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Symphony of Science – Quantum World
This Symphony of Science song is one of my favourites, which ties loosely to our new Grade 9 unit on Atoms.
Related to it is an update to the Powers of Ten video, from the IMAX Cosmic Voyage movie, narrated by Morgan Freeman. the start brings us in powers of ten, out into the universe. From 6:03, we start moving in – to cells, molecules and atoms.
Jump straight to the small bits here (6:03). Biology class will use it too, as we look into measurement and microscopy.
This is why we love Science.
Chemical Elements and Water
Here is the class presentation:
You can click on the shadowed images in the presentation to be taken to the animations and videos.
The Periodic Table of Videos
Thanks to Danny from the Whiteboard Blog for posting this.
The Chemistry department at the University of Nottingham evidently got a new video camera last Christmas and have been making videos about all of the elements on the periodic table. This impressive and mammoth project is a collection of videos about each of the elements in the periodic table – and it rocks. The best way to find out more is to go on over and have a look…
Helpfully for those who’ve been blocked from YouTube (who host all the videos), they’ve posted a link to watch themon another server.
Here’s one of their top recommended videos, Phosphorous:
This is now one of my favourite YouTube channels.
i-Biology 