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Premiers’ Reading Challenge-Extended
The Premiers’ Reading Challenge has been extended to September 18. That means you have 5 weeks left to read and log you books!
If you have misplaced your username and password email me: at: simone.verbeeten@education.vic.gov.au
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Science Week: 15th – 23rd August
Theme: Deep Blue – Innovations for the Future of our Oceans
Competition - Years 7 – 10 – Escape Room Challenge!!
All Yr 7-10 students will have the opportunity to compete against their classmates in an Escape Room Challenge using Stile.
As crew in a submerged research vessel, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to complete a series of challenges in order to switch to the emergency battery and turn the lights back on.
Your teacher will give you more information next week, but until then, brush up on your knowledge of all things from the ‘Deep Blue’. Prizes will be awarded for the best performer from each class. Good luck!
Books about Oceans:
The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs
Swim the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans; you’ll be dazzled in the Coral Triangle and amazed in Triton Bay. You’ll meet creatures such as the Cenderawasih fairy wrasse, the polka-dot longnose filefish and the multi-coloured sea-dragon. There are scarlet-coloured corals, baby blue sponges, daffodil crinoids and all sorts of mystifying creatures that change colour at the drop of a hat. The whale shark is almost larger than life and the pygmy seahorse is almost too tiny to see.
The Great Barrier Reef
The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world.
This updated second edition describes the animals, plants and other organisms of the reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them.
The Sea Around Us
Focusing on the geologic and biological processes that make the oceans so mysterious and awe-inspiring, this book combines scientific facts with lyricism to take you on a journey through the geologic history of the Earth and the darkest depths of the seas.
General Science:
George’s Secret Key (6 book series)
A grand and funny adventure that explains fascinating information about our universe, including Dr. Hawking’s latest ideas about black holes. It’s the story of George, who’s taken through the vastness of space by a scientist, his daughter, and their super-computer named Cosmos.
Chaos
The science of chaos cuts across traditional scientific disciplines, tying together unrelated kinds of wildness and irregularity, from the turbulence of weather to the complicated rhythms of the human heart, from the design of snowflakes to the whorls of windswept desert sands. After reading CHAOS you will never look at the world in quite the same way again.
A Brief History of Time
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and strong theory.
Scientist Who Paved the Way:
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
Einstein’s theories of special & general relativity delivered a remarkable transformation in our understanding of light, gravity and time, while special relativity yielded the most famous equation in history, E=mc²
Einstein: His Life and Universe
First full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available.
How did his mind work? What made him a genius? This biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.
Edwin Hubble 1889 - 1953
Discovered there are galaxies beyond our own. Showed we live in a universe of many galaxies, each an isolated ‘island universe,’ separated from others by immense distances. Independently discovered and popularised Hubble’s law, believed by most cosmologists to indicate we live in an expanding universe.
Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae
A biography of an extraordinary human being and the story of the greatest quest in the history of astronomy.
Hubble worked with the great 100-inch Hooker telescope and made a series of discoveries that revolutionised humanity’s vision of the cosmos. In 1923 he was able to confirm the existence of other nebulae (galaxies) beyond our own Milky Way. By the end of the decade, Hubble had proven that the universe is expanding, thus laying the very cornerstone of the big bang theory of creation.
Rosalind Franklin 1920 - 1958
Franklin provided much of the experimental data used to establish the structure of DNA. Discovered that DNA can exist in two forms and established that coal acts as a molecular sieve.
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
The untold story of the woman who helped to make one of humanity’s greatest discoveries – DNA – but who was never given credit for doing so.
A powerful story of Rosalind Franklin, the single-minded young scientist whose contribution to arguably the most significant discovery of all time went unrecognised, elbowed aside in the rush for glory, and who died too young to recover her claim to some of that reputation, a woman who was not the wife of anybody and who is a myth in the making.
Marie Curie 1867 - 1934
Co-discovered the chemical elements radium and polonium; made numerous pioneering contributions to the study of radioactive elements; carried out the first research into the treatment of tumours with radiation.
Marie Curie: Super Scientists
The life story of this key scientific figure – covering her origins as the daughter of a Polish teacher through to her work on radioactivity, winning the Nobel Prize, her professorship at the Sorbonne and her amazing legacy to science today.
Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727
Newton changed our understanding of nature with his law of universal gravitation and his laws of motion; He invented calculus, the field of mathematics that dominates the physical sciences, he generalised the binomial theorem and built the first ever reflecting telescope.
Isaac Newton: A Biography of Newton Including Descriptions of his Greatest Discoveries
Isaac Newton is regularly given the title of greatest scientist of all time. This biography shows how a quiet, ‘difficult’ farmers son, revolutionised the way we look at the universe.
Nikola Tesla 1856 - 1943
Tesla made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternating current (AC) motor and developed AC generation and transmission technology.
Nicola Tesla: Prodigal Genius
Nikola Tesla demonstrated an early interest in physics. The science behind electricity – in the 1870’s a mysterious, unharnessed force – became his passion. An obsessively driven man, Tesla’s gifts for invention were amply demonstrated and rewarded and as his ambitio
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