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Geodesic Spheres FOR THE 3 D MATHEMATICS MODEL COMPETITION, I MADE GEODESIC SPEHERES USING STRAWS TO INTERPRET THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GEODESY (THE EARTH SCIENCE OF ACCURATELY MEASURING AND UNDERSTANDING EARTH'S FIGURE) IN UNION WITH THE THEME \"MATHEMATICS UNITES.' Merina Motha Sr. 4C



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WHAT IS HAPPENING TO WATER? WHY IS WA TER BENEFICIAL? 1 . There is the same amount of water on earth as it was when the earth was first formed. 2. Water could be the key to finding life. 3. Almost all of earth's water is found in oceans. 4. A cloud is made of drops of water and ice crystals that float around in the sky. 5. A lot can live in one drop of water. 6. Most of the freshest water is in ice. 7. We can live for a month without food but only a week without water. HanJiry.a4BAeg

Awesome Science Facts: Deep Sea Creatures Our planet earth is amazing. It is the only planet in the solar system where life exists. Do you know that there are deep sea creatures? They are animals that live in the part of the ocean that sunlight cannot reach. They live in tough conditions, with too less oxygen, very little food, and where it is too cold all the time. What is more interesting about them is that they can produce light called bioluminescence. This is the reason why they can see in the dark. Very little is known about these creatures because only a robot submarine can reach the bottom. Animals that live in the deep part of the ocean are fascinating. Here are just some of the animals that live way down under: Vampire Fish has Sixgill shark with Chambered large fins at the top of six slits at the gills. Nautilus is its body that looks a Most sharks have considered by lot like ears. many as a living only five. fossil. It has never changed for 400 million years. Deep Sea Anglerfish is Deep Sea Dragonfish Nael De Lara my favourite among grows to about 15 Jr. 4C the deep-sea living inches to 1 feet and 3 creatures. I love inches. In comparison watching this on TV. I to its body size, its find it strange. It uses teeth are extremely the part on top of its large. mouth as a fishing lure to catch its prey. I never get tired of watching them on TV and reading about them online. I hope you like them! Thanks.

DRINKING STRAW ROLLER Khal El S. Castro COASTER Jr. 4C MATERIALS 1.PAPER & PENCIL 2.CARDBOARD BOX 3.DRINKING STRAW 4.HOT GLUE GUN & GLUE STICKS 5.PING PONG BALL 1.Use paper and pencil to plan out and sketch a fun roller coaster for the ping pong ball to follow. 2.Using cardboard box as a base, begin building the roller coaster by attaching straws to it with hot glue. Remember to use 2 parallel straws as the track to hold the ball. 3.Before gluing, test each section out with the ball to make sure the angles work and the track is narrow enough to hold the ball and wide enough that the ball won’t fall easily. 4.Perform several test runs and modify the roller coaster as needed. OBSERVATION: Were there sections of the roller coaster you had to modify from your original plans for it to work? THE HOWS AND WHY: Gravity pulls the Ping-Pong ball down the track. But it will travel faster or slower depending on the angle of the track and the amount of friction the ball experiences against the straws.

PARACHUTE FLIERS MATERIALS 1.SMALL PLASTIC OR PAPER CUP 2. STRING 3. SCISSORS 4. PLASTIC BAG 5. STOPWATCH 6. SMALL TOYS THE STEPS 1.Punch a hole using a pencil in 4 equidistant holes along the top rim of a cup. 2.Use scissors to cut 4 length strings along, each about 14 inches long. 3.Cut a plastic grocery bag into a 14 inches square. 4. Tie one end of each string to a corner of the square. Tie the other end of each string through a hole in the cup. Try to keep each piece of string equally long so that you don’t make a lopsided parachute. 5.Stand in a high place, like a deck, a play structure, or a balcony, and drop your parachute. 6.Use a stopwatch to time how long the parachute takes to hit the ground. If it is gliding well. Load up the cup with small toys and see how long it takes the loaded parachute to reach the ground from the same height. Khara Mari Jr. 4C

