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 1. What did you learn in the lab section this week? - In our lab section this week, I learned more about the importance of inquiry in a science classroom and even in a general classroom. The main thing that we talked about was the data that shows that climate change is happening. We looked at articles that talked specifically about Iowa being in danger because of the rising temperatures. Since more days are above 90 degrees in Iowa, many different complications are occurring. Migration patterns are being affected. There is a rise in allergies because the plants are growing earlier.  What did you learn in the discussion?  - In our class discussion, I learned more about how dumb a lot of people are thinking that climate change is not real. I learned more about how the glaciers are melting and how, in my lifetime, I will probably not be able to see glaciers because they are quickly melting and retracting. We learned about the Paris Agreement, which was a treaty on climate c...

  What did you learn in the lab section? - In our lab section this week, we talked about what we want to know about climate change, and we said we want to talk about what changes we can make to help save our earth and how big corporations affect climate change a lot more than a singular person does. After our talk about climate change, we looked directly at how Iowa has been affected throughout many years, and we looked specifically at days with precipitation above and below the threshold. My table focused on the southern part of Iowa, where the University of Iowa is, and we picked Central City, Clinton, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to look further into. We found out that the precipitation has increased by 34.8%. Lastly, we talked about how the goldfinches of Iowa are in danger because of the humidity and increase of precipitation.  What did you learn in the discussion? -We had an exam this week.  What did you learn in the press book readings? I learned in the press book readi...

 What did you do in the lab this week? - In our lab section, we talked about the law of superposition. We talked about sedimentary rocks forming layers that become buried under more layers over time. The layers above are younger than the layers below. The Law of Superposition helps geologists deduce the relative ages of layers of rock. For our experiment, we looked at the different characteristics of sand, which are water, glacier, and wind. While looking at the different characteristics of sand through the microscope, we determined, based on the characteristics, where the sand originated from.  What was the big question of the lab? -Laws of Position What did you learn in discussion? - In our discussion section we talked about the book called Archimedes and the Door of Science . This book demonstrated how when measuring water with other things in it you also have to measure the amount of water that falls out of the container. This segwayed into the discussion of Archimedes Law...

What did you do in the lab? In our lab section, we discussed how we assess our students and what it actually means to give a student an A. We also discussed how the curve would be determined for our recent exam. We discussed grade inflation and how grades have been increasing since the 1960s. We went over all of the answers to our exam as well. We later talked about how the Earth has multiple layers and how tectonic plates move. For our main activity, we melted and melded starbursts together to see the different rock formations that were created on our Earth. The three different types of rocks that we covered in our class were igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.  The big question in the lab? - Rock Formations  What did you talk about in the discussion? - In our lecture, we went into further detail about rock formations. We talked about the cycle of rock formations and how all rocks start from magma, and when magma is cooled, it forms igneous rocks, and from igneous ro...

 1. What did you learn in lab this week? - In our lab section this week, we talked about the timing of when things happened on Earth. We looked at a timeline that started with the creation of our universe or the "Big Bang," and it ended up where we are today. We started off by guessing where we thought some important historical things happened on the timeline, like dinosaurs, human creation, plant creation, etc. Then we realized that our predictions were way off because it has been a lot more time than we actually think. In our table groups, we looked at the Earthviewer website and checked when historical things like the ice age and the creation of oxygen actually happened, and then we calculated them to fit on our smaller-scaled timeline. My group found out when exactly oxygen was introduced onto Earth, and another big one was when the Earth was a snowball. We then went into a further discussion about how the Earth melted from that stage of its lifetime.  2. What was the big...

 What did you learn in lab this week? - In our lab section this week, we talked about more information on a variety of things involving space through class presentations. For the origin of the universe, we learned that many people believe in one of the three theories of how the universe was created. Those three theories are the Steady State Theory, the Big Bang Theory, and the Eternal Inflation Theory. In our stars presentation, we learned that a star's life depends on its mass. This means that the larger the mass, the shorter the life of the star. In the Galaxies presentation, we learned that most large galaxies have massive black holes at their centers, which can be billions of times the mass of the sun. Also, you can only see .0004% of our galaxy. What we learned in the Origin of the Earth presentation is after a massive star went through its lifespan and exploded, our sun and planets were made, so the Earth was born. What we learned about black holes is that black holes are hug...