<div dir="ltr">Had to share this with you .. sounds like fun and beats slapping fish to help teach science. :-)<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Nigel Bowen</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scorpionuk@hotmail.com">scorpionuk@hotmail.com</a>></span><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><br><br><div><div style="text-align: left;"><font style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-serif;" color="#002242" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">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 (</font><span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-serif;"><a title="NESTA Site" href="http://www.nesta.org.uk/" target="_blank">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><span style="font-weight: bold;">Does water really go down the plughole the opposite way on the other side of the world?</span></span><font color="#002242" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"><span style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-serif;">
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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:</span><br style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Sans-serif;" href="http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/plughole/" target="_blank">http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/plughole/</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</font></div></div>
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<br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <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<br>
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