Civil rights movement and war

    I am blogging about the resistance to the civil rights movement and about the Civil war. It will be about the people who did not like civil rights and were racist. It will be about how slaves got their freedom and how they were treated after they got their freedom.


 Black people were slaves until 1865 when the civil war occurred from 1861-1865. It started when Abraham Lincoln got elected in to the presidency. Abraham Lincoln passed a bill saying when a slave gets in to a free state they can stay there. When the southern states got mad that they were loosing their slaves they seceded from the U.S. Seceding means to leave something, so they left the U.S.
  The battle went on for four years and was the bloodiest battle that happened in U.S. history. The North was called the Union and the South was called the Confederacy. The Union had almost twice as much men as the Confederacy and had more weapons, ammo and transportation than them. The Union won in 1865 when they captured Atlanta. 

  First I am talking about the worst people that were against civil rights and they are the Ku Klux Klan.  They would torture, tease and sometimes kill blacks. It began with six southern veterans coming together in a town and making a group. They would torture old slaves and any blacks because they were mad they lost their slaves. The leader was called the Grand Cyclops and others were called ghouls. They would do horrible things like hang blacks, shoot at black peoples houses and cars, kidnap and start riots. The Klan died out around 1950.





 Next, I am blogging about Ruby Bridges. She was the first black to go to an all whites school. Her dad did not want her to go to an all white school because she could be teased at school. Her Mom wanted her to go to an all whites school because she had a hard life and she wanted her daughter to have a better one.
  Ruby was threatened to be poisoned if she went back to school. Her dad lost his job because his boss did not like his child going to an all white school. U.S. Marshals had to walk her to and from school to protect her from the people who wanted to kill her. Ruby started to see a child psychiatrist after winter break.




  Blacks could still not vote after the civil war. Blacks actually had less opportunity's after the civil war. The people that were in the southern states made governments so the blacks could not vote. It was Andrew Johnson that made it so blacks could not be in the convention to rewrite the constitution. In 1866 angry congress people made a civil rights bill that said an American citizen is someone born in the U.S. except Native Americans. President Johnson tried to get the bill cancelled, but it was passed anyway. When that bill was passed blacks  could be citizens of the U.S. 




  I learned on the field trip that 1/3 of the confederates died. I learned that 1/6 of the Union died. The main cause of death was       infection. During the civil war people did not have good personal hygiene. Some soldiers ran away from the battle to see their families. Atlanta had a lot of rail road tracks which made it good for the heart of the Confederacy.


  I liked that the museum made it so that you do interactive stuff. They make it so you have fun while you are learning. The museum made time lines for what happened through the years.They made it so you understood both point of views. 
   
 
   
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The Inner Planets

  This blog is on the inner planets. I will blog about what do the inner planets have in common, what hind of atmospheres they have, why Venus is hotter than Mercury and why life exists on Earth, but not on any other planet.

  The inner planets are similar because they all have rocky surfaces. They are sometimes called the terrestrial planets because of their rocky surfaces. They are all made of rock and metal. The planets have different sizes and atmospheres.

  Next, I am blogging about the inner planets atmospheres. Mercury has no atmosphere what-so-ever. Venus has an atmosphere made 97% of carbon dioxide. The gravitational pull on Venus is almost 100 times stronger than Earth. If someone stood on Venus they would probably be crushed in a few minutes. Earth's  atmosphere has multiple types of gases and a small amount of water vapor. Earth's location in the solar system makes water able to exist. Mars' atmosphere is made up of 95% carbon

dioxide and is a lot thinner than Earth's. Mars' temperatures can range from about 20°C  to -125°C.







  Now time to talk about the next topic. Venus is hotter than mercury because of its atmosphere. You might say why isn't mercury hotter because of its atmosphere, well guess what it does not even have an atmosphere. Venus has an increased amount of carbon dioxide in it's atmosphere, so it has the green house effect. The green house effect is where the atmosphere keeps the heat from the sun in.

 There is life on Earth because Earth is AWESOME. Earth is the only planet that we know of right now that is sustainable for life. The reason life exists on Earth is because the atmosphere, the moderate temperature, there is water and the magnetic field. The Earth's crust is constantly being formed. Since Earth has the greenhouse effect it keeps the temperature livable.

                                                                                                          

Space the journey in to the unknown

   Today I am blogging about space. I am going to explain what some of the objects are in space, what a planet is, what are some characteristics of the inner and outer planets, what a dwarf planet is and a lot more.


  First of all we live in the milky way, the sun is the center of our solar system and we live on planet Earth. We now count only eight planets in our solar system. We now consider Pluto as a dwarf planet because it is smaller than the objects that rotate around it.

  Here is a list of the planets in our solar system by location closest to the sun.

1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth!
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune

  Planets are objects that orbit the sun, have almost a complete spherical shape and have a mass bigger than the things that orbit around it. Pluto is a Dwarf Planet because it has less mass than what is close to its orbit. Planets have a bigger mass than anything else orbiting it.





