Monday, September 8, 2008

What's the Matter?

Matter is everywhere! Look up, down, and all around. You are matter. HEY- you matter! As we begin our first major unit in science on matter, be thinking about what everything around you is made up of! We will be discussing the three types of matter and the properties of matter.

As we work on our observations skills this year, I encourage you to be Material Scientists on a smaller scale!!! Don't know what a Material Scientists is? Click on the link below. I think you will find it is not such a bad path for a scientist!

http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/whatis.html

When you're done reading about material science and deciding if you'd like to be a material scientist, play this game to learn about properties of a few things you may know a little something about and a few things you probably have not heard of!

http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/properties.html

Scavenger Question 1: From playing the game, determine why Pykrete (one of the Smackdown materials) is not a fan of tropical climates.

(The first student with an answer wins 2 points for their table!)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, Faith! You scored two points for your table!