Biology Environmental changes

 Pictures in the news appropriately remind the students of the environmental changes we are looking at in Biology. How climate change is really affecting people's lives in this country.

Making Slime

One of the most fun experiments, that many students have done at home before, but now they learn how it works and why. Many good recipes given and a few failures.

Calculating KE

 Putting a formula into @pascoscientific Capstone, running the experiment, and live plotting the data from the equation. Using the smartcart at the end of a spring the students were able to calculate and graph the Kinetic Energy in simple Harmonic Motion.

Implicit Differentiation

 Trying to unravel the mysteries of implicit differentiation. Not the easiest of topics, especially when all the accumulated knowledge so far is required to solve and tidy up these equations.

Resonance

 Seeing Simple Harmonic Motion everywhere. If we vibrate this wire too much it snaps and the piano wire did, which led to interesting discussions on metal stress and fatigue.

Milk

 It was interesting talking to students about Milk and the things I learned. Generally, milk was perceived as being unhealthy for you - way too much fat content ( 3.5%) and many of the alternatives chosen were based on advertising rather than any accurate information.

Modern Webpage Design

 The computing books look at Web pages designed using Notepad, which is what I taught 30 years ago. We looked at more modern software like Nicepage and others to create webpages that do all the clever things and how much web pages have changed through the years.