March+Science+Newsletter

=Science News:= Please Use Heading size 1 for your title. This will automatically make your title embed into our table of contents. please edit this page and add your science newsletter article to our class WIKI... Good luck and have fun. Dr. Walefftoc

=Weather Data= In the fifth grade we are doing weather with GLOBE. We have to take cloud cover data, contrail data, air temperature, and soil temperature. Every day between 12:00 =K'Nex Module - By Charlie Miller= In our science class we are trying to make cars out of knex pieces. The first challenge is to make any kind of car you want and you only have 20 minutes. Then you have to test the car to see if it can go 1 meter .After we tested it we had to make technical drawings. Next you have to make a standard vehicle and you have to make sure it drives 1 mason board (122cm).Last you have to turn your vehicle into a Lunar vehicle and it’s pretty hard and you only have 30 minutes.


 * 5th Grade Science Fun! - By Jennie Deeter **

The fifth graders at Utica Elementary School are doing a ‘Motion and Design’ module. This module includes Focus Questions, building, vocabulary, testing, and blue prints. 5th grade has been building vehicles with K’nex. K’nex are building pieces that come in various colors, sizes, and shapes. If you think it is all fun and games, well it isn’t. It’s like you are an actual mechanic. Sometimes it’s hard to build a vehicle that meets the standards, but it will be easier than you think! Some people will read this and think it’s hard. Well, your mind is going bonkers!

5th grade has recently finished Lesson 5. In this lesson you had to build a vehicle that could move using 3 large washers. We also had to have it touch the bookend. A bookend is a little black metal piece that is the size of a book. It can be found in the library and it is at the end of our board so it stoops the vehicle from falling off of the table. We had to have it move 122cm in 4 sec. or more or you would fail the lesson. All of the teams except one team failed, but they tried there best. We will soon update you with more science! So long for now! Tune in for next months Science newsletter! BYE!

Moon rovers - By Christian Garren We are learning about moon rovers. Another thing were learning about is how moon rovers are made and where they came from. We had to make a drawling of the rover. Then we had to make it. We made it out of k’enex. Last we had to time how fast it would go. It had to be 4-6 sec. or we failed.

=** 5th Grade Science **=

Right now in science 5th grade is actually having two science classes. We are part of the Globe Science Research Campaign. Schools are doing this all around the world with grades 5-12, and we are very happy to be part of it. We are collecting data from clouds, contrails, soil temperature, and air temperature. We input the data everyday on the computer on [|www.globe.gov]. Also we are having a Motion and Design module too. We build cars out of Knex pieces and test them using a falling weight system, speed, length, and elasticity. 5th grade is having so much fun in our science classes. They are real working scientists and keep working all the time. Keep those brains working 5th grade scientists. Sincerely, Lindsey Burchfield Grade 5

Weather Data In the fifth grade we are doing weather with GLOBE. We have to take cloud cover data, contrail data, air temperature, and soil temperature. Every day between 12:00 and 1:30 two- three people will go out and get cloud and contrail data. Then every Friday the whole class goes out so we can get the air and soil temperature. Then we go back inside and enter the data into GLOBE.com. GLOBE is a website for weather where schools ALL OVER THE WORLD are using to enter data for their clouds and contrails. Normally Dr. Waleff will pick a few people to enter the data into the website and then we send it and if it goes it gives us smiley faces J ! Also GLOBE uses solar noon so sometimes we need help. But we think it is a lot of fun, well at least I do!

Pearl Ross

= = = K’nex Science Module =

5th grade is having a blast in science. We are currently working on the k’nex science module. I am sure that this module is probably the best science module kit we’ve done all year! So far we’ve learned how far the vehicles have moved. Some of us thought that the more we wind the rubber band the farther the vehicle goes. I think that how we twist it and how much we twisted it could’ve affected our results. Well uh tha tha tha tha tha that’s all for now folks. Tune in next month for another amazing article/news letter.

J AliciaHawke J

= K’NEX =

In the fifth grade classroom they are making KNEX vehicles and testing how they run. If you think its fun and games well it isn’t the teacher only gave them 20 minutes to make a vehicle and get it right. Once you get the vehicle right you had to see if it moved 1 meter. If it didn’t move a meter you would have to trouble shoot and find the problem. After you go get the vehicle tested and it did move 1 meter you had to make a technical drawing of your vehicle the top view and the side view. This was a difficult stage for a lot of people. This is a top view of group four’s drawing. I talked to this group. The group said it is a 1965 farmall M tricycle tractor. By Derek Baker