The Science Museum. and Megaladon.....

(Thats right I spelled science right MOM) Any way we went to the Science Museum for a feild trip as our family, and at the science museum there is a Megaladon exhibit! (FYI there is a different exhibit every few months and this is the newest one.) If you don't know what the megaladon is, it is prehistoric shark. A baby being 30ft long, and hold on to your chair, an adult was 60ft long!!!!!!!! that is 1 1/2 the length of our house!!!!!! his mouth is the size of  double doors!!! (like you would find in walmart leading to the freezer room behind the frezer cases, only a little bigger.) He ate 2500 pounds of food a day! and his tooth is about the size of my hand! after the megaladon there is the permanent exhibits, the aquarium, the bees, the tree that grew in the years A.D. 109-1817 then fell.... as well as the Aligators, Crocidiles, and Turtles. seperate from the rest of the aquarium. then there is a few other things that are just fact things and sutch.

A Motor.

 Me and my friend, Stephen, are both interested in Electricity, and the use of it. So we decided to get a burnt up fan and make a Motor, we used the housing, a bunch of batteries, and the motor wheel, and we have big magnets from speakers. We aren't successful yet, but we think if we find enough batteries and such we can make a motor, and do something with it... we hope to get it running well and make it run on DC voltage.

Telescope

    In science yesterday it had me make a telescope. I made it out of, paper towel tubes, and 2 magnifying glasses. They project the image upside down, but that is because when two of the same lenses are put together, (concave and concave or Convex to convex) it refracts the light and makes it upside down. The telescope is hard to use, because the lenses are the same size, it effects it, and they are as I said before concave lenses. but it works!

Electric circuits

      Ben's science project was to creat an electric current that would power a light bulb. Seems simple right? Guess again, the electric circuit was made of aluminum, wire, batteries, and a light socket with a light. we tried and tried but it wouldn't loght up, later on we find out that they're dead, so we used snap circuits, and we powered a light and a flying saucer! any way we had a good time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=415GGxLHiL8 this is my cartesian diver

The Ag museum

   On Saturday we went to the Ag museum. when we got there we walked in and saw some old old old old.... engines. They looked like this ( first pic ). They were really really really cool. But any way, after that we went to the cotton gin ( all of the other pics ) ( motorized ). and they had this huge, engine from the 1890's. It was all black, with flywheels on either side, on one side the fly wheel had a belt hooked to it and on the other side they had a belt hooked to a compressor that they use to start it. me and my dad were fascinated by the engine. it had only 55 HP, but was loud with its steady rhythm of boom... boom... boom... but it pushed lots of torque. i'll post a video later today, then we went to the print shop and school, there was a paddle in the school room. It said education, it is the board of education.

owl dung...

Hi, today i dissected owl dung. on the top left you can see me just a few minutes into the project. Top left i finally got all the pieces out plus a skeleton! and on bottom right that's the finished and polished bones. tomorrow i will have complete pictures but because it was taking so long i had to span it over two days so that's why i am putting complete pictures tomorrow. but for now this is what i have

Sincerely, Fisherman G

P.S. L says we were EVIL SCINTISTS VUA HA HA HA!!!!!!!! she sat beside me the whole time and managed not to touch anything