A Star's Story

The web seminar, A Star's Story was a very interesting seminar that I would suggest to others. Although it was my first web experience, it was a good one! I was not only intrigued by the whole format, I also liked how there was a chat room available for the users so we could chat with others on the seminar. It was neat to be able to be learning and chatting with people all across the world, even in Australia! I liked how we were also able to interact and ask questions at any time of the seminar. I also found it very important that the seminar leaders presented the material in a very comfortable manner that was easy to follow. Along with great presentation, I also found it very nice that there were so many resources that were mentioned, used, and presented to us. I was unaware of resources of this kind being available and was excited to learn of them for future reference!
I am glad that I had the opportunity to take part in the web seminar and liked how I was able to view it right in the comfort of my home. It was a very well developed seminar that provided a vast amount of information. The different graphs and photos were also helpful when learning the material and made it easier to understand. I feel the seminar was worth viewing and I now am happy to say I have a better understanding of stars! :)

ACID TEST

I found the experiment that we engaged in on Tuesday September 23 to be an interesting one. I was shocked to see how much the acid levels differed among the different fruits. I was particularily thrown off by the low acid results from the grape fruit juices. Their acid tests were almost at zero and were incredibily lower than the lime. The lime juice acid test shot up to approximately a half! This was exciting to see and it was also fun to notice how the vinegar also shot up to almost 3/4! I feel this would be a good experiment for students. I was a great team project that everyone could take part in and learn from. This experiement would go great with a nutrition lesson plan because they would be able to learn about how acid affects you body and how much of it you should have in your diet. This was a great experiment they can easily be expanded in order to correlate with a variety of lesson plans!

Nutritional Facts

I found yesterdays class period to be very, very interesting! I was so shocked to see how the calories added up and how important it was to make sure that the right amount of fats, carbs, and proteins we incorporated into my diet. It was also very hard to calculate the total amount of calories because they all seemed to add up so quickly! I was shocked to learn how some foods that I thought were low cal foods turned out to be high in calories. This activity definitely made me more aware of my eating habits. I would also like to incorporate this activity into my future classroom and also think it would be a good time to get the parents involved so they too can realize the importance good nutrition not only for their children, but also for themselves!

Science Safety Game

I found the Science Safety Game to be a very useful piece of equipment to be present in the classroom and readily available for use by the students. This game is a very clever way to incorporate the importance of safety when completing tasks in the Science classroom. It's a fun way to educate students, you cannot get much better than that! I feel students overlook the importance of safety and how easily some of the equipment they are provided has a unique and important use. I also found it very helpful in explaining the different insturments in the common science classroom and their overall importance and connection to their overall learning experience.

Lab #1 Copters

I chose to blog about the copter activity that we took part in on the first day of class because I thought that this was a really interesting idea that allowed all of the students to engage in. I like the idea of having different roles that each student can take in order to get everyone involved. My role in the lab was to be the equipment manager, which kept me busy and I liked the idea of always making sure that my group had the equipment they needed in order to complete the project. I am looking forward to participating in more labs in the near future! :)

temperature activity

I found the temperature activity to be interesting, but also frusterating when the technology we were incorporating into the project failed to provide with results and information that we needed. This caused us to fall behind in the activity and as a result were forced to rush through the activity. I do think this would be a good activity for students to partipate in, but would make sure that prior to the activity the equipment that was going to be included would be ready for use and easy for the students to understand and maneuver.