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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Creating
a few experimental “water wallies” ??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Another
challenge, design an experiment that doesn’t waste so much water ??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>====================================================<br>
Stephen Digby, Learning Technology Manager<br>
mailto: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au"><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>digby.stephen.p@edumail.vic.gov.au</span></a></span><span
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Cheltenham Secondary College </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au"><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.cheltsec.vic.edu.au</span></a><br>
</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ph: 613 955 55 955 Fx: 9555 8617 Mb: 0431-701-028<br>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to
experience it. Max Frisch </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:offtopic-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 18 August 2008 12:23 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Information Technology Teachers' Offtopic Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Offtopic] 'Water down the plughole' international experiment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Had to share this with you ..
sounds like fun and beats slapping fish to help teach science. :-)<br>
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Regards Roland<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>From: <b>Nigel Bowen</b> <<a
href="mailto:scorpionuk@hotmail.com">scorpionuk@hotmail.com</a>><br>
Date: 2008/8/9<br>
Subject: [Oz-teachers] 'Water down the plughole' international experiment<br>
To: <a href="mailto:oz-teachers@rite.ed.qut.edu.au">oz-teachers@rite.ed.qut.edu.au</a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#002242'>I
am a headteacher of science, currently on a teacher exchange from the UK to
Australia through the League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers (LECT - <a
href="http://www.lect.org.uk" target="_blank">www.lect.org.uk</a>).<br>
<br>
I am trying to involve our students as much as possible in the exchange (short
of actually getting them to come to Australia!) so, in partnership with NESTA (</span><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.nesta.org.uk/"
target="_blank" title="NESTA Site">National Endowment for Science Technology
and the Arts</a>) in the UK who run a website called Planet Science, I have set
up an international experiment to find out:<br>
<br>
<b>Does water really go down the plughole the opposite way on the other side of
the world?</b><span style='color:#002242'><br>
<br>
This has never been done before on such a large scale…and we need your
help! Please could you let any science teachers in your schools know about this
experiment - full details of how to go about the experiment, and how to record
the results online, can be found at:<br>
<br>
</span></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#002242'><a
href="http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/plughole/" target="_blank"><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/plughole/</span></a><br>
<br>
The results will be analysed and published at the end of the year (December).<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Nigel Bowen<br>
Headteacher of Science<br>
Cootamundra High School<br>
Cootamundra<br>
NSW<br>
Australia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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-- <br>
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br>
<a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
<br>
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret
Mead<o:p></o:p></p>
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