Volcano and Earthquake

Kinnaur Earthquake

Where:Himachal Pradesh, India
When: January 19,1965
Hazards associated with event: Landslides, rockfalls and avalanches were a big risk during the earthquake.There were two large landslides that occurred in Maling, India and the other near a river in Sumdo.
Impact of the event: The magnitude of the earthquake was 7.8 on the Ritcher Scale which is a scale from 0-10. The earthquake caused a large destruction of monasteries (including two of the largest monasteries- Key Monastery and Tabo Monastery) and buildings within the state which led to a massive restoration within the country. Over a hundred people lost their lives during the earthquake.

Mount Mayon Volcano

Where: main landmark of Albay Province, Philippines
When: It is th most active volcano in the Philippines, it has erupted over 49 times in the past 400 years. It is still active but, no eruptions have been as bug as the 1814 eruption.
Hazard associated with event: The most destructive  eruption with the Mayon volcano occurred on February 1, 1814. This is  known to be the most deadly eruption in Mayon's history. 2,200 Albay locals died because of this eruption.
Impact of the event: tephra that buried the town of Cagsawa. Trees were burned; rivers were certainly damaged. Proximate areas were also devastated by the eruption with ash accumulating to 9 m (30 ft) in depth.

Volcano Eruption in 2009

By: Hilari Hatch

Erica Baca

Ashley Jackson

Brianna Duran

Maria Armijo

Caitilyn Jay

SBG Essay

Topic: Scientific Process                    SBG ESSAY ASTRO

Learning Goal: To understand that science is non-linear, creative, and cyclically in

nature.

4. Can do items in 2 and 3. You can discuss and provide examples of social, historical, and cultural influences that make science subjective and may introduce bias. Connect to the larger cultural experience of observations and storytelling. You understand the scientific processes as practice and can explain/teach to another person. You can create analogies between science process and every day experiences and find connections across disciplines. Independently demonstrate extensions of your knowledge.

Comment: As we walked around the class and learned about other people’s projects one thing I was interested in was reading about was the Big Bang Theory. This will definitely introduce bias within the class room. As it conflicted with my religious beliefs, I believe it may do the same with others. I wanted to know about it because in order to be able to argue correctly I would need to know more about my opposing views.  I think that I achieved this goal because I can independently show the knowledge I have gained. I was able to explain to my Dad about the messenger mission to Mercury. He was impressed because he did not know about it and because I was able to describe the mission. I was also able to intelligently tell him about seasons. I had an intelligent conversation with my dad who is very intellectual!

3. Can do items in 2. You can deal with the frustration of creating/executing a research project and develop a positive attitude required to complete inquiry projects. You can examine/analyze the inquiry process using Harwood’s Activity Model for Inquiry and critique your own work. You can identify dependent and independent variables and develop experiments that require controlling variables. Be able to clearly communicate to others. Participate in the global community of citizen scientists. Interpret and manipulate data in a variety of formats, such as technical drawings, graphs, tables, charts and, maps to analyze results and derive and defend conclusions using evidence.

Comment: I won’t lie, there were times I want to pull my hair out because I just didn’t understand something. Our subject for our project was more frustration because we had to find time to meet us as a group or because a lot of the information we found was repetitive but, in the end we were able to put our poster and Prezi together. We definitely had positive attitudes about it because we learned, well I did at least! Through the Prezi’s we researched and found information about different parts of astronomy and through the Poster project we were able to narrow it down to one specific aspect of astronomy. I applied the Hardwood’s diagram to Astronomy because we identified problems, made observations, asked questions and investigated the known. Being able to communicate with others is always vital while working with science. We shared data and worked together to have a better understanding of seasons. We used graphs, charts and maps to give us a better understanding for why the seasons change. This is where I felt like pulling my hair out and I had to communicate with Matt and others to help me. I was annoyed that we recorded so much data, and I wondered why? In the end it was all the data and graphs that really helped me write my essay about seasons. Astronomy is a lot different than Physics in the fact that in physics we can do experiments and somewhat control the outcomes. Astronomy wasn’t, we collected data and compared it with other data to find the outcomes. When it comes to experiments in Astronomy, it would be kind of hard to control a spacecraft in outer space!  

