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Liralen Li ([personal profile] liralen) wrote2011-02-22 11:14 am
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It's Rubbing Off

John and I are in the midst of magnetism experiments with Jet's class an in a lull, John asked the kids what they thought the smallest magnet might be. The kids said that iron shavings seemed to work, and on that order for a while when Jet popped up and said, "Two atoms."

John said, "Pretty close... one atom works, too."

But it was just really surprisingly cool that Jet intuitively went to the atomic level rather than just the visible level.

NERDS: THE NEXT GENERATION

[identity profile] rmd.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
You're totally raising him right. :)

Re: NERDS: THE NEXT GENERATION

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
*beams happily*

It's so fun to watch him do this kinda stuff! Yeesh. And he figured one atom to be positive and one to be negative, and I can see *why* he got to that given his experience. Whew... *zoom*

[identity profile] mysocalledhell.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
that kid is going to discover or make something amazing one day.

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2011-02-22 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggles* I really do hope so!!
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[personal profile] incandescens 2011-02-22 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I see a very good upbringing there. :)

And (she adds, having hit "Post" too fast) a very intelligent kid.
Edited 2011-02-22 22:07 (UTC)

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2011-02-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
*giggles* Thank you!! On both points.