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Today we started working on our second lab (which is also Test 3). We’ll wrap this up quickly as we head into our studies of bonding. – Lab 2: Closed Reaction Chamber Start Date: September 22, 2010 Your Goal: Design and build a closed chamber in which sugar can be broken down. Your Structure Must: [...]

Listen! Have your lab notebooks ready to go on Monday!

Today we started our lab on electromagnetism. Here’s the lab handout and problems that you need to have completed by the end of class tomorrow: Electromagnetism Lab Procedure After this lab, we’re starting on another lab that is more complicated but will also involve electricity and magnetism. Should be fun!

We’ll be continuing our studies of sound tomorrow, focusing on the components of a sound wave. Additionally, we’ll be starting work on our own sound creations (or songs) in class. If you’d like to get a head start, here are a couple of good online song editors (free): – Myna from Aviary (My favorite) – [...]

Next week, we’ll start our studies on “Fluid Dynamics” which is Chapter 11 in your book. That’s just a fancy term for how forces affect fluids. Sounds boring? Nope, it’s fun. You’ll see. How are Pascal’s, Archimedes’ & Bernoulli’s principal applied at a water park?? – Yahoo! Answers: “How are Pascal’s, Archimedes’ & Bernoulli’s principal [...]

Balloon Racers are due on Friday in class. Make sure you know: 1) Your racer’s mass 2) The best set up for your balloon racer If you’re in 8.3 and would like to try out a balloon racer, I’ll give some extra credit if you can successfully make the 5 meter challenge and figure out [...]

Here are a few things we’ll be covering for the rest of our (sadly short) time left before you move on to the Upper School: Forces Title: Newton v Einstein Unit Question: Who is right? Newton or Einstein? Area of Interaction: Human Ingenuity Culminating Task: Newton v Einstein Court Case Assessment: Knowledge and Understanding (Criterion [...]

Greetings from sunny Los Angeles (I haven’t seen many cardigans yet, but the butterflies did fly away). I hope you all had a great Friday and finished up on those quizzes. Let me know if you had any trouble with them. As you know, I won’t be in class on Monday either as I’ll still [...]

Ben H. and Evan present Newton’s Laws via Halo Awesome.

Go out and look at the stars tonight (if it’s not too cold/cloudy), and thank Galileo The Galilean Revolution, 400 years later | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine: “Four hundred years ago tonight, a man from Pisa, Italy took a newly-made telescope with a magnifying power of 33X, pointed it at one of the brighter [...]