To start out the week we learned precision and accuracy by throwing a tennis ball at some one with an apple on their head with a target behind them. I learned that an example of accuracy would be throwing a dart in the center of the target. Precision would be if you threw six darts in the same spot. Mrs.G showed us this is a much more fun and exciting way like everything else this week.
We started on our volume and density lab to help us understand a bit more how to calculate volume and density in regular and irregular shaped objects like humans. I was absent on Wednesday so I apparently missed a baby squirrel named Hootie which I was super bummed to have missed because everyone said it was super cute and small. The one thing I'm so glad I didn't miss is Ellie being dunked. By dunking her in water we learned her volume from how much water she displaced. This helped me learn in the future if I ever wanted to dunk someone for fun I could say it was for science and I wanted to figure out their volume.
On Thursday even before dunking Ellie we layered different liquids depending on how dense they were. Some liquids were honey, soap, oil, and water. I learned that when all put together the liquids would separate because of the difference in density.On Friday we had our quiz. I think I can improve on using all my studying resources like the assessment in the textbook. I think I did pretty well on the quiz but there is always room for improvement. Overall I think this week was really fun and can't wait to see what next week has in store.
The link below shows measuring volume by displacement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THYjqM2t4ts
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| Ellie about to get dunked |
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| Layered liquids |
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| Hootie the baby squirell |
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| Us learning the difference between precision and accuracy |
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