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Interesting Facts Bird Facts 1.Birds don't have teeth. 2.All birds lay eggs. 3.A hummingbird weighs less than a penny. 4.An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 5.Penguins are the only birds that can swim but not fly. 6.Compared to birds’ eye human eyes would have to be the size of baseballs. 7.All birds have feathers. 8.Some birds sleep with their eyes open. 9.Ducks sleep with only one eye open. Fish Facts 1.Fishes are vertebrate animals that live in the water. 2.Vertebrate means they have a spinal cord surrounded by a bone or cartilage. 3.Some flatfish use camouflage to hide on the ocean floor. 4.Tuna fish can swim at the speed of 43 miles per hour. 5.Relative to their body size, fish have small brains compared to most other animals. 6.Fishes are covered in scales which are often covered in a layer of slime to help their movements in the water. Did you know........ Eva Ro dricks Although jellyfish and crayfish Jr. 5B have the word 'fish’ in their name, they are not actually fish. Mermaids are mythological creatures with the tail of a fish and the upper half of a woman.

SPACE SCIENCE First of all, what is Space Science? Space Science – science performed from vehicles that travel into earth’s atmosphere or beyond – covers a broad range of disciplines, from meteorology to geology, to lunar, solar and planetary science, to astronomy and astrophysics, Maverick Coutinho to the life sciences. An example of space Jr. 6D science are space probes that travel to the moon and planets. Who invented Space Science? Edwin Hubble: the man who discovered the Cosmos. But first, Do you know who started it ? Well, it is the famous Galileo Galilei in 1609 by using a telescope. What does Space Science study? Space scientists can specialize in many different fields that relate to the study of space, planets and life in the universe, including astrophysics, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology and physics. They can work in the government, the private sector of academia. It consists subjects of interdisciplinary fields e.g. Stellar, Solar, Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy, Planetary Science and Physical Cosmology, Astrobiology, Astrochemistry, Astrophysics, Space Plasma Physics, Orbital Mechanics/Astrodynamics, Atmospheric/Environmental Science, Satellite and Space Communications, Space Environment and Space Medicine.

I Only Feel Angry When I See Waste, When i See People Throwing Away Things We Could Use. -Mother Earth Gershom Joe Jr. 6D

LISE MEITNER The Forgotten Woman of Nuclear Physics who deserved a Nobel Prize... Anngela Varghese Sr. 1A The chemical element meitnerium is found at number 108 along the bottom row of a standard periodic table. Unlike natural elements, this is a highly radioactive element. Its most stable element has a half-life of just 7.6 seconds. Among the elements named after women, it is one of just two (the other is curium, after Marie Curie). Dedicated to a pioneering nuclear physicist, Lise Meitner. She excelled in mathematics and science from an early age after being born in Vienna, Austria, in 1878. She became only the second woman to receive a doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1905. After moving to Berlin, she was appointed assistant to Max Planck, a pioneering quantum physicist. In addition to being painfully shy, Meitner also continued to face significant discrimination as a woman. Her first salary did not receive until 1913 when she was 35 years old. In spite of starting a collaboration with German nuclear physicist Otto Hahn that would last for the rest of their lives, she was not allowed in his main laboratory. Rather, she was forced to work in a carpentry workshop in the basement.

