Author: Jeff Spence

DiSc8 – Oil Spill

Who is wrecking our water? http://www.vancouversun.com/news/metro/Effects+Vancouver+spill+known+some+time+city+manager/10971253/story.html History Impact Cleanup Prevention Water Assignment: On your blog, include the presentation on Google Slides. Show a comparison graphic to help us understand how much is 80million gallons Find a video of how to…

DiSc8 – Space

  http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/story-space-tools/en/#/review/story-space-tools/book.swf?bookXML=supercool-space-tools.xml There are so many cool and interesting things to learn about space. Choose a topic related to space. Create a history flowchart for your topic. Include a projection to the future. Do this in PREZI and embed into…

Career Strategies 12 – Final Video Specifications

Purpose: to summarize your experience to promote and set a benchmark for the future classes to use for your own personal resume to promote mini-school at JO events “Flow of the Video” “My Passion is…..” “Over the  last 2 years…

DiSc8 – Debate posting assignment

So, we have done a debate. Well Done! It was fun to watch you all argue in a structured environment. Please write a summary of how it went. Choose a topic (probably YOUR topic) and: Write your position statement Write…

What is Science? Do you BELIEVE?

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/science-doubters/achenbach-text Full Text below in case the link is dead for you   There’s a scene in Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece Dr. Strangelove in which Jack D. Ripper, an American general who’s gone rogue and ordered a nuclear attack on…

DiSc8 – REALLY Small Stuff

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/atoms/faq/are-atoms-real.shtml http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=4245 http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/STFC/11-14/index.html Questions How do scientists know that atoms exist? Have they seen them? How? What is inside an atom? What is a molecule? Can we break atoms? http://scaleofuniverse.com/

Unbelievable Eye

This is hands down the most disgusting and interesting I can’t turn away but I’m going to puke.

DiSc8 – Cameras, Mirrors and Lenses

Make the room into a pinhole Camera. Make a telescope. Make a microscope. Make a periscope. How does an x-ray machine work? What is a CAT scan? What is an MRI? What is ultrasound? For each of these technologies, do…

DiSc8 – More about Eyes

Cool Animal Eyes Simulations for reflection and refraction Inside your eye Assignment – draw a single sketch of light leaving the sun, reflection off an object and entering your human eye to be “seen” by your brain. On paper.