GriffinScience

Here is the check-in we completed (hopefully) in class today (worth 5 points as a quiz grade): 1. What is your topic? 2. What is your topic thesis (or what is your journal article about in your own words)? 3. Please give the general outline of your journal article (what type of presentation are you [...]

Anyone want to give it a shot? NASA – Kids In Micro-g!: “The experiment demonstration must take no more than 30 minutes to set up, run and take down. Experiment challenge winners and runners-up will be selected regionally and nationally by the Education Offices of the ten NASA centers. The ten regional winners, one national [...]

Full of Awesomeness (watch via Vimeo if you’re at school since YouTube is blocked): 8th Grade Students at Spartanburg Day School tackle the ideas and implications of string theory… 1 minute at a time. YouTube Link

Here are a few video highlights from today’s session… enjoy!

Our final Journal products are due on Friday December 4, which is the Friday of next week! We’ll discuss this in class tomorrow, but in order to fit everything in (and since we didn’t get all of the materials I ordered due to the backorder shipment), let’s make the following changes… – You can still [...]

Fascinating how relevant our studies of isotopes can be to “everyday life”… Shortage Slows a Program to Detect Nuclear Bombs – NYTimes.com: “WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has spent $230 million to develop better technology for detecting smuggled nuclear bombs but has had to stop deploying the new machines because the United States [...]

Last Thursday, I posted our readings for Homework 9. I’ve gone back and fixed the article so that you can actually read it without having to print out. Everything is the same, just the direction is fixed. So, you don’t have to print out the assigned article now!

Awesome! 16 Golden Retrievers Teach You About Atoms: I’ve often found that, when I can’t understand a concept in science or math, putting it into pictures will make everything make more sense. It’s like magic. Now, none of the visualizations I used as a kid involved a cadre of trained golden retrievers, but maybe that’s [...]

What a great legacy. Follow the link and read the whole fascinating story… Albert Crewe, First to Show a Single Atom, Is Dead at 82 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: “Albert V. Crewe, the University of Chicago physicist who developed the high-resolution electron microscope that captured the first image of an individual atom, died on [...]

Thanks to Mrs Wood (and Twitter) for the vid from the basketball game tonight! TwitVid – @tvamy Let’s get fired up!!!