Today in integrated science, students shared their work with the Colored Spring Lab and we discussed what their results meant. We discovered that each of the colored Springs had its own stiffness that was represented by its slope on our graphs. The units for the slope were in N/cm, meaning that 0.5 N/cm slope meant that each 0.5 Newtons of force stretched the springs by 1 cm.  Afterwards, students were challenged to take the 5 springs and put them in order of their strength.

In science 8 class,  students began with the bell ringer question of, “How do we know where the tectonic plates are?” Students who have begun notecards know that at plate boundaries, certain features are created. The location of these features can help students know where the plate boundaries are. After this introduction, we reviewed the Finding the Tectonic Plates Lab. Students will be using a file called the  Dynamic Earth (no plate lines) kmz file that overlays certain geological data onto a Google Earth planet. Students will be working in the next few days to discover features around the earth that tell scientists where the plate boundaries actually are.

HOMEWORK: Integrated= study for your test Thursday, review day tomorrow
Science 8= Earth Science Vocab Set 3 due Wednesday