PLANT KINGDOM Plants can be amazing living things. They come in hundred thousand kinds. They provide nectar, sweet scent, food like fruits and vegetables, while others trap insects. Plants use the process of Plants can be classified into five main groups: photosynthesis to Thallophyta: any of a group of plants or plantlike organisms, such as algae and fungi, transform water, sunlight that lack differentiated stems, leaves, and roots and carbon dioxide into Bryophyta: a division of small flowerless green plants which comprises the mosses and oxygen, and simple sugars liverworts. Pteridophyta: Any of a division of vascular that the plant uses as fuel. plants (Such as a fern) that have roots, stems and leaves but lack flowers or seeds. Plants produce oxygen as a Gymnosperms: a plant of a group that comprises those that have seeds unprotected waste product. That’s why, Angiosperms: A plant of a large group that comprises those that have flowers and a place with a lot of plants produce seeds enclosed within a carpel, has a lot of fresh air. Honey which is very sweet and delicious starts from nectar from flowers. Nectar is Chlorophyll, the primary produced in glands known as nectarines. The glands are commonly found at the base of facilitator of flowers, where they produce nectar as a reward for pollinators. The nectar is collected photosynthesis absorbs by bees, which get broken down into simple sugars stored inside the honeycomb. the red light from the sun Different plants are used for different things but mostly all of them are and reflects unused green useful. Some even make medicines. light. Because of this, plants appear green in colour. Petals of the flowers do not contain chlorophyll and so vary in colour.

HOW TO 1) Soak the green gram seeds GROW YOUR overnight for speeding up the OWN germination process. MICROGREENS AT HOME. 2) Put the seeds in a tissue but don’t cover it. Smritee Manish Sr. 1A 3) Put the tissue in a netted basket. 4) Place the netted basket on top of a tray filled with water. 5) Change the water in the tray once the level of water reduces. 6) After a week, tiny shoots will start to appear and after 2 to 3 weeks, the plant will be fully grown. Make sure to trim the leaves that can be used for salads etc. 7) You can reuse the same seeds around 3 times before disposing of them.

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES MelanSir.S1aBndra THAT HAVE CHANGED THE WORLD GRAVITY DNA Isaac Newton, an English mathematician, On February 28, 1953, James Watson and physicist is considered the greatest of the United States and Francis Crick scientist of all time. Among his many of England made one of the greatest discoveries, the most important is probably his law of universal gravitation. In 1664, scientific discoveries in history. The Newton figured out that gravity is the force two scientists found the double-helix that draws objects toward each other. It structure of DNA. It’s made up of two explained why things fall and why the strands that twist around each other planets orbit around the Sun. and have an almost endless variety of ELECTRICITY chemical patterns that create instructions for the human body to If electricity makes life easier for us, you follow. Our genes are made of DNA can thank Michael Faraday. He made two and determine how things like what big discoveries that changed our lives. In colour hair and eyes we have. In 1962, 1821, he discovered that when a wire they were awarded the Nobel Prize carrying an electric current is placed next to a single magnetic pole, the wire will for this work. The discovery has roFaraday's experiment created the first helped doctors understand diseases generator, the forerunner of the huge generators that produce our electricity. and may someday prevent some illnesses like heart disease and cancer. VACCINATION The concept of vaccines was discovered by Edward Jenner during the outbreak of smallpox in the late 1700s. He noticed that milkmaids who had contracted cowpox (the bovine form of the smallpox virus) were immune to smallpox infection. He took this one step further by placing a sample of the pustule from the cowpox-infected milkmaid’s hand under the skin of a young boy in a procedure called inoculation. Now, vaccinations are one of the ways to prevent viruses.

A gyroscope is a device with a spinning disc or wheel mechanism that harnesses the principle of conservation of angular momentum: the tendency for the spin of a system to remain constant unless subjected to external torque. Who invented the gyroscope? What is a gycrscopic system? Normal instrument flight relies in part on three gyroscope instruments: an attitude indicator (artificial horizon), a heading indicator (directional gyro, or Léon Foucault Carl Norden \"DG\") and a turn and slip indicator (\"needle and ball,\" or \"turn and bank,\" or \"turn Do animals have gyroscopes? coordinator\"). Facts Facts They are gyroscopic wired. Chickens, Cats, Owls and some more animals have this ability to keep their heads fixed on a spot, regardless of which way you hold their bodies. It is as though they have an in-built gyroscope Giftlin Savio in their heads. Sr. 1C

