Nova Elements iPad project

NOVA ELEMENTS iPad Project

6th Grade Science 

Todd Seip-Instructor

Directions:

Monday 10/1/12 thru Wednesday 10/3/12

Feel free to explore the buttons, look and play the interactive games and activities. But make sure that you have time to watch the required episodes and answer the questions.

Write these questions on a seperate sheet of paper. Answer them as you watch the videos. YOU WILL NEED THESE NOTES NEXT WEEK FOR THE TEST!

Chapter 1 (2:12) Introduction to the video

No questions to answer

Chapter 2 (10:53) Gold

1) How is Gold extracted from rock?

2)What qualities make Gold so unique and valuable? 

3) How much does a Gold bar weigh?

Chapter 3 (12:15) Copper and Bronze

1) Why is Copper used in plumbing pipes?

2)  Bronze is a combination of which two elements?

3) What gives Bronze its strength?

4) Why do Bronze Bells ring so well?

Chapter 4 ( 6:20 ) Microscopes
1) Name the microscope that allows scientists to "see" atoms.
2) How far in can this microscope zoom? __________ times power.
3) Draw a diagram of how bronze atoms are aligned with each other.

Chapter 5 (8:09 ) Protons
1) If a hydrogen atom is enlarged to the size of a city, how big is a proton?
2) Which particle - proton, neutron, or electron - determines the type of element?
3) The number of protons is called the atomic  ___________.
4) 70% of all elements are? solids, liquids, metals, gases?
5) How did chemists measure atomic weights?

Chapter 6 (7:45) Sodium
1) Why are the gasses in the last row of elements called "Nobel" gasses?
2) Why do some elements mix well, and some not so well?
3) Describe an interesting fact about sodium.
4) What are the consequences of mixing sodium and chlorine?

Chapter 7  (10:45 ) Explosions
1) how do scientists determine which element or elements cause explosions?
2) Why is oxygen so necessary in explosions and chemical reactions?

Chapter 8 (16:05) Non-Metals
1) CHONPS stands for which 6 elements?
2) What are 3 different forms of Carbon?
3) How many pounds of Carbon in the average human?
4) How many pounds of Oxygen in the average human?

Chapter 9 (11:15) Semi-Conductors
1) What put the "O" (oxygen) into our atmosphere?
2) 90% of all atoms in the Universe are which element?
3) What are some of the items that silicon is used for?
4) How can ordinary glass be made "stronger"?

Chapter 10 (14:30) Rare-Earth Elements
1) What are some of the items that neodymium magnets are used for?
2) In what country are most rare-earth elements mined?
3) What makes a great shark repellant? Why does it work so good?

Chapter 11 (5:58) Isotopes
1) Different versions of elements are called?
2) Which isotope of Carbon is used to precisely determine age of objects?

Chapter 12 (7:30) Man-Made Elements
1) What happens when a neutron splits an atomic nucleus?
2) What was the 1st man-made element?

Vocabulary Terms;
Write these down. Find definitions in Physical Science book. (pg 162)

Proton
Neutron
Electron
nucleus
atomic number
isotope
ion
atomic mass
periodic table
reactive
metal
radioactivity

Click the "home" button on the front of the iPad and go to the Nova Elements App. Touch it to start. Touch the "watch" button. You can also build elements or molecules by going back to the home page of the app.

8th Grade Advanced Science iPad Project 9/6/12

8^th Grade Advanced Science iPad Project 9/6/12

Practically Physics

Oficially, TECHNOLOGY is the application of science for practical purposes. The world of physical science has been put to practical use us thousands of millions of ways with contraptions, machines, and other creative innovations. These innovations rely on the transfer and conservation of energy to work.

Choose 5 of the following to investigate. Find out how physical science and energy is connected to or used by them. Write a summary of what you’ve found.  

Your summary paragraphs must include:

a.      Hook with a Topic  Sentence
b.      Reasons, Details, Facts

c.      Elaborations

d.     Scientific explanations and wording

                  e.      Summary conclusion

Upload your summary to this blog post by clicking the “post a comment” button below. Copy and paste your summary into the comment box. Be sure to include your heading.

