Ramere te rua o Whiringa-a-rangi Friday 2 November
9BMY Aim: To practice using the Bunsen burner and look at the Periodic table
9BMY do now:
There are 21 barrels of wine with a farmer. 7 are full, 7 are half full and 7 are empty. He wishes to divide them among his three sons such that each son has the same number of full barrels, the same number of half full barrels, and the same number of empty barrels. Note that there are no measuring devices handy. How can the barrels and wine be evenly divided?
There are 21 barrels of wine with a farmer. 7 are full, 7 are half full and 7 are empty. He wishes to divide them among his three sons such that each son has the same number of full barrels, the same number of half full barrels, and the same number of empty barrels. Note that there are no measuring devices handy. How can the barrels and wine be evenly divided?
The Science of Usain BoltThe Science of long jumpingClick here to go to the Olympics quiz
Click HERE to go to a useful page on performance enhancing drugs in sport
Click HERE to go to a page with tips on how make a GOOD SURVEY
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The Science of a fast poolThe Science of accurate timekeepingThe Science of weightlifting |
Click HERE to go to the Sports Science webpage
Famous Olympic moments
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10 Crazy examples of horrible movie science CLICK HERE
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The worst science mistakes in movies in 2012 CLICK HERE
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Click HERE to take the survey on current science issues facing our world
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5 Science Fiction movies that get the science right CLICK HERE
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Flickclip
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Webcast of the science behind stunts and special effects
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Examples of good movies for teaching Science CLICK HERE
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The 10 most (and least) accurate science movies ever - CLICK HERE
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Science in the movies CLICK HERE
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EAT MEDITERRANEAN FOOD AND BE HEALTHY!
Here are 6 articles published in 2016 about the benefits of eating a mediterranean diet. Each group will analyse one article and present their findings to the class.
Here's what is required:
Here are the links to the articles:
Here's what is required:
- Read the article
- Look up the key words and define them
- Summarise the key points of your article (around half a page each - each person does this)
- Produce a group presentation on the main ideas of your article - an infographic would be good here
Here are the links to the articles:
HOW TO GOOGLE MORE EFFECTIVELY CLICK HERE
Try these searches by typing the following into google
- site:doc.govt.nz
- site:doc.govt.nz endangered species
- "survival of the fittest"
- filetype:pdf stars
- filetype:pdf stars -maths
- intitle:speed
- intitle:speed - broadband
- kidney function (then click on the news tab underneath, then all news and tick blogs)
- on the google home page, scroll down and click on settings then advanced search. Try and find the 2005 NCEA examination for 90192 as a pdf
Lesson sequence 2016:
- Class Olympic games (16 team elimination)
- Assignment "Science in the media" given out, survey on important science issues taken, article 1 analysed (talking to the text)
- Energy types learned
- Olympics quiz and summary of learning
- Energy conversions and machines in the Olympics and the law of conservation of energy
- Annotate and summarise an article of your choice
- Analyse different articles about the same topic and present information to the class
- Energy in food investigation
- Cooperative activity on energy types (google slides)
- Canva presentation