Finally, we applied the same concepts to a timeline provided from a drilling of a Russian drill hole. The students found it very interesting that the drill hole took as long as it did.
This week we continued our adventure to the center of the Earth. We were trying to give the students a scaled visual of just how deep the center is. To do this we measured out different colors of crepe paper to represent the 15 layers/points that we researched and discussed last week. We then took our crepe paper to the hallways and taped them up in order and locations. This stretched from the band room down past the cafeteria, across the front of the auditorium down the hallway that my room is in and then up and down the art hallway. The students were extremely surprised at the length as we walked it and taped it up. This was also a great activity to practice measurement. The next thing we did was start to investigate the radius of the various layers and use that information to help us find the volume of the Earth and its layers. 
Magnetism by Induction was the challenge for the evening. The groups were to try to create the longest vertical chain of paperclips using their magnets. The paperclips could not be hooked together!!! They were all given five minutes to practice and develop a plan and then a one minute competition took place. The longest chain achieved was 13 paperclips!! Nice job to everyone who participated!! We really loved seeing all of the ideas you came up with. 
2013-2014 Year of IMSA ended with a Family Scavenger Hunt that involved all of the Secret Codes we had worked with throughout 2 nd Semester as the clues. 
