November 15: New writing exercise

Today we talked more about solids, liquids and gases and did a few little demos to introduce certain concepts like potential and kinetic energy as well as surface tension.  I had both periods do a guided reading and introduced a writing exercise for homework.  They have to compare and contrast Charle’s Law, Boyle’s Law and the Meissner Effect.  Three paragraphs, 4-5 sentences each with definitions and examples of each concept.  The Meissner Effect is not in their books so they will have to do just a little bit of research on it and tell me what they learned.  This is higher order science here, so they might struggle a little with it.  Challenges are good!