SCIENCE RULES!

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(Taken from Mrs. Yates’ Classroom Blog)

Mrs. Yates:

11/9/09

Dear Friends,

If you look up “science” in the dictionary it says the following: “Science is a continuing effort to discover and increase human knowledge and understanding through research. Scientists collect observable evidence, record measurable data relating to the observations, and analyze this information to explain how things work. The methods of scientific research include hypotheses (guesses) of how things work, and experimentation that tests these hypotheses.”

I hope this year you become inspired to ask your own questions, come up with your own hypotheses of how things work, and create your own experimentations to prove or disprove your ideas. You all have intelligent and curious minds and through innovative thinking, you can change the world! Think BIG! Tell me, what does science mean to you? What questions do you have? Maybe you are curious about biology: the study of the body and how it works, or maybe seismology: the study of earthquakes or seismic waves, or maybe physics: the study of matter and energy… the list goes on and on!

What interests you? Please respond in our new “Friendly Letter” format! Room 22 ROCKS!

Warmly,

Mrs. Yates

Max:

Dear Mrs. Yates,

Science is fun to learn! We are learning about fossils. Fossils are fun to learn about because they teach us and tell us what lived long ago. It also tells us what size and shape the plant or animal was. Fossils are also fun to learn about because we can use fossils to help us learn more about what it ate and what kind of plant or animal it was. I want to learn more about the moon, the solar system and lots of other things.

Your student,

Max

Dinosaurs

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(Taken from Mrs. Yates’ Classroom Blog)

Mrs. Yates:

Dinosaurs have fascinated Paleontologists for years. They are creatures that once roamed this earth and hold a mystery that we continue to try and solve each day. Write a paragraph about these mysterious creatures we call dinosaurs. Tell what you know about the time period, for example, when they existed. Talk about the characteristics that made dinosaurs different from each other, for example, what they ate and how they defended themselves. How do you think they became extinct and why do we, as humans, know so much about them?

Max:

Dinosaurs have lived long ago. They are very fun to learn about because no one has ever seen one. I think that dinosaurs got extinct because there was a lot of erosion. There were lots of time periods like the Jurassic period and the Cretaceous period. They all had different habitats like the plains, the forest, the swamp, and the desert. We as people know so much about dinosaurs because we have found so many fossils and imprints of dinosaurs. A meat eater is a carnivore and a plant eater is a herbivore but I forgot the one that eats plants and meat. If I were a scientist I would probably study dinosaurs.