Solar Energy

Solar panels are a source of energy that uses sunlight to create power. Solar panels are several little cells joined together with a outer protective layer to create a frame or solar panel.  If the Sahara Desert was covered in solar panels, it would make 40 times more electricity than the whole world! Another way to use the sun as electricity is trapping the heat of the sun.  Today we were in Saint Louis and we passed the office for Ameren, which is a power company. They had solar panels out front of the office and we took a picture.
There are many different uses for solar panels like home electricity and electricity in space. Solar energy is becoming more common another sources of energy are becoming more expensive.  "In the 21st century solar energy is expected to become increasingly attractive as an energy source because of its inexhaustible supply and its nonpolluting character, in stark contrast to the finite fossil fuels coal, petroleum, and natural gas." (www.brittanica.com) I hope someday to have solar panels on my house so we can save money by collecting energy from the sun.

I got my information from How things work by Miles Kelly

I got my photo from google images

Amazing Albert Einstein

            Did you know that without Albert Einstein we would most likely not have won World War 2?

Did you know that the famous formula E=MC 2 came from Albert Einstein? Well it did and that is the formula that gave birth to the Atomic Bomb! Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm,Germany and was like any other normal child except he was calm and peace loving. Albert loved elementary school but when he turned ten it was a different story. Albert hated high school, the teachers were too strict, the students couldn't ask questions, and worst of all in my opinion is the fact they have to sit still,stand still and never get to mingle! But time passed on and Albert was expelled from high school and moved on. Albert moved to Italy to be with his family again. Albert decided to move to Switzerland to re-enter high school. Albert liked his new school much more than his old one.you could ask questions talk and the teachers were nice. Albert graduated high school and went to college where he met a woman he fell in love with. Her name was Mileva but Einstein liked to call her Dolly. He married Mileva and she had a child named Hans. Years later Albert  divorced her and got remarried to his cousin. Albert Einstein was a great man who discovered many things. He died on April 18, 1955 , may this great man be remembered.  I found my information from watching THIS and by reading Who was Albert Einstein by

Spinosaurus: a giant, water-loving dinosaur

I got this article from the Springfield news leader. Date: Saturday September 13 2014
This article is about how a Chicago paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim found that the dinosaur Spinosaurus was not a land lubber dinosaur that walked the land like we thought it to be and that it actually it was a fish eating dinosaur that swam the rivers of North Africa 97,000,000 years ago but since it also walked on land it could "lay claim to being the largest predator to ever walk to earth".  Nizar found this after finding 2 groups of bones and tracking them down. I find this article interesting because I used to think that "Spinosaurus aegyptiacus" was a land walker.

Humans highly attuned to detect spiders Springfield news leader

My article is Humans Highly Attuned To Detect Spiders by the Spring field News Leader from October 15, 2014.  In this article is a argument about why "More than half noticed and identified a picture of a spider"  and what makes this amazing is "It appeared for just 200 milliseconds on a computer test".   Many say its because we are highly attuned to detect spiders because ancient man "evolved in Africa in the company of highly poisonous spiders." I personally do not agree with this statement because like many others I think its just because "had learned to fear them."

Isaac Newton

I think Isaac Newton is pretty amazing to be able to be a Scientist, Mathematician, Philosopher, Astronomer, and Physicist. Isaac developed the principles of modern physics with his discoveries of mathematics, motion, and optics. Newton is best known for his law of gravitation. He was born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He died on March 31, 1727, in London, England.

Isaac Newton's father, also named Isaac, died three months before Newton was born. When he was born, he was tiny and weak, Newton was not expected to survive. I guess he proved them wrong. When Isaac was three, his mother remarried to a minister and moved away, leaving the young boy behind to live with his grandmother. After nine years, when Isaac was twelve, his mother came back because her second husband died. Poor Isaac, he hadn't seen his mother in nine years! The first school that Newton went to was King's school. He learned about fascinating chemistry. His mother pulled him out of school to learn to tend the crops. Isaac failed horribly, he thought that farming was dull and had a lack of interest. He soon rejoined King's School to finish his basic education. His uncle persuaded Isaac's mom to let him join the University of Cambridge's Trinity College. Newton enrolled in a program in 1661, where he waited on tables and took care of wealthy students' rooms. When Isaac arrived to Cambridge, science was already in action. Newton was said to have discovered gravity because of the falling apple. Wow, he has an interesting childhood.

A bit ago, in Gifted, we were talking about IQ scores. Well, when I started researching Sir Isaac Newton, I said to myself, "I wonder what his IQ score is." So I searched it on the internet (Though the internet is not always accurate) and his IQ score was supposedly 190. That's amazing!

How interesting is this guy? To learn more about Sir Isaac Newton, click HERE to go to the website where I got my information from!

Cool science story

     Last Monday, I was thinking about gifted when I remembered I needed an article to bring into school on Tuesday, and my mom told me about this story. You can learn more here. But it pretty much goes like this:
      A child was born, like any other human, but he/she (gender wasn't specified) was born with CHD, or congenital heart defects. So the doctors did something that sounds pretty cool: run the data from an MRI into a 3D printer.
    The procedure was funded by Matthew's Hearts of Hope, a nonprofit organization. 
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Benjamin Franklin The Electricity Man

I named my title Benjamin Franklin The Electricity Man because he was the one that discovered electricity. I chose to research Benjamin Franklin because I only knew that he was a famous man that discovered electricity but I never knew about his life, so here is some facts about him that I have learned so far: Benjamin Franklin's family was so poor that when they got off the boat from England they all looked for land and that land they found was Boston. He ran away from his home town Boston to go to Philadelphia to get food but once he realized what Philadelphia was like he realized the tiny amount of coins he had and that no Philadelphia person would give him any food. Before he discovered electricity he owned a print shop named Pennsylvania Gazette.

 How he discovered electricity was when he was at a science fair and when he was showing people his project, his project was he had sown that electricity consisted of a common element which he called Electric Fire then... BAM!, there was electricity! Mr.Franklin also discovered later on that electricity was fluid like liquid. He said to himself "I can finally adventure the world and tell people there is now electricity!"Also he discovered electricity by studying natural philosophy and science in all of the colonies. Benjamin Franklin didn't invent electricity but he did invent some of the terms we use for electricity such as: Battery, Charge, Condenser, and Conductor. He also invented other things such as:Franklin Stove, Lightning Rod, Glass Harmonica, and Bifocals.

He was such an important inventor he got put on the 100 dollar bill.

I got my information from a Cedar Ride Intermediate Library Book By: Brandon Marie Miller named Benjamin Franklin American Genius also HERE. I got my picture from Google Images.