Heat and You

How does your body produce heat energy and why is it important for your body to produce heat?

Compare and Contrast

How does doing a science fair project compare to doing research in industry, a university, or in a research facility?

How does doing a science fair project relate to scientific method and does it really help you understand this key concept of science?

Solar Power

How is solar power being used to lower energy bills for homes that have them?

Science Fair Projects

Well today was the first day of presenting what are somethings that you might have been able to improve on with your project? Even if you didn't present you should have seen some other peoples projects and learned something from them.

Preview

Why is your science fair project the best? If you don't think it is the best explain why.

Specific Heat

What is specific heat and why it so important to know?

Thermal Energy

What is the difference between thermal energy and temperature?

Ideal Machines

What is an ideal machine? Is it something that does everything you want because that would be ideal.

On-line Lab

What do you think of the online lab that you are doing right now. Do you like it? Do you hate it? What do you think could be improved on it?

In or Out

Input vs Output force
When using simple machines to do your work which is always going to be higher you input or our output force and why?

Lever

Yesterday you did a lab on levers. What is your favorite type of lever, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class lever, and given an explain on that lever?

Efficiency

How does efficiency related to machines?

Machines

What is a machine and how does it make your life easier?

Two Different Types of Power

Did you know that there are two different equations for power? Explain the difference between them.

Power?

What is power and how it used with energy?

Work

What is work and how do you use it everyday?

The Impossible Dream

People in the early 1800's had been trying to create a perpetual-motion machine for hundreds of years, but what is a perpetual-motion machine and what was the most famous fraud of the 1800's?

You and Conversation of Energy

Give one example of how your body follows the law of conservation of energy.