Podcasting-- Class response-- Blog #2

Today, in class, we started researching on scientists alive or dead that we were assigned. The assignment is:

PODCASTING

First of all, what is podcasting? Podcasting is basically like a radio show that you can use to record anything you want on it. Our assignment was to pick a scientist, and then research the facts on the chosen scientist. If the name you pulled out had a; ® next to it, then your scientist is still alive and can be contacted at Rutgers University. My scientist happened to be from Rutgers and he gladly answered all of the questions that my partner and I asked. In the next few days we will begin to record the podcasts and it will be available on my blog.

Ancient Chocolate -- Current Event-- Blog #1

PEOPLE WERE EATING CHOCOLATE OVER 3,000 YEARS AGO!

Scientists had before believed chocolate was consumed a half millennium (500 years) LATER than that. They found theobromine (a substance also found in the cocoa plant which is what produces chocolate) in the ancient pottery! This just shows how the appreciation for chocolate has been there for so long and maybe is the reason for our love for it. They also had served it as a desert at weddings and other special occasions, just like us! Our ancestors sure had a great taste for food!

SOURCE

CNN Article

Free Rice For The Poor!

This is a great website!
Basically, it's a word game that gives you a word and it gives you an option of a few possible defenitions of it. If you get it right, Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice to starving people! You get smarter, and help charity without leaving your computer! Just click here and start helping starving people everywhere: FreeRice.com

Droopy's Double Trouble

This is our word study project!
No stealing our idea please!

The Omega Meme

I’ve tagged students for the Omega Meme!
The rules are as follows:
Each player answers the six questions posted on this blog. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those answers are listed.At the end of the post, the player then tags 8 people and posts their blog names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Then follow the instructions about adding a page element at omegascience.blogspot.com.

1. My favorite TV show is House because it's challenging to see if you can guess what the patient's illness is, and it's entertaining

2. My favorite meal is Chicken with Mashed Potatos

3. My favorite nonschool activity is drawing

4. Someone I look up to is all of my friends because they are all unique and they have special qualities

5. My goal for the future is to be an artist

6. In the first hour after school I usually watch TV or go on my computer

I have tagged Raynebow, Simply Bf 16, OmegaPeep, Teardropsonroses5, Hollisterluvr, ILuvShockey, Omega Classes/Ashanima, and Xodancer14

You may not tag someone who has already been tagged.

New Year

All posts below are from 2006-2007

Tupperware Landforms

In class we recently did a really cool activity with Tupperware. We actually created the illusion of a landform!

TUPPERWARE LANDFORM ACTIVITY

Here is what you need for the activity:

At least 5-10 Tupperware plastic transparent containers
1 Eraseable marker
a paper towel (or anything to erase with)
A sheet of landform levels

The activity is very easy but very cool as well. You start out putting one container on the bottom (biggest) level of the mountain or landform. you trace that level then put another container on top of it and trace the next level through the containers. As it gets smaller, you can see a landform forming up. To make different ones, just erase the marker and you can even make your own 3-D landform! Try it!