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Spot the Problem
Can you spot the problem with this book from the SGS Jr. School library?Hint: think about what you have learned in your science class!
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Haikuesday
To some, solutions are answers. To chemists they are still all mixed up. ~Aryaman Shalizi
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I Have a Dream . . .
A Grade 3 student is pretty interested in dreams: what they are, why we have them, and everything else about them. Dreams are pretty facinating because most people don’t know very much about them – we...
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Physics Can Be Reeeally Weird
Ian, in Grade 6, has been investigating about physics. He’s also working on organizing and designing experiments that he can carry out to demonstrate some of the things that he’s learning. One of the...
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Beautiful Birthstones
Some of the Grade 3 students came to Mr. Weber recently to discuss starting an inquiry project about birthstones. Did you know that all birthstones have a history? There’s also a lot we can learn...
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Big Bang Brainstorming
Have you ever wondered how the universe was created? Darius, in 2JT, wanted to find out. Today we had a really cool discussion about this topic. One thing that we discovered, however, was that for...
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Turritopsis Dohrnii: The Immortal Jellyfish
Yesterday Justin, in Grade 6, was telling Mr. Weber about this jellyfish that is immortal. “As if,” thought Mr. Weber. “This cannot possible be true; it must be a misunderstanding.” Well, after...
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Wonder Expo is here
Today’s the big day! All term, the Grade 7 boys have been working on their Wonder Expo projects. The Wonder Expo is a revamped version of the Science Fair – we’ll write more about the process later....
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Seriously Cool Challenge Questions
While looking for a new challenge question for this week, Mr. Weber came across a really interesting website: The flame challenge began a couple of years ago when actor (and founding member of Stony...
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Monday’s Thought of the Day
“We may learn everything about something, and we may learn something about everything, but we’re never going to learn everything about everything. When you study science, and especially these realms...
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Thursday’s Thought of the Day
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…” ~ Isaac Asimov
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