====== Science Writing ======
by:[[larissa-kuo | Larissa Kuo]]

===english version===
Do you know that the famous scientist Albert Einstein isn't actually smart? But he studies and discovered so much scientific knowledge that we are using his findings as a lesson. So now you know how learning science can make you look so cool around anyone when you tell them about scientific facts. So let's see some assignments and my class did throughout the past semester!

We do experiments once in two weeks. And each week our topic is different, it could be about fruit energy, or water energy, or plastic with heat. Each class we will be given a worksheet that contains all of our experiments for the class. After each experiment, we will have to put our findings in each section. We also have a notebook to write new vocabularies we learned in that class, also write all the procedures for the experiments, materials, and also a conclusion. Let's look at some experiments we did.

Let me share with you my favorite lab experiment. We did an experiment at the beginning of October, it was about heating plastics! To be specific, our topic that day was “Plastic Measures”, we get a piece of plastic and we get to cut it into our favorite shapes, we then draw our small designs on the piece of plastic. After the designing part is done, we grab a hot air dryer that can form heat that is higher than 100 degrees. You then face the dyer on your plastic until it shrinks to a very tiny size, you will then get your own customized plastic plate drawing! What about what I learned? Let's continue to the next paragraph!

This year's science was especially fun because we actually did it in our own classroom with all those crazy experiments. Each lab can be very different in its own ways, one day we could be learning about energy, the other day we could be learning about food. When each class starts, our science teacher Mark will explain to us how each of the experiments can do, and how we do the experiments. In each lab, we learn a lot of new words, but even though the teacher teaches in Chinese and all of the vocabularies are in Chinese, Scott will always be there to translate them for us, so we can all understand the meaning of the word.

Do you know how can learn science without being smart? All you have to do is change your perspective towards it, try to make it fun so you won't be hating it too much. One of the most important discoveries I made was, doing science is not just sitting in a chair and listening to your teacher lecture you about stuff. But actually doing the experiment will make you feel proud of yourself after discovering something new during the experiment.

===chinese version===
你知道著名科學家阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦實際上並不聰明嗎？但是他研究並發現瞭如此多的科學知識，以至於我們將他的發現作為一個教訓。所以現在你知道了，當你告訴他們科學事實時，學習科學可以讓你在任何人面前看起來都很酷。所以讓我們看看一些作業和我的班級在過去一個學期所做的！

我們每兩週做一次實驗。每週我們的主題都不一樣，可能是關於水果能源、水能或帶熱量的塑料。每個班級我們都會得到一個工作表，其中包含我們為班級所做的所有實驗。在每次實驗之後，我們必須將我們的發現放在每個部分中。我們還有一個筆記本，用來寫我們那堂課學到的新詞彙，還寫了所有的實驗程序、材料和結論。讓我們看看我們做過的一些實驗。

讓我與您分享我最喜歡的實驗室實驗。我們在十月初做了一個實驗，是關於加熱塑料的！具體來說，那天我們的主題是“塑料措施”，我們得到一塊塑料，我們把它剪成我們喜歡的形狀，然後我們在這塊塑料上畫出我們的小設計。設計部分完成後，我們拿了一個熱風乾燥機，它可以形成高於100度的熱量。然後，您在塑料上面對染色機，直到它收縮到非常小的尺寸，然後您將獲得自己的定制塑料板圖！我學到了什麼？讓我們繼續下一段！

今年的科學課特別有趣，因為我們實際上是在自己的教室裡用所有那些瘋狂的實驗完成的。每個實驗室都可能以自己的方式非常不同，有一天我們可以學習能量，有一天我們可以學習食物。每節課開始時，我們的科學老師馬克都會給我們講解每一個實驗是如何做的，以及我們是如何做這些實驗的。在每個實驗室，我們學習了很多新單詞，但是即使老師用中文授課，所有的詞彙都是中文的，Scott 會一直在那里為我們翻譯，所以我們都能理解單詞的意思.

你知道如何在不聰明的情況下學習科學嗎？你所要做的就是改變你對它的看法，試著讓它變得有趣，這樣你就不會太討厭它了。我做出的最重要的發現之一是，做科學不僅僅是坐在椅子上聽老師講課。但實際上做實驗會讓你在實驗中發現新的東西後為自己感到自豪。

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