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Since this is the last bonus blog of the year, I want you to tell me what your favorite laboratory or demonstration was this year.  Also tell me why it was your favorite and what you learned from it.  3-5 sentences.

The end is almost here…of school that is.  We are almost through our third major unit of the school year.  We learned about catastrophic events, human organ systems, and are finishing up energy, machines, and motion.  For this week’s blog reply, tell me which unit you liked the best, and why.  Be sure to answer in 3-5 sentences or you won’t get your credit.

We have been learning about simple machines in our energy, machines, and motion unit.  Lately, we have used various types of simple machines.  Simple machines are objects that make work easier for us.  You had an assignment to make a diagram of a Rube Goldberg design in class.  For this week’s bonus blog, I want you to find a video online (on youtube, teachertube, google video, etc..) with a Rube Goldberg invention in it.  Type the link, and tell me what the purpose of the machine is.  Also list 3 to 5 simple machines that you identified in their invention.

This week in school you have been learning about world war 2 in all of your classes.  I want you to choose one of the technologies that was new to world war 2 that we discussed in class and tell us some more information about it.  List where you found the sources.

Now that spring is finally here, we are starting to see different wildlife outside.  There are birds around that we didn’t see during the winter.  I want you to do some research, and tell me what a migratory bird is.  Then I want you to pick a migratory bird and tell me 3 important or interesting facts about it.  Also tell me what web pages you found information on.  Make sure that they are credible web sites!!!

We have learned how to calculate power and work in our physical science unit.  I want you to type a story problem that asks to either calculate work or power.  Below the post, I then want you to type in the answer to your question.

This week when talking about different types of forces, we have been introduced by some work that was thought of by Isaac Newton.  I want you to tell me some important facts about Isaac Newton and some of his discoveries.  Tell me why they are important to science today.  Use the internet or other sources to help you find information, and list them at the end of your post. 

I found a pretty interesting article about a growing popularity among chefs and using science to help them prepare new modern dishes.  It also talks about how this practice actually dates quite far back in time.  Tell me 5 things you learned or found interesting.  The site is at:  http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080329/bob10.asp

as you have probably noticed, many changes have been made to the sciepod web site.  It is now on the school server so we have a lot more room to put up more resources to help you.  For this week’s blog tell me your thoughts on the new site.  What do you like, and what do you not like about it?