Mother's Day release of Yarn Monsters
When I came up with the idea for yarn monsters, I realized I was lacking a key component, yarn. So who do I know who has huge amounts of yarn? My mother. So I would like to thank my mother and all the warm fuzzy Quakers who used to tell us the story of warm fuzzies and cold pricklies in 1st day school, and every one from the chemistry department at North Idaho College, who tolerated my unusually poor motor skills, excessive talking and poor personal hygiene, without ever giving me any cold pricklies.
This morning I was not expecting the news, but I am reminds yet again of how the system is failing to provide for the disabled, and there is a very simple solution, take all the money out of the making people disabled fund and put it into the supporting disabled people fund.
I am a victim of medical industry munchausen, who is surviving with the assistance of both parents, as I noticed when I looked at the check for the washing machine I desperately needed. I question the use of social service money for drug marketing, as a person who was made dissabled by aggressive drug marketing at the expense of Idaho Health and Welfare. How exactly can disabled people afford things like super bowl commercials, if we can't afford to live somewhere decent and meet our basic needs?
Anyway yarn monsters is a game that can help solve big problems, like what to do with all the stuff that they really should not be putting in our food. This simple game can help even small children understand atoms and how they bond together. Feel free to leave a comment with a request for any lesson you would like. The first lesson of the release is called water. Many future lessons are being planned, I hope to explain batteries, neurology, mitochondrial DNA and other complex topics through the use of simple yarn...
Orbital Theory, Why it Matters:
Orbital theory helps us understand the interactions of matter that are just to small for us to see. These interaction are very important on a large scale and help explain large visible things like, water finding it's way to the top of the tallest trees, electricity powering your home, or metabolic processes in your body.
What you will need:
Yarn ribbon or strips of fiber.
Measurement device, as long as the units are convertible a finger or stick may be used.
Atomic radius chart.
Protractor.
I recommend an easy to use units 1-2 inches or 3-8cm units are easy to handle...Picometers are just to small to handle, 25 picometers can be represented by a larger unit you can hold in your hand.
Measure loops of yarn with a loop for each number:
I recommend starting off with a few common elements, and a few colors of yarn.
H yarn monster gives an electron, The O yarn monster takes it.
Water
Day 1 Hydrogen and Oxygen
Hydrogen, A single string. 25 picometers or 1 unit (make around 10 per person)
Oxygen, 4 loops (1 loop uncut, 1 unit long). Forms up to 6 bonds...has 4 loop 60 picometers or 2 and 2/5 units(make around 5 per person) You may want to use a tie off string of a different color to hold together and stabilize this.
Step 1: Tie 2 Hydrogens together to represent h2 or hydrogen gas.
Step 2: Tie 2 Oxygens together to represent O2 or oxygen gas.
Step 3: Take the uncut loop at the top. of an oxygen Atom. Now chose the 2 electron strings the bottom that are as far apart as possible will being opposite to the paired electron.
Step 4: Repeat step 3, 2 more times with the remaining oxygens.
Step 5: Note angles with protractor: approximately 104.5 degrees between the 2 h strings.
Step 6: Note the 360-104.5=255.5/2 =127.25
Step 7: Talk about how water molecules are polar.
"Water is a polar molecule made of hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen bonds to the hydrogens creating 3 pairs of valance electrons. The pairs are equally spaced, but the hydrogen side has just a little more pull and this gives, that tiny charge that creates the capillary action that helps trees grow large. The charge holds the liquid together more closely than the solid causing ice to float. Surface tension is another amazing thing. You can see waves form a central point on the surface of water, water has more resistance because of the way polarity holds it together."
Step 8: Show water as a liquid by placing polar bonds close together.
Step 9: Show water as a solid by placing the water molecules in a lined up fashion
Step 10: Now you may begin throwing the yarn monsters to simulate gas, or start out with a short lecture on polite throwing, and not waving things in peoples faces.
links to atomic radius charts:
http://crystalmaker.com/support/tutorials/crystalmaker/atomic-radii/resources/VFI_Atomic_Radii.jpg
http://www.chemix-chemistry-software.com/school/periodic_table/atomic-radius-elements.html
http://periodictable.com/Properties/A/AtomicRadius.v.html
Link to printable protractor:
http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo146/nzfiend/Junk/protractor.png
Link to water blog:
http://scienceisaprocessnotadeity.blogspot.com/2016/05/water.html
Link to artical in ISJ
http://idahostatejournal.com/members/pocatello-man-in-wheelchair-protesting-eviction-from-apartment/article_015d70e1-2c9c-563c-85be-ec6779a7d064.html
Link to yarn monsters lab.
http://scienceisaprocessnotadeity.blogspot.com/2016/05/yarn-monsters-warm-fuzzy-introduction.html
This morning I was not expecting the news, but I am reminds yet again of how the system is failing to provide for the disabled, and there is a very simple solution, take all the money out of the making people disabled fund and put it into the supporting disabled people fund.
