Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Vermicomposting TED-Ed



http://ed.ted.com/lessons/vermicomposting-how-worms-can-reduce-our-waste-matthew-ross

An excellent video on the benefits of vermicomposting.

How to Geckos stick? Scientific Method



How do geckos stick? What is something you would like to learn more about? What are you curious about? Why? If you could figure out one big mystery of the universe, what would it be and why?

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Women in science Big Bang Theory



Thinking about a daily question.....

Metric

Ahhhh Metric time....

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=189578

A funny song about our change to metric in 1975. ( Wait our what?)


American Choppers- A great demonstration on why should we use metric and pay attention in math class.



Monday, September 16, 2013

Crows Recognize Faces- Scientific Inquiry



Daily Question: What is the hypothesis the Professor is studying? What is his independent and dependent variable?

Monday, September 9, 2013

Terminal Velocity





Can a Penny dropped from the Empire State Building kill someone? Why? What are you basing your guess on? What is Terminal Velocity?

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Scientific Method and Mythbuster Waving a Flag on the Moon



The questions are in the video!

Daily Questions: Answer the questions embedded in the video.
Key words: Hypothesis, Control, Variable

Scientific Method Big Bang Theory





Daily Question: What is the Scientific Method? What would the dependent and independent variables be in their experiment?

Diet Coke and Mentos Results Hypothesis



Daily Question: Before you watch the video, write a hypothesis. How do you design an experiment? What would the independent and dependent variables be? How could you collect and interpret data about the coke and Mentos?

After the video- What was their hypothesis? How did they test it? What was their independent and dependent variable?