Apologia Physical Science
All things must come to an end. :( This is my last post for the topic of Apologia’s Exploring Creation with Physical Science by Dr. Wile. We have had a wonderful year with this subject, the students were great, the book was great, and I just can’t believe it went by so quickly. [...]
Physical Science Module 15
April 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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Light
April 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Apologia Physica Science - Module 15
It is hard to believe we only have one more module left. It has been an exciting year.
This week and next week we are covering Light. Light waves are referred to as electromagnetic waves. It travels very fast in a vacuum. Light does not need air because it [...]
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Apologia Module 14
March 31st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Waves and Sound
We are coming fast to the end of our exciting journey with Exploring Creation with Physical Science. We have learned a lot about God’s creation through this.
Module 14 is about Waves and Sound. We learned there are two types of waves.
The Transverse Wave. I demonstrated this wave, in the classroom, using a [...]
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Oxidizing Steel Wool
March 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments
About a month ago, I gave the students in my science class the assignment to pick an experiment and facilitate it in our classroom. This is the experiment my son picked out. For safety reasons, we went outside to do this one. LOL
Oxidizing Steel Wool
Source: Popular Science magazine
Materials:
Three grades of steel wool, he used light, medium, [...]
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The Periodic Table of Elements terms
March 13th, 2008 · 6 Comments
In Module 13 of Apologia “Exploring Creation with Physical Science”, we learned that some of the elements are given initials for English words, while others are given initials for Latin words. A friend of mine, who is smart and knows a lot of Latin, gave me this chart for the English/Latin terms, along with the [...]
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Apologia Science - Module 12
March 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments
We are almost done with our Physical Scince book. So far it has been a great year. WooHoo.
Module 12: The Forces inCreation Part 2
In this module we learned about attraction and repulsion of electrical charges. Nothing too exciting and I don’t have pictures of all the labs. I do have several of Experiment 12.2: Making [...]
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