For your Major Project you have to plan and conduct and experiment in the next 10 Weeks. This period I will review your Moodle submissions, for a realistic area of investigation, a hypothesis that can be tested, and a plan to conduct the experiment.
Some examples of areas of investigation that are unsuitable for a Year 10 Project.
"Are we alone in the Universe?" - as of yet there is no experiment with control to test this
"Scent marking of Dog's Territory" - there is equipment to conduct the study and control.
Use www.periodictable.com to write in your book other elements in the Group 1 (H,Li, K...)
What can you say about these elements. Draw the shell stucture of Group 1 (One electron in the outershell).
Repeat for Group 2 (Be, Mg.....)
Repeat for Group 17 (DET group 7)
Repeat for Group 18
look at Methane a compound (Google "Jmol methane")
Run the simulation http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=pH_Scale
In your book write as much information as you can about pH scale
What the numbers mean, what are the acid and base molecules?
Run simulation http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Reactions_and_Rates
About Me
- drhill
- I come from a Science family: My father Geoffrey Hill was Australia's first computer programmer on CSIRAC the fourth computer in the world. He is credited with invention of Computer music and the development of “Interprogram” a language before Basic. My PhD is in Atomic and Molecular Physics. I have researched the activated oxygen layer above the ozone layer, and 'Assigned' the world's smallest molecule. At the University of Toronto I researched high power UV lasers. I have specialized in automation in fibre optics. This developed into research in Machine Intellect and Robots. I have enjoyed work as an Explainer with Questacon and my time as a part-time soldier. I currently teach High School Science at Epping Boys’ High.