Extra Credit: Book Connected to Science

The book, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, by James Patterson, is connected to science. This book is about six kids, who are not ordinary. These kids escaped from a lab where crazy scientists were making dangerous creatures and these kids were bred to be ninety-eight percent human and two percent bird. These kids had to try to not let "the school" capture them again. When one of the flock, Angel, gets dragged backed to "the school", where wacky scientists are doing experiments on living things including children, the flock goes to save Angel. This book is connected to science because scientists used science procedures to make ordinary humans turn into unnatural, living things like the flock, and erasers,(which are half human, half wolf). To make these unnatural humans, you need to drag science into it, to make it possible. You couldn't make these unnatural humans, at all without using science. To summarize, the book Maximum Ride is connected to science.

Lab: Creating Carbon Dioxide

In a lab, we mixed vinegar and baking soda to make carbon dioxide. Before we mixed the vinegar and the baking soda, we lit a candle. You might be thinking, why did you light a candle? Well, to answer your question, when baking soda and vinegar is mixed, it creates carbon dioxide and also a chemical change. When you pour the carbon dioxide over a flame, it makes the flame go out. An interesting fact is that, if you are putting a candle fire out, you only need a small amount of baking soda mixed with some vinegar to make the candle fire go out. Since, fire needs energy to get larger, carbon dioxide actually helps get the fire put out, not helping the fire enlarge, which is another fact that intrigued me. It is cool that we made carbon dioxide, which is what is in a fire extinguisher and now if there is a fire, I know how to put it out, (without using a fire extinguisher). A fact that I liked was that carbon dioxide prevents energy from enlarging a fire, by putting a blanket or force field around the fire, making it go out.The part that caught my attention, was that there are many ways to make carbon dioxide, besides vinegar and baking soda. For example, if you put dry ice in water, it would create carbon dioxide and also a fog. I think that doing fun labs in class helps students learn. Making a fire extinguisher, (carbon dioxide), was one of the most fun things I have done in class so far. It is cool to do things, like this lab, in this class that we wouldn't do in other classes or outside of school. I am looking forward to doing more exciting labs like this one in the future. In conclusion, when mixing baking soda and vinegar, you get a fire extinguisher, carbon dioxide.
Fact #1: www.lenntech.com/carbon-dioxide.htm
Fact #2: ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Make-Carbon-Dioxide&id=1363885