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THEORY OF RELATIVITY ALBERT E I N S T E I NEthanSRr.o1dCricks One of the most fundamental To describe these properties ideas in science is that of space independently, scientists use E=mc^2 and time. Both space and time where E=energy, m=mass, c=speed of light are related to one another. which is what led Einstein to create his Scientists have long attempted to equation. Albert Einstein proved that explain how space and time work matter bends space-time forming a together. curvature which drags everything to the center (gravity). So, technically we have a A recent body of scientific gravitational effect on everything; it's just research has led to the space- that bigger masses of matter have a time theory by Albert Einstein a stronger gravitational force. He also groundbreaking concept that brought up new theories due to these new explains how the universe concepts like negative mass, white holes, functions and how humans live in wormholes and also helped us try to it. understand how a black hole works. The theory of relativity was Another part of his theory is that mass developed by Einstein to describe determines how an object moves. This is how objects move in space and called general relativity and explains how time. The previous theory of Isaac mass affects space curvature. Newton states that space was just an empty void. The idea that space and time are intertwined is known as the theory of relativity. (You can try this at home by taking a stretchy fabric and placing different-sized marbles to represent the Sun, Earth, and moon. Place them on the fabric and rotate them simultaneously to simulate an orbit showing that everything moves with respect to the object with more mass.)

BENEFITS OF TREES SAVE NATURE TREES ABSORB CARBON THEY ALSO HELP IN DIOXIDE AND RELEASE REDUCING SOIL EROSION BY BINDING THE SOIL TO OXYGEN BY PHOTOSYNTHESIS. THEIR ROOTS. TO PLANT TREES IS TO GIVE BODY AND LIFE TO ONE'S DREAMS OF A BETTER WORLD - RUSSEL PAGE FORESTS HELP IN TREES ABSORB CARBON FLOURISHING WILDLIFE FROM THE ATMOSPHERE AND AND PROVIDING SHELTER STORE IT IN THEIR WOOD FOR THOUSANDS OF AND BARK, THUS SLOWING SPECIES INCLUDING THE RATE OF GLOBAL HUMANS. WARMING. Kezia Grace Sr. 2B

Test your chemistry CHEMISTRY FUN knowledge with this fun and easy Senal Ravindu quiz. Answers are at Sr. 3C the bottom of the page – NO peeking! 1.What is the spreading out of particles from higher concentration to lower 3. What is the conversion of a concentration known as? gas into a solid known as? 2.What is the conversion of a solid into a 4. What is the boiling point of gas known as? water? 5. A substance that dissolves is 7. What is the relative called a …….. ? charge of a neutron? 6. Substances that can’t be split into 8. How many protons does anything simpler by chemical oxygen have? means are known as …… ? 9. What is the electronic configuration of magnesium? 10. Which separating method is used to separate a solid from a liquid? Answers – 1) Diffusion, 2) Sublimation, 3) Deposition, 4) 100 degrees Celsius, 5) Solute, 6) Elements, 7) 0, 8) 8 protons 9) 2,8,2, 10) Filtration

Science Quiz Questions 1.The concept of gravity was 3.Which is the main gas that discovered by which famous makes up the physicist? Earth's atmosphere? 2.What is the hardest natural 4.Humans and chimpanzees substance on share roughly how Earth? much DNA? 5.Which famous British 7.How many vertebrae does physicist wrote A Brief the average human History of Time? possess? 6.At what temperature are 8.What was the name of the Celsius and first man-made satellite Fahrenheit equal? launched by the Soviet Union in 1957? 9.Which oath of ethics taken by doctors is named after an Ancient Greek physician? 10.What is the study of Fungi called? NorSarL. u3cCy Answers 1.Issac Newton. 2.Diamond 3. Nitrogen 4.98.8% 5. Stephen Hawking 6. -40°C 7. 33 8. Sputnik 1 9.The Hippocratic oath 10.Mycology

