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Why is the spelling 'thort' incorrect?

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Caroline & James             Is the traditional world map correctly displayed? 

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Caroline & James             Is the traditional world map correctly displayed? 

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Does Art need to have a purpose?

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Why is 'thort'

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Is bilingualism a positive or negative attribute?
Why might it be good or not to be aware of a fellow students learning difficulties?

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DNA sequence by Crick and Watson - after many experiments, by chance. To what extent does chance play a role in scientific discoveries?
To what extent is research and communication of knowledge hindered  by linguistic issues?

1. Activity: having breakfast -  does a different vocabulary imply a different way of thinking?

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Is Geography the most important subject in the world¿

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Is it healthy to be fit?

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If you see it happen does it make it real?

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If you see it happen does it make it real?

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Investigations in science should be done to prove a theory.

Make a flawed statement and carry out an investigation to 'prove' it. Get the pupils to explain why it does not make it true.
Eg: Plasticene is les dense than water. Float a plasticine boat on water. Get them to prove the plasticine  is more dense.

Alice&Sophie

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1. A Midsummer Night's Dream : What role does personal experience play in our response to the play? Preconceptions of Shakespeare and issues within the play.
2. How can your personal experiences help you to or prevent you from interpreting the concepts within the play? (interpretation's role in constructing knowledge)
3. Challenging the concept of knowledge by authority - helping them to unlock meaning independently
4. How is our interpretation embedded in our own social constructs? Context.
5. Why do we watch plays? What are we expecting from the experience? Why do we 'buy in' to the fantasy world?

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Scientists have ethical responsibilities for their work. Nigel & Rebecca

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Scientists have ethical responsibilities for their work. Nigel & Rebecca

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2.Who decides on whether an action or scientific discovery/application is ethical?
3. Can you think of ways that opinions be collected and evaluated?
What do you consider to be key ethical values? How do you know these are important

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1. Just over 1/3 of the world's population still does not have access to the Internet.
2. Should we turn the Internet off?
3. Hold a formal debate on the topic around the motion of turning the internet off.

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Many people are killed in avalanches in the Alps every year.

In order to stay safe we often rely on information gained from avalanche bulletins and applications such as White Risk.

How do we know that this information is reliable?

Why are we willing to trust this information when the consequences of it not being correct are so high?

Should we question more carefully the definitions of some of the terms used?

Should we ski outside of resort at all?

Activity:

Students could come up with their own danger scale and definitions. Should this be based on experience or research?

Students must justify why they should be allowed to go powder skiing.

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Is maths real or invented.
Was zero discovered or invented.

Tribe in south america describe direction based on a river as a point of reference rather than N; S, E, W. Is the mathematics still there but being described in different ways?

Have a treasure map. How could you describe the route to the treasure? Lengths/direction/points of reference etc. What if they were restricted from using certain words.

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1. The biggest, most perfect, snowflakes ever are being made in a laboratory in California.
2. How is knowledge acquisition in the natural sciences dictated by imagination?
3. "Can you think of an example of when scientists went way beyond what we could have imagined possible?"

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Kenneth Libbrecht/snowcrystals.com

A physicist is trying to grow single-crystal snowflakes that measure an inch or more across, far larger than would ever be possible in nature. Such an achievement would help scientists understand how molecules spontaneously transform from a gaseous state to self-assembling as complex crystals, a mysterious and under-studied area of research, according to The Mercury News.

Kenneth Libbrecht, a professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, has already created specimens that measure half an inch across. It's no trouble to design larger (and cruder) snowflakes, but perfect, single crystals are a different story.

"It's easy to grow an ugly snowflake," Libbrecht, who's also the author of the website snowcrystals.com, told The Mercury News. "More things go wrong as they get bigger."

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Libbrecht builds his snowflakes in a Pasadena lab, where they're carefully preserved via incubation in a cold box, according to The Mercury News. Libbrecht can even design identical twin snowflakes. Using a device called a recirculating chiller, along with a number of custom-designed instruments, he can manipulate the temperature and humidity that surrounds each crystal. This means he can manipulate the patterns they form; they can be hexagonal, or branched or have "stellar" or even "fernlike stellar" dendrites.

Libbrecht, a former astrophysicist, once worked at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, the instrument known for facilitating study of disturbances in the space-time continuum. He told The Mercury News that his snowflake research is "almost an anti-LIGO"-spending minutes, rather than decades, on individual projects.

The more Libbrecht and other physicists learn about the process by which crystals self-assemble, the greater our potential to turn that knowledge to the production of semiconductors, laser technology and telecommunications equipment, reported The Mercury News.

Libbrecht has authored several book on his work, including a snowflake field guide. He's spent decades studying the formation process, according to Smithsonian, and the U.S. Postal Service even used his images for their holiday snowflakes stamp set in 2006. He was also Disney's "Snowflake Consultant" for the movie Frozen, according to Gizmodo.

"Ken has not has not only mastered the art and science of taking measurements and images of ice crystals, but also has done the world such a great favor by disseminating this great information in a readable form," Joseph Shaw, director of the Optical Technology Center at Montana State University, told The Mercury News. "I don't know of anyone who has contributed more to the aesthetic appreciation of the science."

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A physicist is growing the world's biggest snowflakes, including identical twin flakes

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A physicist is trying to grow single-crystal snowflakes that measure an inch or more across, far larger than would ever be possible in nature. Such an achievement would help scientists understand how molecules spontaneously transform from a gaseous state to self-assembling as complex crystals, a mysterious and under-studied area of research, according to The Mercury News .