This is our overall Reflection

Reflection for group discussion

Hello all. Today I am going to write a short reflection about our group discussion project that we did. First of all i would like to thank Mrs M because i like how she gave us the freedom to talk on this subject that was very interesting. What amazed me is that at the end when we had to share our discussion and the proposal {not the marriage kind} that we had we ended up having very similar information and thoughts. I think this was an great idea Mrs M for letting us talk like this and not having steps of how we should talk. My group was excellent we didn't fight, and if we had an "argument" we would solve it peacefully and without harms way. I hope we have more of this freedom to talk
Thank you again Mrs M
Hope you Enjoyed.

A group discussion + proposal

Group members- Ogi, Matija, Han &Ajda

Questions-

           Why are minerals important?

·      Because they use them for daily life purposes such as building materials, medicine and many more important uses

          What minerals are found in the world’s oceans?

·      Diamonds

·      Salt

·      Potassium

·      Magnesium.

·      Sand and Gravel.

·      Limestone and Gypsum.

·      Manganese Nodules.

·      Phosphoresces

·      Placer Gold

·      Tin

·      Titanium

Why are these minerals so valuable?

·      Because the process of getting them cost a lot of money

·      Because most of the diamonds lie on the continental shelf

          Who should have the right to receive them or the profits?

·      All countries around the specific ocean should have the right to own the minerals

·      The wealthy countries should share the minerals they find with the developing countries, but in return the developing countries should share their minerals

What are the problems with mining in the oceans?

·      It is very expensive

·      It causes earthquakes

·      They don’t have the tools to mine in some countries

·      Some countries are able to mine the minerals from the oceans but do not want to share them

Blue Questions-

Who owns the oceans minerals?

·      Mainly the countries around that part of the ocean

·      Everyone should share their profits/founds

What are the rights?

·      The people that find the minerals

·      The governments

·      Wealthy countries should produce the process and they should share it with the developing countries because they don’t have the privilege to afford it, but in return they need to give workers in return

·      By 2003, 157 nations had signed the law of the Sea treaty. The mining profits must be shared between all nations. Because of the treaty some nations think that everyone should share their technology and profits they get from the deposits

Do you agree with them?

·      Yes we do agree, because every country no matter if they are wealthy or developing should have the rights to have those minerals

The proposal-

Solve the problem without war-

·      We had some disagreements about what to write, because everyone had their own ideas but in the end we ended up voting to get the right proposal.

·      We also had many different answer possibilities so we ended up writing down more than one idea from more than one person

·      We should make a law saying that no matter who finds the minerals has the rights to keep them, no matter where it is

·      They should also share/trade what they find with the developing   countries    

·      The red writing is the highlights of our discussion or the disagreements that we had

·      The black is what we decided 

Copper in Serbia

Hello all. Today in science class we have to right a blog post about the most common mineral in my country which you can see is Serbia. I chose to talk about copper because its one of the most common minerals found in Serbia. Now how is copper mined? Copper is always found under the earths crust which means its subsurface mining.The biggest company that produces copper in Serbia is called RTB. The copper is exported to Americal along with some other countries but Serbia is keeping 33% of the mining area which gives a lot of copper. Copper is used for rooftops best against erosion, it is also used for wire in houses. In Serbia copper is especially valuable because the Serbs were one of the first ones to produce it and show it to the world. Copper is depended on in Serbia because you use this mineral for many many things such as wires in houses like I mentioned before. In conclusion Serbia is very rich on copper and it is the most common found mineral.

 Ocean Mining, is it a Big Problem

Hello guys I am going to talk you of what I have been doing in science class lately. So on Friday, April 8, Our teacher {Mrs. M} gave us a very problematic article to read, and so I did. The main Topic of this article was: Should the wealth be shared for ocean floored mining. After we read the text we are going to have to answer 3 questions and they will be right bellow along with my answer and opinion.

Indentify the Problem: The Problem about ocean floor mining is that not every country can afford to buy the necessary tools and technology needed to process this type of mining.

Analyze the Options : I think that the only options that the developing countries have are to somehow persuade the wealthy countries to help them and give them the money necessary to  process this kind of mining.

Find a Solution:  I think that the countries in the Pacific Ocean that should share their founds are Australia, and the island around it, with the east part of Russia as well as Asia and Japan {Japan really needs help right now.} The countries that should share minerals in North and south Atlantic are the following. Iceland and Greenland, Portugal, the east side of America and the west side of Africa. And all the countries around the Arctic ocean should share their fortune and minerals.

In conclusion I strongly  believe that the countries that can afford these types of things {tool} should share their wealth.

Mighty Mineral

Hey guys good to see you again :) in science class we are doing this project where we get to choose our own mineral to talk about it and answer a couple of questions. Down below are the questions

How do we get it out from nature?

Crystalline Structure: What does it look like? 

Abundance:  How much is found on Earth? 

Where is it found? 

Possible:  How valuable is it? How much does it cost?
We also had other questions that we needed to answer but on paper

My choice of a mineral was copper. While i was researching i found out many fascinating things about this mineral, For example one of the first cars ever invented were out of copper and not metal. I can not put on my slide show that i prepared for class with all of the questions answer so i am very sad, I will try though but i may not succeed. In conclusion i loved this project because i got to learn about this incredible mineral, I hope we do this again in future references

Our Greatest Lab Report

PROJECT 
Irina 
Emma 
Matija 
QUESTIONS
1.Does the density of a mineral depend on the size of the mineral sample?

Hypothesis:

It depends on how much air the mineral has inside.   It also depends on the mass divided by volume which equals the density.  To find the density you need to know the mass and volume.

Controlled variables:  How much water is in the graduated cylinder {we will keep this to see the difference between the minerals.} The scale.
Manipulated variables:  The minerals {we will test 3 different kind of minerals so they will have 3 different kind of densities.} 
Responding variables:  Density of the minerals 
Materials:

1. Balance
2. Graduated cylinder
3. Weighting paper
4. Samples of minerals

Procedure: 
1. Choose the 2 minerals, 3 samples each.

• WHITE FELDSPAR
• ORANGE FELDSPAR

2. Find the mass

• 1. orange feldspar 23.6
• 2. orange feldspar 34.3
• 3. orange feldspar 18.6

• 1. white feldspar 32.1
• 2. white feldspar 21
• white feldspar 31.5

3. Find the volume

• 1.orange feldspar 22 ml
• 2.orange feldspar 25 ml
• 3.orange feldspar 14 ml

• 1. white feldspar 28 ml
• 2. white feldspar 12 ml
• 3. white feldspar 20 ml

4. Find the Density
Orange feldspar
1.072
1.3
1.328
White feldspar 
1.146
1.75
1.575

5. Make a table with what the density,volume and mass are



Data analysis 
In the data above i personally can see multiple patterns. The first pattern i see is that the volume is always a little bit smaller then the mass this is maybe because there isn't so much space inside the mineral as much there is mass. The second pattern i see is that there are minerals which have quite the same volume as well as the mass

Conclusion
Does the density of a mineral depend on the size of the mineral sample?  Well from what i have seen in our lab report is that the bigger minerals or the larger ones have more volume and mass then the smaller ones, therefore they it has more density {this is because mass/volume=density.} So I will have to say yes

Further inquiry
If I were to do this whole lab again i would have changed our samples to find a lot of differences in the mass and volume so they would be completely different. I would have also prefered to work in a quite place so i would get distracted. Other then that my group was amazing i could have picked a better group because they started working at once, they didn't argue, and the best of all they were always on track.