 The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Being an inner planet means that they are mostly made of solid rock. These planets are smaller than the outer planets. The outer planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Outer planets are called the gas giants. They are mainly made of gases like helium and hydrogen.




 A planets orbit is not completely circular. It is shaped like an oval. If it was completely circular the temperature would not change a lot. Planets orbit around the sun counter-clockwise. You know how a clock goes right, well the planets go the opposite way. Planets change their speed because the planets get closer to the sun. When the planets get closer to the sun the gravitational pull of the sun makes them go faster.



 Asteroids are pieces of rocks floating in space. There are millions of asteroids floating around the sun. There is a big asteroid belt between the inner and outer planets. It is between Mars and Jupiter. Comets are made up of dust gas and ice and move around the sun. There is about one-trillion comets orbiting around the sun.






  The period of revolution is how long it takes for a planet to rotate around the sun. The period of rotation is how long a planet takes to spin on its axis. In space meters and kilometers are to small of measurements so astronomers use astronomical units. They use astronomical units to see how far things are away from the sun.






Click HERE for more information on planets and things in our solar system.


Click HERE to learn more about the revolution of planets.


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O.W.T: Ocean Waves and Tides

Hi! This is my second blog on oceans. This time I am going to talk about Waves and Tides. This blog will be about what causes ocean surface waves and what causes ocean tides.

   


    Wind that pushes the waves to shore are what cause ocean surface waves. There are different parts to a wave like the wave length or height. The wave length is the distance between two waves. The wave height is how big it is from the top of the wave to the bottom of the wave. When I say the bottom of the wave I mean at the surface of the water.The crest is the highest point on the wave. The trough is the lowest part of the wave. Surfers try to ride the crest of the wave.

  Now, it is time for the next paragraph. Tsunamis are waves caused by a movement in the water. They can be caused by a volcano, earthquake, landslide or a glacier breaking. Tsunamis get bigger and slower when they get close to shore. That happens to every wave, but a Tsunami wave is one giant wall of water.


  Now time to blog about tides. Tides are what happens when the sea level rises. Tides are caused mostly by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun. Sea level is the average surface level of the ocean.

  There are different types of tides and they depend on where you are and if it is a full moon or a new moon. If you live close to the equator then you will probably have a neap tide. Neap tides have the smallest tidal range and happen when the sun and moon form a right angle. If you live away from the equator you are less likely to get a neap tide, instead you will probably get a spring tide. Spring tides have the largest tidal range and happen when the sun and moon form a straight line. Tidal range is the difference between one areas high and low tide.

 

That is the end of my blog. Bye!

Click HERE for more about tides.

Click HERE to learn more about Tsunamis.

Click HERE to learn more about parts of a wave.

Oceans!

 Hello, you can tell by my title you are going to learn about the body of water that covers about 70% of Earth's surface.Why oceans are  salty, what the sources of the Earth's oceans, features of the ocean floor and some different zones of the oceans are going to be on this blog.
  First topic is why are oceans salty. The reason the oceans are salty is because a bunch of rain kept falling to the ground and dissolved minerals in rocks that created the different salts. This happened billions of years ago. The minerals that were dissolved were Chlorine, Sodium, Sulfate, Magnesium, Calcium, Potassium and other salts.



   Next part of my blog is about how the Oceans formed and what are the sources. The oceans were beginning to form about 4.2 billion years ago. There are two theories of how the oceans were made. The first theory is that volcanoes continuously erupted and created a lot of gas and gas is made up of water vapor. The gas continued to form until it created the atmosphere. Then when the water vapor kept building up and created clouds. Those clouds then collected water vapor then let it go and it rained for thousands of years which finally created the oceans.
   The other theory of how the oceans were formed was that asteroids and comets that fell to Earth had ice on them that melted and created the oceans.


   The Sea floor is the next part of this blog. The seafloor has a lot in common with the land. It has mountains, trenches, canyons, plateaus and many other forms of land. The continental margin stretches from the land to the deep ocean. Inside of the continental margin is two more areas called the continental shelf and slope. The Continental shelf is the part of the ocean that is close to land and shallow. The continental slope is the part that goes from the continental shelf to the deep ocean.
  The next part of the seafloor is the Abyssal plain. In the Abyssal plain it is smooth and flat at the deepest part of the ocean. Volcanoes grow here and create islands that go up to the surface. The Abyssal plains go from the continental margin to the mid-ocean ridge on both sides of the ocean. Trenches form at a convergent boundary. Convergent boundaries are where two plates meet and one goes under the other and is destroyed. When the other plate goes under it creates a trench. These trenches are really deep. 
  The last part of the seafloor is the mid-ocean ridge. The mid-ocean ridge is made up of volcanic mountains that are formed by the Earth's tectonic plates moving apart. It is directly in the middle of the ocean.



