NARROW YOUR INTEREST

Those were very interesting blogs; you are curious chemists! I'd like everyone to have an opportunity to scroll around through the blogs to read what everyone else wrote. Additionally, I'd like you to narrow your focus now, from the list of things you found interesting to ONE idea that you will pursue/write about. So, your assignment for this blog activity is:

1) Visit four other blogs of your classmates. Read their last blog - the one posted around Feb 5. Leave a comment for the writer in which you contribute a thought or two about the topics they have mentioned. Your "thoughts" should have depth and show real thinking and opinion. (You are welcome to disagree or contradict, but you must do so with politeness and intelligence.) Then, in a blog of your own, entitled "I visited these blogs", summarize some ideas that you thought were interesting about the research/thoughts being expressed by your classmates. (One paragraph) List the names of the bloggers whose blogs you visited.

2) In a second post, write a short paragraph that outlines which of the topics you posted about last time that still captures your interest. You need to pick a topic that you will be researching, so choose one of the topics. Tell why, in the paragraph, you have chosen this particular topic.

This blog assignment is to be completed by 9:00 AM EST on Feb 21.

What Interests You?

Well, thank goodness that test is over! Now, for some free thinking.. . Last time I asked you to blog, you thought and wrote about how science is useful, how it can be good for mankind or not so good for mankind, whether science should be used to solve problems or whether science could be free to just experiment. I like what you wrote and I enjoyed hearing your thoughts. Now I'd like to focus your thoughts to what interests you in the world of science. I need to bring your focus down to the world of chemistry, but, if you think about it, all science could probably be boiled down to chemistry at some level, can't it.

There's some cool stuff going on in our world - genetics, nanotechnology, strange diseases and the medicines discovered to cure them, man/mermaid found on Mars. . . I'd like you to think of something about which you're curious or interested in science. Scroll around on the internet, reading stuff, thinking about really cool things that are happening in science (chemistry) right now. Then, make a list of topics that you find (or think of) that are interesting to you. Also, make another link list on your blog page where you can include links that you found that you don't want to lose. Ultimately, I'm going to ask you to choose a topic and do a bit of casual research on the topic, so if you find a great site, include it in your link list.

Your assignment, then, is to spend some time "surfing" and thinking about cool science. (Best assignment in the world!) Make a list of at least 5 topics/ideas that interest you (related somehow to chemistry), make a linklist for research links with at least 5 links to something cool you found. After making your list of topics and link list, write a short reflective paragraph about something you found and why it's so cool to you.

This blog assignment is due on Tuesday, Feb 5 at 9:00AM. Over and Out.