Two days ago, we went to the science lab. Our science teacher’s name is Mrs. Burkhart. She has been the science teacher for a long time. We learned that people can conduct electricity. People can conduct, because we have cells from salt water. Salt water can conduct electricity. We are not the best conductors of electricity. The best conductor of electricity is metal, iron copper, and steel.

We used things to see if it was electricity, such as a nail, straws, a diode, a wooden stick, copper strip, glass rod, rubber eraser, paperclip, and a bag. The one’s that were conductors were the nail, the paper clip, the diode only worked one side the other did not, and the copper strip.  The things that were isolators were the straws, the glass rod, the rubber eraser, the wooden stick, and the bag.  We could tell of it was a conductor, because we had alligator clips that were connected with a wire which was also connected to a battery.  When something was clipped, you hold both sides of the battery.

 At the end we were playing with the plasma ball.  A plasma ball has plasma electricity in it.  When you touch the ball, a plasma ray points to you, because we are conductors of electricity.  Plasma rays have different colors.  The colors are different, because of the gases.

P.S.  There is more chances to win a lottery than getting struck by lightning.

P.S 2.  There is a little bit of metal in cereal and cheerios, but cereal and cheerios are very healthy, because they have a little bit of metal inside them.  The metal is actually good for you.

 P.S. 3.   There were three groups my group was me, Elior, Zachary, and Itamar.  The second group was Rebecca, Evie, Zoe, and Jamie.  The third group was Ben, and Liam.

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Jim Thorpe’s Native American Name Was Wa-Tho-Huk=Bright Path.  He Was Born May 28, 1888 And His Death Was On March 28, 1953.  He Was A Native American.  He Won The Gold Medals In The Olympics For Pentathlon And Decathlon.  Pentathlon Means Five (5) Different Events.  It Comes From Greek.  Pente Means Five [5] And -Athlon Means Competition.  Decathlon Means Ten {10} Different Track And Field Events.  Decathlon Is Also Comes From Greek.  From Deka Means Ten (10) And –Athlon Means Competition.  His Gold Medals Were Stolen, Because They Found Out That Jim Thorpe Plays Baseball And He Got Paid.  You Were Not Allowed To Get Paid.  30 Years After Jim Was Dead, They Gave Back His Medals.  Jim Live In Sac And Fox Nation In Oklahoma.  Thorpe Was Trying To Live, Because He Had No Money.  He Was Alcoholic.  He Had Bad Health And Was Very Poor.  This Happened To Jim, Because He Had No Job And When You Are Alcoholic You Waste You’re Money On Alcohol, Such As Beer, Wine, And Vodka.  So You Waste Money To Kill Your Self.  Jim Thorpe Was The Greatest Athlete In The 20th Century.  People Thought He Was Even More Famous Than Muhammad Ali.  Jim Thorpe Did Not Have A Birth Certificate.  It Is Important That Jim Thorpe Made Harvard The Best Football Team, Carlisle Were The Winners Of The National Collegiate Championship Largely As A Result Of His Efforts.  Jim Thorpe Scored 25 Touchdowns And 198 Points During The Season.  The Reason This Is Important, Because This Is What He Accomplished And This Is Part Of His History.  Jim Won The All-American Honors Award In 1911 And Also In 1912.  Jim Thorpe Was More Famous At Track And Field Events Than Any Other Sport He Played.  Jim Thorpe Was Training For The Olympics, Such As The Fifty-Six [56] Pound Weight, Discus, The Javelin, Pole Vault, The Hurdles And The Shot- Put, And Jumps.  In The 1912 Summer Olympics, At Sweden, He Did Long Jump, The Javelin Throw, 200 Meter Dash, And 1,500-Meter Run.  It Is Important That Jim Thorpe Can Run The 100 Meter Dash In 10 Seconds Flat, The 220 In 21.8 Seconds, The 440 In 51.8, The 880 In 4:35, 120-Yard Hurdles In 15 Seconds, The 220-Yard Low Hurdles In 24 Seconds, The Long Jump 23 Feet And 6 Inches, The High Jump 6 Feet And 5 Inches, The Pole Vault 11 Feet, Put The Shot 47 Feet 9 Inches, Throw The Javelin 163 Feet, And Throw The Discus 136 Feet.  This Is Important, Because This Is When He Was In The Olympics And He Was Very Famous For This.  No One Has Ever beat His Record In Decathlon For Twenty Years.  He Had 8,413 Points.  He Had Defeated Wieslander By Even More Than 700 Points.  King Gustav V Of Sweden And Emperor Czar Nicholas II Of The Russian Empire Told Jim Thorpe That He Was The Greatest Athlete In The World.

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Some People Say That They Took His Gold Medals, Because He Was Native American. Jim Is Still Known Today, Because He Was One Of The Most Famous Native American That Played A Sport.  Jim Thorpe’s Father Was Chief Louis Vieux.  So, Jim Was Not Just A Native American, He Is Like A Special Native American.  Jim Thorpe Went To Sac And Fox Indian Agency School In Stroud.  In This School The People That Worked There Were Like Steeling His Life By Trying To Make Him Not Be A Native American.  On Some Days Jim Ran Away From School.  Hiram Thorpe Took Jim Thorpe To, An Indian Boarding School In Lawrence, Kansas, Because He Could Not Run Away From School.  A boarding School Is A School That You Live In.  Jim’s Mom Died.  Jim Was Very Sad.  When Jim Was About 9-11 Years Old, He Went To Boarding School.  When Jim Was Sixteen {16} Years Old, Jim Returned To His Father.  Jim Went Away From School Again.  They Had Striped Thorpe’s Olympic Titles, Medals, And Awards.  Jim Was Trying To Get Money For His Family.  He Could Not Have A Sports Job.  The Worst Years Happened To Jim, He Had No Money!  In The 1953 Jim Thorpe Died, In Lomita California, From A Heart Failure.  Jim Thorpe Grew Up In A Native American Territory.  When Jim Thorpe Got Older, He Asked For His Olympic Titles, Medals, Trophies, Certificates, And Awards Back.  He Also Said That He Did Not Know That You Were Not Allowed To Be Paid.  The People Said “Ignorance Is No Excuse.”  President Richard Nixon Invented A Jim Thorpe Day In 1973.  Patricia {Jim Thorpe’s Wife} Was Mad, Because The Government Of Oklahoma Would Not Make A Memorial To Honor Jim Thorpe.  Later He Was Buried Jim Thorpe In Native American Territory.  Jim Thorpe’s Son’s Name Was Jack.

Today, Mrs.  Tolisano came to our classroom, because Mrs.  Teitelbaum was not at class, she was at Emily’s model Seder.  Our class made a paragraph.

This is the paragraph:

Title: We Surf The Globe

On our blogs, we embedded a Clustr map.  A cluster map is a map on your blog, that shows you the location of the visitors of your blog.  The map helps us visualize where our readers are from.  We have been surfing the virtual globe to countries all around the world, such as Thailand, Switzerland, and Czech Republic, because we know that they have read our posts.

That was the paragraph.

If I went to Mars I would be so excited.  I would be floating in the air in the space shuttle.  When I would turn 28 years old, that is when they will start sending space shuttles to Mars.  Rain used to fall on Mars, but now Mars is a dry planet.  In the center of Mars, there is a huge volcano.  If there would be life, I will hope it will be an alien.  I believe about aliens.  It can’t be possible that we are the only types of aliens in the universe.  I would also want to see, plants, food, and water on Mars.  Where would you go, deeper in the universe, or going to Mars?  I would go deeper in the universe, because I want to see aliens.