Welcome to Open for Science, the classroom blog for Ann Arbor Open School's 7th and 8th grade science class. This is a cyberplace for you to learn about what we're doing in science class, to catch up on our activities, to check for upcoming assignments, and to get a glimpse of all the fun we're having!
We are currently in the middle of our electricity and sustainable energy unit. Electricity is a stream of electrons, and this has been exciting for the students to contemplate, given that we have spent much of this past year learning about the structure and behavior of atoms. It's fascinating to consider how humans have been able to develop technologies to channel electrons through wires and to access the moving electrons' energy. Since the production of electrical energy requires an input of some other energy form, such as thermal, mechanical, chemical, light or nuclear, humanity's next step is to refine our capacity to use and produce energy sustainably.
More to come soon, but in the meantime, here's a wonderful short video on wind energy which students saw in science class recently. (The video was submitted to me as part of a student's science project - thanks, N.!)
And Happy Earth Day!
