Crystal garden

Day 1

Today in class we added  the solution to our crystal gardens. All of use made a detailed map and labeled were we put the crystal solution. We added food coloring to our solution so the crystals will be the color we want.My crystal garden is like a landscape were a volcano erupted. My floor of the crystal garden is cracked so i put the crystal solution on the cracks.

Day 2


Today in class we looked at our crystal gardens on my nothing grew, the only thing that happen is that the solution dried. On my friends it also dried but for one of them there were tiny crystals.

Day 3

We didn't have science class so i didn't look at it.

Day 4

On day 4 my land on the crystal garden got tighter so it split apart and now there are bigger cracks on the ground.The crystal solution dried in the clay and now i have colored clay.

My notes for class

These are my note i took in class:

·         Under the ocean there is magma

·         They drill into lava to find some fossils

·         Volcanoes erupt when trapped gases that are trapped underneath expand and explode.

·         Lava is over the 1000 degrees Celsius

·         Stone wind is when a volcano blow and the snow wind go on with the ash in it killing trees.

·         Extinct volcanoes once erupt and don’t erupt again.

·         Volcanoes form land, can change a how surface of land.

·         All active volcanoes ooze or explode.

·         Magma is in constant motion

·         Dormant volcanoes are the ones that didn’t erupt in 200 years

·         The 3 types of volcanoes are shield, cone and caldera.

·         Shield volcanoes is a volcano that looks like a volcano

·         Cone volcanoes are the ones that are like cones

·         Caldera volcanoes are the mix of shield and cone.

·         Ash sometimes gives the nutrients for plants

Dynamic Earth

Today in science class we learned about the earth and its structure. We focused on the 3 sections dealing with gems and minerals, Rocks and mining, plate tectonics and volcanoes. It was inserting since everything was in a visual format. In the first section we learned how diamonds and minerals are formed and how they can become a gem. In the second section we covered the history of mining and excavation. In the last section we looked into tectonic plates and how they affect earth's surface for example if tectonic plates crash into each other they form mountains or islands. This was very amusing and I hope we will do something like this again.

Miniral Unit.

This week i have learned about the earths structure and about caves and how they formed and where they can form like in a volcano or on the antarctic. Also i learned what creatures live in the caves and how their group is called. I learned what stalagmites are they rock that push up from the ground and that stalactite are the rocks that hang from walls. I want to learn about crystals and how they are formed. I also want to learn about the rock cycle.

cooling race lab reflection

I think i did good on this one. i just needed more details. i liked doing every lab

Making water wetter lab reflection

I think that i did well on my making water wetter lab.I really liked doing the lab. And my data analysis was good and i made sure it was correct. I think i basically i did well but i could improve and i will.