1. Natural Forces Reflection
WildWeather Experiments:
My favorite weather experiment was making a tornado because it was
very amazing that we can make tornadoes by using bottles and water.
Some of the important things I learned about weather were that clouds
form when the billions of water droplets come together. If I did more
experiments, I would like to know more about volcanoes or wild fires.
Scientific Report Writing:
I wrote scientific reports about air pressure, the water cycle, static
electricity and length.The easiest reportfor me to write was about
static electricity because I already knew that static electricity happens
when the electrons jump. The hardest reportfor me to write was the
length investigation because everyone’s recordings in our group were
different. I am proud of my science report on length because my data
were was to understand and I showed my results clearly in a table.
While writing these reports, I became better at writing in a scientific
way (with the right steps) and using scientific words.
Research:
The natural disaster I researched was Earthquakes.
During my research, I found it easy to research about earthquakes
cause because many books had a lot of information about cause. I found
it difficult to find information about response. I worked especially hard
at finding out about how people respond after an earthquake because I
had to find many books to put the information together. Compared with
my last research task, I found this task easier because this is my third
time to do research about something by myself. The best source of
information was a book called “Earthquakes” (Smart Reader).If I wrote
my speech again, I would try to make my speech more entertainingwith
talking between the presenters.
Delivering My Speech:
I am proud of my documentary because our documentary has a lot of
information. I worked especially hard at memorizing my speech because
our group’s speech was harder than other groups. Next time I deliver a
speech I will try to speak even more loudly.
What else?
During this natural forces unit I especially enjoyed editing my
documentary because I could learn about green screen technology.
After this unit, I will continue to read books about natural forces
because they are really interesting to me.