Winter is the result of Earth’s tilt One of the most important things to know about winter is that it’s primarily a result of Earth’s tilt. Our planet rotates on an axis that is tilted 23.5 degrees relative to the plane of its orbit around the sun. Facts about snow Plants in winter Snow is not just white in color it can Trees also stop the cells from be orange, yellow purple or green freezing by moving water from depending upon the dust particle or inside the cell to tiny spaces algae being trapped inside it. outside of the cells. Trees lose their leaves where Environmentalists believe salt (snow) water evaporates from plants can be bad for the environment, In Animals in winter in winter, Box turtles hibernate therefore some cities use beer their unique way. They crawl inside waster, beet juice, or pickle brine on their shell. the slippery iced roads. They spend almost 3 to 4 months inside their shell. They stop eating Snowflakes that fall through a dry, 14 days before they hibernate. cool atmosphere will be small and They come out only to drink water, powdery and won't stick together. then they go back into their shells We call this dry snow - it's ideal for skiing, but not for building a LianSarA. 4nBgel snowman.



The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain in the 1700’s. The revolution started because many more factories started to be built requiring more materials and faster way to transport them to the factories so that they could manufacture an array of important goods to sustain the country and ensure the expansion of growth. Soon other countries started to understand the importance of upgrading the technology to better help their respective communities to grow.

Here are some of the pioneers of the industrial world and discovered or reinvented things to better enhance the growing world of industry. 1. Robert Fulton Robert Fulton was born in 1785 and died in 1815. He worked in America as an engineer. He also made the first speedboat that was used commercially. The steamboat was also called the Clermont. This invention would inspire many more people to develop other boats and commercial steam boats to innovate on his design.

2. James Watt James Watt was a Scottish medical engineer born in 1736 and died in 1819. He was the person behind the reinvention of the steam engine in 1776. Without his invention of the steam engine, we would not be able exceed previous limitations with older models.

3. Samuel Morse Samuel Morse was born in 1791 and died in 1872. He made a huge breakthrough in 1830’s with the invention of the Morse code which would be used by military personnel throughout the ages and would help save many lives. The Industrial Revolution helped transform from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made by people but replaced by machines. Thus increased the speed of production and efficiency, quality, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas. So, without the industrial revolution we would not have the technology to build and create things that we are using now. This is the industrial revolution! Ethan Lopez Jr. 6C

History and Geography of Bahrain Bahrain cuisine is an amazing melting pot of delicious flavours from all parts of the world including, India, Pakistan, Iranian, Lebanese and many more. In this DYI project, I attempt to recreate a traditional Bahraini feast with realistic and life-like models of all the foods.

Materials needed: Foam Boards, Traditional Bahraini baskets, Lamination machine and sheets, Modeling Clay, Super Glue, Glue gun, Scissors, Blade Cutter, Coloured assorted foam sheets, Small Food containers, Qahwa cups Food required: Dates- A staple appetizer in most Middle Eastern menus Arabic flatbread- Khubus Bayadh -Scrambled eggs in ghee Harees- Slow cooked oats in milk Falafel -Deep-fried balls made of chickpeas Arabic Coffee Hamsat Nikhee- Fried Chickpeas Samboosa-Small triangular pastry filled with cheese or savoury meat Emmawash-Made with rice and shrimps, black-eyed peas, mung beans & lentils. Jalebi-Spiral shaped crisp & juicy sweet made with all- purpose flour, gram flour & sugar syrup.

Procedure: Assemble all food items by category in each of the small containers and then apply the varnish and hot glue. It requires minimum of 24 hours to set and dry. Prepare the foam boards with the choice of border and decorate it. Assemble the traditional Bahraini baskets on top of the foam boards. Use the hot glue to secure the baskets on the boards. Use the assorted coloured foam sheets to design the menu. Design the labels in the same way and use the assorted coloured foam sheets to decorate. Collect all food containers and set them all around the traditional baskets using the hot glue. Set the Qahwa cups and hot glue them on the foam board. Ideally, wait another 24 hours for everything to set. Arabella Ginete De Leon Jr. 4B

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