SILC Plans

          Well, I know it's late, but I can't get certain things off of my mind.  I will (most likely) be assisting my G+T teacher in her G+T class.  I can't wait; I have so many ideas.  I just wanted to get them laid out (and possibly looked over by a certain someone because I can never find time to stop by her class because of the wacky scheduling *wink*wink).  (and if this person does read this, then "Hi! I miss you!")  If there is to be a science related unit, I would have various topics of discussion each day.  Some days will be interactive lecture, others experiments, and others demonstrations.  For the most part, I'll lean towards physics (being the granddaddy  of the sciences) and try to steer clear of the math.  I have an idea for 1 day to explain proportionality and inverse proportionality to help the students understand where certain equations come from and how to set one up based on experimental data.  I can definitely give a couple demonstrations in kinematics and the Newton Laws.  Every day or couple of days, we can tackle major units: Kinematics, Thermodynamics, Waves, Buoyancy, Energy, Momentum, etc... For the final project, I have the idea of briefly going into what quantum mechanics and theoretical physics are and have them develop a theory to something.  I'll make a different scenario for each group of kids, and they will have to use their knowledge of physics to hypothesize reasoning for why the scenario is behaving as it is.  To make it interesting, they are given limited information about the scenario but enough that they can draw conclusions. For instance, water is traveling up a pipe, without a pump.  Solutions can vary in vacuum at the top, change in pressure, H20 gas is traveling up the pipe.  They have to design an experiment to test if their theory is right, and if we have time, I'll throw in an added detail that they find during the experiment.  It's all theoretical but obeying the laws of nature, which is pretty much the frontier of modern physics.  With any other lesson, I can offer a scientific perspective and logical reasoning.  Also, I can contribute heavily to the debate unit and public speaking.  I have Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit, and I think I can make some fun out of that.  Well, this is what I got so far.  Now, I must study for the AP Chem test.