Science at Bangor & in the News
I'm sorry for the late update. Last weekend I performed with the Kalamazoo Bach Festival Choir in our Christmas concert, so I didn't get a chance to update the blog.
In chemistry we spent the week talking about how energy affects how particles move & how they are arranged. We illustrated the flow within energy accounts using energy bar charts, also known as LOL diagrams. The students did a great job learning to work with this new tool and I think it helped some people get a better understanding of how energy going into or coming out of the different energy accounts changes what is happening to the particles. At the end of the week we learned about how we can figure out the quantity of energy going into or out of a system. We are continuing to work on energy calculations this week. We did two different labs last week in Science 9. The first lab looked at how mass does or doesn't change depending on the experiment. This lab allowed us to discover the Law of Conservation of Mass: mass in a system doesn't change unless we add or subtract stuff (matter). Our second lab looked at how mass & volume are related to each other. We spent today looking at our data and talking about density. We will be wrapping up the unit this week and will have the Unit 4 assessment on Wednesday next week. Below are some pictures from both the mass and change lab and the mass and volume lab.
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