GriffinScience

After spending most of last week and this week pulling things out of cabinets, sanding down tables and cleaning walls, we’re getting the classroom into shape. So, we’ve gone from this: To this… new and improved (that’s fabric, not paper): We even have new blinds! More soon…

Did you know we are still discovering elements? It’s true. The Periodic Table is an always developing table and definitely changes over time as we learn more about the universe. We are still adding new elements to the table. Just 13 years ago, we discovered Element 112 (we’ll talk about how that happens in class). [...]

I’m at the University of South Carolina for a Lego Mindstorms training today building and programming robots: 8th Grade Robotics and 6th Grade Design Technologies are going to be a blast this year!

When I was in 7th grade (way back in the early 1990′s), my dad gave me my first computer. Of course, this was before the days of the World Wide Web being used as it is today, so there wasn’t much “mult-media” accessible on the computer (not that it could have handled much to begin [...]

Today at 12:34:56pm (it’s July 8, 2009), it will be 123456789! Look down at your watch and smile

Albert Einstein had an amazing year in 1905. At the age of 26, he published three papers that changed the way humanity thinks about the universe. In fact, 1905 has been called the “Miracle Year” because of Einstein’s contributions. Even now, 104 years later, scientists are still studying these papers and applying them to new [...]