A challenge question for all years!

One minute, an organism is alive. The next minute, it is dead. What is the difference? Comments please!

Do you believe that there's a man in the moon?

Why do people always talk about the man in the moon?
Find out here.

MYTHICAL CREATURE DOMINOES

Never mind fun day this is where the real fun starts with the Mr Moore snack card challenge.
Use the Internet or your friendly local SD Resource Centre to work out the answer to this puzzle. The first correct answer wins a 50 Baht Snack Card.
If that first correct answer is also fully illustrated, it wins three 50 Baht Snack Cards!






Many mythical creatures are made up from parts of other creatures that really do exist. For the examples above, mermaids are a combination of fish and human; harpies are a combination of human and bird.

In the pictures above, you will see that, as in the game of Dominoes, it is possible to follow a trail from one creature to the next:

Fish/Human > Human/Bird > Bird/Lion

Below, but in alphabetical order only, are 9 different mythical creatures. Can you win the snack card challenge by placing them in a single line, so that each creature shares at least one component with the creature next to it?




CENTAUR
CHIMAERA
ECHIDNA
GRIFFIN
KINNAREE
MINOTAUR
PEGASUS
SATYR
SPHINX (Greek, not Egyptian)

Pass your answer to Mr Moore or if you have a question post it as a comment.

Guest speaker Professor Christoph Menke

Today in the department Professor Christoph Menke (University of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany and The Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi) was invited to speak to year 12 Ecosystems and Physics students about the topic of 'Wind Energy – Issues and Options for One Renewable Energy Resource'. We thank him for taking time to share his work and for providing us with a power point presentation of his lecture (click here 25Mb *.ppt - available in school only). Comments from those who attended are welcome.

For all you bored Billy's out there over the holiday

You know it is the simple games that are always the best. Use simple 'centre of mass' principles to balance bored Billy's books - Mr Roff has the record so far. What level can you get too?

How much fizz?

Chemistry Club investigates - which is the fizziest carbonated drink?
Did you know that dropping sand into a carbonated drink releases the dissolved carbon dioxide as bubbles? After extensive testing (of four varieties of carbonated soft drink) "coke" was found to contain the most fizz.

7R's homework and a challenge for CSI wannabees

Can you solve the mystery as a forensic scientist?
Click here to play, but take some time to read the insructions by clicking the help button first. Good luck in your mission.

We like to burn things in Science

The student's in 8Y really like to set things on fire. Which do you think contains more energy, sugar or artificial sweetener? They set fire to both and recorded the temperature rise for a known volume of water. There is something wrong with the apparatus on this photo though - can you spot it?

Game for the weekend

Sorry for not posting something for a while - been a little busy looking for tough questions for the year 7, 8 & 9 annual exams. Whilst searching I came across a few games that I would like to share with you. This week's game is called OMEGA SECTOR. You have to dock (land) your spaceship with a space station by controlling both the direction and size of the thrust. That's not all; you have to use the gravitational attraction of planets to bend the path of the spaceship whilst aliens try to shoot you. Try it and you'll see how addictive it is. I was defeated by level 11. Have fun. (you need fash installed)

Science Competition for Thai Students

Are you interested in entering a competition for Biology, Physics or Chemistry? Click here for more details.

Year 10 Env Man River Trip

Click here for more photos taken on the recent environmental management trip (you must be in school to access the photos). A great indexed site with many environmental issues linked to one page can be found when you click here.

Win $1,000,000

By answering all the questions on this States of Matter quiz you could become a millionaire. Good luck - remember to send me some of your winnings! Thanks to Mr Moaks and Booky for sending us the site.