STEM at The Knox School

Highlighting #STEM, and in particular our young scientists & engineers, at the @knoxschool. Always toward the light.

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An AP Physics student created a pillow/balloon for an egg drop. #apphysics1morelikeapphysicsfunamiright #theknoxschool #stemeducation

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8th grade math students studying exponential growth by modeling a population of fish with m&ms and creating equations. #exponentialequations #prealgebra #puttheMinSTEM #mnms #theknoxschool

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What does 10ft of #sealevelrise look like locally? What’s the impact to the @knoxschool? What’s the impact to nearby #LongBeachTownPark & the peninsula? Our middle school scientists sought to make the local impact of #climatechange real by going to the waterfront w/meter sticks!

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T-minus 14 days until the AP Physics 1 exam. Students are practicing by linearizing graphs for the acceleration of gravity. #theknoxschool #stemeducation #apphysics1 #apexampreperation

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For #EarthDay middle school scientists explored what #ClimateChange means locally. We used @NOAA’s #sealevelrise visual tool to see how our @knoxschool is impacted by ocean rise. Here’s Victoria’s (6th grade) before/after drawing showing the impact to Knox & our surrounding area.

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We are always taught that falling objects have an acceleration of 9.8m/s/s, but what about with air resistance? AP Physics I students investigate with light objects. Slope = acceleration and slope decreases as initial height increases. #stemeducation #theknoxschool #nicegraphs

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.@knoxschool students in #conceptualphysics watched the @nsf press briefing that unveiled our 1st image of a #blackhole. #Science isn’t only something our predecessors did; it’s constantly advancing. Today we added a new chapter to our story. #EventHorizon #EinsteinWasRightAgain

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@knoxschool students in #ConceptualPhysics watched the @NSF press briefing that unveiled our 1st image of a #blackhole. #Science isn’t only something that our predecessors did. It’s always advancing; today we added a new chapter to the story. #EventHorizon #EinsteinWasRightAgain

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#Einstein’s Theory of #GeneralRelativity is our guide as to what we expect to see when we look at the environment around a #blackhole. So Wednesday’s press conference is doubly important! Not only will we “see” what a #BlackHole looks like, we will also know if #EinsteinisRight!

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Heads up scientists!! Big news to be announced next week!! #BlackHoles are a mathematical construct for which we have compelling physical evidence for its existence but have never seen directly. Until now. #EinsteinWasRightAgain #ScienceRocks

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#AnthropogenicClimateChange is the biggest issue facing all of us on the planet. In #middleschoolscience we are looking at it through 5 different lenses to attempt to create a robust solution. Thanks to @theNASciences’s @labxNAS for the wonderful resources to tackle the problem!

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Linearizing acceleration and sin(theta). Shhhhh... they think the slope is g... #rotationalkineticenergy #apphysics1 #theknoxschool #STEMeducation

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Last event: slow roller.
Rolling objects with different speeds. Students make predictions. #physicsolympics #theknoxschool

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Another Physics Olympics Event. "Laser light show" #physicsolympics #optics #theknoxschool

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Knox at the Long Island Physics Olympics, currently in progress. #fermiquestions #physicsolympics #getthatdub

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Photos of our bracket and top 3 teams. #battlebots #februarymadness #theknoxschool

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Today wraps up our Middle School Robotics class at Knox. We have been celebrating the last two weeks with a battle-bots tournament. #ev3 #lego #battlebots #STEMeducation #theknoxschool

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Why is water polar? How do electrons help to guide the shape of a molecule? These are a few of the topics our Chemistry students are tackling.

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Let's show some love to the M of our STEM. Middle school students found that pyramids with the same base shape and same height are exactly 1/3 of prisms. #STEMeducation #putthatMinSTEM #volume

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Can you name a #femalescientist & state her contribution to #science? You’d be surprised how many folks can’t. This year’s theme for the #middleschool #ScienceFair @knoxschool is #WomeninScience. Our 1st place winner tells the story of @SylviaEarle #Oceans https://t.co/8EHnyxjG5Q