Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Connor's Atom Project - Neon
The criteria was to make an atom using recycled items from home - ie.
you weren't allowed to buy any materials for this project. We scrounged
through my vast collection of craft embelishments for inspiration.
Neon has an atomic number of 10 = 10 positive protons (red) and 10 neutral neutrons (green) inside the nucleus. It then has 2 energy shells / rings with negative electrons on them.
With the twins having the same teacher for this subject, it was important to create projects that did not look the same as one another and thus we have to further think out of the box! We also didn't have enough of the same recycled materials.
We used black pompoms for the electrons and painted a negative sign on it to show the negative charge. We used green and red pompoms for the protons and neutrons.
We used skewer sticks and glued the electrons on each end. The outer energy shell's skewer sticks are longer than the inner energy shell. We then joined the skewer sticks in the middle using a pipe cleaner which we painted black when the glue had dried.
We then glued the protons and neutrons onto the middle section which would make up the nucleus. In theory the protons and neutrons should be bigger than the electrons, but we were sticking within the critea of using recycled items and those were the materials we had available at the time.
Neon has an atomic number of 10 = 10 positive protons (red) and 10 neutral neutrons (green) inside the nucleus. It then has 2 energy shells / rings with negative electrons on them.
With the twins having the same teacher for this subject, it was important to create projects that did not look the same as one another and thus we have to further think out of the box! We also didn't have enough of the same recycled materials.
We used black pompoms for the electrons and painted a negative sign on it to show the negative charge. We used green and red pompoms for the protons and neutrons.
We used skewer sticks and glued the electrons on each end. The outer energy shell's skewer sticks are longer than the inner energy shell. We then joined the skewer sticks in the middle using a pipe cleaner which we painted black when the glue had dried.
We then glued the protons and neutrons onto the middle section which would make up the nucleus. In theory the protons and neutrons should be bigger than the electrons, but we were sticking within the critea of using recycled items and those were the materials we had available at the time.
Max's Atom Project - Neon
The criteria was to make an atom using recycled items from home - ie. you weren't allowed to buy any materials for the project. We scrounged through my vast collection of craft embelishments for inspiration.
Neon has an atomic number of 10 = 10 positive protons (red) and 10 neutral neutrons (green) inside the nucleus. It then has 2 energy shells / rings with negative electrons on them.
We painted wooden beads black for the electrons and painted a negative sign on it to show the negative charge. We used green and red pompoms for the protons and neutrons and painted a white positive sign to show the charge of the protons.
I found a rattan florists ball floating around which we stripped and used the rattan to create the circular energy rings, threading the 'electrons' on to it. We glued the protons and neutrons onto the middle section which would be our nucleus.
We joined the rings using fishing line so that they swing or rotate individually from one another.
Neon has an atomic number of 10 = 10 positive protons (red) and 10 neutral neutrons (green) inside the nucleus. It then has 2 energy shells / rings with negative electrons on them.
We painted wooden beads black for the electrons and painted a negative sign on it to show the negative charge. We used green and red pompoms for the protons and neutrons and painted a white positive sign to show the charge of the protons.
I found a rattan florists ball floating around which we stripped and used the rattan to create the circular energy rings, threading the 'electrons' on to it. We glued the protons and neutrons onto the middle section which would be our nucleus.
We joined the rings using fishing line so that they swing or rotate individually from one another.
Winter is not my friend
Being a serious night owl, I am not naturally inclined to
leap jovially from my bed and welcome each new day with a stretch and a happy
smile, so you can imagine how much I enjoy these dark, cold winter mornings. I have thus taken to setting my alarm for
about half an hour before I am due to get up so that I can hit the snooze
button several times and enjoy 5 more minutes, 5 more minutes and yet another 5
minutes of warm snuggliness and dozy cat naps.
Rather silly really, as I’m sure it would be far more productive to just
tuck, roll and leopard crawl my way into a steaming hot shower, thus reducing
the daily morning routine torture. I am entirely grateful that my hubby IS a
morning person, so has taken on the duty of rousing the boys and getting them
going with breakfast and lunchbox preparations. It is also a blessing in
disguise that I am now considered old by youthful standards, so nobody bats an
eyelid when they witness the wreck of the Hesperus donned in mismatched track pants
and hastily zipped up jacket complete with dodgy bed head hairdoo, racing
furiously down the road towards the High School with three well dressed, albeit
blurry eyed teenagers in tow.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Getting fit vs having a fit...
I
haven't been to my weekly belly dancing class in a long while due to our
instructer jetting off overseas for a holiday, and since I am naturally
rather a lazy person, this has caused me to really feel the stodgy
effects of my winter eating habits as of late.
I decided I best get my
some blood circulating before I turn into a right blob, so I ordered the
Latin Fat Buster DVD. It comprises of 4 high energy
dance routines from a 5 minute to a 20 minute workout. I thought it
best to ease into things with the 5 minute excercise plan, aka the
warm-up!
Oh my dusty hat, 5 minutes seems like 20 when you are trying to
follow the energetic bunny on the screen who is shaking hips, tapping
toes, pulsing arms and throwing in a few lunges for good measure. And
here I thought my co-ords were well improved being a casual belly
dancer......maybe not so much! I'm rather glad I was on my own, as I'm
certain I closely resembled a panicked drowning victim with much
unco-ordinated arm flapping, very heavy and laboured breathing
complimented by burning muscles, all as I willed myself to make it to
the end.
It took a fair minute or two for my breathing to return to
normal as my heart continued to pound hysterically in my chest. I
jellyfished my way into the shower on shell shocked legs all the while
scolding myself for being so ridiculously unfit. Guess we'll try again
tomorrow, and with any luck I may oneday reach my goal of the 20 minute
workout
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