Growing Silver Crystals

Ever wondered how growing silver crystals would look like under the microscope?

Here is a sample - an animated gif made from photos taken this week during the Science lessons:

Y8 Challenges for week 18-25 nov

You'll have a couple of challenges for this week - all of them will award you xp!

1. Memrise - use it to learn the element symbols!
2. You should start working on an element card - this will be your skills assessment (due next Friday - 29th of November) - the Element card should include basic information about an element of your choice - the symbol, where is it located in the Periodic Table, what are its properties, where do we get it from, how is it used and so on - anything you find interesting about that element!
3. Try to make your own sentence/message using only symbols from the periodic table. Here are some examples:

Science Vocab - using Sulphur, Carbon, Iodine, Neon (upside down), 

Cerium, Vanadium, Oxygen, Calcium, Boron