(SCI) Math and Science Activity Integrated
(SCI) Math and Science Activity Integrated
(SCI) Math and Science Activity Integrated
Summer 2003
July 2, 2003
Handouts
1. Calendar Problems: February 2003 (Mathematics Teacher, February 2003)
2. BRAINTEASERS – Just for the fun of it! (Quantum, May/June 1994)
References:
1. Search for the biggest numeric palindrome
http://www.floot.demon.co.uk/palindromes.html
Search software:
http://www.copernic.com/en/index.html
go to “Download Copernic Basic Agent FREE”
July 4, 2003
Handouts
3. Calendar Problems: February 2003 (Mathematics Teacher, Math 2003)
4. BRAINTEASERS – Just for the fun of it! (Quantum, November/December 1993)
References:
1. Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/home/0,12510,,00.html
2. Zephyrus – an interactive science education webpage
http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/index.html
3. Mathpuzzle.com
http://mathpuzzle.com/
4. Project guidelines
http://www.scifair.org/index.shtml
Task 1:
1. Go to http://mathpuzzle.com/ and choose one of the puzzles.
2. Try your best to do it.
3. Bring your solution or your works next time and tell your friends how you work it
out or how you can’t get the solution.
4. We shall discuss it in the next meeting (Wednesday, Jul 9).
Task 2:
1. Visit http://www.popsci.com/popsci/home/0,12510,,00.html and choose one article
that you find interesting and want to share with your classmates.
2. Read the article and extract the key points of the content.
3. Present the key points in PowerPoint presentation or …. to your friends on next
Friday. (Diagrams/images/charts/drawings are helpful in explaining ideas)
July 9, 2003
Handouts
5. Calendar Problems: January 2003 (Mathematics Teacher, Jan 2003)
References:
1. http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/mathsf/journalf/jul03/problems.html
Next Meeting
Date: July 11, 2003 (Friday)
Time: 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Place: Room 223
References:
Battery and Fruit battery
2. 果然係~~電池 http://hk.geocities.com/csss4j/00.htm
3. Fruit battery (images) http://www.pwest.bravepages.com/frbat.htm
4. Lee Sir’s Chemistry page http://lpl.hkcampus.net/~lpl-chem/
References:
Proof of Pythagoras Theorem
1. You can drag the figures to prove the Pythagoras Theorem
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/OTHERS/pythagoras2/
2. Go to Pythagoras Theorem in
http://www.ktgss.edu.hk/Teacher/MissLauYuenSheung/
3. Study the following web page and find out how the Pythagoras Theorem was proved
by areas of triangles.
http://sunsite.ubc.ca/LivingMathematics/V001N01/UBCExamples/Pythagoras/pytha
goras.html
4. http://www.cinderella.de/en/demo/gallery/pythagoras.html
About Pythagoras
Bibliography
http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www%2Dgroups.dcs.s
t%2Dand.ac.uk:80/%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
References:
1. There are other resources of fruit battery
a) Lemon Battery
http://pbskids.org/zoom/sci/lemonbatteryii.html
b) Fruit Battery
http://www.slb.com/seed/en/lab/fruit/
Discussion
Discuss with your group members:
To choose a project that your group is interested and is workable in the lab. or at
home;
To elect a group leader;
To divide the workload among members;
To plan the experiment;
To set up the time line of the project.
Project Diary
Keep a diary of your project. You should not trust yourself to remember facts and details.
Record everything in your diary and use it as an information store for writing your report.
You can even write personal comments about how your project is going and what your
progress is like.
References:
5. You can almost find all information and resource about science projects in
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/scifairstudio/
8. Samples
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/ExmSciProj.html
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/cf/batteries.html
9. Some ideas
http://www.scifair.org/ideas/index.shtml
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/index.html#chemical
Aug 1, 2003
Readings
News about the Pygmy Sperm Whale in Chinese newspaper
http://search.hk.yahoo.com/search/nws?p=%A9%D9%AD%BB%C4H&s=-ut
References:
1. 小抹香鯨 Pygmy Sperm Whale
http://stmail.tajen.edu.tw/~e9008218/contents12.htm
http://debut.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~yklee/NetZoo/Whale/pygmy1.htm
http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/tmmsn/29Species/pygmyspermwhale.html
Aug 5, 2003
Activity:
1. We had visited the following website and worked out the sum of infinite series
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/Series/infinite.htm
a) Read and explore each page;
b) Find out the meanings of infinity and infinite series;
c) Read more about infinite series in the webpage and learn about Zeno’s Paradox:
http://mathforum.org/isaac/problems/zeno1.html
d) You can get an explanation in
http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/numser/answers/zeno.html
Task:
1. Read the news about the Pygmy Sperm Whale and write a report about the fate of
the beached whale. (refer to the websites in Aug 1 attachment)
References:
1. Translation: you can use this tool to translate the language of a website from
English to Chinese….
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
2. In this website, you can travel through several virtual exhibits to learn about
technologies based on electricity and magnetism. Each exhibit includes
explanations of how things work, historical and biographical information, and
links to other resources. Exhibits cover “Women and Technology”, “Thomas A.
Edison”, and “microwaves”, but you'll want to start with “Socket to Me, a brief
history of electricity”.
http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/index.php
Aug 8, 2003
Activity:
1. Movie and quiz on Scientific Method in www.brainPOP.com
2. Online exercise of uses and operation guide of apparatus
http://resources.ed.gov.hk/chemistry/chusan/english/sy.htm#
3. Laboratory safety by City University
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/secondary_school_safety/
Task
We are going to build a bridge across a gap of about 30 cm. The following about building
of a bridge will be discussed:
a) materials,
b) dimensions, and
c) the marking scheme.
Reference:
1. How a bridge work
http://www.howstuffworks.com/bridge.htm/printable
2. Building BIG – Bridges
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/bridge/index.html
News:
1. The first cloning horse created in Italy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25717-2003Aug6.html
References:
1 Online exercises on each chapter of I.S. and much more ….
http://www.naturalking.net/
2 Laboratory policy and techniques by Seattle Central Community College
http://www.seattlecentral.org/faculty/ptran/policy.html
3 http://kids.discovery.com/
4 Websites on Forensic Science
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Science/temp-exh/whodunit/forensic.htm
5 The Sciencetunnel
http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Science/temp-
exh/scitunnel/eindex.htm
„Research perspectives 2000+“ from the Max-Planck-Society.
http://www.sciencetunnel.com/#
http://2000plus.mpg.de/index_eng.html