Physics – Page 4 – Discovering

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Minecraft, It Is

This past weekend, we launched our first ever, private Minecraft world that we’re hosting. It’s been offered to a group of young kids from the WLU community and we’ve set it as Creative only. The kids (about 30 of them, ranging from 4 to 15, with all but two of them are under 11) are […]

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Intuitive Guide to Angles, Degrees and Radians

Intuitive Guide to Angles, Degrees and Radians http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad_(angle) It’s an obvious fact that circles should have 360 degrees. Right? Wrong. Most of us have no idea why there’s 360 degrees in a circle. We memorize a magic number as the “size of a circle” and set ourselves up for confusion when studying advanced math or physics, with […]

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Atmosphere & Americans

Yesterday, Lily inquired, as we were on our way to our Alamosa group for play and discovery, about the atmosphere and global economics. She indicated she understood the concept of the water cycle, mostly. Though I think she is skeptical at just how cyclical the whole thing is, but mostly, she questions where the water came from […]

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Quantum Leaping, Roof Raising, Laser Guided Pooping Machines

This morning we began with some wacked out sentences on the fridge, which included flying pigeons with laser guided poop devices. These sentences are made out of English, French, and Spanish words, randomly thrown together. Is this a logical way of learning sentence structure in a language other than English? No. It does generate vocabulary […]

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Finger Puffs

This contains Lily’s and Angie’s fingerprints. We used a bunch of different options for the colors and frame. Lily experimented quite a bit. We call this, Fingerpuffs. She made a second imagine all her own too. She called it, “A Beautiful Sunset”.

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STEM, Optics First, Robots Next

After learning about the STEM program at our local university a few weeks ago, I spoke with Lily about her interest and upon her request began the process of trying to get her accepted, given that the requirement was a minimum of 4th grade. As we are not utilizing “grades” and she already meets about […]

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The Stone Age

In keeping with Eep, we worked on our own cave paintings today. We learned about the El Castillo cave drawings, and how it is believed to be the oldest known example, dating some 40,000 years. This would be caveman era, and the symbols were of hands and sun. We learned how the pigments were created […]

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M82, Lightyear Distances, and Warp Speed

Copied in from FB because I don’t have enough time to retype tonight, as Lily has declared the “period of a human’s life” is too short to spend typing. She asked me this morning what a ‘period of time’ was. Lily and I want to know, were we to convert light years into distance (yes, […]

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Zapata!

What does Zapata mean? Ah, so that’s what it looks like not frozen! I’ve never been there when it was wet. We have joined our friends in creating the first ever, for us, anyway – Nature Explorer’s Club This first event was a trip to Zapata Falls The vision for the club is simple […]

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Mud Sculpting

This afternoon Lils set herself up side by side with Mike, our wall texture/drywall hanger guy. He’s been working on his masterpiece on the ceiling and walls of our theatre for a few days now, and today she decided to join him. He is an extremely gentle and patient man. He’s pretty good with mud […]