Part III of NOVA’s Making Stuff. Class watches great episode on “Making Stuff Stronger.” There were truly some strange new discoveries like carbon nanotubes and goats that produced milk that had the protein for spider silk! Absent? Watch the video and take notes.
Chrissy H. times the period of a pendulum.
James W. and Loganne B. read the time for the period of their pendulum.
Students collected data for the pendulum activity. Two variables were changed (but one at a time) – length of the pendulum and the mass at the bottom. Each group had its own experimental design. A rubric was presented to the students for the lab report. Tomorrow and Thursday we will be in the computer lab working on the write up.