Pressure's ON! for Monday...

[COPY ABOVE GRAPHIC into your SJ.]

and some explanation for our introduction to Bernoulli's principle, which explains a lot of things, including why really heavy airplanes can fly:  TAKE NOTES IN YOUR SCIENCE JOURNAL.

Here's the list of demonstrations so far:

1. Alek - Fountain bottle
2. Leia - egg magic
3. Laura - magic water glass
4. Niles - Antigravity water
5. Jillian _ Plumber magic
6. Ian - Flying papers

Connor, Abigail, MD, Zach and Ethan - need to choose something else. I have some great suggestions, and I have already sent an email to you(Abigail)  or your moms.  My  email is vqharmon@gmail.com  {DOES ANYONE HAVE A PRESSURE COOKER - I HAVE A GREAT EXPERIMENT TO TRY???!} -ask your mom.

Practice your demos  at least once by yourself and once for a family member.  EXPLAIN, with a diagram like our comic strip for the crushed can, using the Kinetic Particle theory - particles...moving...colliding. - Make a quick poster or use the white board.  It should be something your classmates can copy into their science journals (like the Bernoulli graphic at the top of the page.)

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AND A WORD ABOUT CLASS YESTERDAY...

In a class like mine, which is about exploring, some chaos is to be expected, but I would very much appreciate you being attentive to my "class voice"-- and showing me that you are listening, even while you are busy with your hands, by pausing your conversations and looking at me as I add needed explanations to the group.

Also, remember to turn in your homework when it is due. Since I now have a nifty computer program to track such things, I have a list of who is naughty or nice.  MISSED HOMEWORK WILL DIRECTLY AND SUBSTANTIALLY AFFECT YOUR GRADE.  NOT DOING/TURNING IN HOMEWORK IS LIKE GETTING AN "F" or a
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Like I've said before, science is a puzzle which gets more interesting as it  becomes more filled in and as more pieces get connected to other pieces.  The topics we've studies so far and the experiments we've done - the phase changes of matter, kinetic theory, Boyle's law/Charles' law/Bernoulli's principle, pressure and temperature, are all very tied together, even if at first they seem random and jumbled.  The puzzle is to put them together into the bigger picture and connect them to the things in your own life that you are interested in, like music or God or flying. Or explosions.