Building Balloon Cars!

Research
Design
Build
Test
Improve
Race









Building Balloon Car Ideas
Zoom
Plastic Water Bottle Car
Questacon
Step-by-step directions
Directions from NASA
Make a Car
Tips for a fast car


Videos
Class balloon car release
Science Olympics
Figure Eight (a slow start, but worth watching)



Pictures of Balloon Cars
Student Cars
Class Cars (click on HTML to see picture and description)

Potential and Kinetic Energy

Learn our new science song about Potential and Kinetic Energy

Watch the Spring and Mass PhET simulation.

See the reaction to Potential Energy being converted to Kinetic Energy.

And... by popular demand, the F=ma song

Matter Song

Matter Song

Short Story Assignment

Do your prewriting here

Physical and Chemical Changes

Physical and Chemical Reading
More Physical and Chemical Readings

Use the readings above to complete the tracker in GoogleDocs.

If you have finished your GoogleDocs tracker, then you make take the online quiz.

Venn Diagrams

Create two Venn Diagrams - WATCH THE DEMO so you know how to do the activity online.
1. Molecules v. Elements
2. Molecules v. Compounds

Use your book and Dr. Birdley resources to help guide your thinking. The following links may also help you.

Resources
What are elements, compounds, and molecules?
Interactive (cool - but takes a minute to load)
Compounds
Refresher on atoms

Google Docs

GoogleDocs

Creating a Class Periodic Table

Interactive Periodic Table
Periodic Table
Web Elements
Chemicool Periodic Table

When you finish, see Ms. O'Connor for extra credit opportunities!

ONLY if you finish, then you can play this game or Proton Don.

Finishing work

Learn about ATOMS!
Build an atom.
Nobel Prize games.

Walking on the Moon

Video of astronauts walking on the moon (You may NOT watch other YouTube videos)

Mass and Weight video

What would you weigh on another planetary body?

Triple Beam Balance

How to use a triple beam balance
Practice using a triple beam balance online

Lab Safety Video

Lab Safety Video (you do NOT have permission to watch other YouTube videos)

Yoky Matsuoka

Back to School Survey

Take the Back to School Survey

Games
Nobel Prize Games
Edheads
Hobby Shop
Get Howie Home

Builidng Models

Help with building models
hydro-generator

solar oven

bio-gas generator

wind turbine

Magnate

Magnet song!

Sound

Can you hear the mosquito ring tones?

Tsunami

Before and after images

How Tsunamis happen

Tsunami

Tsunamis and earthquakes

Nuclear Crisis

How did it happen?

Radioactivity

Earthquake Activity

Aftershocks

Earth shifts it axis

The Science of Earthquakes

S and P Waves