Hi everyone! I am Lyla and today my teacher told me about something really exciting! For all my years at OJCS (5 years) I have never done science on something that I want to learn about and teach myself. I am doing my unit on Rocks and minerals, but so is everyone else, we were meant to study on different things, at first I thought I was doing birthstones, and then I decided I was doing underwater crystals and how they grow, so I got a plastic box and Put some water in it then made it blue with food colouring then I grew my Crystal, that 

Here are my materials 

 

Blue tissue paper.

Water

I am growing it with simply baking powder and food colouring and a string and hot water. First pour 2 spoons of baking powder into both cups and then pour the hot water just about to the top of the cup the 3 to 2 pinches of food colouring (blue and red to make purple amethyst) Then you add the string and  putting it into both sides of the water, and it takes a few days to grow around the string on the second day you will see the string beginning to become white and the third day there was a lot of powder Here is my next blogpost

Hello everyone! I had science today for 1 period and It was the funnest thing I have done in a while. We were Geologists and I ruined the world!!!!!! ( and then ate it) What we did was take chocolate chips out of cookies and pretend they were minerels. There was hard cookies and soft cookies, there was normal chocolate chip and caramilk. I thought it was really fun because I love cookies and I like rocks and our Teacher Mrs M made us do it in a fun way! A geoligist is sort of a human that studys the earths rocks and where they came from. Lets say there  is a volcano and all the lava came down the big volcano, but lava cools quickley and after the lava cools it becomes a rock. The rock is small holes in it and it is very light if the lava dries slightly slower then it will become a pretty glassy rock. Volcanic rocks are called metamorphic rocks and some are called sediments and sedimentary rocks. There are birth stone rocks and mine is called a pink termiline and the other one is called Opal. Here is what a Opal looks like :over here is a pink termiline Thank you for reading my blog posts