Archive for March, 2008
Posted in March 31st, 2008
Here is my rendition of the two ways to boil water.
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Posted in March 31st, 2008
Greetings and Welcome Back. April starts tomorrow and there will still be more than three feet of snow depth in my yard. Yesterday as I attempted to shovel out the brush pile in my backyard, I was amazed to find snow depths at over four feet! As I dug there were many [...]
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Posted in March 28th, 2008
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies is sponsoring an Earth Day photo contest for Middle School Students. Are you interested? Here is the description from their web site.
Our planet is constantly changing. Look closely and you’ll see changes on the land, in the water and in the air. Of all the seasons, changes [...]
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Posted in March 26th, 2008
Remember when we boiled water by cooling? Well I think we may be one step closer to understanding what is going on. Here is a quick look at some of the ideas we have been looking at.
Syringe and Tube Systems
We learned that gases could be attenuated and compressed, while liquids cannot.
Boiling Water
Through many [...]
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Posted in March 24th, 2008
Greetings and welcome back. This week I hope to make some progress in our understanding of boiling. Although I am still confused about a few things. Here is the outline for the week. Keep in mind that half of you are out Monday and the other half on Wednesday so the [...]
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Posted in March 18th, 2008
This morning I was reading on the team 3 science blog and came across this comment,
This science blog is cool!!! It allows us to communicate with other people and with team 4’s science classes. We can compare and share our thoughts. I like it!!!
So if that is really going to happen, perhaps you should [...]
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Posted in March 17th, 2008
Greetings and welcome back. We will be working on boiling again this week. We have a schedule for the labs that we will complete this week. Please see below:
Monday-Check and read on Google reader (20 min)
Set up and complete a dry run on PS-29
Tuesday-Set up and complete PS-29
Wednesday-Complete PS-29 Data and Questions
Thursday-Set [...]
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Posted in March 16th, 2008
Interested in Science? Got a great project idea? Looking for an opportunity to show your great work? The Mount Washington Valley Science and Technology Fair may be just the chance you are looking for. Head on over the the mwvsciencefair.org web site for more specific information and some great resources.
The deadline for [...]
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Posted in March 16th, 2008
Knowing that some of you have been keenly interested in Robotics and that it has been a while since we have committed some time to ISS07, (now 08 I suppose?) I thought I would point out this article about the new robotic arms that were attached to Dextre yesterday. You are all surrounded by [...]
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Posted in March 10th, 2008
Wow was it light late yesterday! Seven pm and still light. Of course as I write this it is pitch dark outside. The change of the clocks in springtime was always a favorite time for me, it was light later, and I could play outside later. Now with the change happening [...]
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