Thousand Oaks Science

Welcome Back !

2009-09-09T11:58:00.000-07:00

Hello students and families from Thousand Oaks. This year we started off with the traditional diet coke and mentos experiment. Here you can watch a quick video of our activity. Students, please answer the question posed last week regarding your theory on the reaction of diet coke and mentos .

What is your theory on the diet coke and mentos phenomenon ?

Lake Anza Soccer

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why do these crazy children have there mouths open?

Tilden Camping Trip

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What sort of fate awaits these exuberant youth?

Lake Anza

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Why are these dudes squinting ?

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What kind of wildlife did you observe?

Before Photo

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What do you suppose these teachers are thinking ?

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What did you enjoy at the lake ?

Tilden Camping Trip

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What did you learn or observe on the hike ?

Mixture Web Questions

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GO to the first link on the page mixture soluability
Then click on Chemistry on the left side of the page
Find the corresponding experiment to your table number and answer the questions about the experiment- make sure to add one of your own and sign your names!

Table 1- Go to States of Matter
1. Why does the K go up everytime you change molecules?
2. Make a table for the K Measurements for solid, liquid and gas for each molecule.
3. Why are there different K measurements for each molecule?
4. What did this game teach you?
Write another question about this experiment:

Table 2- Go to Salts and Solubility
1. What happens when you add water?
2. What happens when you drain water?
3. Why and when do they stick together?
4. Why do the ones that are already sticking together not go out when you drain the water?
Write another question about this experiment:

Table 3 - Go to Models of H Atoms
1. On Billard ball setting, why do the little stars bounce off the ball?
2. What changes happen when you switch to white from monochromatic?
3. Why are there different colors?
4. Does anything change when you speed up the process?
Write another question about this experiment:

Table 4- Go to Greenhouse Effect

1. What happens when you click the Ice Age button?
2. What do the red dots represent?
3. What do the yellow dots represent?
4. What does the thermometer tell you?

Write another question about this experiment:

Table 5- Go to Gas Properties
1. How much pressure does it take to go all the way up?
2. How does heat affect the gas and pressure?
3.How does the cold affect the gas and pressure?
4. What is different between the volume and the temperature?
Write another question about this experiment:

Table 6- Go to Reversible Reactions
1. How does the reversible reaction change?
2. Can you predict how the dots will react when you add heat?
3. Can you predict how the dots will react when you remove heat?
4. Does it change anything if you raise one side higher than the other side?
Write another question about this experiment:

An Inconvenient Truth

2008-10-02T13:45:00.000-07:00

What are some effects of global warming on weather ?
What are some effects on your health ?
What are some effects on wildlife ?
What are the effects on sea levels ?
( use link - More Causes of Global Warming )
What can you/we do to help reduce global warming ?
( use link - An Inconvenient Truth )

Hurricane Ike

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What level of hurricane was Ike when it made landfall ?
Why did it weaken after landfall ?
What is the connection between hurricane strength and global warming ?
( return to the weather channel link on the right sidebar for information )

Ike Aftermath:
click here

Storms this year:

Click here

Greenhouse effect and surface temperature

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How did the surface type influence the temperature ?

What was the effect of the plastic wrap ( Greenhouse effect ).

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What was your surface of choice ?

How did it compare with the other surfaces ?

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What was the hottest surface temperature ?
Why is this surface so hot ?

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What was the coolest surface temperature?

Diet Coke/Mentos

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Eruption Time

What caused the diet coke and mentos to erupt?

Hypothesis

Materials

Procedure

Results

Conclusion

Prairie samples non-carbonated diet coke!

How did the diet coke or mentos taste after the experiment?

Mythbusters explanation

2008-06-02T14:45:00.000-07:00

How is this damsel fly using it's color ?

Darkling beetle/isopod differences/similarities

2008-04-13T14:30:00.000-07:00

What is the preferred habitat of each?
What are some similarities between them ?
What are some differences ?
How would you design a terrarium for each organism ?
What is the most important environmental factor to consider ?

Time and place

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Where did your place your Isopods to start ?
Where were they after 5 minutes ?
Where were they at 10 minutes ?
Where would you look a day later ?

Dry Soil

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What was the Isopod's reaction to the dry soil ?

Moist Soil

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What was the isopod's reaction to the moist soil?

Wet Soil

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What was the isopods reaction to the wet soil ?

Type of soil preferred by isopods

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What are the three types of soil in the runway ?

Predict which type of soil the isopods prefer.

We know where you live!!

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Where did you find the isopods?
What was a common environmental factor(s) in the area they were found ?

Alert! Impending Blog-o-rama !!

2008-03-12T16:33:00.000-07:00

This blog will soon enable students to post their questions , comments, and responses to current science topics . This will be a student driven effort and hopefully inspire further inquiry into units studied and beyond .

Close Up Observation

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What is the actual size of an Isopod
( use millimeters ) ?