I am a victim of medical industry munchausen, who is surviving with the assistance of both parents, as I noticed when I looked at the check for the washing machine I desperately needed. I question the use of social service money for drug marketing, as a person who was made dissabled by aggressive drug marketing at the expense of Idaho Health and Welfare. How exactly can disabled people afford things like super bowl commercials, if we can't afford to live somewhere decent and meet our basic needs?
Anyway yarn monsters is a game that can help solve big problems, like what to do with all the stuff that they really should not be putting in our food. This simple game can help even small children understand atoms and how they bond together. Feel free to leave a comment with a request for any lesson you would like. The first lesson of the release is called water. Many future lessons are being planned, I hope to explain batteries, neurology, mitochondrial DNA and other complex topics through the use of simple yarn...
Orbital Theory, Why it Matters:
Orbital theory helps us understand the interactions of matter that are just to small for us to see. These interaction are very important on a large scale and help explain large visible things like, water finding it's way to the top of the tallest trees, electricity powering your home, or metabolic processes in your body.
What you will need:
Yarn ribbon or strips of fiber.
Measurement device, as long as the units are convertible a finger or stick may be used.
Atomic radius chart.
Protractor.
I recommend an easy to use units 1-2 inches or 3-8cm units are easy to handle...Picometers are just to small to handle, 25 picometers can be represented by a larger unit you can hold in your hand.
Measure loops of yarn with a loop for each number:
I recommend starting off with a few common elements, and a few colors of yarn.
H yarn monster gives an electron, The O yarn monster takes it.
Water
Day 1 Hydrogen and Oxygen
Hydrogen, A single string. 25 picometers or 1 unit (make around 10 per person)
Oxygen, 4 loops (1 loop uncut, 1 unit long). Forms up to 6 bonds...has 4 loop 60 picometers or 2 and 2/5 units(make around 5 per person) You may want to use a tie off string of a different color to hold together and stabilize this.
Step 1: Tie 2 Hydrogens together to represent h2 or hydrogen gas.
Step 2: Tie 2 Oxygens together to represent O2 or oxygen gas.
Step 3: Take the uncut loop at the top. of an oxygen Atom. Now chose the 2 electron strings the bottom that are as far apart as possible will being opposite to the paired electron.
Step 4: Repeat step 3, 2 more times with the remaining oxygens.
Step 5: Note angles with protractor: approximately 104.5 degrees between the 2 h strings.
Step 6: Note the 360-104.5=255.5/2 =127.25
Step 7: Talk about how water molecules are polar.
"Water is a polar molecule made of hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen bonds to the hydrogens creating 3 pairs of valance electrons. The pairs are equally spaced, but the hydrogen side has just a little more pull and this gives, that tiny charge that creates the capillary action that helps trees grow large. The charge holds the liquid together more closely than the solid causing ice to float. Surface tension is another amazing thing. You can see waves form a central point on the surface of water, water has more resistance because of the way polarity holds it together."
Step 8: Show water as a liquid by placing polar bonds close together.
Step 9: Show water as a solid by placing the water molecules in a lined up fashion
Step 10: Now you may begin throwing the yarn monsters to simulate gas, or start out with a short lecture on polite throwing, and not waving things in peoples faces.
links to atomic radius charts:
http://crystalmaker.com/support/tutorials/crystalmaker/atomic-radii/resources/VFI_Atomic_Radii.jpg
http://www.chemix-chemistry-software.com/school/periodic_table/atomic-radius-elements.html
http://periodictable.com/Properties/A/AtomicRadius.v.html
Link to printable protractor:
http://i370.photobucket.com/albums/oo146/nzfiend/Junk/protractor.png
Link to water blog:
http://scienceisaprocessnotadeity.blogspot.com/2016/05/water.html
Link to artical in ISJ
http://idahostatejournal.com/members/pocatello-man-in-wheelchair-protesting-eviction-from-apartment/article_015d70e1-2c9c-563c-85be-ec6779a7d064.html
Link to yarn monsters lab.
http://scienceisaprocessnotadeity.blogspot.com/2016/05/yarn-monsters-warm-fuzzy-introduction.html
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