Tuesday 9/28/10

Black container that contained the bead. There were 12 different containers with differents line patterns inside of them.
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Black box lab

We did this sheet in class. The sheet had four atom scientists' names and we had to fill out information about them. The information can be found on the colored sheets pictured below.

These are the colored sheets of paper with the information on  four atomic scientists. (Dalton, Rutherford, Thomson, Bohr)

2nd part of the black box lab

Today in class, we started a new unit. We began studying the atomic theory. We did the Black Box Lab. In this lab, we had to go to several stations with black circular containers. Each container had a bead inside of it. We would rattle and move the container to determine what type of shapes/lines were inside of the canister. We could determine the shapes by feeling how the bead bounced off the surfaces, and how the bead sounded when it bounced off certain spots of the container. We weren't allowed to open up the container to see the shapes.Then, we would sketch what we guessed was in the container, on our lab sheet. It was sort of like the concept of trying to figure out what atoms looked like, back in the days of Dalton, Rutherford, Thomson and Bohr, who were atomic scientists.

We got four colored pieces of paper with information about 4 different atomic scientists. The information on the sheets of paper can be used to fill out the Atomic Scientists worksheet that we got to do in class.

Next Scriber: Grace Ridge

No homework. Test next Friday, October 8th, 2010