Electron Magnets

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Electron Magnets

Today I convey a super quick post service for you.  It's been sitting inward my drafts folder for MONTHS.  I decided it was fourth dimension to either post service it or delete it!  

My sis gave me a set of colored, round down magnets (affiliate link) for my classroom.  I wasn't precisely certain what I was going to purpose them for at the time, but they came inward SUPER-handy when nosotros were making Bohr models of atoms inward physical science.  

This happened to coincide amongst my nearly calendar month long sense of having no projector in addition to thus no SMARTboard inward my classroom.  Let's only country that magnets brand awesome electrons!    

Maybe this is 1 of those ideas that every other scientific discipline instructor has already figured out.  But, I was pretty proud of myself for coming upwards amongst this idea!  

Building Rube Goldberg Machines

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Building Rube Goldberg Machines

As business office of our unit of measurement on liberate energy inwards physical science, I had my students construct Rube Goldberg machines.  

I never did figure out how to stimulate got genuinely expert pictures of their creations.  :(  But, I desire to postal service these pictures of what my students did come upward up amongst to remind me of how things went for adjacent fourth dimension I laid upward out to produce this project.  

I wishing I would stimulate got required my students to pass to a greater extent than fourth dimension inwards the planning too brainstorming stage earlier they started genuinely edifice their Rube Goldberg machines.  Many groups would construct i pace of their machine, exam it, too and then crusade to figure out what unopen to other pace should be.  Then, they would halt when they got tired of adding additional steps.  I intend they would stimulate got improve results past times starting amongst a comprehensive plan.  

New Timers Thanks to a Generous Donor

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New Timers Thanks to a Generous Donor

Earlier this semester, I had the chance to attend a Steve Spangler workshop at the Science Museum of Oklahoma.  During the workshop, i of the teachers stood upwards together with told us that nosotros should all brand certain nosotros joined a facebook grouping called "Oklahoma Education Needs/Donations."  I'd never heard of this grouping before, but I made a signal of checking it out when I got home.  

If you're reading this from a solid set down that is non Oklahoma, you lot powerfulness non realize the terrible solid set down of instruction funding inwards the state. 

Check out this graphic: 

Oklahoma schools maintain to accept their funding from the solid set down cutting due to revenue failure after revenue failure.  The coin for basic classroom needs only isn't in that place anymore.  

The finish of the facebook grouping is to connect teachers who require classroom materials amongst those who tin assistance run across those needs.  

My Algebra 1 students are currently working through our unit of measurement on Data Analysis.  We accept been using iii OERB workshop. 

These timers accept definitely been well-used this twelvemonth inwards my Physical Science class.  But, iii timers inwards a cast of twenty some students isn't enough.  

I decided to ship my require of timers inwards the Facebook grouping together with see what happened.  If my require wasn't fulfilled, I would hold upwards no worse off than before.  

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 yoke of days later, I got a message that a gear upwards of half dozen timers had been purchased together with would before long hold upwards delivered to my school.  They were kindly purchased for my classroom yesteryear a identify unit of measurement friend of our scientific discipline teacher.  

Six MyChron timers (affiliate link) arrived inwards the postal service yesterday! 

And, nosotros were able to position them all to operate today amongst a information collection action inwards Algebra 1.

We measured how long it took us to discovery dissimilar items inwards a Highlights Hidden Picture Puzzle.  Then, nosotros made box-and-whisker plots of our information that nosotros used to compare our hidden moving-picture exhibit finding skills to those of our classmates.

I'll ship to a greater extent than close this action SOON!

I'm together with thus thankful that in that place are together with thus many generous people willing to pace upwards together with assistance my students when those funding the schools are failing them.

Illustrating Different Types of Energy

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Illustrating Different Types of Energy

My physical scientific discipline flat is currently inward the middle of a unit of measurement on energy.  After discussing the dissimilar types of liberate energy that exist, I challenged my students to depict an prototype that contained at to the lowest degree 1 event of each of the types of liberate energy nosotros had discussed.  This led to around groovy discussions betwixt my students equally they tried to honor examples of each liberate energy type that would last alongside the setting of their private picture.  

Here are my students' creations: 

I tin say that the marble roller coaster action nosotros did stuck alongside students because in that place were lots of pictures including a roller coaster!

Marble Roller Coasters

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Marble Roller Coasters

I am in addition to therefore blessed to hold upward married to a instructor because my husband doesn't fifty-fifty bat an oculus when I inquire him to exercise things similar purchase me merely about vi human foot long pieces of piping insulation at Lowe's.  Note to self: selection a non-windy 24-hour interval to travail in addition to convey this into the building! 

Shaun besides picked me upward a brace of bags of marbles at Dollar Tree.  

Can you lot estimate what these are going to become? 

Here's the start hint.  They can't hold upward used as-is.  They involve to hold upward cutting inwards one-half to brand 2 long pieces.  

One side of the piping insulation is already scored.  This is easily cutting amongst pair of scissors or a box knife.  I flora that it was easier to role pair of scissors to cutting the residuum of the piping insulation inwards half.  

Each slice of insulation is 6 feet long.  My married adult man ended upward paying $1.18 for each slice which volition brand 12 feet of tubing i time cutting inwards half.  These one-half pieces are perfect for making roller coasters for marbles.    

I used this marble roller coaster action to boot off our give-and-take of kinetic in addition to potential liberate energy inwards physical science.  Each grouping received i vi human foot slice of tubing in addition to i marble.  Using solely these materials in addition to tape, each grouping had to exercise a roller coaster that included i loop.  

Naturally, none of the designs worked perfectly the start time.  Students had to work solve in addition to refine their designs.  Once students had a one-loop roller coaster that was working successfully, that grouping earned a mo slice of tubing.  This tubing came amongst the challenge to brand a two-loop roller coaster.  When they had met this goal, they were given the challenge of making a coaster amongst 3 loops.  They expected to hold upward given a tertiary slice of tubing amongst this challenge, but I made them exercise the 3 loops amongst solely the 12 feet of tubing they already had.  

My students speedily figured out that the marble needed to get quite high higher upward the loops.  They were discussing potential liberate energy without fifty-fifty realizing it!  I besides overheard students discussing how the loops needed to acquire progressively smaller.  Hello, kinetic energy!  

This actually was the perfect means to larn what my students already knew/believed well-nigh energy.  I would similar to formalize this action to a greater extent than inwards the future.  I'm withal waiting to acquire my scores dorsum to meet if I passed my chemical scientific discipline certification test.  

Here are merely about pictures of the roller coasters they created: 

The i work I've flora amongst this action is that I don't know how to shop my tubing for futurity roller coasters.  The best I've flora in addition to therefore far is this cardboard box that my hanger hampers (affiliate link) came inwards from Amazon.  The box is solely well-nigh 3 feet tall, though.