List of Representative Labs

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I) LIFE
6) Key Out 100 Plants In A Local Park

2) collect insects and watch their behavior in a terrarium
4.5) 270 Skills That a Honeybee Has

VI) COMPUTERS
8)from logic gates to computer
61.2) write simple computer programs in machine code:
61.3) program conway life, mandelbrot, and lorenz in lego bot
9) show them well programmed lego bots

I) SO BACK TO CRITTERS FOR HELP
16) watch videos of animal development

II) CELLULAR LIFE
22) watch single cell pond creatures [hr]
27) molec video inner life of cell [10min] more?
25) grow oscillatoria in water and glass jar.

III) WHAT IS THE MOLECULAR WORLD?
73.2) brownian motion: .
73.3) monomolecular lipid layer:

72.2) show how many ways an ethanol molecule can respond
31.2) Distributed Brownian Motion Machinery: Clathrin Coated Pits

44) Play With A Candle Flame

IV) DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES: FLOW OF ENERGY THROUGH SYSTEMS CREATES PATTERNED DYNAMISM
64.2) chaotic waterwheel, thermostat and heater, door buzzer [hr]
33) show steam engine (with governer?)
34) Then Benard convection

42) BZ reaction :
44) play with a flame: [hr]

V) MATHEMATICAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: EASY LABORATORY, ALL YOU NEED IS PENCIL, PAPER, COMPUTER
48) John Horton Conway's game of life
53) and rule 30, 110
56) 3n+1:
57) e/o fibo system:
58)logistic equation to mandelbrot set:
60) lorenz attractor:

VII) EVEN AT EQUILIBRIUM: PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PATTERN FORMATION
74) show periodic chart with samples of diff elements
76) phases of sulfur:
75) and breath on a window pane: ditto for water molecules
70) mineral exhibit 2000 minerals for free

VIII) IT ALL COMES FROM MATH
87) enumeration of finite graphs:
81) classification of finite simple groups:


IX) PUTTING IT ALL BACK TOGETHER: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
96) Tierra

X) THE FINAL FRONTIER: CAN WE UNDERSTAND HOW GEOCHEMISTRY CAN BECOME LIFE?
98) Ecosystem Of Reproducing Candle Wicks?
99) Self Sustaining Ecosystem Of Reproducing Chemical Robots?
100) Chemical Origin Of Life

XI) MIND?

XII) SUPERORGANISMS