2. You can generate testable questions and design experimental procedures that are reliable,

reproducible, and executable. You can collect accurate data on the natural world including

observations using your senses and length, mass and time data. You understand the definition of

science, theory, law, hypothesis, and experiment and how they relate to each other.

Comment: Astronomy is the study of outer space, anything and everything in it. Unlike Physics, Astronomy didn’t require us to design experimental procedures, we collected data and observed information that we researched. Length was used while we studied different time frames that have to do with Space, we used light-years to measure length of time. Time was used as a dependent variable in a class while collecting and testing data. While researching different cities in the world and how they correlate with each other, we used times of the year and day to test the hypothesis of how and why the seasons are changing between hemispheres.

1. Can do all of the 2.0 items with help plus know that science involves developing an understanding of the world through posing and answering questions. Know that scientific ideas are subject to change yet durable and that science cannot provide answers to all questions.

Comment: Science is an something that is always changing and experiments are always being modified. One thing I learned was that I can only gained better understanding for science by asking questions! Not all the questions can be answered in one sentence. Science is very opened ended, meaning that questions can have many answers and answers are always being modified and changed. I definitely have had times I was beyond confused but Matt is a very great teacher. I can definitely say I like being confused in this class because I know I will learn something. This is one class I have actually learned.

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Capstone Video

TED Video

  The TED video was very interesting. It touched a bunch of different areas. The video almost came off as anti teacher. It is amazing how kids can teach themselves stuff faster and perhaps better than an actual teacher, but i believe that there has to be a balance with the amount a computer teaches and amount a teacher teaches. There are things that are better to be taught by a teacher. Kids won't always show interest in everything they need to learn. Kids learn better on the computers because they are interested in elecronics, when you are interested in something it is easier to learn.

Another thing that interested me was, it opened my eyes to realize how we can at times under estimate how much goes on in a child's head, in a sense. There are things children can teach themselves and we don't always give them enough credit for their creativity.

I started workin in a 1st grade classroom and reading this I applied this to my students and realized how there are kids that in my class  that would benefit from it and some that I think wouldn't as much as others. The kids are at so many different levels of learning and they all process things so so so differently. In a college class at UNM, my class was mostly online, and I strugggled. I dont even really remember learning, just remember hating the computer while taking tests and such. Therefore, By altering the way of education to learning on a comupter, I believe would affect us in both a negative and positive way because some kids, more than others would benefit from it.

But, Just as a side note. By the way the world is moving with electronics, I think it will come to where computers will generate a teacher like figure to teach us ha ha            

Response to "The educational value of creative disobedience"

As i read this article i found it to be very interesting. I do agree with almost all of what the author wrote about. It was long but, it kept my attention the entire time. It was very inspiring for me. As a future teacher it makes me want to be in the classroom to put some of her method to use. She went over many different points. She talks about how school systems today follow the old same routines and nothing changes, even when there have been different studies show that a different way of learner can really help students of every grade level. It got me wondering why teachers now days don't try to use different methods of learning. Perhaps long time teachers are stuck in their old way of teaching and its too much work and effort to change the way they teach? I think that teachers should consider taking a step to change the way they teach because its not about the teachers, its about the kids! As this new generation of brand new teachers comes,i cant help but wonder if we will grasp this concept of teaching that the author talks about and use it. It obviously works. Allowing the children to explore and make mistakes is something that can help them in their education and in their lives. This article impacted me by making me think about my classes and if any of my teacher take this approach to teaching. One that came to mind was my science. Not to suck up to Matt or anything but, it does allow up to learn hands on and through making mistakes on our own in experiments. I have been in classed that lecture the ENTIRE time! I learn NOTHING! I learned how to get around things and how the system works so I can pass but thats it. I can honestly say that in Science i have some understanding of something that i thought would be very very very hard for me and thought i would be lost the entire time. Matt's class forces me to learn the material. Overall, This article was very fascinating and makes me want to be a better teacher!

