Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Academic Junior High Decathlon - Photography

Try this quiz to see how much you know about famous photographers.
When you're finished, we will design a new quiz to cover this week's material.

Activity: Famous Photographers
URL: http://www.quia.com/rr/565713.html

Thursday, January 7, 2010

decathlon Thursday 1/7/10

Try this brain teaser:

4 Men stole 4 Cars during 4 different times in the same day. We know who committed the crimes. For everything else we have only uncovered 3 clues, so we are stumped to who is responsible for what. We need your help.

This is what we know:

1. Carleton did not steal the Ferarri Enzo.
2. Carleton stole his car immediately before Pierson did, who stole his immediately before the Pagini Zonda was stolen.
3. Reynold stole the Dodge Viper, but he was not first.

Who stole what, and when?

Set up your own grid, and we'll check them at the end.

http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/20989/the-great-heist.html

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Nuclear Radiation

Today we are going to talk about two types of radiation:
High level radiation - major doses of radiation; and
Low level radiation - smaller doses of radiation that are
present in our daily lives.

This video that explains one type of radiation that affects us on earth:
http://science.discovery.com/videos/100-greatest-discoveries-shorts-cosmic-radiation.html

Please read this article about electromagnetic magnetic radiation for more information:
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.energy.radsource/