Monthly Archives: September 2008

Using the Web

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The internet is a great tool to help us learn and explore. Last week we had the first of many Media Center Days we’ll be having throughout this year. As the year progresses we’ll use the internet more and more, and perhaps in ways you haven’t used it before. Already, for many of you, posting a comment on a website was something new.

The internet will become a regular part of your school work, in class and outside. Learning is not restricted to the classroom or a textbook. The path is open for you to explore. You might want to start by checking out some of the links listed on the Resources page.

Computer Lab

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Evaporation

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Have you been watching the water cycle? As I’m writing this I look out my window, just past my computer screen, and see a couple of rain drops hitting the pool’s surface and I watch the rings as they stretch out across the water. But as the rings work their way towards the pool edge I notice how low the water level has fallen —- hmmm, evaporation I think, as the water cycle song runs through my head.

Here’s some quick pics from your latest inquiry ‘What Affects the Rate of Evaporation”.

Evaporation Rates

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Water Cycle Inquiry

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The famous water cycle drawing

The famous water cycle drawing (click to enlarge)

While some of you are working on your creative version of the water cycle song (dance?), which we’ll post here, we are moving on and looking more closely at the mechanisms of the water cycle.

The basics of the water cycle, those marked in red, should be familiar to most students. But how well do you really know the water cycle? Take a closer look, what’s happening? I wonder…..

Over the next several days we’ll conduct an investigation into what affects the rate of evaporation and perhaps try to answer another student’s question “Is rain clean?” If the water is polluted on the ground does the pollution go with the water when it evaporates? How do we get acid rain?

Are you still wondering about the water cycle? Have you begun your own investigation? Here is a great resource on the Water Cycle.

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