For Tuesday of week 05/30 we had to turn in the lab on pages 217-220. We also learned a little about nuclear waste disposure, which involved watching a bit about Yucca Mountain in Nevada, where they store nuclear waste in tunnels deep inside the mountain. Mrs. Coats-Haan also talked about superfund sites, which are sites that are abandoned due to the presence of hazardous waste. One that is close to us is the Feed Materials Production Center site, which contains radioactive wastes such as Uranium and Thorium. With that said, there were really not any official notes taken on this day. The main thing we did today was work on The Particle Lab web quest, pages 213-215, which is due 05/02. You do not need to learn anything prior to the lab, and you just find the information given on the website, which has its web address on the worksheet. On the website you learn a lot about the subatomic particles you have probably have never heard of, which include particles in the lepton group and quark group. You also learn a little more about the fundamental forces, which are the weak nuclear, strong nuclear, electromagnetic, and gravity. Although you should be acquainted with them after our force unit, the web quest goes more in depth, going over the forces’ carrier particles and what the forces are responsible for. Overall the day was pretty ordinary. There was no giraffe copulation, and only one person was found to be on fire.
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