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July 2, 2003
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
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
References:
1. http://www.nrich.maths.org.uk/mathsf/journalf/jul03/problems.html
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/
About Pythagoras
1. Bibliography
http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www%2Dgroups.dcs.st%2D
and.ac.uk:80/%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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.
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
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
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