It’s 8:58 am. I got to work and immediately found the library book that I was looking for yesterday because it was recalled. Yea! Good start to the day.
Yesterday rained most of the day, and for some reason I was not in a good mood. I mostly worked on materials for my class this fall, trying to figure out what to do to have the students learn about metals. Finally, this morning I came up with the idea for a shape memory alloy lab. That’s the extent of the idea. Someone must have done it before and I can copy or modify what they did. This will be a good lab because it will introduce students to phase transformations and mechanical properties. And it will be fun. I can also have the students write a report about a particular type of alloy. Maybe that will be less work for me.
Since it was raining last night we stayed in and made some cookies. We had the kids try to punch out different animal shapes from a tortilla, then we coated the animals with butter, sugar, and cinnamon, and baked for 8 minutes at 350 C. They were very tasty. I ate like 3 or 4 of them. I think the kids ate 2 or 3 each. We got them to bed by 9 pm and then we went to bed around 9:40. The book I’m reading, “The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch helped put me to sleep. Had a nice long sleep.
