Celestia

For people on working on Celestia this is a control C link to this years next eclipse ( you have to have installed Celestia on your computer - see ebhigh -homeinstall.

Reviewing this lesson

Science has four systems working around it.

1. Science as understanding and explanation of the physical world and human thought.
2. Science has a quality system of experiments, reporting, and reproduction to link everything.
3. Science has a social system of publications, Institutions, Scientists that regulate what is investigated.
4. Science is valued by society to generate wealth and solutions (patents - inventors) it is valued by governments, military, health, and the Justice system.

This is a video of my earlier System related work/research

Work on Tuesday and Wednesday

Prac: Investigation - How do different amounts of water heat up?
Out put to IBM many eyes

System work.
1) Notes
2) Analysis - what you think
3) Problem area to look at
4) Method - Scientific Framework
5) Agreement
6) Work
7) Assessment

Latest Work on Systems

Bush fire warning system

We used the modified web cam in class today. I use it for detailed observations, like this unusual spider seen near my home. By recording observations, I can discuss it directly with others.

Systems

Consider this system.....

Scientific Method

Also look at this music video on the scientific method

Lesson 3 Feb 4

Class disscusion

fire discovered: before BC, what time: around 2-3 million years ago, apes discovered fire, homoerectus
tools in planet: (jj) 4 million years ago chimps used rock to break or crack open
science has developed before language and culture
nianithals had fire, clothing, buried people in graves, we now have dianithol DNA, have own science, parellel to humans, couldn't adapt to climate change (couldn't handle hot weather)
jj: found cave when living together was destroyed
climate very different from years ago
humans evolved clever observation-insects gone; flood coming
children have more IQ that their parents
in 1960 we would be genius
observation attributed, controlled observation
first scientfic experiments was dropping balls of leaning tower of pisa

For more reading on rising IQ scores

A good primer on the Scientific Method (youtube) Also visual Wiki

Lesson 2 Feb 3

Hand in homework on A4

This lesson SAFETY in the science lab. Looking at various resources and developing a set of rules in your book.

Homework for next monday: Write a report (hand written preferred, with hand sketches, one page max) about an important Scientist. The report is to interest others, see "horrible science". Give a feel for the times of the scientist, and how their work was accepted by society.
If you think there is music that goes with report bring it in.

(Cross curricula : English, History, Art, Music)

As the classes work may be published as an e book, please only put your initals on it.