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Physics students take the plunge Some classes are pass-fail. For some physics students at Springbrook High School in Silver Spring, a recent class fell into more of the sink-or-swim category. The Martin Luther King Swim Center in Silver Spring was the setting for their Oct. 30 lesson on Newton’s three laws of physics, as teacher Jacob Abrams wanted to offer them what he called “the right mix of challenging and stimulation.” Abrams had 60 students from four different classes apply Newton’s laws to a boat race in the pool. The project involved 12 boats, and students examined the use of force when paddling to move the boards. “Newton’s three laws of physics can be applied to everything we do in life,” Abrams wrote in an email to The Gazette. The project’s goal “was to get them out of their seat, and apply what they had been reading and learning.” Students built and raced their own boats, but were graded only on their analyses and explanations of how push, pull, gravity, buoyancy, static friction, sliding friction and Newton’s laws were at work. Out of the 12 watercraft, two sank, six made it halfway and four made it across the pool. “I figure anything that bores them will bore me, and if they are excited and enjoying my class, then it makes me a pretty happy person,
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too,” Abrams said. The students’ feedback, he said, was “all the smiles while rowing their boats” during the race. “They came right to class and wouldn’t even sit in their desks. The project was always greeted with excitement and wonder,” he said.
Autumn colors exhibit opens in Takoma Park The Takoma Park Watercolor Group’s November exhibit will highlight fall colors at the city community center. The exhibit features original watercolors by members along with other artists’ sculpture, paintings and clothing lines. Oversized garden gloves will be the centerpiece of the show, hanging in the atrium lobby. An opening reception will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. The exhibit runs through Jan. 5. The center is at 7500 Maple Ave.
Documentary film festival in Takoma Park Next week, Takoma Park will host the Community Stories Festival, featuring documentary films,
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Students from Springbrook High School in Silver Spring learn the wet way about Newton’s three laws of physics as they race cardboard boats they built at the Martin Luther King Jr. Swim Center. storytelling sesssions, workshops and other events at the community center and several other locations. Many of the films focus on local people and places. Docs in Progress, a Silver Spring nonprofit, is producing the festival, which runs Nov. 14-18 and aims to celebrate the work of a growing number of local documentary filmmakers. All events are free and open to the public, but RSVPs are recommended for some. Visit DocsInProgress.org for more information.
‘Cultural Exchanges’ opens Thursday The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County will have a free opening reception for a new exhibit, “Cultural Exchanges,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Kramer Gallery in the Silver Spring Civic Building, 1 Veterans Place. The exhibit features a mix of
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The exhibit runs through Feb. 7. The Kramer Gallery is dedicated to the county’s local professional visual artists. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Friday.
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DEATHS George Rust Canby George Rust “Rusty” Canby Jr., 87, died Oct. 24, 2013. A memorial service will take place at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 8 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Brookeville. Roy W. Barber Funeral Home in Laytonsville handled the arrangements.
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