Science

=Science with Miss Fitz=


 * Lab Safety Video:** For our first project in science, the class was split up in 5 groups. Each group chose a topic to make a safety video about. The categories were home, lab, food, cyber, and general safety. Our group (me, Mason, Peter and Elijah) got lab safety.

[|Lab Safety Video]


 * Cottonwood Room Conundrums:** [|Cottonwood Room Conundrums] is a blog started by Miss Fitz in which she posts an article related to science and or education, so far 3 articles have been posted, but soon there will be a post every Tuesday and Thursday. After we read the article, we post a comment on the blog that is at least a paragraph long with thoughts on the article. We usually discuss what we thought in class the next day too.


 * Garden and Compost:** We have also spent a few days working in the garden outside, and making compost bins. We have setup recycling bins for plastic, cardboard, and aluminum. We also have a compost bin for food scraps after lunch. Things like apple cores, banana peels, orange peels, and eggshells can go into the compost bin. We are looking into possibly starting vermicompost. Vericomposting is when you dump the compost in a bin and let worms eat it. It's essentially regular composting, except you have the worms. There are some things you can't vermicompost that you can regular compost like orange peels and pet feces (we don't put feces in our compost bin at school...). You can vermicompost banana peels, coffee grounds, tea leaves, spoiled food, meat and bones, and grass clippings. The worms need bedding, so you should put in shredded paper, and or shredded cardboard.