One of the things that stood out in my mind is the spectroscope activity. Because I am really interested in chemistry, and spectroscopes are greatly related to chemistry, I spent a lot of time looking at different light with my spectroscope. Then I went on to different websites to find out more about how spectroscopes work, what they are used for, and many different activities concerning spectroscopy. In fact, I got so interested, that I decided to make a chart of more elements than we had already graphed. I found more electric gas tubes, and made more graphs, which are now hanging on my wall.
Another thing I really liked was the Constellation Project. It was a project where you got to pick a constellation and do a report and an overhead map on it. I spent hours and hours studying all of the stars from my constellation, and found out that there were actually much more stars than I originally thought there was. The original maps I had from books showed only about fourteen stars. I found out using the useful program “Celestia” that there are actually about sixty of them there, all mostly obscure. I made an extremely detailed map of my constellation on white paper, which depicted all of the stars, their sizes, and properties. Then, using this map, I made a less detailed, but still very fine map of the constellation on aluminum foil. I got the lines connecting the stars, the names of the stars, and some other important facts to fit onto the foil. I do not wish to brag, but I must say that my map was the most detailed map of my class, and I am pretty proud of it. Additionally, while doing the project, I found out that the dimmest star ever known in human history was recently discovered in my constellation, Eridanus.
Overall, I think that this semester in science was very fun, but I am very unhappy of the large amounts of homework we receive in our class. If only our teacher could improve on that, this would be the most awesome science class in the world!!!
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