Here's where things start to get really interesting. Our study of the atom requires students to grasp some fairly abstract concepts, including atomic structure and electron configuration. Although these seem complicated, there is a system to it, and once learned, provide a foundation to move on to greater understandings. Below is the work for the week, designed to help students become familiar with the atom and the systems we use to describe its structure.
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2/18/2014 11:42:24 am
Subcategory: ZOOLOGY
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Paul
2/18/2014 12:34:54 pm
Yeah I also read that elephants can also have emotions and cry like us humans.Very interesting topic.
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Nikki Anderson
2/18/2014 12:58:08 pm
I remember watching a video one time about two elephants who had been together for awhile and then were separated. When their owners put them back together, the two elephants were trying to break down the fence between them and once they could reach each other, they "cuddled." This article and your comment reminded me of this.
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2/18/2014 12:48:09 pm
Subcategory: Psychology
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Tiffany La
2/19/2014 11:22:31 am
Because of my own use of the Internet, I have heard of the famous 'online trolling', but never understood it up until now. Before reading your article Nikki, I always thought that trolls just wanted to have fun in their own demented ways, and sadly, it turns out to be right.
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Jake
2/19/2014 12:01:45 pm
I think when they're not online, they probably don't say anything that resembles what they say online because you can pretty much say whatever you want over the internet without consequences but in real life they might get beat up or something.
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2/18/2014 02:09:27 pm
subcategory: Zoology
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2/19/2014 04:21:36 am
This article I read was about how high levels of tritium exposure has been rising in our in the United States since 1977. Tritium is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. Agnecy's say if large amounts of tritium levels in our ground water can be dangerous and cause serious health problems for humans. We get tritium exposure by: Nuclear weapon testing in the ocean, water around nuclear power plants.
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2/19/2014 11:15:07 am
Subcategory: Geology
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The article that I read was about substances that are present in common food packaging materials leeching into the foods that they contain. This isn't that bad because it will only kill you when you're super old (the levels of exposure are very low), but it is still pretty scary. These harmful materials are present in most food and food service products, especially fizzy drinks and certain kinds of tableware.
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2/19/2014 01:47:58 pm
I found this article by going to reddit and clicking on their science category. From there I found this article within Psychology.
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2/19/2014 03:07:56 pm
Medicine
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2/20/2014 01:22:15 am
The name of this article is "Levitating objects with sound". Very eye catching title, since levitation has always been a fascinating topic (in my opinion) and doing that with sound makes it all the more interesting. Not only that, but the device built here allows you to rotate & move an object across a small field generated by just sound. Their purpose for using this device, however, is to mix compounds to create pharmaceuticals without impurities.
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2/20/2014 06:06:04 am
I found this article by going on the Science Daily website and looking through the articles categorized as Consumer Behavior.
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2/20/2014 06:10:59 am
Category: Psychology (found on Reddit)
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Paul
2/20/2014 12:30:50 pm
Hmm I didn't know that I would always do that,I'd play a sad song on guitar and i'd feel better(for some odd reason).Thank you, it was interesting to see something about what I normally do when listening to music.
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This article was found on Sciencedaily.com in the health section.
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2/20/2014 07:56:08 am
I found this article at the Science Daily website under Top News
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Article category:Science technology
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Becca Jones
2/20/2014 01:10:24 pm
Uh, whoa! That's insane! I feel like the technology that is being developed in this era is so movie-like. It's almost unbelievable. Think about it. An application where you can create the non-existent? I feel like this could be very beneficial, just like you said. BUT to every great product, there is a nerve-wracking complication. Sometimes I feel as if our technology is taking over everything we're grasping onto. But besides that, it's a super rad idea! I'd love to see where it takes us!
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2/20/2014 01:04:36 pm
I came across this article while scrolling through the Reddit science section. I skimmed through subsections and found this in Psychology.
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2/20/2014 04:12:58 pm
Topic: Seasonal Flu
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2/21/2014 01:33:14 am
Category: Physics
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Sophie Rickless
2/21/2014 01:35:48 am
(The experiment is being conducted by David Kaiser, Andrew Friedman, and Jason Gallicchio)
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2/21/2014 07:32:15 am
In this article i read it talks about the robot turtle. The robot turtle is a rather maneuverable underwater robot. used to go deep under water more efficiently unlike the other bigger and more expensive machinery used for marine research. the reason it is called the robot turtle is for the design similaraties to sea turtle and it has four propelers similar to fins just like the sea turtle giving it its name.
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2/22/2014 11:22:43 am
I found this article in the "Health" sub-section of the "Science" section on reddit.com.
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2/24/2014 03:31:15 pm
I found this article by going on sciencedaily.com and looking under the addiction subsection.
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This article was about how ants survive during floods. They create a raft with their bodies by holding on to each other. By doing that it decreases the deaths and injuries of the ants. During a flood their main focus is to keep the queen alive but also everyone else. They all work together to stay alive. When I was reading this I started to thing why don't we do that when we are in danger? I started to think about the walking dead. In the walking dead they fight and kill each other for land and food. I believe that if something like that went down we would fight each other to keep our family alive, it sounds like the right thing but we could WORK TOGETHER to get food and survive. I believe that to be true because when the power went we didn't really work together we kinda fought over what was at the stores to keep just our families alive. I feel from reading this we should be more like ants. Working together will save more people in a time of danger.
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3/6/2014 04:04:53 am
This article is about how the air in la is so polluted, but that apparently its getting better. This struck me because how are people living and brething in this air. Its caused by the trucks exaust fumes and alot more. There was a diagram saying that the leading causes of the poluted air in california are fireplaces, household resourses
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3/7/2014 06:59:05 am
This article talks about how most preschoolers and kindergarteners can do basic algebra naturally before evening entering a math class. This was interesting because many high school and college students struggle with algebra but younger kids are able to do some basic algebra.
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3/7/2014 07:28:51 am
I found this article in the Mind & Brain section of ScienceDaily.com
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In this article it talks about how people who have lost a limb, lost their sight, their sense of smell, and their hearing can still feel pain, see faces, smell odors and hear sounds even though they are not there. People genuinely believe that whatever it is they think they are sensing is actually there, it's not only in people with mental issues, it occurs a lot to healthy minds as well.
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6/3/2014 12:28:42 pm
I found this article by going on sciencedaily.com
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This article at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140617112004.htm
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6/18/2014 11:28:43 am
This article is about a small device that can suck water out of air, its made up of tiny carbon tubes that suck the water right out of the air, but its not as fast as you'd think, but it still does it. Like the article said it would help places where they are stuck in a drought, but also if you didn't to pay for water you could just use these if you lived in a humid area. You just might need a bit more space.
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