Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

 Today I learned about plate tectonics. It was a great study. We took a milky way bar and used like the earth. Then we squeezed a little bit this way, and a little that way. We pushed and we pulled it till we created new landforms. The fun part was the whole thing. We had to tell our neighbor what new landmasses were made. There were new valleys and mountains. Where the caramel oozed out we called it a volcano. The caramel was the magnum. I think we did it just because it was a fun project. And we did learn a little. Basically it was really fun.

From Alex

Dear Mrs. Eldridge
          
     Today in sixth grade geography, we had a land form activity with a Milky Way candy bar.  It was fun because we got to eat it afterwards.
    The outside of the candy bar was the plate tectonics. The caramel inside the candy bar was the lava. When we squished the bar together it looked like the land would in real life.
    Mrs. Ramsey said she was going to send you some pictures to you for the web.                                                                        Sincerely,
                                                                       Logan Fogarty

Dear Mrs. Eldridge

We did a cool thing. We used Milky Ways to use an example of how plates move on the earth. It was funny because Mrs. Ramsey put the candy bars in front of us and made sure we did not do anything to them till she said so. We had to squish, pull and twist the candy bar. The caramel was the lava/magma. We showed are friends where the mountains, lava, and valleys would be. In the end we got to eat them. We were acting like we were eating planets!! It was a blast!!!

Mariah Rushing.

   Today in geography we learned about plates moving. Are partners should us about, mountains, valleys, and lava. We made the caramel lava or magma. And the chocolate was the plates and the mountains, valleys. And we ate the planets afterwards.

Ben R.

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

 Today in Geography we had an experiment that you had to get a milky way and you had to squeeze the sides and then squeeze the bottom to top. Then you had to show your partner where the caramels was and it was lava. Then we had to show are mountains were chocolate, than we said we were alien eating the earth or a planet. It was a fun project!!!!!!

From Brittany Humes

Dear Mrs. Eldridge

       Today in Geography, we were foreign aliens and we consumed the earth, it was a Milky Way bar. Now, just eating it wasn't enough so we mangled it first. First, we ripped apart the atmosphere we ripped off the wrapper as if it weren't an atmosphere at all. Then, we crushed the earth's crust. Mountains appeared as well as valleys and, especially, volcanoes. Then we shared with our peer aliens what was happening to our mini earth/milky ways. Then came the part that we had been living for, we almost skipped the mangling and went straight to it. WE ATE IT!!! It was a fun way to learn with my fellow Zlorphs about the weaknesses of an alien planet. Milky ways rock!

Claire Harvey

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,
 Today we had a project with plate tectonics (Milky Ways to be exact!)
First, we had to very carefully open the Milky Way. Then, we had to push ever so slightly onto the center of it. After that we pushed and pulled the Milky Way. Oh yeah we pretended that: the chocolate coating was the atmosphere, caramel was magma, and the nugget was some volcanic liquid. Any ways, so we pushed and pulled the Milky Way. Then we had to show our neighbor the mountains we created and the magma that was seable, and the streams and lakes and stuff like that. The best part was probably trying not to eat the Milky Way. I learned about magma, the atmosphere, and all that other technonic plate stuff. IT WAS GREAT FUN!
Sincerely,
 Nisha

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

       Today in Geography with Mrs. Ramsey the sixth grade ate Milky Ways! Which were posing as the Earth. First we crumpled them them up to illustrate mountains, craters, valleys, volcanoes and other landforms, as well as the plates that are part of the theory of plate tectonics. Then we turned to our neighboring classmates and described the landforms.

       Honestly, I think this is a great way to learn about plates and landforms. Actually it was amazing. It completely told me how the plates moved together and apart to create new landforms. The chocolate posed as the Earth's thin crust. The caramel was the magma that lies under the crust. And the Nugget? That was the Earth's mantle.

       It was an amazing assignment. I think we should do one on the earth's atmosphere using gum-balls, because gum is delicious! Crumpling the Milky Way was indeed fun. However the best part was eating it! Thank you for reading!

Have a Nice Weekend!
Sam Briggs

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

Today we learned about plate tectonics. I wrote a small story about what we did.
   Once upon a there were two giant aliens looking at a planet shaped like a Milky Way candy bar. These aliens have special powers to move forward in time. They skipped a million years in time. The aliens observed the planet. By this time the planet had been split many times. One alien showed the other alien that there was a big mountain, a valley, and many places where caramel magma created new landforms. All of a sudden one alien ate the planet. He thought it was fun to eat it. Both aliens learned that the earth changes over millions of years.

  Sincerely,
  William Sullivan  

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

Today in Geography we did an experiment on the plate tectonics. With MILKY WAYS!!! First we took them out of the wrapper. Then we took it and squished it and pulled on it. The caramel was like lave. We told are neighbor were the mountains, lava, and valleys. It was an example of how the plates move. Then we ate it like a planet.

From,
Mitchel Clarke 

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

    Today we did a project about earthquakes in geography. We used a Milky Way candy bar.
We smashed it every way and the caramel was magma and the chocolate was the crust. It was fun
when we ate it. We did it to lean and for a good class experiment. I love geography!

 From,
 Faith Moerdyk

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

      Today I learned about plate tectonics. I used a Milky Way bar to learn about the earth. We did it so we could learn and have fun. The cracks in the chocolate were the plates. The caramel was magma and the nugget was the center of the earth. I told my neighbor sitting next to me that there were people screaming for their lives. I had fun with this project. Especially when I was the alien that ate the earth.

Sincerely,
Dan K.

