Science at Bangor & in the News
Last week was a bit chaotic for me. After being absent last Friday, I felt a little discombobulated on Monday. We all worked together to get through the beginning of the week craziness and starting getting back into the class routine. In Science 9 we started digging into the theory of plate tectonics. This was an exercise in visualization, so some students were very challenged. I have a hard time with turning words into mental pictures too, so hopefully the Oreo lab we did previously helped here. I think it's also hard to picture things on the geologic time scale. Humans are only around for 100 years or so, if we are lucky, but the Earth has been around for 6 billion years (600,000 times longer)! It can be difficult to imagine how the continents move because we can't actually see or feel the continents moving day-to-day or year-to-year.
Chemistry dove into the idea of equilibrium. Just as everyone was getting the hang of thermodynamics, I had to go throw a wrench in things (sorry!). By Wednesday it seemed like things started getting a little more clear, but we'll see where we are tomorrow. I hope to have the Kinetics, Thermodynamics, & Equilibrium unit wrapped up with a test on Thursday or Friday. I was sad to have missed Hunger Games Day on Thursday. I hope everyone enjoyed a break from the normal day! I spent my days on Thursday and Friday at the National Science Teachers Association annual conference in Chicago. I learned a lot while I was there & plan to put it to use, so get ready! Aside from learning from some excellent veteran science teachers, I was able to celebrate Pi Day with my fellow science geeks and I got to meet Bill Nye & have a book signed by him. We are moving into the last week of the third marking period, so let's buckle down & get to work!
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