Headlines keep on popping up in the news about exploding cellphones, laptops, and hover-boards. Continue reading
Category Archives: Gr. 11-12 Chemistry
What Does An Atom REALLY Look Like?
From orbital mechanics to quantum mechanics, this video explains why we must accept a world of particles based on probabilities, statistics, and chance. Electrons, protons, and neutrons don’t behave the same way that planets and billiard balls do.
Watch these hot balls cut through water like a knife through butter – Science Magazine
Air pockets surrounding metal balls cut drag up to 90%. Learn more: Read the paper (free): http://scim.ag/2xbi1DZ Continue reading
Everything You Need to Know About Potassium
Bradley talks about one of the most reactive elements in the world that we also happen to need in our bodies. Continue reading
Math & Science…A New Context Isn’t a New Problem: Strategies to Help Students Transfer Skills
Author: Tasha Richardson, Teacher – TDSB, @tadric3EM
As a physics teacher, I have always been very interested in students’ abilities to apply previously learned mathematical skills in the classroom. Continue reading
Is it possible to create a perfect vacuum? – TED Ed -Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat
The universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast, apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there’s one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. Continue reading
General Safety Rules – Flinn Scientific Canada
The document provided below provides general safety rules and procedures that form a strong “backbone” to improve safety in your school.
How Rubber Gave Us Sports
Sports balls of all varieties whether it be soccer, or hockey, or tennis, owe their resilience and reliability to an unusual polymer, one whose derivatives and spinoffs are everywhere you look, from cars to shoes to rocket fuel. Continue reading
