How does the immune system work? Why do we get vaccinated? How does that work? Make a vocabulary list of the new words – antibody, antigen, vaccine, … etc … How does your body fight infections? Please do some reading…
Author: Jeff Spence
Di sc9 – Making Lights
Well, I thought it would be a cool idea to make lights in the same way that we made batteries (and that worked great!). But in the true sense of science, we failed. Not even one light. Phoooey! It is…
Destination Imagination – Sc8
destinationimagination.org Groups of 2-7, choose a challenge that we develop a solution to over the next 4 months. Present it in a competition setting in March (on a Saturday) and we go from there. Maybe we have a winner from…
Di sc8 – Ted talks
http://i-biology.net/category/ted-talks/ Look at some of the cool science going on. Our next topic area is immunology (how our bodies fight infection) Nobel Prize Winner talk (5 min) Brain Tricks #7 Keith Barry and #10 Ken Robinson
Di9 groups for light
Here are the groups
Battery competition
Make a battery that will give the highest voltage. Lemons More lemons… Potatoes Salt water Coke? Sprite… And the winner is….
Tuesday Nov.5
Di-sc9 :: A little light experimenting. How do we make a lightbulb? You were supposed to check it out at home. What do you need? AC or DC? Battery or straight from the wall? Does this affect the material choice?…
Anyone Hungry?
So today ended our discussion about world hunger and the digestive system. Should we eat meat? Should we eat insects as our protein? Some of these pics tell the tale…. I was actually a little disappointed since the students were…
Di sc8 Anyone hungry
Guess what came in the mail?
DI Sc9 – Shocking Demos
Here is the “flow” of the demos. Keep in mind, we all want to be entertained, amazed and even get slightly injured. However, no one comes to school expecting to leave by ambulance, so be safe. Also, you must teach…