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As you know, many of what are considered the greatest buildings in history (the Pyramids, the Colosseum, even the Washington Monument and the Capitol in Washington, D.C.) were built without the help of the massive machines we so often see around construction sites today. Instead, these buildings were constructed using human sweat, power and ingenuity…and [...]

I really love the Internet Archive: We’ll be seeing more of Mr. Einstein this year! Internet Archive: Free Download: Albert Einstein Comes To America

The school year is just ending, but I can’t wait until mid-August when I get to welcome you all into 8th Grade Physical Science! It’s going to be an amazing year. Bring your curiosity!

This is just awesome: The View Astronaut Michael Good peers through a window toward Atlantis’ crew cabin interior, where his shirt-sleeved support team members busy themselves to aid the flight’s second of five spacewalks to perform work on the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronaut Mike Massimino can be seen in the background at work on the [...]

By the end of the school year, you’ll understand most of the incredible science behind how we can launch such a heavy object(s) into orbit (it involves more than “rockets go boom” but that’s a part of it)! Amazing. Keep up to date with this mission to Hubble Telescope (the last one!) via NASA. By [...]

The 125th Space Shuttle mission launches today, and it’s a big day for science! NASA has a fantastic interactive webpage they’ve built for the mission so you can learn more about the mission’s goals (always good to have those!), the astronauts and the Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to the principles of acceleration, trajectory, projectiles, chemical [...]

The great science blogger, The Bad Astronomer (or Phil Plait) posted new videos from a panel he and other astronomers recently did on their quests to understand the universe: In January, I had the distinct pleasure in hosting a panel in Pasadena called The Mysteries of the Cosmos. It featured four brilliant astronomers discussing their quest [...]

Welcome to GriffinScience.com! This will be the web home for our Physical Science class.  So, our lessons, notes, handouts, homework details (and so on) will all be posted here. There will also be posts covering some aspects of a particular lesson that we won’t have time to cover in class (like science news or more [...]