Dough is awesome^o^

So we made Play Dough which was really cool. I wondered about this lab at first but it turned out to be really cool. So I'll explain. We start out with 2 cups of flour then 2 tablespoons of oil then 2 cups of water then 2 cups of salt. Everyone kept asking me if this was edible. Well from these ingredients it is but I don't think it would taste good or be good for your stomach so I advise you not to eat on this. So anyways we mix these ingredients and put in food coloring. Personally I love blue but we compromised on purple instead which isn't that bad but I would have preferred it blue. Because my favorite color is blue sorry I'm biased on the color. So anyway we then put it into a pot where we kept mixing until it stuck together and are able to literally pull it out and mold it like playdough. It was so much fun. We made a snail, well Esther did, and we made so many different things with it. I liked it because it was so warm. It was so funny. I was just squishing it around until Mr. Olson gave us plastic bags. Then I just mended it in the bag and was just playing around with it. It is so much fun but later on the dough gets all liquidy, I know that isn't a word but there should be a word like that. Anyway. I had fun with this project and I had fun with the people I did it with. Examine the photos. Thanks to Angelia's camera phone but I mostly took the pics unless I'm in the pic. So yes enjoy.

Elements=3

Lanthanide elements are elements with atomic numbers between 58 to 71 which are F-block elements. That you would find at the bottom of the periodic table. All of them are in the F-block except lanthanium which is not in the F-block but is instead in the D-block. So the lanthanide elements are named after the lightest element which is lanthanium.
While actinide elements are also fourteen elements but instead with the atomic numbers between 90 to 103 and like the lanthanide elements these elements are named after it's lightest element which would be actinium. Actinium is also in the D-block and the rest of the elements are in the F-block which is located under the lanthanide elements. But all actinide elements are radioactive.

Last one I promise. Don't worry it's over soon. So the last one would be the transactinide. These elements are considered the "heavy elements" and are the elements 104 to 121. Now these elements are also radioactive as well like the actinide but these are not found elements but instead are all made synthetically in a lab. The one physicist who thought of the idea of the actinide and the transactinide elements is Glenn T. Seaborg. Which has the element seaborgium named after him which has the atomic number 106.

See that wasn't so bad was it. So anyway hope you enjoyed my teacher time and hope you don't have to do it again....Wait I forgot I need to show you something before you fall asleep....one.....second........almost there..............yep keep going...............almost there............yay we got it. Here you go.


Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-... That's all, folks.^o^

Adventure Time!!!!!!!!!!

It was dark and I was trapped. All I had was my knife and my skills. I was ready for anything. I heard a growl and then it came. The most scariest thing that you have ever seen. Its....Its.....ITS.....Just kidding. No nothing that creepy would ever happen.........I think..... Anyway. I had the superest (not a word but I'll use it anyway) time ever. My class and I went on a Field Trip! This was really cool because I haven't had a field trip in a while so this gave me a much needed break from school. Everything wasn't going right so this all just gave me a break from school, people, and drama. Well I'm refreshed and ready to go. I really love that Mr. Olson let us do this. This was I believe to be the best thing for my entire school year. I had so much fun. I got to see nature, well going along the trail with EVERYONE wasn't the best idea but when he let us go on our own. That was the best. I got to just hang out with two friends and we just enjoyed nature with all of its sounds, sights, and feelings. We felt so comfortable just being there. I loved it. My only down fall of the trip were the people who didn't want to go. They just went along with everyone but complained every minute. I want to have people who want to be there and that way it is a lot more fun. Everyone can really enjoy nature for what it is. Well that's my view and it's a little long. Oh well. Please enjoy my map.

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IProposeWe

Well my proposal for a lab would be to pop a balloon without truly popping it. That is confusing so let me go on with the lab and it will all be explained.
Materials*balloons
*metal skewers or wooden skewers
*petroleum jelly (vaseline)
*a sharp pin*cellophane tape

Safety Precautions
*Point the tip of the skewer away from your face
*Put safety goggles on just in case the balloon pops
Procedure
1.Blow up the balloon but not too full
2.Dip the tip of the skewer into the vaseline and then spread the vaseline along the skewer
3.Gently insert the skewer in a twisting motion at the top of the balloon
4.Keep pushing the skewer all the way through until you can see the tip at the other end.
Explanation
Do you know what happened??? Well to answer that question you look deep into the balloon. Well not in the way a fortune teller looks into her glass sphere. No!!! We look muscularly. So rubber consists of polymers (long molecules linked together), but when they are chemically attached to each other then it is called cross-linking. This allows the balloon to be elastic until the pull is too great, then the polymer would break apart. Anyway, now you know this, the explanation of the skewer being able to go through the balloon is this. Since the middle of the balloon is the most stretched and the top and bottom of the balloon isn't then. This lets the skewers slip through the balloon by pushing the elastic molecules aside and the the cross-link remains so the balloon stays intact. This is a long explanation I know but it is quite interesting. Anyway if you are up for it there is another trick that would be fun. Just keep reading.
Procedure
1.Blow another balloon
2.Put the cellophane tape on the side of the balloon
3.Now slowly put the needle through the tape
Explanation
Wasn't that cool. Well the reason for this is that the tape held the balloon together and wouldn't let the elastic stretch which makes the balloon maintain its form. Which means the tape reinforces the cross-link together.

Webber

Wow. All I can say is wow. I had so much fun with the guest speaker. He was so much fun to work with. I just thought it would be just another lecture but it was the complete opposite. They were unbelievably great to have around. He had so much energy and was very inspirational. I never got bored with what they did. The labs that they did were so much fun and was the opposite from what I expected. My favorite and most funny lab was the one with the marshmallow. This already big marshmallow doubles it's side in the chamber but when the gas is released back in the chamber the marshmallow shrinks double it's size. It was so funny because of the expression Brijesh made. It just made the lab that much more enjoyable. This was a very good boaster for chemistry and makes me want to learn more.

Crushed

We just did a lab where we got to crush cans well we didn't do it with our bare hands but we did crush hands. Let's just say we got to crush cans without any force of our own. We used pressure. Well to be exact we used air pressure. It was really cool. The first time we did it we had no idea what we were doing but we were totally shocked when it happened. The lab consisted of a empty can a hot plate and a little bit of water. So we put a little bit of water in the can and we put that on the hot plate. With that we let it steam out all of the air. When we believe the air is mostly all gone we quickly in one movement put the can into cold water with the openning down. With that the can crushs in on itself. We couldn't fathom it the first time we tried it but once we did it over again twice and three times we kind of got what was happening. We believed that the air inside the can was pushed out from the steam that was coming out. So we we exposed the can to the air pressure in the water we crushed the can. Since there was no air pressure that was pushing against the can from the inside the can would just crush from the pressure from the outside. It was all very fascinating.

BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved what you did with those bubbles. You just lit it on fire and it floated to the ceiling. At frist it would just make more bubbles or something but you made floating fire which was really cool. The first time you did it I was so surprised and shocked. I had no idea what was happening and I just felt heat right in front of my face. It was so cool. The second time I saw everything and it was so cool. Even without the fire the bubles floating up was cool too. I was wondering how that happened but then you lit it on fire and that was just too awesome. I got worried when you said to light the bubbles on your hands on fire and was totally scared when you backed off like that. I knew playing with fire was dangerous but that puts a whole new meaning to it.