Good morning, Div. 5!
Today is Wednesday, which means it is time for another mystery science!
This week’s mystery science we will explore how solid rock breaks apart into smaller pieces through a process called weathering (including root-wedging and ice-wedging). In the activity, Sugar Shake, you can use sugar cubes as a model for rocks. Then you are invited to perform an experiment with this model to understand the process of weathering and how this process explains why rocks at the tops of mountains are jagged, while those at the bottom are rounded.
- Watch this video
- Try the experiment! (if you don’t have any sugar cubes, you can just make the predictions! You can click here to see a video of someone doing the experiment – with some bonus content too!)
- Reflect on your learning with the attached form.
- Try these extensions (optional):
- Go on a Plant Walk – look for plants that have taken root where humans might think they “don’t belong”. You may find grass growing in cracks in a sidewalk or plants sprouting between stones or bricks in a wall.
- Check out this 10-minute video from Yosemite National Park which shows what happens when rocks break off a steep slope.
- Read this article called 2,500 Tons of Rock Fell Off Half Dome.
- Discover this demonstration involving “Mighty Beans”!
Today we are also launching Hana & Yannes’s Art Contest!
Yannes and I(Hana) were thinking of doing an art contest.
All Div. 4 & 5 students are invited! (Siblings can enter too!)
The due date will be May the 14th.
The pictures can be uploaded to the ART channel in Teams!
The criteria:
- It has to be art related
- Be creative
- No comparison
- Most of all Have Fun!
By: Hana & Yannes
Thank you for submitting this great idea, Hana and Yannes! You are encouraging your classmates to be creative and share their ideas with the class! We look forward to seeing everyone’s art projects! You can share multiple art projects – even art projects you did earlier in the term (such as the climate art!). Your siblings can also share their art for the contest, you will just have to help them upload it to our team! Please let me know if you need any help or have any questions!
Check out this Climate Art from a Div. 5 student! 🙂
This Div.5 student started with plotting the points on their graph!
Check out the finished product! It looks awesome!!
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