How does energy production and consumption impact place?
How does your sense of place, environmental ethic and understanding of our energy and influence your perception and decisions relating to energy production and consumption?
Project Reflection The things that I really learned from designing, researching and conducting my very own scientific experiment really opened up my eyes to the scientific world and really how difficult and how complex the world of science really is. The difficulties my group encountered were numerous, and one that really stood out was the fact that we wanted to test something that not only benefited us in an educational way, but also was something new that we had to learn about entirely and come up with by ourselves. It was overall a difficult process that like I said, really opened my eyes and gave me a lot of respect for the people who are constantly researching new things and discovering new things about our world that we have no idea exist. It shaped my perspective in a good way, causing me to think critically, and from all sides of the experiment, and also learn a lot about how conducting certain experiments can be quite a challenge.
The things I was trying to convey with my infographic (above) were the basic facts about radiation, and how it affects us as humans. I know when we first started learning about radiation, it fascinated me that radiation could be so deadly yet you had no idea it was there. I wanted something that I could research, find a lot of information on and make sure I was learning new things and fueling my curiosity. But overall, the thing I was trying convey with my infographic was basic knowledge about radiation, the amount of radiation that it takes to affect us as humans, and also the actual symptoms of radiation poisoning. Overall, I am pleased with how my infographic turned out, and happy I got the chance to research and discover new things about this topic that I was curious about.
The chemistry of materials is one of the most intriguing things I think we will study this year (Personally) due to the fact thats it always evolving. Technology is evolving and our brains are becoming more and more sophisticated, and to really watch things like technology and scientific advancements go on is really an interesting thing. The chemistry of materials has opened up a lot of possibilities in the past, for example how we have created different alloys and different kinds of building materials to make things like skyscrapers possible. With things ever changing and presently we are expanding our knowledge on how to modify the chemistry of certain materials to make everything better, we are helping create new possibilities that might be explored later down the road, and our project is continuing this.
Properties of materials are solely based on the structure of that material but depending on what level you view it from, they can vary. Looking at steel in a macroscopic level, it all might look the same, but when viewing it from an atomic or a molecular level, it all changes. It also allows for new variations of that material to be made, variations that make it stronger or more durable or less susceptible to the elements. These determine the properties of a material due to the fact that each one can be different, and also like I previously stated, make that material better or more useful.