Grace Stutting

        1. What did you do in lab today? New learning/ best answers we have: - How do the phases of the moon occur?: the orbit creating a shadow  that gets bigger or smaller.  - What causes seasons?: Earths orbit around the sun making different parts of the world hotter or colder at different.  - What causes a lunar eclipse?: the sun and moon lining up perfectly.  - We learned about how there are eclipses when the sun moon and earth are in a direct line, ex. sun- earth- moon or earth - sun - moon.  We did an investigation and discussion about the earth, moon and sun rotation.  sun takes one year to orbit the earth moon phase is 28 days the earth spins one full time per day.  closest to the sun on jan 6 sun farthest from us on July 6 the earths tilt is what gives us seasons: if we were not tilted, there would only be sunlight on the equator.  We also learned about the history of moon phases and how we got to the point we are today about the orbit of the sun.  - This is how women menstru

 Week 5 Blog Post  1. The big question addressed and what you did in lab? How can we design a playground surface?                                             (Not sure if these videos will work but they are our slow motion videos of our experiments!)  We used different material to make a surface for an egg to land and not break.  We used rubber pieces, sand and seran wrap.  It worked from one meter up but broke when dropping at 2 meters. This was because our surface area was smaller, and it had more length to drop creating more energy making it bounce off/ out of the bowl landing on the hard floor causing it to break.  Small light thing hitting big heavy thing stays equal forces.  Forces are equal but thing that is bigger will take it better, EX. big car little car crash, bug hitting a moving car, etc.  Newtons 3rd Law: Objects exert forces on each other that are equal in magnitude and opposite direction.  - Forces come in equal parts. "If A pushes B to the right, B pushes A to th

 Methods II Week 4 Grace Stutting☺☺ The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. how long it takes a What affects how long it takes a swing to go back and forth?  I was not present in lab due to a funeral but after looking over the presentation and chatting with peers I learned that we investigated the way swings move back and forth along with how gravity pulls the same things are the same force. The video we watched shot at NASA we were able to see this first hand which was very exciting to see a heavy ball and feather land at the same time when dropped at the same time.  A description of what you learned in Thursday's lecture. I was not able to attend lab or lecture because of a funeral out of town:( After looking through the lecture slides and doing the readings I found information on Newtons Laws of motion which have always been confusing to me but I understand more now. I wish I could be physically present because the lecture went into great deta

 Grace Stutting Week 3 The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did. This week in Lab we learned about the big question of, "What affects a rider's speed down a slide?"       To answer this we did an activity where each group could use different variables to see what affects the speed. My group did weight. We found that there is really no correlation to weight and speed going down a slide.  A description of what you learned in Thursday's lecture. We learned about force and friction along with how things move. We looked through different variables and what shows friction and what does not. This was a bit confusing to me because there is diverse types of friction that made some of the decisions hard to make. We also learned about forces of friction and how it acts in different ways, ex. up, down, opposing direction. This is all very interesting to me and was definitely more valuable to my learning to see images and arrows. We also went over the e