Saturday, February 28, 2009

This week in science we finished learning about rocks and minerals. We finished the contest on the minerals packet. We learned how to find the density of minerals and how to tell the differencs. We had to identify where they were on the hardness scale, cleavage, luster, and color streak. We leaned that sometimes the color streak isn't the same color as the outside color. Some problems that came up while we were doing the packet was we didn't know the exact harness scale so it was hard to place them in order. The measurments on how to find density weren't exact either so we didn't know if it was right.




Also this week we started to learn about physics. We learned about how sometimes you can bemoving and not know it so if you see something you pass, you could think it's moving and you are staying still. Famous scientists strated out with a geocentirc model instead of a heliocentric model because they thought the earth was still and all other planets moved. If they had known the earth moved they would have known that the planets revolve around the sun.



We also learned that if there are two cars and one is moving forwards and one stays still, the car that's moving could think the other car is going backwards. So if something is still, depending on the movement of something else, that something else could still think the stationary object is moving.

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