Topic+Ideas+Brainstorm


 * Here we will brainstorm our ideas for the topic of our lesson.**


 * Things to keep in mind:**


 * - We have 30ish minutes.**
 * - The class may not have prior knowledge of a topic, so we need to keep in simple.**
 * - An experiment would be awesome!**
 * - Implement activities**
 * - We need to show them that science is COOL!**

4/1/11: First and foremost, we need a topic. Again, the will be 30ish minutes (that is on Conroy's time) Linked here is the site for the guidelines from Conroy's page for this lesson assignment : ** https://jconroy.wikispaces.com/Assignments **

** I was thinking, perhaps we can choose to present out lesson April 21st...and do our lesson around something to do with Earth Day (which is Friday, April 22nd)? Tie the lesson in with Earth Day? **

**Ed: I haven't figured out how to make my color yet so I put my name and did red manually with font, but some ideas on topic. I'm leaning more toward both your ideas on the ocean hot vents. I'm a Biochemist and for biology what is interesting to me is that the organisms in these vents get energy from a high energy bond in a vent chemical. I think Victoria said it was a sulfur molecule.** **I have an idea to demonstrate a high energy bond. We take gasoline... __just kidding__! Yeast enzymes break down high energy sugar bonds. I forget which sugar, perhaps fructose. When sugar bonds broken they are coupled to another reaction to catch energy in another chemical bond. Or if uncoupled to another reaction the sugar molecules fly appart in the liquid (friction) and generate heat. Maybe I'm getting complicated but the experiment is simple: we have groups pour apple juice (fructose) in a small plastic cup and then have them add a small speck of bakers yeast. What should happen is that the liquid in container will become hot from the high energy sugar molecule bonds flying appart due to yeast enzyme breakdown. This is something they can feel and maybe say "wow". Too complicated? If you like it I will buy apple juice, and bakers yeast to see if it works. I know it works with a common sugar: glucose, sucrose or fructose just cannot remember which, I'll go through my old biochem lab notes.**

**Mineralogy of Hydrothermal Vents** **[]**

**Bill Nye the Science Guy discusses Hydrothermal Vents (Note: Bacterium living in Tube worms and clams!!!)** []

**This is (slightly) off topic but it's SOO cool!!!** **[]**


 * Note: mid-ocean ridges are the largest features on the Earth, circling some 42,000 miles around the Earth! **


 * Cycles... something with a cycles that can pictorially represented... **