Month: June 2023

Hey y’all! I’m gonna tell you ’bout the new unit. And because of the title, you already know. LEGENDS AND MYTHS!!!!!!!

So once I read too many legends, I began the creative side. I created a legend, with a wolf. Here it is:

About 1.2 billion years ago, Lake Superior was formed near a forest. In the process, a wolf’s home was destroyed. This wolf’s name was Temper, and this is why. Unlike you and me, this wolf lost his temper very quickly. Temper had grey-brown fur, and dazzling blue eyes. Temper’s home got flooded, and he got mad. He would snap at the bottom of any person’s feet, and drag them under. Before long, a smelly foul wolf came under water. They created a family, and that family grew, and grew, and grew. About 3 years later, a human came. He had clean, white skin, and a dark brown unibrow. He was 32, but he still wore silver armour, and bore a sword. He fought hard, but Temper was immortal. He protected his pups, though the man got to them. He slew all 13 pups, and the she-wolf. Now, Temper sits alone under the Lake Superior waters, sleeping. But when he awakens, and when he is hungry… You are a tasty treat. So now you know about Temper the wolf, and where all those children went. So if I were you, I wouldn’t swim in Lake Superior.

 

Here is the origin of Temper the wolf:

Temper the wolf was created 1.7 billion years ago, when some humans destroyed his home. But Temper was actually created by accident. Varuna, Hindu god of water, was attempting to make a new underwater animal, in his underwater palace, so vicious that kids would not swim in their territory. Varuna had blue eyes, a merman tail, and long, wavy, silver hair. It did turn out vicious, but not scary enough, so they abandoned it. Temper was sad to be left by his master, but he found a home. And Lake Superior was created.

I added pictures, and turned it into a book, which now sits in the OJCS library.

I unfortunately do not have the book right now, so I am unable to take pictures of it to show you.

Welp, thats it for my ridiculously long (x-tra short) blog post! Byyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeee!

I love rocks. They are probably my favourite thing to do research on. So let’s get right to it! Opals are 1 kind of rock/gem*. They come in many different colours, like red, white or light blue. But what makes the “Opal ” special, is that when you hold it up to the light, it glows different colours! The “Opal ” is also the second strongest material on earth. The “Opal” is most commonly found in Coober Pedy, Australia. 

The ”Amethyst” is a purple variety of quartz, which you will learn about later, and owes its violet colour to irradiation, impurities of iron and in some cases other transition metals, and the presence of other trace elements, which result in complex crystal lattice.

The heaviest “amethyst” ever mined weighed 2.5 tonnes. That’s about as heavy as 5 grand pianos!

“Quartz” is also an energy source. The electrical reaction can be created by applying a charge, physical stress, or heat. Quartz is also distinguished as a gem that is capable of triboluminescence, or the ability to create light under pressure. Some different kinds of “quartz” are “strawberry quartz” and “milk quartz”. The heaviest quartz ever mined was 14,100 kg. That’s about 3 and a half hippopotamuses! Isn’t that awesome?

”Emerald” is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl colored green by trace amounts of chromium and/or sometimes vanadium. Beryl has a hardness of 7.5–8 on the Mohs scale. Most emeralds are highly included, so their toughness is classified as generally poor. The heaviest emerald ever mined was 1,505 g. That’s as heavy as 2 bricks! It gets cooler every time!

 “Turquoise” is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH) 8· 4H2O. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone and ornamental stone for thousands of years owing to its unique hue. The heaviest turquoise weighed 225 kg. That’s as heavy as a bit less than 2 horses! Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, consisting of aluminium oxide with trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, vanadium, or magnesium. The name sapphire is derived from the Latin “saphirus” and the Greek “sappheiros”, both of which mean blue. Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. At room temperature and pressure, another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon, but diamond converts to it extremely slow.

  *Gem is short for gemstone

For more information, visit these different websites…

Gia.com

List of gems

Geology.com

National geographic kids 

Steven Universe Wiki

To end this blog post, I would like to say that I had a lot of fun gathering these facts. Thank you for reading!