We had planned to finish up our Landscape Phase this week, but unfortunately we had difficulties with our materials. We planned on printing out more final landscapes on metallic photo paper. Putting this phase on pause, we decided to begin learning about astrophotography! In this new project, we will be selecting a space subject that we will learn how to capture within our groups. My group will be working on landscape astrophotography! In Chemistry, we learned about organic chemistry to give us a better understanding of how the epoxy coating on the landscape shots work. We experimented with polymerization by making slime with Elmer's glue and boric acid. We watched an episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey that was based on light to understand more about light's history. In humanities, we started reading and annotating Light by Bruce Watson. The author discusses ideas of light from the beginning of time. FInal LandscapeHumanitiesFinishing the introduction to Light, we discussed how the works of scientists, artists, and philosophers lead to wonder and curiosity. CHemistry
After watching "Hiding in the Light", we learned about the people that introduce the major ideas about light; Issac Newton, Joseph Von Fraunhofer, and William Herschel. They were dedicated people that got the opportunity to explore ideas about light and found unreachable discoveries. From light, Newton learned about the rainbow through the prism and Herschel found infrared light through its temperatures. Fraunhofer noticed the dark lines in the light spectrum, which taught us about wave lengths. Just from looking at light, we can learn about beyond the universe to find what elements and atoms things are made of. We can look through different waves of light to examine the unseen. Light comes with a vast variety of information. It leaves us thinking about where we came from, the truth about the universe, and about the natural world.
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