PSIA Science
“With 19 contest categories covering a wide range of disciplines, PSIA is an exciting opportunity for private school students in grades 1 through 8 to engage in academic competition with their peers throughout the state of Texas”
-From the PSIA Website
This Week’s Topic: Charles Darwin
Complete Works of Charles Darwin
Last Week’s Topic: Famous Scientists
Tell me about em in a post!
Jane Goodall, Grace Hopper, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Gregor Mendel, Margaret Mead, Alexander Graham Bell, Maire Curie, Robert Oppenheimer, Archimedes, Isaac Newton.
Previous Topic: Archeology (Carbon Dating)
Info
How Stuff Works – Carbon 14 Dating
Previous Topic: Marine Biology (Hydrothermal Vents)
Information
Dive and Discover – Catalog of Hydrothermal Vent Exploration
Exploring the Deep Frontier – Explanation of Hydrothermal Vent Formation
Mission to the Abyss – Virtual Vent Exploration
Games
Previous Topics: Marine Biology (Coral Reefs)
Info
Games
BBC Blue Planet – Journey Into The Deep
The St. Luke’s PSIA Science Team will meet every Thursday at 7:30 A.M. Please make all the practices so that you will be ready for the PSIA district event.
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January 22, 2009 at 8:56 am
1. The ocean is 12,460 feet deep.
2. Covers 139 million square miles
3. In the deepest parts of the oceans there are bioluminesence FISHYS!!!
January 29, 2009 at 8:53 am
1. Hydrothermal vents are underwater geysers.
2. There are little organisms that have adapted to live inside of these hypothermal vents.
3. They are about a mile under the ocean.
January 29, 2009 at 8:55 am
1. in 1979 scientists in Alvin dove to the Mid-Ocean Ridge in the Eastern Pacific
2. bacteria live everywhere at hydrothermal vents
3. sensors are used to detect hydrothermal fumes in the deap ocean
emma
February 5, 2009 at 8:55 am
CARBON DATING
Carbon dating is a sub thing of radioactive dating, using Carbon 14. When it decintigrates it becomes Boron 12. It is used to date archeological facts.
natalie
February 5, 2009 at 3:33 pm
ARCHEOLOGY
Archeology is the study of ancient human societys.
Natalie
February 5, 2009 at 3:36 pm
CARBON DATING AND ARCHEOLOGY
Carbon dating is the process of fusing carbon 14 to figure out how old an artifact is.
Archeology is the study of human cultures
sorry i was late!
it was hectic this morning!
doublem!
February 12, 2009 at 8:48 am
Marie curie was the first person to call radiation by its name
She and her husband founded radiation
February 12, 2009 at 8:52 am
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a theoretical physicist who was the scientific director of the Manhattan project in world war 2 to create the first atomic bomb. He tried to avert the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
February 12, 2009 at 8:54 am
Today we are learning about certain scientists. These are some of them and their inventions:
~ Grace Hooper was one of the first programers of the Harvard Mark calculator.
~ Albert Einstein most well known for his theory of relativity.
~ Neils Bohr made the fist design of the Bohr model of an Atom.
~ Gregor Mendel was known for his theory of inheritance.
Sorry i didnt finish
Natalie
February 19, 2009 at 8:51 am
Charles Darwin was a scientist who took a trip around the world on the HMS. Beagle.
He proposed a theory after being on the Galapagos Islands that if a species lives in a certain place for long enough, then they adapt to the environment they are in.
Charles Darwin made sketches of some of the animals he saw on his journey.
February 20, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Hey Mr.K! Here are my famous scientists!
1. Margaret Mead: popularizer of the insights of anthropology
2. Alexander Graham Bell: invented first practical telephone
3. Archimedes: designed innovative machines
4. Isaac Newton: 3 laws of motion
Hope to be back by Monday!
Emma
March 16, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Mr. K,
Can you give us a schedule for when and where we need to be or this whole PSIA shpeel? You can give it to us (if you have it and can) on thursday morning.
thanks!
Natalie