AP Physics 1 and AP Chemistry students spent two full days at the Umana Academy working with 6th grade students on the topic of heat. The 6th graders learned some heat basics and then applied their skills with an engineering challenge – who could build the best container to keep heat in and who could do it while spending the least amount of money? The high schoolers had spent days preparing informative heat stations and getting ready to help their mentees with the challenge.
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In chemistry today students learned about phase changes – how does a gas become a liquid, how does a liquid become a solid, and can a solid go directly to being a gas without becoming a liquid first? Students investigated the solid to liquid transition and liquid to gas transition by measuring the temperature of water as it heats up. Friction was the topic of the day in physics. Students learned about how the roughness of a surface can affect how much friction it has. We rolled cars across many different surfaces and figured out which one had the most friction. Students conduct a cellular respiration lab in Ms. OJ's biology class. They are practicing designing testable questions, gathering data and drawing conclusions. |
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