There has been an amazing number of scientists from a wide range of fields posting what they do using the “Up-Goer Five Text Editor.” The editor only allows you to use the thousand most common English words to try and describe anything. The concept was inspired by the create comic XKCD, which attempted to describe how a Saturn Five rocket worked using the same constrictions.
Anne & Chris have assembled a wide variety of these attempts at Ten Hundred Words of Science. I’m a bit late to the carnival, but my first attempt during breaks from teaching yesterday seems to have magically disappeared from my computer. Oh well, here’s attempt number two:
I help students learn how to study all types of rocks. The rocks tell us story about how the world works. We study rocks close to us, in far places, and in space. We also study how water, ice, humans, trees, and animals change the rocks. Most of my students will only take one class about rocks, so I try to give them understanding of how the world works for every day things.
While my students study all rocks, my own interest is in rocks that were made warmer or pressed deep under the ground. What is in rocks will change if they are cold or warm or hot and whether they were pressed a little or a lot. Time is also important for how the rocks will change. Looking at the new rocks can help tell the story of how one place changed over time.
Elli Goeke
You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but
I find this topic to be really something which I think I would
never understand. It seems too complicated and extremely broad for
me. I’m looking forward for your next post, I’ll try to get the hang of it!