Mysterios Lab Reflection

I had a lot of fun with Tati doing the lab with the corn starch. We did a big mistake by adding too much water and didn't get enough time playing around with the extreme goines. But, although we did mess up at the start we did get a chance to play around. It was amazing to see how just a simple mix of corn starch and water turn into a little slimy "monster".Oh and i also learned that 1 class can clean up a classroom in 10 minutes after a very messy experiment.

Under The Sea

October 22, 2010 By Suzanne Zimbler

Everyone says there are a lot of fish in the sea, but until now even scientists knew how many were there. So ten years ago, a group of scientists decided to try to find out. They said that they’d conduct the first-ever worldwide survey on the underwater marine life. Over 2,700 scientists from over 80 countries worked together for 10 years to count, track and study new underwater species . This month in a report they shared about what they learned. On their long journey they discovered many different species; they have given 1,200 new names to science. A furry white crab takes one of the names; it spends its life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Near Africa in the Indian Ocean a 9 pound lobster takes the second one. Investigating for 10 years scientists found 250,000 marine species. In 10, 20, 30 years there might be even more or maybe less. The scientists say that we have to protect the oceans because the play a great role in our long or perhaps short lives.

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/0,27972,2026131,00.html

Cockroaches could be good medicine !?

There was a disgusting new idea reported from the scientists recently: They said that the brains of cockroaches cold help infectious diseases.
Some of you might be thinking " How come? ",well,it states that even tough cockroaches have small brains the chemical compounds in them can kill MRSA and E. coli two of the most harmful bacteria!
E. coli is planted in the human body, if you drink or eat something with coli you can get violently sick! SO,watch out!
MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus aureus
is a bacteria that can not be treated with medicine, and doctors have troubles healing it, but cockroach brains will heal the deal!
Simon Lee and Naveed Kahn are two microbiologists who worked on this study,they both work on this study at the Nottingham University in the United Kingdom, biologists are scientists that study living things and microbiologists study microscopic living things such as bacteria.
The scientists got interested in bugs since some soldiers came back from the middle east with strange infections. But what surprised them was that the cockroaches that live in that enviroment aren't infected at all! So now they are trying to find out ways they keep themselfes safe. But for now, cockroaches are annoying scary bugs with no help to us.

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20100922/Note1.asp

Spray on fashon

 Just imagine, you are a designer of your own and all u need is a spray can! An Italian young designer with help of a university professor created a special aerosol spray that contains polymer and small pieces of fabric that are mixed with solvent which helps close turn in to liquid, it is called a physical change because even though it turns from solid to liquid it still stays close. This spray on fashion could be any fabric and any color you can also put different colored spray to make a design! It can even be washed and tucked in nicely in your closet. You can wear this stuff in any weather because as i said it can be any fabric. Although it sounds ready it's not 'cause the spray still has a very strong smell that isn't pleasant and still is hard to take off from real close like jeans but the these 'magic makers' say that it's not long until they finish the project completely in no time! Now I think that spray on fashion is cool but isn't it easy just to pull on a shirt!? Well then, I guess we'll just have to find out! 

  

http://www.dogonews.com/2010/9/19/need-a-new-shirt-spray-it-on

Patterns I see in my matter table

Only pattern between 3 of them is the same mass which is definite. Although there are some patterns between:
1. Gas and liquid

• Shape
• Compressibility

2. Gas and solid

• Volume

States of matter	SHAPE	VOLUME	MASS	COMPRESSIBILITY	HEATING	EXAMPLE
GAS	IT HAS INDEFINITE SHAPE	INDEFINITE VOLUME	HAS DEFINITE MASS	EASILY COMPRESSIBLE	Expands Real large	clouds
LIQUID	IT HAS INDEFINITE SHAPE	HAVE DEFINITE VOLUME	HAS A DEFINITE MASS	EASILY COMPRESSIBLE	It expands real  low	Milk, soda, tea River
SOLID	IT HAS DEFINITE SHAPE	INDEFINITE VOLUME	HAS DEFINITE MASS	NO COMPRESSIBILITY	Expands real low	Candy, couch, laptop

What I Know About Matter...

 Matter is everything around us. Matter is anything that is made of atoms and molecules and has mass. You can find matter even in outer space. Although matter can be found all over the universe, you usally find it in a few forms. There are 5 states of matter: liquid, gas, solid, plasma and fluid.  

thehttp://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_intro.html

http://physics.about.com/od/thermodynamics/f/matterphase.htm