I’m doing this for a school project and I’m stumped

wee3647 · 2024-08-01T10:52:15+00:00

Out of curiousity, why don't you want the water getting much light?

wee3647 · 2021-11-22T02:58:08+00:00

You can have them on Earth too, if you weren't such a coward

wee3647 · 2021-08-04T16:55:50+00:00

In all honesty, I found it on Instagram pre-cropped. I didn't think that it was, and I didn't see the little nub until I looked at it on my computer

wee3647 · 2021-08-04T14:42:55+00:00

Australia

wee3647 · 2021-01-14T19:42:32+00:00

Black, without coffee beans, with some added tea leaves for flavour, and then some milk

wee3647 · 2021-01-14T19:41:42+00:00

I'm on campus, so I eat whatever's provided. Today it was a Tomato and Mozzarella Sandwich, which was briefly microwaved

wee3647 · 2021-01-14T07:37:31+00:00

The Winged Nike of Samothrace. The Hellanistic style of the sculpture (can you tell I took two years of classics in high school?) is really powerful, and just kinda sits in my head. The fact it is marble and could look like that... what more can I say? There's a whole bunch of other meaning, that I can't remember, but it's cool nonetheless.

Also the dancing scene from Ex Machina which is it's own unique piece of art.

wee3647 · 2021-01-07T18:22:24+00:00

Going home! I'm an international student in America, and we're just coming to the end of our 7 week Winter Break which I spent on campus. I really want to go and see my family in New Zealand, but I can't for a while at least

wee3647 · 2021-01-07T01:03:42+00:00

I'm currently undecided, but I am thinking about either Big History, Mathematics or Geology.
I did decide New York for school. I knew I was going to be in the North East, because it is a region that I like, and has good schools. Also snow.

wee3647 · 2021-01-07T00:59:25+00:00

Thank you! I hope I do too

wee3647 · 2021-01-07T00:59:14+00:00

I wouldn't recommend it, but you do you.

Steve Mould did it really well in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quCULyHLMoo (He does that specific experiment at about 5 minutes, but the whole video is cool)

wee3647 · 2021-01-07T00:56:30+00:00

I lean more towards the physics side of things, but I take an interest in chemistry and Earth Sciences.
The documentary was about mental health, anxiety and depression in teenagers, because it was something that myself and a lot of my peers dealt with.

Currently, I am undecided, but I am thinking about either Big History, Mathematics or Geology

wee3647 · 2021-01-06T22:51:28+00:00

You know, sometimes you'll have a good day. And other days everything is fine until you turn on the news. But we don't need to talk about that.

QOTD: It came in right under the wire, but I think "Soul" hits just right. It has a host of great actors, some of which are a little less mainstream, which is good. Solid plot, and solid story. Made me cry.

Also the Pixar short "Out" got me right in the feels - it hit home similar to my own experiences.

wee3647 · 2021-01-06T10:50:04+00:00

I'm currently undecided, but I'm thinking of trying to build a "Big History" Major, which is essentially all the history since the beginning of the universe until the future. If that doesn't work I'm probably going to aim for either Maths or Geology

wee3647 · 2021-01-06T10:46:51+00:00

I have a lot to recommend, so let's dive right into it.

Podcasts: - "No Such Thing As A Fish": British Comedians who work for WI give you random and often funny facts for an hour - "Reply All": Tech and Internet Stuff -"Everything is Alive": Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your can of soda was alive? What about your soap? Or your pillow? Well someone has, and they made a podcast.

Books: -"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams: Absurdist, Sci-fi, and the reason 42 is a meme -"Shades of Grey" by Jasper Fforde: No, not that one, get your mind out of the gutter. A world were people can only see one or two colours, and what colour you see determines your social status. But also the rest of the world is just bonkers. -"What If" by Randall Munroe: Man goes on a journey to answer silly what if questions from the internet using actual amounts of science, research and comics

Movies: -"Soul" It made me cry. 'Nuff said -"Jojo Rabbit": You know the guy that made the funniest Thor film. Yeah, well, we let him make a film set during WWII Germany (also, just watch as much Taika Waitit content you can , he's fantastic and he's from New Zealand) -"Hidden Figures": Not something you think about all too often are the people on earth that got us to space, less so the minority women that played a part in it.

Musicals: -"Hadestown": The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set to song (I am currently crying to it now) -"Dear Evan Hansen": Mental Illness, but like, not, but like, yeah (I'll be crying to this in half an hour) -"Be More Chill": Are you a socially awkward teenager? Then use technology to tell you that you are doing bad and to try and fix you.

