Week 1 Mon/Tues
Name one of the three types of volcanoes we discussed.
Active, dormant, or extinct
We built towers with these two food items.
What are uncooked spaghetti noodles and marshmallows?
Name one thing that a classmate invented.
Answer varies
This is the sense we used during our observation activity yesterday.
What is touch?
The study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
What is Science?
Molten rock above the ground is called this.
Lava
Doing this caused Oobleck to act like a solid.
What is putting pressure on the Oobleck? (Or a similar answer).
When mixed with coke this item produces lots of carbon dioxide.
What are mentos?
The sand divers sank and then floated because this happened.
What is the ice melted and the sand fell out reducing the weight making the diver buoyant again?
Cryptology is the study of _______.
Codes
This is what we built on the first day of class.
What are Alka Seltzer rockets?
This is the phase of matter Oobleck technically is.
What is a liquid?
This is one thing the person who broke the world record for longest paper plane flight said was important when constructing a plane. (He mentioned a few things.)
What is the weight of the paper?
What are the flying conditions?
What is the throw?
What is the way the wings are folded?
This was the "ink" you wrote your secret messages with.
What is water mixed with baking soda?
This is what a hypothesis is.
What is a proposed explanation based on limited evidence? Or what is an educated guess?
These 3 things were mixed together to create volcanoes.
What is baking soda, vinegar, and dish soap?
What is science is the study of the world whereas engineering is the application of that knowledge to meet a need?
This is what an object must be lighter than to be able to float.
What is the weight of displaced water?
Dipping ______ into the water would not cause your paper clip to sink, but dipping _______ does.
What is cotton swab without soap, and what is cotton swab with soap?
This person invented the lightbulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
The mixture of water and this substance creates carbon dioxide gas. (Hint: day 1)
Alka-Seltzer tablets
This is one way a building could be engineered to better withstand a natural disaster or exposure to extreme conditions.
What is being built on stilts for a flood, being tied to the ground for an earthquake, having a spiral wing shape to reduce stress caused by wind, etc.?
When a plane flies, this is how many forces are acting upon it.
4 - thrust, pull, weight, lift
It is because of this that we were able to get our paper clips to float on water.
What is surface tension?
This is the branch of science we were doing when we mixed materials to make volcanoes, alka-seltzer rockets, and coke and mentos.
What is Chemistry?