ACCHS Western Sciences 2019

Your Green Chemistry Assignments Blog Assignments for Week Three: Ø   Discover your “Transitional Metal of the Week” and post a brief description Ø   Post your thoughts on Green Chemistry Ø   Post at least one comment to a classmate’s blog Check out the following links: http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/property/color.htm WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THE COLOR OF MINERALS? uvminerals.org/fms/ luminescence Luminescence and Fluorescence http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~koppen/discharge/ Spectra of Gas Discharges http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/demos/main_pages/6.2.html Colors of Elements in a Flame

Your Blog Assignments for "Energy, Matter and Force"  How has e=mc2 affected you?  How would you compare the four “forces”?  What is the function of gravity?  Keep up the blog dialogue! Check out the following links on Symmetry: http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/symmetries-obeyed-and-broken   Symmetries Obeyed and Broken http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/13/9/4/1 Magnetism points to molecular asymmetry http://lhcb-public-old.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public-old/html/cpviolationtoc.htm Everything you ever wanted to know about CP violation and never dared to ask

Blog Assignments for Week Three: Ø  Discover your “Element of the Week” and post a brief description Ø  Post your thoughts on one of our class discussions Ø  Post your review of one of the links below Ø  Post at least one comment to a classmate’s blog Check out the following links on Green Chemistry: http://advancinggreenchemistry.org/ Advancing Green Chemistry http://domin.dom.edu/faculty/jbfriesen/chem254lab/atom_economy.pdf Avoiding Waste: Atom Economy. www.greeningschools.org/docs/greenchemistryclockreaction.pdf Sustainable Science: Green Chemistry in your Classroom

Synchronicity Assignments - Week 3 Blog assignments for this week: * What evidence can you find for synchronicity * Based on what you know, how would you explain connectivity? * Post a response to a classmate's blog entry Check out the following links on Energy, Matter and the Four Forces: www.c2i2.com/~seven/paradox/Docs/Paradox.PPT The Standard Model of Particle Physics - a Simplified Summary http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000068 E=mc2 -  explain it in 60 seconds http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/fundamental-forces-of-nature.htm FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/funfor.html Fundamental Forces

Our Biology Class will not be meeting on Memorial Day, May 27th - Happy Holiday! Next class will meet on June 3rd. And here are your Genetic Evolution Assignments: 1.    Blog Assignments required this week: 1.1    “99.4% of the most critical DNA sites are identical in human and chimp genes” What do you make of this? 1.2    Respond to a classmate’s blog entry 2.    Use your blog to record your impressions of Human Genetic Evolution http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/LifeScience/PhysicalAnthropology/HumanGeneticEvolution/mainpage.htm 3.    Your Take-Home Memorial Day Weekend Assignment: Cambridge scientists create world’s first living organism with fully redesigned DNA     What are the key issues brought up in this article, in your view? 4.     Check out the following links on Cybernetics:     http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/COMPNATS.HTML Self-organization and c...

Assignments for Week 2 - Periodic Tables  Blog assignments for this week: * Post your comments on one of our class discussions * Explore your own carbon footprint and report on your findings * Post at least one comment to a classmate’s blog 2.    Check out the following links on Molecular Modeling and Chemical Bonds: http://csi.chemie.tu-darmstadt.de/ak/immel/index.html Some interesting animations! http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/quick_tour.html What is Molecular Modeling? http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/water_concepts.htm WATER CONCEPTS

Assignments for Week Two - Quantum Physics 1. Blog Assignments for Week 2:  Your reflections on Uncertainty  Your comments on Causality  Is the Universe weird?  Respond to at least one other student’s blog   2. Check out the following links on Synchronicity  http://www.crystalinks.com/synchronicity.html Synchronicities are meaningful coincidences. Examples, definitions and some background to Jung http://www.flowpower.com/What%20is%20Synchronicity.htm What is Synchronicity? More examples and discussion http://www.science-et-magie.com/archives01/moisset/jma02syn.htm Synchronicity and Multiple Universes http://www.ayk.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/NIKOLOVA-Antoaneta-SYNCHRONICITY-AND-CAUSALITY-%E2%80%93-TWO-DIFFERENT-PHILOSOPHICAL-APPROACHES-TO-THE-WORLD.pdf Synchronicity and Causality

Assignments for Week Two - Evo-Devo 1. Blog Assignments for this week: • Post your thoughts on Evo-Devo • Read the attached articles “Sleep 'cleans' the brain of toxins”, “Moon Phases Tied to Sleep Cycles“, and “How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?”  Investigate the role of sleep and health. Monitor your own sleep cycle over the coming week and use your blog to report on your findings https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/moon-phases-tied-to-sleep-cycles/ https://www.bbc.com/news/health-24567412 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24444634 • Respond to at least one other student’s blog 2.  And check out the following links on Darwinism: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/evolution/howdidwegethere.html How Did We Get Here? From the inheritance of acquired traits to natural selection to evo devo, evolutionary theory has itself evolved By Steve Mirsky http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/arn/pearcey/np_dcpolicy0500.htm Why Darwinism Matters Washing...

Hi there Chemists Once you have your blog set up, post your introductory bio. And here is the correct link for your "Quick Quiz" on Inorganic Chemistry https://chemistry.boisestate.edu/richardbanks/inorganic/chemistry/chemistry.htm Scroll down to the end of the page and you'll find the four problems. And remember to post a comment to a classmte's blog. Here are the links on Periodic Tables: online: http://www.chemicalelements.com/ interactive http://periodic.lanl.gov/ spiral http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/spiraltable.html memory http://www.johnpratt.com/atomic/periodic.html quiz http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Chem/Chem101lc/pertab2.html game http://www.funbrain.com/periodic/index.html rejected http://periodictable.com/pages/AAE_RejectedPT.html

Hi Physicists! Here are your Assignments for Week One:     Post a short bio introducing yourself     Post your thoughts on today's class - The Meaning of Time     Respond to a classmate’s blog entry And check out the following links on Quantum Mechanics: https://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/software/online/info/summaryOfVqm.html The simulations under “Programs” are excellent https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.3578426 Writing for Non-scientists about Physics http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_Quantum_age_begins.html A decent history

Biology Week One Welcome Biologists Here are your Week One Assignments: Start your blog – try www.blogger.com - and send your url to laurence_spears@yahoo.com     Post a short bio introducing yourself     Post your thoughts on our class discussion to your blog     Respond to a classmate’s blog entry And here are some links on "Evolution" for Week Two: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/ A PBS program from 2001 “Evolution – a journey into where we’re from…and where we’re going” http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ UC Berkeley’s website “Understanding Evolution” Some of the links we reviewed today in Week One: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180419-the-words-that-change-the-colours-we-see https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/tetrachromatic-super-vision-women-100-million-colors_n_1631480.html https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-placebo-pills-help-cancer-survivors-manage-pain/

Welcome to your Western Sciences Class Blog You'll find your class assignments are posted for each class here. And I will be maintaining a class blog list for each class so that you can find your classmates' blogs easily. So send me your blog address as soon as you have it set up And enjoy your Sciences this Summer!