Mrs. Ramsey's pages 2005-2006

Plate Tectonics & The Milky Way Bar

Plate Tectonics is theory that the outer shell of the earth is made up of thin, rigid plates that move relative to each other. The theory of plate tectonics was formulated during the early 1960s, and it revolutionized the field of geology. Scientists have successfully used it to explain many geological events, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as well as mountain building and the formation of the oceans and continents. …Dylan

We got a Milky Way bar. We had to make plate tectonics. So we shmushed it on the sides to put cracks in it to make it look like it had plates. Then we pushed and pulled it to make a mountain, a trench, and a volcano. That is what we did to make plate tectonics. … Chance

For our project in social studies we were talking about plate tectonics. We used little Milky Way candy bars for the earth. We smashed them to make plates. If the plates over lap they make an earthquake. When we were done we got to eat the Milky Way. And it was really good. …Brandon G.

We used a Milky Way candy bar to make plate tech tonics. When we smashed the Milky Way it formed mountains. Also, they formed trenches. We also made volcanic activity in it. Also, we showed were the volcanoes could show volcanic activity. ...Cody

Today we had to squish a Milky Way candy bar in social studies. It was lot of fun for me. It was very weird and fun at the same time. It felt really gooey. It looked really gross to me. That was fun and we were learning at the same time. …Alicia H.

We did a project today involving milkyway bars. We had to push on all sides of the candy bar. When we did that we formed a land kind of like plate tectonics. It had cracks, crevices, trenches, and lava oozing (carmel). After we had to eat the candy bars. My bar looked like Mars. It had some lava, a couple of cracks and a deep trench. ...Sean

We did an experiment of plate tectonics. We used a Milky Way to show the plates. We smashed the Milky Way and pulled it back and forth to show how the plates worked. Then we showed our partners the mountains, volcanoes, and the plates. It was a fun project. …Kyle A.

	The Milky Way is a candy bar that is chocolaty and is mixed with Carmel. It is also a galaxy in the universe. The plate went over each other and made mountains on the earth. It also made volcanoes on the earth. Those are the things I know about Milky Way plate tectonics. …Austin C. The Milky Way chocolate bar is a demonstration of how plate tectonics act. What we did was we took the mini bar and we smooshed it so there was cracks in it. It was a demonstration because the cracks were plates. The caramel was lava. That’s what the Milky Way chocolate bar is demonstrating. …Mariah
Today we did a project in SS with Milky Ways to show how plate tectonics work. First we put our fingers on the ends and pushed. Then we pulled on the ends. Then we described to our table partners what happened to our milky ways. This is how we made an example of plate tectonics. …Brandon M. Today we did a project in social studies about plate tectonicts. We all took a Milky Way candy bar and smushed them together. We had to point out landforms to the people we were sitting with. On our candy bars of course! It was a very fun assignment. I wish we could do things like this more often. …Madalyn		I worked on a Milky Way project. We had to take a Milky Way and use it to learn about plate tectonics. We made some cracks in the Milky Way. After that we put it back together. We saw that some of it was on tope and on bottom of anther. ...Samantha V. Today we did a experiment on the Milky Way candy bar we had to smash the Milky Way until they had cracks on all of the sides. We also had to make some lava come out witch is caramel. But we had to do that without it breaking. I really liked the Milky Way experiment. Because I think the best part about it was when we had to open the candy bar because it was very sticky. …Corina
The Milky Way experiment was fun we took the candy bar and smooched it. We smooched it to see the plates what it would be like. It was kind of weird because we hand to smash it in our hands. We had to show are partner where the plate tectonics would smash. Then we got to eat the candy bar. …Tanner	Today we crushed a Milky Way. We crushed a Milky Way because it was an example of the earth’s plates. They all moved when we crushed them. After we were done with the experiment we got to eat the milky ways. They were really good and I had a fun time doing the experiment. …Dylan W.	The thing that we did today was learn about the Milky Way. We used a Milky Way candy bar. The thing that we did was take a candy bar and pushed it down. Then we had to see what the pieces would do then the pieces went over top of each other. Then when we pushed it down it changed shapes and feels. That’s what we did in social studies. …Shamika