Science at Bangor & in the News
This week in Science 9 we entered the Metric zone. While the metric system is unfamiliar because the US is one of 3 industrialized countries that still use the English system (Liberia & Myanmar are the other 2 countries, if you were wondering), the students started to come around to the ease of converting to larger and smaller units in the metric system compared with the English system. We also talked about the importance of measuring precisely & accurately. As we continue this year, we will exclusively use the metric system. Hopefully the metric system will become less foreign & strange as we keep measuring & using it more.
In chemistry, we wrapped up our first unit this week. Our last experiment allowed us to calculate how thin aluminum foil is. We also determined that heavy-duty aluminum foil really is 50% thicker than regular foil. At the end of lab, we calculated how many particles thick regular foil is & found that regular foil is over 500,000 aluminum particles thick! While we were reviewing, each group made a whiteboard about everything we learned in the unit. As we were discussing, I wrote a summary whiteboard (pictured below). We will be moving on & starting a unit on energy & particles in motion.
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