In Selected Topics in Science we are are finished with our Chemistry Unit by reading the Sixth Chapter of local historian Glenn Conners book about the Allen Countians that participated in the War of 1812. This chapter tells of the militiamen from this county that rode from Allen County to Lake Erie to fight and return on horseback. Many of the surnames are are still present in Allen County. Our big lab in this unit was making a small amount of gunpowder ... The Daniel Boone Gunpowder Making Lab. We researched the mining of saltpetre in caves from southern Kentucky and Allen County. This led to our short study of this county's participation in the War of 1812.
We are also working on electrical circuits using batteries, LEDs, resistors, switches and breadboards. This lab is a hands-on followup from a PhED simulation on circuits we did a week or two ago.
Our Computer Programming I class is working throught some qB64 problems using READ/DATA statements and single dimension arrays ... The Little League II problem, Gradebook and the Address Problem.
In Computer Programming II we are wrapping up our arduino problems ... programming in C and using components in our kit ... IC, potentiometers and piezo elements. We are starting on our next set of python problems ... on the horizon ... Finch Robots using SNAP programming, raspberry pi projects and GameMaker.
Picts from CP II below using our arduinos ... Saw my last Monarch of the season on our farm Tuesday, not much nectar left here!
