GriffinScience

We finished up the presentation from yesterday. Your homework tonight (which you should complete on your blog) is to answer the following (due Thursday night at midnight): How did Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr, Chadwick or Shroedinger (pick one) differ from Democritus in their use of the scientific method to discover more about the nature of [...]

I’ve created a new page up in the menu bar called Daily Notes that will keep a running list of links back to the main lessons we cover in class. This should help you keep track of our studies and review our notes as we move ahead. Feel free to blog about anything we study [...]

Here is the presentation from today… Here is the link to download the presentation as a Keynote file (Mac).

Fascinating… How much stuff is in the Universe? : Starts With A Bang: “All told, there are around a whopping 1080 atoms filling our observable Universe. This is a ridiculously huge number. If you and I were to each choose an atom in the Universe at random, the probability that we’d each choose the same [...]

Here are the highlights from Friday’s discussion on the nature of atoms that you should know in case there’s a *hint hint wink wink* surprise check up on Monday… – Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. – Protons and Neutrons compose the nucleus of an atom. – Electrons are found in orbit (shells) [...]

Here are the goals for the four main areas we’re covering in our opening unit o’ studies. By the end of the unit, you should be able to confidently have a grasp on the following tasks… History Describe how atomic theory has changed from Ancient Greece to the 21st century by highlighting some of the [...]

From the Guardian… Astronomers have discovered a new solar system 127 light years away that is tantalisingly similar to our own. The team used observations from the European Southern Observatory(Eso) in Chile to find five Neptune-like planets orbiting a Sun-like star called HD 10180. The planets are closer to their star than Mars is to [...]

Teachers are heading back to Spartanburg Day this week to get set for the new year (starts soon!). I’ll be in a new room this year (308) which is the old computer lab. It’s a little larger and I’ll have new tables and stools (hopefully soon). In the meantime, drop by and see how the [...]

Knowing how to read/use the periodic table never gets boring! baltimoresun.com: “An SEC filing just hit that shows that Apple Inc. struck a deal with Liquidmetal Technologies, a California-based company that holds patents on new metal and alloy designs, for essentially access to all of its intellectual property. Perhaps in the near future, we can [...]

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