   The last thing I am going to blog about is the ocean zones. The ocean is split up into five main zones. The zones are The Sunlight zone, The Twilight Zone, The Midnight Zone, The Abyss and The Trenches.
   We can only see the sunlight zone from above the water.The sunlight zone streches from the begining of the contenental shelf to the beggining of the contenental slope. It is about 200 meters deep. The twighlight zone is where the sunlight barely reaches. It is about 800 meters deep. That is four times as deep as the sunlight zone. The next zone is the Mid-night zone. In this place no sunlight is seen. The Mid-night zone is almost 3,000 meters deep. The abyss is the last zone before the ocean floor. The abyss is about 2,000 meters deep. The trenches are the deepest part of the ocean. They go about 5,000 meters deep.




Click HERE to learn about the different zones of the ocean.
Click HERE to learn about the history of the ocean.
Click HERE to learn why the ocean is salty.
                                  Bye

2011 to 2012

 Hi I am doing a blog to talk about what happened last year and what I look forward to in 2012. I will blog about what I like the most from 2011, what I did over winter break, what I want to achieve this year and what I am looking forward to this year.


  One of the things that happened in 2011 was that I went on a Carnival cruise that went to Jamaica, Key West and Grand Cayman. In Key West I did not do much we walked around saw the animals and plants. In Grand Cayman we went snorkeling and saw a sunken ship. In Jamaica we went to Dunn's river falls and Mystic mountain.


  Over the break I went down to Orlando and saw Disney World with my family. We went to animal kingdom the first day and saw a bunch of animals like giraffes, hippos, lions and rhinos on the safari ride. I also went on Kali river rapids and it was not very good. You wait about an hour for a 30 second ride. The park has a big fake tree in the middle of the park and it is called the tree of life. It is made up of statues of every animal that lives in the wild. Later in the day they had a parade and had a float for each animal species.





  The next day we went to Epcot and saw some different countries. They had Mexico, Norway, Japan, China, France, Italy, Morocco, Germany, the U.K., the U.S. and Canada.I also went on test track and mission space. On Test Track you are a test dummy riding in a car and you are put through some test to see if the car works. On Mission Space it makes you feel like your going to space and landing on Mars.



 
  
  The next day we went to Hollywood Studios. We went on Star Tours where you travel through some of the worlds shown on star wars.We went on toy story mania and used our tickets to get a fast pass for it or you would wait about two hours for the ride. We also saw a show called Fantasmic and it had all the Disney characters and it was talking about Mickey's imagination fighting against all the villains. After the show we saw the moving Osborn lights. The people decorated a section of the park to be light up at night.










  
  The last park I went to was Magic Kingdom. You have to either take the monorail or the boat. I went on Space Mountain, Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Then around closing there was a parade, a show on the Disney castle and fireworks.












 Something I want to achieve in 2012 is getting a higher score on NWEA than last year. I also want to get all A's on my report card.


 I am looking forward to the field trips and being back at school. I am looking forward to summer vacation and going on a summer trip.I am looking forward to being in 7th grade after the summer.

Dolphins and whales

   Today I am going to be blogging about dolphins and whales. I am going to have the characteristics of both,their diet,where they can be found and name some creatures in both groups.

     
  First, I am going to blog about dolphins. Dolphins are mammals which means they feed their babies with milk made by the mother. They also breathe air through a blowhole in the top of their head and they have to breathe every few minutes. Mammals also do not lay eggs, except for the platypus. Dolphins can be found in every ocean in the world and sometimes in rivers.Dolphins can vault out of water because of their tails.Some dolphins have been able to reach 55 miles per hour! Dolphins are very intelligent mammals. Their brain is about the same size as a humans and can be easily trained.Dolphins usually travel in a pod.The word pod means group.




    Here is a picture of a dolphin brain compared to a humans

    When people think about dolphins the bottle nose dolphin comes to mind.The bottle nose dolphin can grow up to 4 meters in length.The smallest dolphin is the Hector's dolphin which can grow up to 1 meter long.The largest whale is the Orca or killer  whale which can grow up to 10 meters long.

  

When dolphins have to get some rest they do not completly go to sleep. Half of their brain goes to sleep while the other half wathches for predators.

  Here is a picture of a bottle nose dolphin and a Killer whale.

                                                                                                                 

       


        Now on to whales. Whales are also mammals which means they breathe air, don't lay eggs and feed their babies milk which comes from the Mom. Whales are the largest mammals that exist at this moment.The blue whale is the largest whale in the world.When I think of a whale I think of a killer whale,beluga whale or a blue whale. The bad thing is that I am wrong. The killer whale is not a whale because it is a dolphin. Oh and the whale shark is only called a whale shark because of how big it is.It is really a shark because it does not breathe air.
     
    Whales are put into two groups toothed and baleen.Toothed whales include the killer whale,dolphins and the sperm whale. They eat squids,fish and sometimes seals depending on how big they are.Baleen means that the animal is a filter feeder. Filter feeders usually have big mouths but eat small animals like krill or shrimp.Some of the whales in this group include blue whales and humpback whales. I know that sounds kind of weird since they have big mouths.


This is a picture of a whale shark.

    






Click  HERE to go to the national geographics page on killer whales
Click HERE to go to the national geographics page on bottlenose dolphins
Click HERE to go to the  Enchanted learning website on whales
Click HERE to learn more about dolphins