[Offtopic] 'Water down the plughole' international experiment

[Bill Oldham]

Just a thought - could this be done by watching the direction of a toilet
being flushed? Save water, save energy, but not exactly green.

 

Regards, Bill Oldham (sessional teacher at Chisholm TAFE and VU)

 

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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Stephen Digby
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Creating a few experimental "water wallies" ??

Another challenge, design an experiment that doesn't waste so much water ??

 

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[mailto:offtopic-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
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Had to share this with you .. sounds like fun and beats slapping fish to
help teach science. :-)

Regards Roland

 

From: Nigel Bowen <scorpionuk at hotmail.com>
Date: 2008/8/9
Subject: [Oz-teachers] 'Water down the plughole' international experiment
To: oz-teachers at rite.ed.qut.edu.au

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 - www.lect.org.uk).

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 (National <http://www.nesta.org.uk/>  Endowment for Science
Technology and the Arts) in the UK who run a website called Planet Science,
I have set up an international experiment to find out:

Does water really go down the plughole the opposite way on the other side of
the world?

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:

 <http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/plughole/>
http://www.planet-science.com/outthere/plughole/

The results will be analysed and published at the end of the year
(December).

Thanks!

Nigel Bowen
Headteacher of Science
Cootamundra High School
Cootamundra
NSW
Australia

 




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