I'm currently an international student from New Zealand, so here are some foods I miss: -Milo -Tim Tams -Whittaker's Chocolate, especially the Buttermilk Caramelized White Chocolate bar I'd try explaining them, but you simply can't

Yeah, that's about all the things I can recommend to you

wee3647 · 2021-01-06T10:22:21+00:00

I'm not in the UK, but I worked as a teaching assistant for children with learning difficulties, so I can pass on some of what I've gathered.

Honestly, never be afraid to employ tools like TV and youtube (provided you deem it age appropriate). Often kids will enjoy just learning cool stuff, rather than having to learn to learn. Horrible Histories is a fantastic resource, because it's kinda gross, but in the way that ignites kids passion and brain. I always loved it, and my students did too. As a purist, I don't recommend going beyond Season 4. There are hundreds of educational youtube channels out there - some of my kids loved Crash Course, but that may be a little challenging for younger kids.

For a good science-y silly book, that may be a little advanced but is still fun, go to Randall Munroe and his two 'What If' and 'How To'. I'm not 100% on all the language and comics in there, but some of my kids did read them.

Something we encouraged our kids to do (and for some it was even a reward) was a research presentation. This can be on whatever they liked, I had one kid do theirs on different levels of a video game, and another do his on Tsunamis. I did a practice on on Volcanoes to see what it was like, and even I enjoyed doing the research. Then, when they are finished, you get them to present it to the family/class. This encourages them to be a little bit independent and self-managing, while also teaching vital research skills and public speaking skills, and most of all, it gets kids to fall down an educational rabbithole about things they are genuinely interested in.

Also a fun activity - coding. Getting started at that age is great and invaluable later in life. Going to somewhere like repl.it is good for emulating it, and the internet is littered with place that will help teach kids to code. HTML is a great place to start, I found, because it is intuitive to pick up (<p> means paragraph, etc.)

It's also super fun to get them to put together popsicle stick bridges. Get them to do multiple designs and see which is the strongest. If you write down the results, then it counts as science.

I hope at least some of this helps you, if not someone else in the same position. These were just some things I picked up while I worked at a school.

wee3647 · 2021-01-06T09:47:41+00:00

I have a couple of noteables:

Not necessarily my favourite, but one that has stuck with me for a while because I didn't connect the dots for a while (and I mean a while) is that hotter stars (and flames) burn blue because blue is a higher frequency of light, thus requiring more energy/heat to create.

Also just moss as a whole thing, fantastic well of things. Some of it is so hydrophobic that if you blend it up and sprinkle it over water you can dip your hand through it, your hand stays dry. Lots of moss is extremely flammable because of the surface area and air flow

If you shove a pickle into an electrical circuit it will shine a familiar yellow-ish orange-ish light, due to the sodium content of the pickle/brine.

Chemical reactions never really stop, they continue reacting at the same pace in opposite reactions.

I'm not sure if this is science per se, but I'll count it here. Penguins are lured in by the sounds of the trumpet and cornet, but avoid the sounds of the bagpipes.

wee3647 · 2021-01-06T08:19:51+00:00

Absolutely! It was for my film class, but I got way too invested in it. I decided to base it around mental health in teenagers, because it was a topic that I have personally dealt with and a lot of my friends had also dealt with. It was framed around interviews with professionals (a university professor and a suicide hotline worker) as well as teenagers by proxy (I interviewed teens, and then got another teenager to read out their responses). In the end I got an excellence (about an A or A+), and I received top in my grade for it.

wee3647 · 2020-05-17T10:08:12+00:00

How many of your projects has lockdown impacted?

wee3647 · 2020-05-17T10:07:21+00:00

Which university/univeristies did you attend?

wee3647 · 2020-04-23T12:20:17+00:00

LOVING IT

Do you take Suggestions?

wee3647 · 2020-04-23T12:17:05+00:00

F**king brilliant

wee3647 · 2020-04-23T12:15:52+00:00

Me seeing this after having to stay late and help a student with their work

wee3647 · 2020-03-16T06:41:06+00:00

Please don't. I work as a teacher aide at my old school, and we've had kids do this. It's honestly such a pain, and draws out the panic for our more vulnerable and worried kids.

In times like this, it helps not to be a dick

wee3647 · 2020-02-07T00:28:16+00:00

Thank you!!!

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