Drilling For Oil

Yesterday and today we drilled for oil. Of course, not real oil with real drilling rigs. We stayed in class in a perfectly safe envronment. We got fake maps with a grid and a foil pan with the same grid, just bigger. The top was covered with aluminum foil. Under the foil was sand and in certain spots, cups filled with black liquid. Our drill rig was a piece of wood marked with centimeters and a needle attached to it. We got a budget of 2.5 million dollars. We used real costs to figure out how much we spent drilling for oil. Each group got 5 attempts for finding oil. Unfortunately, my group was unsuccessful every single time. On top of that, we went bankrupt because we dug too deep. What makes our loss even more dissapionting is that we were off by only half an inch each time. Some people blamed the grid, some people blamed he drillers and some people didn't really care. This was fun only for the groups that struck oil.

Paper Kites

In science class this month, our unit was weather. In order to test our knowledge with winds and so that understand them better, we were given an asignment. We had to make a kite out of construction paper. It had to be aerodynamically designed so that it would fly in the wind. When it was testing time, it turned out my kite, F-6, was a failure. It caught a draft of wind, stayed up for about a second and then dropped to the ground again. This went on for about five minutes, and then I gave up trying to fly my kite and got to the questions. These questions were about how wind is formed and how under standing wind can help us understand weather better. In the end, it turned out to be pretty fun.