Week of January 11

This week in science we learned a lot of new things which I found very interesting. We started off on Monday talking about heating not heat because heat is not a thing. We talked about the three different types of heating:

Radiation: transferring through space/air
Conduction: heating through touching
Convection: heating by movement of fluids

The next day we talked about the uses for gloves and we saw how they worked. They kept your hands warm and also protect them from heat. Mr. Finley drew two models on the board. The pictures are on the link on my blog called HEATING. The next day we went over how particles move when heated and how a lava lamp works. We also looked at how the lava lamp relates to how plates move. To see how the plates move click on the HEATING link. Then we saw how you can tell which rock is the oldest and which is the newest. You can tell by a volcano which is the newest because when it erupts the lava dries up on top of the previous rock and this happens over and over again. It is the law of Superposition.