useful, if it works out it can help future astronauts by helping supply food and oxygen.