Monday, September 29, 2008

Sunday, September 21, 2008

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Gizmo-Seasons

After doing the Gizmo on seasons, I have concluded that the tilt of the Earth is the key component to why we have the changing of seasons. Without the axis every single part of the Earth would have the same amount of direct sunlight. Which would cause all parts of the Earth to have the same seasons or not that much change at all.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Zoom

Although the world seems to be a known place, we are only looking at a snall picture of the miraculous painting of life. The book "Zoom" shows you how to broaden your thinking and help you see the world in a whole new way. The book also shows how little humanity actually observes the world's wonders and how we need to step back and look at the whole picture. Which is a very good life skill in the real world. With the first picture I thought that it was a monster's foot, but when they zoomed out it was the comb of a rooster. How could I be more wrong? As the book went on, pretty much the same thing happened.
Perspective is how you look at things. It's your own opinion on a subject. When we looked at the book everybody had their own inferrence, they were either right or wrong...it doesn't matter!
In everyday practice, scientists use the same technique as we did on Zoom. They use it to discover new things about astronomy or anything in life. We will look closely to the inner core of the Earth all the way out to the galaxy!