Bobsled

Ocean liner

Electric toothbrush

Sailboat

Hang glider

Vaccinations

Smart phone

Bicycle

Fire extinguisher

Tablet computer

Can opener

Jet plane

Stereo

Television

Zipper

Satellite

Frozen food

volleyball

Snowboard

Bubble gum

Remote control

Helicopter

Roads

Subway car

Microwave food

Ballpoint pen

International Space Station

Kitchen sink

Bridges

Football pad

6th Grade Science class iPad project 9/6/12

Scientific Space Probe Pictures     iPad Science Lab 9/6/12

You are helping to design a digital photo slideshow that showcases the best of the Earth. It is your job to find and take digital pictures of 5 different nature/science objects and write a description of them to include on the spacecraft.

    1)    Find 5 different and unique objects to photograph. (Do not take pictures of people.) You may zoom in to get fine details not visible from a far distance.

    2)    After you have taken the photos, write a descriptive paragraph that explains the photos and why you chose them. Your paragraph must include:

   a.      Topic  Sentence

   b.      Reasoning behind the photos

c.      Important facts and descriptions

d.     Important details and elaborations

e.      And a summary conclusion

   3)    Type in “notes” When finished, “copy” your paragraph

   4)    When finished typing, upload to:     skyviewscience.blogspot.com

Click on “Science Class iPad project 9/6/12”

Click on “post a comment”

In the comments box, paste your paragraph, along with your heading

Click “anonymous” and “publish your comment”

   5)    Feel free to read other paragraphs, or look at other pictures on your iPad. 

2012 KMG Chemicals Mini-grant application documents

Mini-Grant Program

KMG Electronic Chemicals - Pueblo Community Advisory Panel

In an attempt to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of science and environmental issues, the KMG Electronic Chemicals - Pueblo Community Advisory Panel (CAP) is sponsoring a mini-grant program for Pueblo schools in Pueblo City Schools and District 70.

The Colorado Model Content Standards for Science specify what all students should know and be able to do in science as a result of their school studies.  These standards are set with the expectation that science-related activities will occur at all grade levels – from initial explorations in kindergarten through increasingly organized and focused science instruction in higher grades.  The goal is to have students apply scientific information and processes to practical problems in an ethical and safe manner.

Cash mini-grants of $100 to $500 may be awarded to individual classrooms, a group of classrooms working together, or an entire school working on the same project.  Examples of potential mini-grant projects include investigating a specific scientific or environmental problem, developing a series of science experiments to enrich classroom teaching or purchasing a piece of classroom equipment that can be used for teaching science content.  Projects that are sustainable year to year will be favored.

If awarded, the Mini-grant recipients must reappear before the CAP board (and/or provide multimedia documentation) within the current school year to provide an update on how the awards have been specifically used in the classroom.  

Eligibility:	Any middle school, private school (grades 6-8) or Charter School (grades 6-8) in Pueblo City Schools or District 70 is eligible to participate. The program is not intended for individual student projects.
Grants:	Grants up to $500 will be awarded in October, 2012 to projects chosen by a committee appointed by the CAP.  A recipient is eligible for one grant in a school year.
Application:	Any teacher or administrator who wishes to have a project considered for a mini-grant should have an application form (attached) completed and submitted by September 30, 2012.  Questions can be e-mailed to: dlockett@kmgchemicals.com. The application should be mailed or e-mailed to: KMG Electronic Chemicals - Pueblo Community Advisory Panel Attn: Dennis Lockett 250 William White Blvd. Pueblo, CO  81001 or E-mail: dlockett@kmgchemicals.com

Mini-Grant Application Form

Name of Applicant

Date: 

School:

School Address:School Phone: 

Home Address:Home Phone: 

E-Mail Address:

Purpose / Objective of Mini-Grant:

Description of Project: (attach additional sheets as necessary; limit 4 pages max.)

Number of students involved in project:

Grade level:

Amount Requested: $ (Request must be itemized; please attach separate sheet)

Signature of Applicant:  ____________________________

Return completed form and attachments by September 30, 2012 via mail or e-mail to:

KMG Electronic Chemicals - Pueblo Community Advisory Panel

Attn: Dennis Lockett

250 William White Blvd.

Pueblo, CO  81001

E-mail: dlockett@kmgchemicals.com

7 min of terror (or pure joy)

This weekend, NASA will attempt to land the MARS Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, in a style that would make the Avengers proud. In 7 minutes, the rover will slow from 45,000 mph to 0 as it descends on a rope from it's rocket lander. Watch the video and be amazed.

7 minutes of terror video from JPL


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

Fog forms over Panama City Feb 5

 (via MSNBC)

Helicopter pilot Mike Schaeffer was wrapping up a tour when he spotted this incredible weather phenomenon along the coast of Panama City Beach, Fl. on Sunday.

