Eureka Apprentice February

Read all of the following:

Davinci Excerpt #5

Scientist/Mathematician: The Professor Who Did Not Know. Joseph Louis Lagrange (Mathematicians are People too)

Eureka Packet: Volcano's

Job Chapter 1 (in the Old Testament)

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be7o6BYVOzA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnxpqapV950

Memorization:  work on memorizing the poem and scripture for the month

Create a Volcano, or another experiment about pressure. Share with the group your volcano or experiment (no explosions or fire in the church building!...all explosions must be outside...Please make sure that will work with your experiment) What scientific principles did you learn? What application does this experiment have to your life?

or

Create: Research about one of the following topics: underwater volcano's, volcano's under glaciers, volcano's on other planets, igneous rock, magma, crystallization, geothermal energy, lava, current active volcano's, volcano monitoring technology, vulcanologist's, or another earth science topic you are interested in. Please come to class prepare to give us a presentation on your topic.

Think About: Complete a word study on Opposition or Resistance Why do we need opposition in our life? Why is opposition important? What do we learn from opposition? How can you “see” opposition differently? What are some opposites you are struggling with? In what sciences do we see opposition demonstrated? Do you think opposition is a principle? Why or why not? Is Resistance good or bad? Is Resistance important? Are you giving or receiving any Resistance in your life right now? In what sciences do we see Resistance demonstrated? Do you think resistance is a principle? Why or why not?

Project:

Continue working on your chosen project for this month. This is the application part of apprentice (applying principles to ourselves.) Keep working on it. This week assignment is to write what you have learned from doing your project. Send me an email with your thoughts or bring me a little paragraph to class.

Cultural Literacy

These are all found in the section titled: 

Earth Sciences

1. acid rain
2. atmosphere
3. cirrus clouds
4. clouds
5. cumulus clouds
6. groundwater
7. humidity (relative and absolute)
8. hydrologic cycle
9. Marianas Trench
10. monsoon
11. nimbus clouds
12. precipitation
13. stratus clouds
14. tides

Physical science and Mathematics 

1. acceleration
2. buoyancy
3. density
4. extrapolation
5. force
6. mass
7. matter
8. momentum
9. physics
10. triple point
11. velocity

Master

You have two options for master class for the rest of the year. Option one, led by Sis. Mapes,
will emphasize logical reasoning, spiritual applications and will go into greater depth on Earth
science and geology. Option two, led by Bro. Mapes will cover physical science (i.e. forces,
motion, electricity, light, waves, etc.) Inspirements and class activities will emphasize
application of these scientific principles.

Master Class 1 (Sis. Mapes)

Book:

 The Fallacy Detective by Nathanial Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn

Read: 

“What is a Fallacy”, “The Inquiring Mind” and “Avoiding the Question” (pages 9 – 62)
from The Fallacy Detective.

Read, listen or watch:

 “A Reservoir of Living Water” by David Bednar. This BYU devotional
was given on Feb 7th, 2007. It is about 45 minutes long. The speech can be found at the
following link.
http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=1686

Inspirements:

Do each of the following. Written work will be collected in class.

 Write four of you own fallacies based on your reading. You can create advertisements
for a fictional product, political slogans or ads, or fictional conversations between two
people. Bring these to class, where the other members of the class will try to identify
your examples of fallacies.

 Write a report expressing what you learned from Elder Bednar’s talk. Remember to look
for principles as you go about your learning.

 Spend about 15 minutes wiring in your journal on how you can create living water for
yourself. This is for you and is not meant to be shared.

 Select an additional inspirement about water from Journeyman. Bring it to class to share
with the group.

Master Class 2 (Bro. Mapes)

Book: 

Exploring Creation with Physical Science by Dr. Jay L. Wile. The 2nd edition is
preferred, but other additions may be used.

Read: 

Module #1: The Basics & Module #9: An Introduction to the Physics of Motion from
Exploring Creation with Physical Science. Don’t forget to do the “On Your Own” practice
problems.

Inspirements:

Do each of the following. E-mail me your written work no later than 3:00 PM the day before
master class to the following e-mail address: Jeremy.Mapes@rocket.com. I will review your
work and return it with comments during master class.

 Perform at least one of the experiments from each module, i.e. one experiment from
module 1 and one from module 9. You may work together with others if you wish.
Record your observations and conclusions and write a summary of the principle
demonstrated.

 Provide written answers the following questions as a minimum from each module’s study
guide section for review. While not required, it is recommended to all the questions.
o Module 1 (p. 24): 1, 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13
o Module 9 (p. 229): 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16

 Come up with your own velocity/acceleration problem for others to solve in class. Be
creative and have fun.

 Bring to master class a number of objects of varying shape, size, texture and mass in
order to perform a number of falling, rolling, sliding, spinning and other motion
experiments. Make sure the objects aren’t fragile or messy (i.e. no raw eggs!)

 In the vernacular of mechanics, work is the force applied to an object multiplied by the
distance traveled. In other words, even if you push as hard as you can against an object,
if it isn’t moving, you aren’t producing work. Think about aspects of your life where you
seem to be putting forth a lot of effort but not getting anywhere. What forces or obstacles
are keeping you from making progress? What can you do to remove or mitigate the
effects of these forces or obstacles? Prayerfully record your impressions regarding these
questions in your personal journal.

Journeyman

Read: 

• Journey to the Center of the Earth, Chapters 16 – 30
• Journeyman Packet Reading

Watch: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Yi4dAzHsc&list=RDYw275056JtA

Understand the concepts and principles:

1.  Answer the following questions to demonstrate comprehension of the material. Bring you answers to class.
1. What is the water cycle? Draw a simple diagram explaining it.
2. What does endorheic mean? List some examples.
3. How do the oceans and endorheic lakes become salty?
4. What are ocean currents and what causes them?
2. Do a word study on water. What principle do you think about when you do your word study?

Inspirements:

Choose from one of the following inspirements, or create your own with you parents approval.

     Perform the following distillation experiment. Put several cups of water in a saucepan

and add several tablespoons of sugar. Stir until the sugar dissolves. Taste the water to

check its sweetness. Then heat your sugar water over a stove at medium high heat.

When the mixture is boiling, cover the pot with a lid. After a few minutes, remove the lid

and observe if any water has condensed on the bottom of the lid. Carefully collect the

water from the lid. Do not burn yourself! After it cools, taste the water. Is it sweet?

Where is the sugar? What happens if you boil off all the water from the solution? Take

pictures and write a page describing your experiment, what happened and why.

     Design and perform a density experiment using the scientific method. See if adding salt

or other compounds to water changes its density. Take pictures and write a page

describing your experiment. E-mail your write-up and photos to Sis. Mapes before

Eureka class. Let her know if you plan to demonstrate the experiment in class.

     Research other super salty bodies of water and create a report or presentation about what

you learned. Some places to start with are Lake Vanda, Lake Assal, Lagoon

Garabogazkol, the Don Juan Pond and Pyramid Lake. Please feel free to find you own

salty place is none of these float your boat. (Get it? Ha ha.)

     Research an ocean species that lives in each section of the ocean floor (i.e. continental

shelf, abysmal plane, ocean trenches, etc.) Briefly describe in writing and pictures what

you learn about each species. Also please share what kind of sea creature you can

imagine being.

     Create your own inspirement based on something you learned from your reading of

Journey to the Center of the Earth this month. You could research one of the scientific

concepts brought up in the book and see what we have learned since the book was

authored, or do a character study, or a graphic summary, or come up with your own idea.

Write a page long summary of your work.