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

    Today we learned about plate tectonics. It was fun; we played with candy bars, and pretended they were the earth. There was the outer layer that was the surface of the earth, the inside which represented the hot lava in the earth. We crushed it a little on both ends to represent the bumpy surface. Then we showed our neighbor what our earth looks like, like the mountains, hills, valleys, and the stuff coming out called lava. Then we got to eat them.
                                                                    Sincerely
                                                                      Natasha Vasquez

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,
         Today in Mrs. Ramsey’s class we the 6th graders got to have delicious Milky Ways!! Yummy. The Milky Ways were posing as our very own planet Earth. The outside chocolate was the Earth's crust. The caramel was the magma, and the nugget was was the Earth's core. It was a very delicious planet. Much better than the other planets, then again I have never eaten any of the other planets, but it they are all candy bars; I would eat all 9 of them. I think it was fun because we evolved the Earth, and candy. Also we learned about Plate Tectonics. I told my neighbors that it was an really fun experiment. We learned a lot, and got Milky Ways too.
Sincerely,
Sami Tiefenthal

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

   Today we did some thing very interesting with a Milky Way bar. We had to take it and tear the raping very carefully. Then we had to take it with
two fingers and gently squash it. Then turn it around and do it one the other ends. After that we had to show our neighbors and tell them that
the caramel was the magma or lava, tell them were our mountains would be and I forget but the nugget was special too. Mrs. Ramsey told us that we
were aliens holding a planet in our hands. WE all picked one, I had the planet Neptune, and it was very fun.

Sierra

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,
      Today in geography we had a little experiment, Mrs. Ramsey gave all of us a Milky Way (which by the was way very delicious and tempting). We had to open it up a specific way. Then we put two fingers in each side and pushed down slightly until we got a few cracks in the top and bottom. Same thing the other way. Then we pulled the Milky Way apart but not completely, pushed it back together to form magma like a volcano, new land forms, valleys, and mountains. We had to point everything I just said out to our neighbor. I learn for one that a we need to do a project on the atmosphere but that when two thing spread out or collide new landforms will be forms. My favorite part besides eating the Milky Way was tearing it apart before we ate it!
Sincerely,
Haley Maser

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

   Today is Geography we did this experiment sort of thing. We used a Milky bar as planet Earth or some other planet, and we used to see how the Earth has its Earth Quacks.
    These are the steps we did it in first we had to take the bar out of the wrapper, then we had to squish the top down, then we had to squeeze the ends together, then we had to push and pull the bar together, then we had to sow our neighbor were the mountains, lava, and where the valleys were. Last but not least we had to eat it, and it was great I wonted to do it again.

Kaitlin Kubiskey

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,
        
        Today in geography we a plate tectonics project. What we did was Miss. Ramsey passed out milky ways like the candy and we opened them and we set them on tissues and we said that the caramel was the lava/magma. Then we squished and pulled the candy and it made the chocolate on the outside of the candy rise. Then we said the chocolate was mountains and the caramel was the magma and the flat parts were valleys. Then after all that hard work we got to eat the candy and it made us happy. This was our example of making a plate tectonic diagram.

From
Cady Lowe

Dear, Mrs. Eldridge,

Today in geography we did an experiment on the plate tectonics. We did the experiment with milky waves. We had to squish the sides and squish the top and pull the top and sides out. It was a fun experiment. At the end of we got to eat the milky wave.

From
Brandon Beckstein

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

 Today in geography we took a Milky Way bar and we squished and pulled it so it was like the plates on the earth .Then we had to show are neighbor. It was torture doing project because we could not eat it until it was done. When we were done we got to eat it.  This was a fun project. 

Nick DeLeon

Dear Mrs. Eldridge
         Today in Geography we did this really fun project. We took a Milky Way and squished it in the middle and on the top then we pulled it and squished it back together. We acted as if the Milky Way were plate tectonics and like I said we squished it in the middle and on the top then we pulled it and squished it back together. The we showed the person next to us were the caramel came out and that was the magma at the bottom of the plate tectonics where. Then we showed or partners mountains, valleys and like I said the magma. Now how the plats move well the magma (the lava) is at the of the bottom and it is a liquid rock and it heats up and that’s what caused the plats tectonics to move in the earth. That’s what I learned in Geography.  
Mikelle

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

      Today in Geography class we learned about plate tectonics, with a MILKY WAY! First we had to pull the wrapper off carefully, then we had to try to figure out which part was which with the mantle, the crust, the magma,  and other parts of our "Earth" including figuring out what the nougat, the Carmel, and the chocolate were. Then we had to push in on it with our two first fingers. After that we had to squish it the other way. Then we had to show our neighbors the "mountains", the "valleys", and the "magma". After that we had to be aliens and destroy "planet Earth" (eat it). It was really fun!

Sincerely,
Brittany Trombley

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,
Today in geography we got a milk way to talk about the plate tectonics. The caramel was the lava or the magma. and an example of how plates move on the earth. And then we ate the   planets.
From
Justin Ennis 

     In geography today, we ate a Milky Way candy bar, I mean planets. Isn't that cool? We used the candy as plate tectonics. The caramel was used as the lava, or magma. We had to pull and squeeze it. 

Courtney Danks

Mrs. Ramsey's Main Page

October 2007

Thanks you students for all the e-mails about the Milky Way project.  I used your e-mailings along with Mrs. Ramsey's pictures to make this page. beldridg@manistee.org

Dear Mrs. Eldridge,

      We grabbed a Milky Way and we pushed on the Milky Way.  We study about the earth using the Milky Way.

 Michael Meadows