Newton's Laws of Motion

By: Ashley Jackosn, Hilari Hatch and Erica Baca

Motion On Planets

Freefall Experiment

• Freefall is free descent of a body in which the gravitational force is the only force acting on it. We did three different experiments dropping various things from a 90 degree angle. 
• The distance the balls were dropped from is 10.65 m.
  
• We know that acceleration should be equal to 9.8 m/s^2.

 

     Description of Experiment: 

1. First we went up 10.65m and divided a large clay ball into two different sizes-one small and one large. This made it so that they had two different masses. The two balls were dropped simultaneously several times while we recorded each trial to verify that they hit the ground at the same time.
2. The second experiment consisted of three different balls- a ping pong ball, a bouncy ball, and a styrofoam ball. They were all dropped at the same time from 10.65 m. There were about five trials and each one was recorded. Since the balls had different masses the balls hit the ground at different times. 
3. The final experiment was dropping a golf ball and timing it to see when it hit the ground from the distance of 10.65 m. We had five timed trials to see if the times were consistent with each other. 

Date and Calculations for Golf Balls

The goal of the golf ball experiment was to find the acceleration and see if it was close to the known acceleration which is 9.8 m/s^2. We knew the formula for calculating distance which is d= 1/2at^2. We knew the distance which was 10.65m so that left us to calculate the average time in order to find the acceleration.

We calculated the average time that it took the golf balls to hit the ground. The average time was 1.63 seconds. Since we now had the average time we plugged the know factors into the distance problem which left us with this equation:

After finding the acceleration we calculated the percent error:

Thursday's Class

Well, Thursdays class was very intense. At first i was very confused! I will admit, i was a bit discouraged because my group seemed as if they knew exactly what they were doing and how to do it. I am not good at all with math or science stuff. I struggle a lot. I started to freak out because i knew i couldn't just copy them and let them do all the work because I would HAVE to know how to do all that for a test. I tried and tried to figure out how and what the heck they were doing and how they knew that they were doing everything correctly?! I didn't want want to ask them to explain every little thing because that can be annoying if your working and you know what your doing and I already felt dumb enough!! But I finally laid down my pride and just asked them. They happily explained some things to me, but what really helped was when Matt drew a picture on the board and explained the timing and equations on the board for me to see with my eyes. I guess the picture really helped me. I took a picture of the board and I have been reviewing it a lot to remind myself to how to do the problem. I will try to post the picture. Thank you Matt for that explanation it helped me a lot and cleared up a ton of confusion. I left class feeling so much better about what I had learned!!

Schools Kill Creativity Video

After viewing this video it had me wondering a lot!! It had me wondering what if I was really born an amazing artist but  i may have been, as Ken Robinson says, "educated out of it," because i am the worst person when it comes to art and drawing!! ha ha But really, by watching this video it was full of information about how the universal school system has created this idea of what education and smart people are. People are led to believe that, like the video says, "you can never have a career or job through your music or art", that is just something to fall back on. I agree with what Ken Robinson say about that, he says the consequence is that many brilliant, creative and smart people think that they are not. All because everything at school they say its not good enough and it wasn't valued. The story of the the girl who danced in the room alone when she heard music was very interesting because its like these kids in schools can have these amazing talents and they are all told to sit down, be quiet and listen. It is like putting a lid on a jar of beautiful butterfly's who are dying to get out and fly! Okay, i know that was cheesy but that all i can think of. The video was very interesting, i really like watching these.

Text Video and image 8/25/11

The 5.8 earthquake on the eastern coast of the United States was a surprise to many who thought it was thunder. As videos and pictures show, it left damange. The national cathedral was damanged and will cost millions to fix. The last earthquake in that area was in May 2008 with a 2.0 magnitude.