Meteorologist Dan Satterfield explains this occurrence on his blog:

Cool air offshore was very nearly at the saturation point, with a temperature near 20ºC and a dew point of about 19.5ºC. The air at this temperature can only hold a certain amount of water vapor, and how much it can hold depends heavily on the temperature. If you add more water into the air, a cloud will form, but you can also get a cloud to form by cooling the air. Drop the temperature, and it can no long hold as much water vapor, so some of it will condense out and a cloud will form.

More on Energy and E=MC2

USA TODAY - Sept 26, 2011

via http://www.usatoday.com

GENEVA – Betting against Einstein and his theory of relativity is a way to go broke.

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Physicist Albert Einstein.

For more than a century, everyone from physicists to theNazi Party— which encouraged the publication of the tract "One Hundred Authors Against Einstein" — has tried to find cracks in his work. And all have failed.

On Thursday, the world's biggest physics lab unveiled a shocking finding: that one type of subatomic particle was clocked going faster than the speed of light. If true — a big if, even the scientists there concede — it could undercut Einstein's theories. Physicist Michio Kaku of City College of New York called it "the biggest challenge to relativity in 100 years."

Antonio Ereditato, who participated in the European experiment as head of the Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics in Bern, knows what is at stake. After his team fielded two hours of technical questions, some a bit sharp, from a skeptical audience Friday, Ereditato had a beer in hand and was asked about the idea that his work was challenging the secular saint of modern physics.

"Yes, that's why I'm concerned," he said with a laugh.

There's a long history of experimental results that at first seem to contradict relativity, only later to be found to fit neatly with the theory Albert Einstein loved for its simplicity and elegance.

"It's dangerous to lay odds against Einstein," said Rob Plunkett, a physicist at the Fermilab near Chicago who has tried similar speed-of-light experiments and will now try to test the new findings.

Even Einstein himself was wrong in 1929 when he called his cosmological constant his "biggest blunder." He introduced the constant in his general relativity theory as a force that keeps the universe from collapsing. In 1998, new findings showed that the universe is accelerating and that in general Einstein's "blunder" wasn't a mistake.

Harvard University science historian Peter Galison said Einstein's relativity theories have been challenged and "pushed on as hard as any theory in the history of physical sciences ever" and they have survived.

The elegance of Einstein's theory and its proven track record are why nearly every one of the more than a dozen physicists contacted by The Associated Press about the new findings has been cautious, skeptical or downright disbelieving.

The research is the result of a collaboration between France's National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research and Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory.

The scientists fired a beam of neutrinos 454 miles (730 kilometers) underground from Geneva to Italy. They found it traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than light. That's 60 billionths of a second, a time no human brain could register.

"You could say it's peanuts, but it's not. It's something that we can measure rather accurately with a small uncertainty," Ereditato told the AP.

On Friday, hundreds of scientists packed an auditorium at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on the Swiss-French border to hear the details. Physicists on the team said they were as surprised as their skeptics about the results, which appear to violate the laws of nature as we know them.

Going faster than light is something that is just not supposed to happen, according to Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity. The speed of light — 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) — has long been considered the cosmic speed limit.

"If you find some matter particle such as the neutrino going faster than light, this is something which immediately shocks everybody, including us," Ereditato said.

The experiment needs to be independently reviewed — most likely by teams in the U.S. or Japan.

"If this result holds, and I kind of doubt it, it means we'll have to rewrite all of modern physics," said Kaku, author of the book "Physics of the Future" and host of a Science Channel television show. "Einstein has come out ahead every single time. However, this time you're talking about the largest particle accelerator in the world registering a significant deviation in relativity."

Columbia University physicist Brian Greene said he would "bet just about everything I hold dear that this won't hold up to scrutiny." But even if the results are confirmed, Einstein's theories will need more of a patch than anything else, he said.

Ereditato agreed.

"When Einstein did his relativity, it didn't destroy what Newton did. In fact, Newton explains 99.9 percent of what is happening around us. But still, in some special conditions of matter, you are forced to use special relativity," Ereditato said. "Now suppose we would find one day that under extreme conditions you have to take into account corrections to what we know now. This doesn't mean that Einstein's wrong."

And this is the glory of science, said Don Howard, who lectures on Einstein and heads the Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values at Notre Dame University. Experiments are allowed, even encouraged, to challenge pillars of science.

"Everything is up for grabs," Howard said. "Even a genius like Einstein."