Published in the February 18-March 3, 2015 issue of Morgan Hill Life
By Jen Myers’s Barrett Elementary School third-grade class
We love learning about science because we can learn a lot from experimenting and discovering new information.
Science is fun. We learned that there are five different basic levels of science: physics, chemistry, biology, behavioral science and information science. When you study all these sciences, you are really studying energy.
For example, physics can involve the study of gravity. When you throw a ball in the air, it goes up and then it comes down. There’s a pull by the Earth that draws things like balls, satellites and the Moon to it. One reason people think this happens is because of superstring theory. These are like little “spaghetti” strings that are vibrating, and they have an energy that makes gravity happen.
Chemistry lets us mix chemicals together and blow things up! But there are also chemicals that don’t always blow up. For example, water (which is made up of hydrogen and oxygen atoms) does not necessarily blow up.
Biology is the science of life. We study the energy of chemicals in living things like animals, plants and even us humans.
Behavioral science is the study of what happens in our brains. We have two brains — the right brain and the left brain. The right brain is the arty, creative side. The left brain is the logical, language side. Both sides have to work together to produce good thinking.
Information science is the study of getting thoughts from one person’s brain to another.
We love to learn science because we love to learn more things about how our world and our universe works.
After a junior journalist writing workshop by Morgan Hill Life Publisher Marty Cheek, Jen Myers’s third-grade class at Barrett Elementary School wrote this column.
