Grade 7 Week 5: Plants

After we come back inside after the successful Mushroom Hunting we now take on the Kingdom of Plants (so we can head back outside and complete this years Herbarium).
This weeks questions:

What types of plants are there?
How has each type adapted for survival?
How are plants adapted to life on land?

The contract for this week takes you outside as well. One has you starting your own herbarium by collecting samples, drawings, or photos of plants around your home. The other choice has you looking for spore producing plants around your yard to create a terrarium. Have fun!

Grade 8 Week 5: Volcanoes!

After the great ideas we saw last week in Earthquake Engineering I am looking forward to this week's designs. This week we move from earthquakes to volcanoes. Remembering what we discovered in the fist section about the inside of the Earth and how it moves, answer this week's questions:

What causes volcanoes?
How do they form?
What are the effects of volcanic eruptions?

This weeks contract has A contracts designing or modeling a volcano. I am still looking for an actual composite volcano beyond the science fair vinegar/baking soda coming from a cup. I did that back in my days at Fairview. You can design something better, something...more...real?